After completing this lesson you will have a finer sense of the type of Government Document you need.
Getting Focussed
When you are looking for statistics, it's always a good idea to ask a few questions:
- Do I need one specific number to support a fact or statement?
- Do I need to analyze a set of data?
When you are looking for a particular Government Document, if you haven't been able to find it on the web, in the library catalogue, or in the Canadian Research Index, I would recommend asking a few more questions:
- How did I hear about this document?
- When was this document supposedly published (if published at all)?
- What government agency produced it?
Then another good technique would be to search some of the newspapers from LawSource or Canadian Newstand to see if the information about the government publication had been published in a newspaper - this might also help track down a more accurate title, or at the very least the Department invovled in publishing it, if you not have that information.
