Data Services

Data versus Statistics

Statistics are data that have been collected and classified or analyzed (OED). They usually answer questions such as "how much or how many?" Data, then, are the raw material from which statistics are create and answer questions such as "how" and "why?" Whether you need a table or chart to insert into a report or a dataset to analyze and ask your own research questions, UNB Libraries' staff are pleased to be able to help you.

Data & Statistical Sources

Canadian

• Open Data Portal, Government of Canada
• Statistic Canada
• RDS (Rich Data Services), Statistics Canada data extractor and tabulation engine
• SDA@CHASS, Statistics Canada microdata
• Abacus Open Data (StatCan, et al.),  UBC, SFU, UNBC, UVic Dataverse
• Odesi (StatCan, et al.)
• Census Analyser, profile tables and public use microdata files (PUMFs)
• CIHI Data and Reports, Canadian Institute for Health Information
• more...

Provincial/Territorial & Municipal

• Open Data New Brunswick
• NBHC Communities, Population Health Profiles New Brunswick Health Council
• Open.Alberta
• Open Data BC
• Open Data Ontario
• more...

International Data

• Data.gov, US Open Data
• OECD Data
• Global Health Observatory, WHO
• UNdata, United Nations
• UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
  • SDG4 Indicators, UIS
• ICPSR, international research and secondary data (some Canadian data)
• Statista, licensed multidisciplinary data aggregator
• Population Reference Bureau
• more...