The following are databases recommended for finding data and statistics in the areas of Business and Economics
Statistics are used to:
Attributes that you should be looking for when evaluating your statistics:
Finding statistics is not easy. There are generally two approaches, which are often used in combination with each other.
Publisher Strategy: identify an organization that would produce and publish such a statistic. Knowledge of government structure, areas of jurisdication and context is key.
Data Strategy: identify a data source from which the statistics were derived.
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Official Statistics: produced by government bodies (such as Statistics Canada) and some international or inter-governmental agencies (such as the U.N.)
Non-Offical Statistics: produced by other bodies, including trade associations, professional organizations, banks, consultants, marketing companies, academic institutions, etc
Surveys | Administrative Records |
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Surveys: deliberately requested information.
Administrative Records: statistics generated by doing regular business
- Banks release statements/reports on economic forecast
Open data is data that can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and sharealike.
Open Data characteristics:
Source: Open Data Handbook. (2012). What is Open Data? — Open Data Handbook. Retrieved February 26, 2015, from http://opendatahandbook.org/en/what-is-open-data/
Municipal/Provincial
Federal
International
Some of the following statistical sources are available only through the TRU Library's DLI / Data Services Librarian. Browse DLI survey products and descriptions on the Statistics Canada DLI website.