LibGuides: Statistics and data resources: Federal statistics and data

Federal data

FRDR - Federal Research Data Repository
Search FRDR to find research datasets originating from researchers affiliated with Canadian institutions.
Borealis: The Canadian Dataverse repository
Datasets from Canadian university researchers, Statistics Canada, and polling companies
DLI Collection
Browse Statistics Canada data files available to you. To gain access to a data file, contact the librarians at ask@royalroads.libanswers.com
Open Government - Canada
You can keyword search statistics and data sets by title or browse what a given ministry has made available.
Stats Canada datasets - from Abacus at UBC
Abacus is a repository of open and licensed data hosted by UBC and shared by SFU, UBC, UNBC, and UVic. This link points to Statistics Canada files

Statistics Canada
Their homepage
Navigating the Statistics Canada website
2 min tutorial from Statistics Canada
The Daily
Statistics Canada announces all their publications here. Useful for keyword searches to find leads to surveys
Canadian census
Access Census datasets
Topic Based Tabulations (2011 Census info)
Community Information Database
Make quick statistical maps about Canadians

Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista is an online statistics, market research and business intelligence portal. Apart from statistics, Statista also provides data on market forecasts, white paper studies, dossiers, industry reports, digital market outlooks and consumer market outlooks.
Simply Analytics This link opens in a new window
Create professional quality thematic maps and spreadsheets using various data sources such as NAICS codes or demographic information. Please note, access is limited to 10 concurrent users.

Community Data Program
facilitates access to the evidence needed to tell Canadian stories and inform effective and responsive policy and program design and implementation
Public Opinion Polls
Final reports of all public opinion research for which a federal government contract was awarded
Canadian Opinion Research Archive
Data cannot be downloaded, but you can find results for specific questions. Content is mostly retrospective.

Examples from Statistics Canada's thematic clusters of stats