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Databases & Web Resources
- DLI: Data Liberation Initiative Collection This link opens in a new windowStatistics Canada. Full access to PUMFs (Public Use Microdata Files) and a special collection of aggregate data tables. E-mail Nicole Zhang for assistance.
Permitted Uses - SimplyAnalytics This link opens in a new windowA web-based mapping, analytics and data visualization program providing demographic information including census data from Statistics Canada, current year estimates and 5-year projections of demographic data from Environics, household spending data on hundreds of goods and services, and over 1 million Canadian business profiles from Dun & Bradstreet. Data is available at the following geographies: Province/Territories, Census Metro Areas, Census Divisions, Forward Sortation Areas, Census Subdivisions, Census Tracts and Dissemination Areas.
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Permitted Uses - odesi This link opens in a new windowodesi (Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure) contains over 5,400 datasets for the social sciences, including polling data from from organizations such as Gallup Canada, Ipsos Reid, and Léger Marketing. Also contains more than 19,800 additional dataset descriptions.
- Statista This link opens in a new windowAccess to data from over 18,000 sources including industry reports, dossiers, and statistics, including Statistics Canada. Download images, PPT slides, Excel files and more.
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