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CANSIM (Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System) is Statistics Canada’s database of time series covering a wide variety of social and economic aspects of Canadian life.
Cansim Multidimensional View is the recommended interface. Cansim Time Series View uses the same data feed as Cansim Multidimensional, but displays data in the former time series view.

Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure is a digital repository for social science data, including polling data. It is a web-based data exploration, extraction and analysis tool that uses the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) social science data standard.
Odesi provides researchers the ability to search for survey questions (variables) across thousands of datasets. There are both microdata and aggregate data available, in a range of formats.

OECD iLibrary is OECD’s Online Library for books, papers and statistics and the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data. It replaces SourceOECD, and hosts all content so users can find – and cite – tables and databases as easily as articles or chapters.

Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository, is a bilingual, multidisciplinary, secure, Canadian research data repository, supported by academic libraries and research institutions across Canada. Borealis supports open discovery, management, sharing, and preservation of Canadian research data.

Please note: Some datasets are restricted to certain institutions and may not be available to TMU community members. Please review the terms of use and access for datasets. In order to request access to restricted datasets, please create an account using your TMU email address.

SimplyAnalytics is an Internet-based mapping application. SimplyAnalytics uses various research partners to provide users with the most current demographic, business, and marketing data available with thousands of variables. Data can be mapped nation-wide, by province, CMA, CSD, CT or DA.

Toronto Metropolitan also has access to the following packages: Environics DaytimePop data package, PRIZM5 Canada & US Data Package

Statista.com is one of the first statistics portals to integrate over 60,000 diverse topics of data and facts from over 10,000 sources onto a single professional platform. Categorized into over 20 market sectors, Statista provides business customers, researchers, and the academic community with direct access to relevant quantitative facts on media, finance, politics, and many more areas of interest. Sources of information include market researchers, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases. Toronto Metropolitan has access to Global Consumer Survey (GCS) via Statista.

The World Bank's Open Data initiative is intended to provide all users with access to World Bank data, according to the Open Data Terms of Use. The data catalog is a listing of available World Bank datasets, including databases, pre-formatted tables, reports, and other resources.

Information and to request access.
Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) is an award-winning research platform and business intelligence tool. CRSP and Compustat datasets are available on this platform, as well as numerous other datasets covering accounting, banking, economics, ESG, finance, healthcare, insurance, marketing, and statistics.

Currently, Toronto Metropolitan University has access to: