Intercultural Communication and Diversity Information Resources: Facts & Data

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Statistics

Canada
United States
International
General Worldwide

See also the Library's Guides to: Statistics Sources, Statistics - BC and Statistics Canada, Economic Indicators

The Library has many statistical yearbooks for countries, regions, and international organizations. Search the catalogue using the keywords "statistical (yearbook or abstract)" and the country, region, or organization name, e.g., "statistical (yearbook or abstract) Latin America."

Canada

• • BCSTATS
  • The place to start for current BC socio-economic statistics, including quick facts and historical tables. Note that SFU researchers have access to several key BC Stats publications online.

• British Columbia Economic Accounts - A statistical picture of the BC economy on a national accounts basis.
• Historical Statistics of Canada HA 746 U7
• Statistics Canada Publication Indexes
  • Canadian Census 2001, Topic-based Tabulations ; Canadian Census 2006
  • Canadian Social Trends (11-008-XIE) - Quarterly, discusses the social, economic, and demographic changes affecting the lives of Canadians; contains the latest figures for major social indicators.
  • CANSIM Time series of Canadian data on national accounts, financial institutions, corporate finance, government, population, labour, prices, construction, investment, trade, travel, and industry. 
  • E-Stat Some Canadian census data as well as access to CANSIM II - allows creation of customized graphs and maps.  Note that the E-Stat version of CANSIM is only updated once a year.  Use CANSIM (above) for the most current data.
  • Index of Downloadable Statistics Canada Publications
    • Earnings of Men and Women -- 1997
  • Juristat - (85-002) - crime statistics, homicide, shelters for women, prostitution, etc.
  • Statistics Canada
    Provides current and historical Canadian socio-economic statistics as well as descriptions of Statscan's products and services.  Always check the SFU Library catalogue to see if we own the material that you find cited at the Statistics Canada site

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United States

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International

• Asian Development Bank - 64 members. Choose a "country" or "topic" from pull down menus.Choose "topics"gender and development" to find a report on a particular country, or "microfinance".
  • Publications, e.g. Biennial Thematic Report on Gender and Development 2006-2007
• Genderinfo - USE INTERNET EXPLORER. Takes a bit of time to load.
• Statistical yearbook. United Nations. 1948- HA 12.5 U63
• Statistical yearbook. UNESCO. 1968- AZ 361 U45
• United Nations Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWAGE) - Women's Watch - groups information about world's women
• UNDATA (Formerly known as "UNSTATS - United Nations Statistical Common Database". - check "country profiles" and "topics" links. - comparative data from many UN sources. e.g. In the first box, look for "indicators on men & women" by countries (maternity benefits, part-time employment), "key global indicators", "World development indicators"
• World Bank -
• World Development Indicators Online (WDI) - over 600 indicators, from 1960 to 2005. Can select multiple variables to create exportable reports, charts or maps. Go to the "Data" tab in the left column. You can look at "key indicators" for country or region, and download them into Excel if needed

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General and World-wide

• Demography & Population Studies - A World Wide Web Virtual Library site, this provides links to demographic information facilities and resources world-wide.
• Europa World
• International historical statistics : Africa, Asia & Oceania, 1750-2000. Bennett Reference HA 4675 M552 2003
• International historical statistics : Europe, 1750-2000. Bennett Reference HA 1107 M5 2003
• International historical statistics : the Americas, 1750-2000. Bennett Reference HA 175 M55 2003

• Provides information about each country in the world in a standardized format. Brief statistical information.

• Index to international statistics : IIS. 1983-  Bennett Reference Indexes HA 155 I58
• Research Data Library - SFU Library's collection of machine-readable files, including Cansim, Citibase, IMF statistics, social science data files from many national and international sources, and data from individual researchers and private organizations. Check the Research Data Library Catalogue for a list of data files.
• SourceOECD - Click the Statistics tab, browse contents on the left side of the screen for available databases.
• Statistical abstract of the world. Belzberg Reference and Bennett Library, HA 155 S7 1997
• Statistical Resources on the Web - (Univ Michigan Library), this site links to statistical resources on a wide variety of topics from all around the world.