Research Guides: Economics: Data and Statistics

Canadian Data Sources

Canadian Open Access Data Portals:

Government of Canada Open Data Portal
Statistics Canada website
Trade Data Online (Industry Canada)
Statistics Canada Open Data (Abacus Data Network@UBC)
Provides access to more than 1,000 Statistics Canada datasets made available to the public under the terms of the Statistics Canada Open Data License.
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Note:The terms of the open license allow anyone to “use, reproduce, publish, and freely distribute” the data. End users are shown the license text before downloading from Abacus but a login is not required.

Canadian Census Analyser This link opens in a new window
- Canadian Census data including profile tables, microdata files and tools as well as maps and publications dating back to 1665.
- Coverage: Varies with data: 1961, 1971, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016 and 2021.
- Permitted Uses
Conference Board of Canada e-Data Service This link opens in a new window
- Canadian economic trends at the national, provincial, municipal, industrial and international levels.
- Includes: Canadian Medium-term and long-term; Provincial Medium-term and long-term; Territorial; Metropolitan Medium-term; Consumer Confidence; Consumer Confidence; Business Confidence; U.S. Short-term; Canadian Industrial; Help-Wanted Index; Population and Household Formation
- NOTE: if you are having trouble accessing the site please create an account using your Brock email
- Permitted Uses
TSX-CFMRC This link opens in a new window
- Find daily and monthly stock market data (price, volume, return, dividends, etc.) for all common and non-common equities traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX).
- Includes selected time series data for t-bill rates, bond rates and foreign exchange rates.
- Coverage: Monthly Data (1949-present), Daily Data (1975-present)
- Permitted Uses

Statistics Canada Public Use Microdata Files (PUMFs) are available via these sources:

DLI (Data Liberation Initiative)
The DLI is a project within Statistics Canada to make socio-economic microdata available to researchers and academics. Some DLI datasets may be downloaded directly; others must be requested from the DLI contact at Brock (Nicole Stradiotto). Browse the complete list of DLI surveys.

ODESI: Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure Initiative This link opens in a new window
- Odesi provides open and enhanced access to a variety of data collections such as Statistics Canada’s Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) public use microdata, historical datasets, and Canadian public opinion polls, including the Gallup Canada, IPSOS Canada, and the Canadian Opinion Research Archive (CORA).
- Also includes Borealis (the Canadian Dataverse Repository).
- Permitted Uses
Help Guide

The following are key Open Access sources of international statistical data: