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Canada

Statistics Canada provides a wealth of Canadian data from its 350 active surveys that can be used with Fathom. E-STAT is the largest single source of numeric data on the Statistics Canada site www.statcan.ca that is Fathom-compatible. Many datasets extracted from E-STAT are included on the Fathom 2 CD, and on the Fathom Sample activities and Sample documents web pages. Users are encouraged to visit E-STAT to update and extend the data in the Fathom collections found in the sample datasets on the Fathom CD and websites.

Statistics Canada's E-STAT is a dynamic interactive teaching and learning tool for the education community available at http://estat.statcan.ca. It offers an enormous warehouse of reliable and timely statistics about Canada and its ever-changing people. E-STAT is free to educational institutions and depository libraries, once you register. E-STAT offers a range of graphing options, complete with lessons suitable for grade 6 and up. New users are directed to About E-STAT for further information on how to register and on the supports provided.

E-STAT contains detailed data from the last 4 censuses and time series from over 250 different surveys in its CANSIM database. These data can be easily transferred into Fathom. CANSIM on E-STAT is updated once a year, generally in the summer. As of July 2004 E-STAT contains 25 million time series grouped in over 2,000 tables.

Other datasets are listed on the StatCan Learning Resources website by teaching subject at www.statcan.ca/english/kits/teach.htm.

Statistics Canada information is used with the permission of Statistics Canada. Users are forbidden to copy the data and redistribute them, in an original or modified form, for commercial purposes, without the expressed permission of Statistics Canada. Information on the availability of the wide range of data from Statistics Canada can be obtained from Statistics Canada's Regional Offices, its web site at http://www.statcan.ca, and its toll-free access number 1-800-263-1136.

This folder contains one sub-folder: Canadian Census Files.

Document name

Characteristics

Description

alberta2024drinkingplaces

Data from Sociology with 13 cases, 3 attributes. Useful for Activity

Drinking receipts and 20-24 year old population from 1990 to 2002 in Alberta, Canada

babyboom-quadratic

Data from Demography with 18 cases, 2 attributes. Useful for Activity

Births by year from 1950 to 1967. Can be fit with a quadratic. (But should it?)

Canada_International_Trade

Data from Geography, Economics with 17 cases, 63 attributes. Useful for Activity, Project

Annual imports and exports by major merchandise groups in millions of Canadian dollars from 1986 to 2002.

Canadian Government Debt

Data from Economics with 103 cases, 2 attributes. Useful for Activity

The size of the Canadian debt in Canadian dollars from 1901 to 2001.

Canadian Metro Areas

Data from Demography with 46 cases, 70 attributes. Useful for Activity, Project

A wealth of demographic information about each of the metropolitan areas of over 50,000 in Canada.

Canadian Military Personnel

Data from Political Science with 34 cases, 2 attributes. Useful for Activity

The number of military personnel in Canada from 1969 to 2002.

CPI_Canada

Data from Economics with 89 cases, 2 attributes. Useful for Activity

The consumer price index for Canada from 1914 to 2002.

Crime_Rates_in Canada

Data from Sociology, Criminology with 26 cases, 49 attributes. Useful for Activity, Project

Numbers and rates per 100,000 for 24 types of criminal incidents are provided for Canada for the years 1977 to 2002

Ontario Census Subdivisions

Data from Demography with 488 cases, 65 attributes. Useful for Activity, Project

Over 50 attributes plus latitude-longitude and x-y coordinates from the 2001 Census of Canada for over 450 municipalities in Ontario

OntarioLanguages

Data from Sociology with 49 cases, 5 attributes. Useful for Project

Languages spoken in areas of Ontario.

SmokingAndEducationLevel

Data from Sociology with 37 cases, 4 attributes. Useful for Activity

Location, education level, smoking indicators. Is there a correlation?

TechUse

Data from Sociology with 1000 cases, 84 attributes. Useful for Activity, Project

Microdata from of a nationwide survey about technology use.

Wheat_in_Canada_since_1908

Data from Agriculture, Economics with 95 cases, 31 attributes. Useful for Activity, Project

Wheat production opened the prairies. Estimated areas, yield, production and average farm price of wheat annually by province since 1908.

YouthCrimes

Data from Sociology with 17 cases, 2 attributes. Useful for Activity

Total number of youths charged with a crime by year

YouthSurvey

Data from Sociology with 1046 cases, 19 attributes. Useful for Project

National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth: transition into adolescence. A wealth of survey data.

YouthSurveyFR

Data from Sociology with 1046 cases, 19 attributes. Useful for Project

French language version of National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth: transition into adolescence. A wealth of survey data.


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