SWP 402 - Social Policy and Social Inclusion

As Canada national statistical agency Statistics Canada is a great place to start searching for data on a large variety of topics. These include, but are not limited to demographics, education, housing, health and income. There are many ways to search the Statistics Canada Website which are outlined in this guide.

Released daily at 8:30 AM this is one of the first places you can learn about releases of Statistics Canada products and statistics. You can often find associated tables and reports by clicking the related products tab. You can also signup for email reports on the latest publications.

Access Census data, methodologies and definitions. The data includes special topic based tabulations. The documentation includes the Census Dictionary and the Illustrated Glossary.

Get a wide variety of socioeconomic data by different geographic areas. These include but are not limited to ethnic origin, minority status, immigration status, family structure, employment, income, education and housing. Profiles of the 2011 Census and National Household Survey Profiles are also available.

Tables with sociodemographic information that focus on specific topics including Aboriginal Peoples, housing, Education and Ethnocultural diversity.

Provides definitions of Census variables.

Understand the geographic areas used in the census.

Data tables that were formerly called CANSIM provide time series data on a large variety of topics including education, immigration and health.

Statistics Canada publications focus on a large variety of topics. These contain interactive tables and figures highlighting important topics.