Subject Guides: Economics: Statistics

Canada - Statistics

Canadian Census Analyser
Provides access to Canadian Census data. Subject areas include age, education, income, occupation, religion, language, ethnic origin, and family and household characteristics. It includes access to enumeration area level profile tables, census tract level profile tables, provincial and federal district profile tables, and individual microdata files. Output is in HTML, plain text, CSV (for Excel), SAS, or SPSS.
Coverage and Currency: 1961 to present
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@CHASS
This database compiles time series data from Statistics Canada on a wide variety of social and economic aspects of Canadian life, including agriculture, business, education, and tourism.
Coverage and Currency: 1665 to present
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.

Open Data

United States & International

Asian Development Bank (ADB) Data Library
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
Economic Commission for Africa
Economic Commission for Europe
Eurostat
Eurostat - the statistical office of the European Union, provides statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions
IMF (International Monetary Fund) Microeconomic and Financial Data
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
OECD (Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development)
Worldwide economic and social statistics.
UNCTADstat
Free market commodity prices for selected commodities exported by developing economies. Annual, monthly.
UNdata
US Census data
World Bank Open Data

Searching Tips

It is useful to search for statistics within a particular website, such as Statistics Canada. The following are examples of finding statistics with a site search.

Topic: births by province
Website: statcan.gc.ca = Statistics Canada
births by province site:statcan.gc.ca

Topic: Rutherford (neighbourhood in Edmonton)
Website: edmonton.ca = City of Edmonton
rutherford site:data.edmonton.ca

Topic:Mental Health Indicators (Canada)
Website: cihi.ca = Canadian Institute for Health Information
"mental health" site:cihi.ca

Economics

Profile V2

Canada - Statistics

United States & International

Searching Tips