The Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) is a subscription-based program that provides access to Statistics Canada's Public Use Microdata files (PUMFs), databases, and geographic files in accordance with their licensing agreement. These files can be accessed directly through Statistics Canada or through a number of third party interfaces.
Click on "All DLI Products" to find data for a specific survey in the DLI collection, or search in Nesstar or the Beyond 20/20 Web Data Server interfaces.
ODESI (Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure) is a digital repository for social science data, including polling data. It is a web-based data exploration, extraction and analysis tool providing access to 3,000+ datasets including content from Statistics Canada, the Institute for Social Research, public opinion polls, etc.
Statistics Canada's Nesstar data portal is a web-based exploration, extraction and analysis tool for social science data. The Nesstar data portal consists of two catalogues of Statistics Canada data: Public use microdata files (PUMFS) and Research Data Centre (RDC) master files.
Users can search and identify variables of interest on the microdata files and determine whether a PUMF or a master file would best fit their research needs.
Access: Access limited to Grant MacEwan University IP addresses. Remote login with a MacEwan network user ID and password. Conditions of Use: Use of this database is restricted to members of the MacEwan University community and to users physically present in the Library. It is the responsibility of each user to ensure that they use this database for individual, non-commercial, educational or research purposes only, and do not systematically download or retain substantial portions of information.
Provides access to Canadian Census data. Subject areas include age, education, income, occupation, religion, language, ethnic origin, family and household characteristics.
Description: The Census Analyser includes access to: 2001, 1996, 1991, 1986 and 1981 enumeration area level profile tables; 2001, 1996, 1991, 1986, 1981, 1971 and 1961 census tract level profile tables; 2001, 1996 and 1991 provincial and federal district profile tables and the 2001, 1996, 1991, 1986, 1981 and 1971 individual microdata files. Output: HTML, plain text, CSV (for Excel), SAS and SPSS. Faculty and staff may have SPSS downloaded onto their office computers--contact 497-HELP. Coverage and Currency: 1961-Current. Type: Statistics. Access: Access limited to Grant MacEwan University IP addresses. Remote login with a MacEwan network user ID and password. Conditions of Use: Use of this database is restricted to members of the MacEwan University community and to users physically present in the Library. It is the responsibility of each user to ensure that they use this database for individual, non-commercial, educational or research purposes only, and do not systematically download or retain substantial portions of information. Supplier: University of Toronto Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS) - for Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) members and subscribers to CANSIM.
Provides access to Canadian, American and international microdata. Includes Canadian census data and topics such as social sciences, population health, economics and more.
Access: Access limited to Grant MacEwan University IP addresses. Remote login with a MacEwan network user ID and password. Conditions of Use: Use of this database is restricted to members of the MacEwan University community and to users physically present in the Library. It is the responsibility of each user to ensure that they use this database for individual, non-commercial, educational or research purposes only, and do not systematically download or retain substantial portions of information.
CANSIM I (Canadian Socio-economic Information and Management System) consists of time series covering a wide variety of social and economic aspects of Canadian life. Covers the time period of 1665 - Dec. 31, 2001.
Content: Contains over 800,000 time series, organized in approx. 4500 tables. Subject areas include agriculture, arts, business, communications, demographics, economics, education, environment, finance, health, justice, labour, manufacturing, science, technology, tourism, trade and transport. Coverage and Currency: 1665 - Dec. 31, 2001. Type: Statistics. Access: Access limited to Grant MacEwan University IP addresses. Remote login with a MacEwan network user ID and password. Conditions of Use: Use of this database is restricted to members of the MacEwan University community and to users physically present in the Library. It is the responsibility of each user to ensure that they use this database for individual, non-commercial, educational or research purposes only, and do not systematically download or retain substantial portions of information. Supplier: Distributed by University of Toronto CHASS (Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences) on behalf of Statistics Canada.
The following resources are available by mediated access only. Contact data@macewan.ca to get more information and gain access.
PCCF allows you to link postal codes to census geography for all censuses going back to 1986. Mediated access only, contact data@macewan.ca for access.
The DAD captures administrative, clinical and demographic information on hospital discharges (including deaths, sign-outs and transfers). Mediated access only, contact data@macewan.ca for access.
The SPSD/M is a micro computer-based product designed to assist those interested in analyzing the financial interactions of governments and individuals in Canada. It can help one to assess the cost implications or income redistributive effects of changes in the personal taxation and cash transfer system. The SPSD is a non-confidential, statistically representative database of Canadian individuals in their family context, with enough information on each individual to compute taxes paid to and cash transfers received from government.
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