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Description
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Statistics Canada's E-STAT offers an enormous warehouse of reliable and timely statistics about
Canada and its people. Statistical tables track trends in virtually every aspect of the lives of Canadians including the
economy; land and resources; demographics; health; government; and elections. Includes: 1) CANSIM, a multidimensional
socio-economic database containing 38 million time series regrouped in more than 2,800 tables, 2) Canada's census data with
reference maps, 3) Interactive maps of data from the 2006 and 2001 censuses, 4) an Environment Module, and 5) annual data
on Human Activity and the Environment.
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Dates covered
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Varies for each component. Includes census data from 1665 to 1871 and
1986 to the present.
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Updating frequency
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Annual for most numeric data with some quarterly reports. Census data is updated every five years.
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Sources
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Publications from Statistics Canada, the official source for
Canadian social and economic statistics and products,
as well as other agencies such as
Elections Canada, and Health Canada. Includes the Censuses of population and agriculture plus
other Canadian government publications such as
Canadian Social Trends, Health Reports,
Human Activity and the Environment, and Juristat.
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Type of coverage
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Time series, census numeric data, government reports.
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Print Counterpart or related resources
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Some publications included in the database are available in print and may be found through a search of IRIS, the Libraries' online catalog.
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Provider
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Provider: Statistics Canada
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Help
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User guides are accessible from the menu at the left of each screen.
A Help with this page option also appears under Search CANSIM or Search Census on the left side bar, when you enter the data module.
See also: http://www.statcan.ca/english/Estat/help.htm
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