Research Guides: Data & Statistics: Data by Topic

Data by Topic

Economics

Penn World Tables [CHASS] This link opens in a new window
This resource can only be used by current students, faculty/staff.
The Penn World Table provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for countries for some or all of the years 1950-2004. The European Union or the OECD provide more detailed purchasing power and real product estimates for their countries and the World Bank makes current price estimates for most PWT countries at the GDP level.

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CANSIM [CHASS] This link opens in a new window
This resource can only be used by current students, faculty/staff.
CANSIM (Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System) is the Statistics Canada computerized database which contains time series covering a wide variety of social and economic aspects of Canadian life. CANSIM I database is no longer being updated.
Asian Development Bank - Statistical Database System (SDBS) This link opens in a new window
The Key Indicators Database (KIDB) is the Asian Development Bank's (ADB's) central statistical database and one of the world's most comprehensive resources for macroeconomic and social indicators from across Asia and the Pacific.

Health

Health Statistics (Canada)
Health statistics and data (US) on a range of health topics.
National Centre for Health Statistics (US)
Health statistics and data (US) on a range of health topics.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Browse health data and statistics by topic, build custom tables, and find CDC publications and reports.
Guide to Accessing Data from the Canadian Institute for Health Informationn
Queen's University Library has created a guide dedicated to CIHI, some data and information of which is provided freely to the public through the CIHI website.

History

Canadian Elections Database
This database contains voting information down to the district level for federal, provincial, and territorial elections. Federal election coverage from 1874 to 2011.
Canada Year Book Historical Collection 1867-1967
The Canada Year Book Historical Collection 1867 to 1967: historical text, tables and maps on Canadian society, events, and the economy: population, industry, trade, immigration, labour, transportation, government, etc.
Early Census of Canada
Electronic reproduction of an 1876 publication which includes 343 tables from 98 Censuses taken between 1665 and 1871. Includes data on social and economic conditions in Atlantic Canada, New France, Lower Canada, Upper Canada, and Western Canada.
Historical Statistics of Canada
Authoritative statistical and demographic statistics from 1867 to the mid-1970s. Over 1000 tables, plus detailed notes and other information.

Indigenous History & Residential Schools

Canadian Residential School and Colonial Institutions Database 1620-Present
A comprehensive database of Residential Schools, Indian Hospitals, and Indian Day Schools in Canada

LGBTQ+ Data

UCLA Guide to LGBTQ+ Data & Statistics
Stats Canada 'By the Numbers': Same-sex couples and sexual orientation
Here are selected data on assorted topics related to same-sex couples (living in the same household) and sexual orientation.
Ryerson University Library's LGBTQ+ Studies Research Guide
Includes Statistics Canada and other resources.

Public Opinion

Canadian Opinion Research Archive
CORA provides access to public opinion survey data collected by major survey research firms in Canada since 1970.

Instructions for accessing CORA can be found here.

Political Science

Canadian Elections Database

Racial Injustice and Police Brutality

Mapping Police Violence
Mapping Police Violence is a research collaborative collecting comprehensive data on police killings nationwide (US) to quantify the impact of police violence in communities.
Mapping George Floyd/Black Lives Matter Protests Globally
Pew Research Center: Discrimination and Prejudice
See the latest Pew Research center reports and data on discrimination and prejudice issues.
The Gaurdian's 'The Counted'
People killed by police in the US.
ICPSR Data Resources About Race and Policing
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research provides datasets for analysis of historic trends in police use of force and community relations
Racial Disparity Reports from The Sentencing Project
Deadly Force (CBC)
In the absence of a national accounting of such encounters between Canadian citizens and law enforcement, a team of CBC researchers spent six months assembling the first country-wide database of every person who died or was killed during a police intervention.
Note: The database is located at the bottom of the article.
Wikipedia: List of killings by law enforcement officers in Canada
This is a list of people killed by non-military law enforcement officers in Canada. The list includes deaths caused by officers both on and off duty, and does not discriminate by method or motivation. Inclusion in this list assigns neither wrongdoing nor justification to the victim or the officer involved; it is strictly documentation of the occurrence of a death. ***Note: This list is incomplete; there are no official statistics on fatal shootings by law enforcement officers in Canada.***
[Article]: Statistics Canada to start collecting race-based crime data (CBC)
"Statistics Canada says it plans to start collecting race-based crime data — a step that comes amid mounting criticism of how law enforcement agencies across Canada police marginalized communities..."

Trade

Stats Canada Trade Data
This federal government provides detailed information on Canadian and US trade with over 200 countries

Trade Analyser [CHASS] This link opens in a new window
This resource can only be used by current students, faculty/staff.
Trade Analyser consists of the Canadian International Merchandise Trade (CIMT) database and World Trade database produced by Statistics Canada, International Trade Division.

Canadian International Merchandise Trade (CIMT) data contains monthly trade statistics, 1988 to latest available, showing quantity and value (CDN $), HS10 (imports) / HS8 (exports) (Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System) classification, province or state of the U.S., country of origin/destination, and dutiable trade indicator and amount.

World Trade data contains annual trade statistics, showing volume of trade (US $) between pairs of trading countries, imports and exports, 1980-2005. This data is no longer updated by Statistics Canada.

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UNCOMTRADE
Detailed trade statistics from 170 countries: imports, exports, trading partners, and commodities from 1962 onwards.