See "Stats and Data for Business" guide for all resources
Comprehensive collection of Industry Market Research and Industry Risk Ratings.
Global market analysis software platform, which analyses the industry in countries around the world.
Global market and consumer statistics on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources.
Canadian imports, exports, and world trade data. Each table contains historical timeseries data
Research reports and data related to Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic Trends, Industrial Trends and Public Policy and other topics.
Statistics Canada Public Use Microdata Files (PUMFs)
Access to all microdata and documentation from the collection of available Statistics Canada public use microdata files (PUMF). Public use microdata files contain anonymized, non-aggregated data. Using statistical software, the end user can group and manipulate data variables in these files to suit data and research requirements.
Access via Abacus Search products on StatCan website
Statistics Canada RealTime Remote Access
Real Time Remote Access (RTRA) is an online tabulation tool allowing subscribers to run SAS programs in real time to extract results from masterfile subsets in the form of tables. RTRA system data users do not gain direct access to the microdata and cannot view the content of the microdata file. RTRA data users can calculate frequencies, means, percentiles, percent distribution, proportions, ratios and shares.
CANSIM (Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System) is the Statistics Canada's computerized database of time series covering a wide variety of social and economic aspects of Canadian life. The use of CANSIM @ CHASS is restricted to current faculty, staff, and students.
The Canadian Census Analyser provides access to select Canadian demographic data from Statistics Canada's Census of Canada. Included are census aggregated profile tables and census microdata. This tool allows users to subset files and export data in varied formats including html, text, spreadsheet, and to statistical software such SAS and SPSS. Coverage: 1961 to 2021 censuses. The use of Canadian Census Analyzer @ CHASS is restricted to current faculty, staff, and students.
The BC Data Catalogue provides the easiest access to government's data holdings, as well as applications and web services. Thousands of the datasets discoverable in the Catalogue are available under the Open Government License - British Columbia.
Ipsos Canadian Public Affairs Database
The Ipsos Canadian Public Affairs Dataverse is a repository of over 60 Ipsos Canada surveys that shed light on Canadian elections, culture, politics, and society. All data is open access, supported by the Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy
Data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. ICPSR collaborates with a number of funders, including U.S. statistical agencies and foundations.
Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
CIHI collects comparable, pan-Canadian data on different aspects of the health system. View a summary of all the data available by year and jurisdictional coverage (XLSX).
Population Data BC (PopData) provides academic researchers with access to a comprehensive collection of population health data, including health services, education, workplace and environmental data. These data sets include longitudinal, person-specific, de-identified data on BC's 5 million residents. Access is provided by following a data request process.
BCCDC's data dashboards and reports provide statistics on diseases in BC and on the health of our populations and communities.
Arts & Humanities data are as complex and varied as the disciplines that comprise these subjects. Below are three pieces that are useful in thinking about "data" in the Arts and Humanities
Our Data Management for Humanists website brings together training materials from recent SSHRC-funded workshops held across Canada to build foundational skills in research data management (RDM) for researchers in the Humanities.
See "Geospatial Data" guide for all resources
CanMap Content Suite contains over 100 unique and rich content layers. Each layer has a unique file and layer name with associated definitions, descriptions, attribution and metadata. All layers, with a few exceptions, are vector data consisting of polygon, polyline, or point geometry representation.
ICI Society Data Sharing Initiative
Dataset includes:
UVic Libraries
Greater Victoria
Satellite, air photo and other remote sensing images and data world
Our Maps collection contains over 68,000 paper maps on many themes/topics, including biology, culture, economic, geology, history, hydrography, military, streets, social, topography, and transportation.
Special Collections & University Archives contain resources from generations of UVic & local researchers; these include a seaweed inventory project (Alan Austin Fonds); underwater salmon research; B.C. Environmental associations (Mallard Fonds); Transgender archives; various scientific field notes; and more. Contact Special Collections or University Archives to learn more.
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