GEOG 3P47 – Census Mapping and Data Analysis Assignment Professor: J. Boggs Presented by Kevin Manuel, Liaison Librarian Brock University January 25, 2010 Statistics Canada

GEOG 3P47 – Statistics Canada  Google ‘Statistics Canada’  Click on Census  Select ‘2001 Census of Population’  Click on ‘Data’  Click on ‘Topic-based Tabulations’  Click on ‘Canada’s Workforce: Paid Work’  Select correct dataset  Change geography to St. Catharines-Niagara CMA

POLI 2F12 – Research sources  Searching for book  Used advanced search  Select keywords  Look at search results to see titles, location and availability

GEOG 3P47 – Statistics Canada  Google ‘Statistics Canada’  Click on Census  For 2006 click on ‘Data Products’  Click on ‘Topic-based Tabulations’  Click on ‘Labour’  Click on ‘Occupation’  Select correct dataset  Change geography to St. Catharines-Niagara CMA

POLI 2F12 – Research sources  Searching for government publications  Used advanced search  Select keywords  Limit search to ‘government documents’  Look at search results to see titles, location and availability (note that government publications have different call numbers and are located on the 7 th floor of the Library)

Search for government publications

POLI 2F12 – Research sources  Searching the Databases  Newspapers – Canadian Newsstand & CPi.Q  Magazines – CPi.Q  Peer-reviewed articles – Cpi.Q & CBCA  Go to databases page, select ‘Political Science’ from subjects, select required database from list  Choose keywords, limit dates, select full-text (optional)  Sort search results by relevance, read abstracts, download articles of your choice

GEOG 3P47 – Statistics Canada  Any questions you can go for in person assistance at the Help Desk in the Learning Commons or Kevin Manuel: