Data News and Links

 

 

Data News | General | Statistics | Data Organizations  | DDI 2.x and Nesstar | Additional Links  | Presentations

These links can be useful when looking for more information on a variety of topics: citing; the Census; Official Statistics; help using statistics; other data organizations; and many other topics. For help about Data Services, different datasets and statistical programs, please see our Online Help.

Data News

 

General

  • Canadian Social Research Links - A virtual resource centre for Canadian social program information.
  • ﻿Data Interest Group for Reference Services (DIGRS) - This Web Log has been created to document a variety of reference interviews and the types of answers that have been given.  It is under the direction of Chuck Humphrey, the Data Library Coordinator at the University of Alberta.
  • DLI Training Repository - Contains training sessions & workshop presentations from DLI & other national & international conferences over the years. This web module may only be accessed from the institutional networks of Canadian postsecondary institutions participating in the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI). If you are a student or a member of a participating institution and you are unable to access these pages through your institutional network, please inform the DLI contact at your institution.
  • How to Cite Statistics Canada Products - This electronic product shows how to cite all standard products offered by Statistics Canada. In addition to books, articles, analytical studies and periodicals, this work covers non-traditional products.
  • Individual Data Archives, Data Libraries and Related Institutions
    (National and International) - Data Library Service, University of Toronto berenica.vejvoda@utoronto.ca Last updated: 2010-04-30
  • OFFSTATS - Official Statistics on the Web - can be searched by country, region or topic.
  • Open Data Repositories - Canada - Canadian provinces and municipalities are providing data for free to the public. Not all open data have geospatial components but if you are seeking municipal-level data in Canada - especially outside Ontario - open data repositories are a good place to start.
  • The Business & Community Newsletter - This newsletter includes articles and outreach materials that will aid with the understanding of national and local data from the Statistics Canada website.

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Statistics

SPSS
 Raynald’s SPSS tools - A very useful site providing information about using SPSS. There are over 675 sample syntax, macros and scripts that can be downloaded and used as well as numerous links to a variety of tutorials for SPSS. Comments and questions are always welcome.

How to Bring an ASCII Data File into SPSS/PASW - This Roper site takes you through the process step-by-step. It also has more good links to using SPSS.

Stata 

How to Bring an ASCII Data File into Stata - THis Roper site takes you through the process step-by-step. It also has some good links to using Stata.

R

R - Provides information to help users learn R. Other information includes: add-on products for SAS, SPSS and R; calling R from other software; and using Excel for data entry.

R Tutorial for Beginners: A Quick Start-Up Kit - Learn R: A Statistical Programming Language

Tutorials

Web Interface for Statistics Education (WISE) - Features interactive statistics tutorials, statistics applets, and links to glossaries, journals, and other related statistics sites

UCLA Academic Technology Services: Statistical Computing - Gives an overview on statistical computing and describes how you can access web-based tutorials for STATA, SAS, SPSS, R and other packages.

Glossaries

Statistics Glossary - Website that gives the definition for the majority of statistical terms and concepts.

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Data Organizations

  • DINO (Data in Ontario)
  • ACCOLEDS (A COPPUL Consortium of Library Electronic Data Services)
  • IASSIST (International Association of Social Science Information Service and Technology)
  • IFDO (International Federation of Data Organizations)
  • CESSDA (Council of European Social Science Data Archives)

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DDI 2.x and Nesstar

These links would be useful to those who mark-up and publish Statistics Canada microdata files for <odesi>. These documents can also be used to mark-up microdata files from other data producers.

If you would like to be informed when updates are made to these documents, please send an email to jane.fry@carleton.ca

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﻿ Additional Links

  • This page highlights additional links of interest for: General Interest; People; Economics; the Nation; Land and Resources; and Public Opinion Polls.

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 Presentations

These pages contain links to presentations given.

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