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DATA LIBRARY
Humanities & Social Sciences Library University of Alberta |
RETRIEVE DATA
The Data Library currently offers direct retrieval of data from CANSIM, the 1996 Canadian Census, and the Metropolis Project. For access to other data holdings, visit the Data Library at 1-108 Rutherford North.
CANSIM (The Canadian Socio-Economic Information
Management System) is a Statistics Canada database which provides
access to current and historical socio-economic time series collected by
Statistics Canada and other government agencies such as the Bank of Canada.
The database itself consists of over 650,000 series, many of which constitute
a data record spanning several decades. Some time series contain greater
detail than is available in print-published form. The database is
structured around matrix numbers and series labels. The final product delivered
by the database is a specific time series. Access to CANSIM is restricted
to CURRENT STUDENTS, STAFF, AND FACULTY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA,
and may be used for NON-COMMERCIAL purposes only.
Census of Canada, 1996 Tabular data containing social
and economic characteristics of Canada's population for the nation, provinces
and territories, census metropolitan areas, and smaller geographic areas.
The Data Library currently provides access to the following Census
96 series of products: Dimensions, The Nation, Profiles,
Basic Summary Tabulations, and the Census of Agriculture.
Special (free) software may need to be installed on your computer to view
some of these data -- links and instructions are provided. Access to Census
of Canada data is restricted to CURRENT STUDENTS, STAFF, AND
FACULTY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA, and may be used for NON-COMMERCIAL
purposes only.
Metropolis Project Data from the Prairie Centre of Excellence
for Research on Immigration and Integration. The Prairie Centre is a consortium
representing six prairie universities including the University of Alberta;
University of Calgary; University of Manitoba; University of Regina; University
of Saskatchewan and the University of Winnipeg. The Centre is based at
the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, with research nodes at each of
the other five universities. The Prairie Centre brings a multidisciplinary
research team of 122 Affiliated Researchers together in a cooperative arrangement
to study different aspects of the complex phenomenon of immigration and
immigrant integration into Canadian society. A password may be needed to
access some Metropolis Project data.