1. Searching the University of Alberta Library’s Statistics Canada-based Websites 2001 Census of Canada Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics Canadian Business Patterns

2. Part I: Introduction to the University of Alberta’s 2001 Census of Canada Website

3. 2001 Census of Canada on the Statistics Canada Website

4. How do you find the University of Alberta Census of Canada Website? From the U of A library homepage either: Go into Databases and search using “Census”. You will get listings for both the 1996 Census of Canada and the 2001 Census of Canada. These are the two Census of Canada websites the HSS library has set up OR From the library’s homepage, use Find, Data & Statistics and then click on http://www.library.ualberta.ca/datalibrary/ http://www.library.ualberta.ca/datalibrary/ Click on Census 1996 or Census 2001 in the sidebar

5. What kind of information will you find in the Census of Canada? Demographic characteristics such as age, sex and marital status Other information that provides a snapshot of who Canadians were in 2001. This information includes variables such as education, income, work activity, household, family and dwelling characteristics.

6. If Statistics Canada has a 2001 Census of Canada website, why should we bother with a U of A 2001 Census of Canada website? 1.The University of Alberta participates in the Data Liberation Initiative. This program provides U of A faculty and students unlimited access to numerous Statistics Canada public use microdata files, databases and geographic files that are not available to the general public.

7. Data available through Statistics Canada and Through the U of A Libraries

8. Information Downloaded from Statistics Canada HTML file

9. Data available through Statistics Canada and Through the U of A Libraries

10. Data and Statistics – what’s the difference? The U of A’s Statistics Canada-based websites may contain both data and statistics. Data (or raw data): Numbers, characters, images, or other methods of recording information. Data on its own has no meaning, only when interpreted by some kind of data processing system does it take on meaning and become information.

11. Data and Statistics – what’s the difference? Statistics – Statistics are produced from data. Statistics are made by application of mathematical functions to collections of data in order to summarise or extrapolate that data. The subject of statistics can be divided into descriptive statistics - describing data, and analytical statistics - drawing conclusions from data.data

12. Part 2: Organization of the University of Alberta’s 2001 Census of Canada Website.

13. The U of A’s 2001 Census of Canada’s website is organized around the product content of the Statistics Canada 2001 Census.

14. The Two Standard Census of Canada Products Profiles Topic-based Tabulations

15. What’s the difference between the two standard products?

16. Example of Variables

17. Community Profiles

18. What’s the difference between the two standard products? (continued)

19. Example of A Topic-based Tabulation

20. Organization of the U of A’s 2001 Census of Canada Website

21. Organization of the U of A’s 2001 Census of Canada Website (continued)

22. Part 3: How the Data is Organized

23. Organization of the U of A’s 2001 Census of Canada Website

24. Organization Within Each of These Sections Within each of the “Standard Census Products” and the “Special Interest Cross Tabulations”, the data is organized by: Variables (i.e., questions from the Census) Geography

25. Example of Organization of Data by Variable

26. Geography Census data are disseminated for a number of standard geographic areas. These areas are either administrative or statistical. Administrative areas There are two categories: 1.Areas specifically related to how the census information is collected; and 2. Areas specifically related to how the census information is used.

27. Geography (continued) Statistical areas are defined by Statistics Canada as part of the spatial frame for disseminating census data. Examples of statistical areas are: census metropolitan areas (CMAs) and census agglomerations (CAs), urban area, dissemination area (DA). These are made up from groups of adjacent, largely urban municipalities (Census Subdivisions) that have a high degree of social and economic integration. CMAs and CAs contain approximately 78% of the population of Canada, they cover only 4% of the land area.

28. Example of Data Organized by Geography

29. Part 4: How to find Data on the 2001 Census of Canada Website

30. Open the Statistics Canada 2001 Census Website

31. Clicking on the “Data” link gets you to the “Standard Data Products” page

32. Example of Profile or Univariate Data

33. Example of Topic-based Tabulation, or Multivariate Data

34. From the “Standard Data Products” page, select either Profiles or Topic-based Tabulations

35. Profiles: Select your variables to match those in the list.

36. An example of a list of data sets for a group of variables. These sets vary by geographic division.

37. An example of the data in an HTML file.

38. If you choose Topic-based Tabulations...

39. An example of a list of data sets for a group of variables chose from the topic-based tabulations.

40. An example of the data in an Beyond 20/20 file.

41. To the right, you will see “Other available searches”

42. An example of the choices when you choose to search by variable.

43. Results of a search by variable.

44. Site Search from the Library Webpages

45. Library Site Search Using Google

46. Search Results

47. Example of Links to Overview Data

48. Example of the Data Provided by Overview Tables

49. An example of the tables in the “Overview” information.

50. Example of Data for a Specific Set of Variables

51. Example of Data from Specific Data Files

52. An Example of a Table from this set.

53. Part 5 Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics Canadian Business Patterns

54. How to Find These Websites The two easiest ways to find these databases are: From the library homepage, click “Databases”. Type the name of the database in the search window; Or Click on “Site Search” at the bottom of any of the University of Alberta Library webpages. Type the database name into the “Google” search window.

55. Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics

56. Data Tables by Survey

57. There are a variety of tables within each survey

58. For example, the Admission Data Table

59. Statistics

60. Documents located under the Canadian Crime Statistics Link

61. An example of the PDF documents found within the Statistics links.

62. Canadian Business Patterns

63. Canadian Business Patterns Data Tables

64. For example, the information for Province/CD, NAICS, June 2002

65. The Business Register Webpage