Demystifying the Statistics Canada Website

Sandra Keys

DLI Bootcamp

May 2011

Vancouver, BC

My thanks to…

Agnes Zientarska-Kayko for her assistance in preparing and presenting a similar presentation at uWaterloo

Overview

• Types of information you’ll find

• Searching the website• General, Advanced, Specialized Tools• The Daily

• Browse By Subject (Summary Tables)

• CANSIM

The Statistics Canada Website

• A source of: • Statistics• Analytical studies • News• Learning resources

• Most StatsCan publications, including its newsletter, The Daily, available for free, 1996 to present

The Statistics Canada Website

Search (Top Menu Link)

General Search

General Search – Refining

General Search – Tables Only

Advanced Search

Specialized Search Tools

Specialized Search Tools

Help: Search the Site

eTutorials for search

Search Brochure

The Daily - Statistics Canada's official release bulletin

• First line of communication with media and public• Issues news releases on current social and

economic conditions

• Announces new products

• Published since 1932; available on the Web since June 1995

When Do You Use The Daily?

• You need data with interpretation

• You need high-level, summary statistics

The Daily

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The DailyThe NPHS

Contact information

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Publications

Find Statistics by Subject (Browse by Subject – Summary Tables)

Find Statistics by Subject (Browse by Subject – Summary Tables)

Find Statistics by Subject (Browse by Subject – Summary Tables)

Find Statistics by Subject (Browse by Subject – Summary Tables)

Find Statistics by Subject (Browse by Subject – Summary Tables)

Find Statistics by Subject (Browse by Subject – Summary Tables)

CANSIM

• Statistics Canada's key socioeconomic database

• Updated daily

• Provides fast and easy access to a large range of latest statistics

• Search (by terms, CANSIM table or series number) or Browse

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• Many ways to access• Subject page

• Home Statistics by subject <subject>

• From within a summary table• From within a Daily article/release• Etc…

• …Or directly

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