Environmental Statistics in E-STAT Tom Power Education Centre Library, Nipissing University/Canadore College Ontario DLI Training Guelph University, Guelph, ON April 12, 2006
Environmental Data at Statistics Canada Environment Accounts and Statistics Division Agriculture Division Manufacturing, Construction & Transportation Division Division And others….
Environment Accounts and Statistics Division Statistical program includes: Environmental Accounts and Indicators Environmental Surveys Spatial Data Analysis Human Activity and the Environment
Environmental Boundaries Ecozone Drainage Basin
ECOZONES
DRAINAGE BASINS
Political / Administrative Boundaries
Analysis involves the relationship between socio-economic conditions and environmental conditions.
Environmental Statistics in E-STAT
Three environmental products in E-Stat
Cansim Environmental Statistics in E-STAT - Natural Resource Stocks –quantities and values. values. - Consumption Of Materials and Energy - energy use. - energy use. - Waste Production – greenhouse gas emissions - Transportation of Dangerous Goods
Cansim Environmental Statistics in E-STAT -Fairly long time series -Provides data sources -Easy to use -Various output formats
Cansim Environmental Statistics in E-STAT -Limited Geography (Canada/Provinces) -Limited In Scope
Environment Module
Ecozones/Ecoregions Drainage Basins/Drainage Sub-basins -Census of Population and Census of Agriculture statistics. -Demographic,socio-economic and agricultural statistics aggregated to environmental boundaries
Provinces -Environmental statistics aggregated to political/administrative boundaries -Various data sources
Environment Module -Allows socio-economic-environmental analysis -Aggregation allows integration with external data sources -Easy to use -Various output options
Environment Module -Census data not updated. -Limited documentation -Limited in scope
Human Activity and the Environment
Human Activity and the Environment A general reference source -Includes a wide range of topics, emphasizing social/economic interactions with the environment. -Statistics are from a variety of cited sources -Published every 5 years with annual updates -Originally published as a print document with CD
HAE 2000 in E-STAT -HTML version in E-STAT has some of the features, including.xls tables, found on the CD -Does not include the graphing/mapping package.
Variables in the HAE 2000 Spatial Database
HAE Updates in E-STAT -PDF format only -No access to.xls files -Includes feature article
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