Data Services

LOCATION: Third Floor, Harriet Irving Library

SEARCHING FOR DATA SOURCES

• Statistics Canada Catalogue: search Statistics Canada's online catalogue. Tick the box marked "DLI" at the bottom of the search page to get data files.

• BiblioCat, the catalogue of the library at Statistics Canada in Ottawa

• IDLS (University of Western Ontario): Through a partnership arrangement with the University of Western Ontario, IDLS provides a variable-level search engine to identify surveys of interest. Links are provided to aggregate data in Beyond 20/20 tables, and users are able to create subsets from DLI microdata files. Note: This link takes you to the Conditions of Use for DLI files; you must agree to these conditions before using the search engine or the data.

• Data Library Service, U of T. : search for variables in Statistics Canada's surveys on the University of Toronto's Data Library Service site (select "UT/DLS Inventory of Holdings")

ICPSR Data Files

• ICPSR by subject: Search by subject, by title, author or study number for surveys archived by ICPSR. All files can be downloaded by authorized UNB Libraries students and faculty directly from ICPSR upon acceptance of conditions of use.

Opinion Polls

• Gallup Polls: search for Canadian opinion polls held by the Data Centre at Carleton University; these polls can be requested for UNB Libraries.

• Institute for Research in Social Science Public Opinion Poll Question Database; these polls can be requested for UNB Libraries.

• Angus Reid Group

• Decima Research (at Queens University)

• POLLARA Canada surveys (at Carleton University)

Other Data Sources

• Data on the Net: Check Data on the Net, a search engine and data sources collected by Jim Jacobs at the University of California, San Diego

• COPAFS: Also of interest is the Council of Profesional Associations on Federal Statistics web site, a starting point for U.S. federal statistics

• Statistical resources on the Web, (University of Michigan. Documents Center)

• FEDSTATS, U.S. Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy, providing searchable access to statistics from over 70 agencies of the U.S. government

• OFFSTATS: Links to international and national WWW-based sources of official statistics on the Web by Rainer Wolcke, Intern. Commerce & Statistics Librarian, University of Auckland Library

• BIRON, search the holdings of the Data Archive at Essex University