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.
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