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Government and Demographic Information

  • C.B. "Bud" Johnston Library
    C.B. "Bud" Johnston Library
    519-661-3941 x83941

Databases

  • Economist Intelligence Unit

    EIU provides political and economic data and analysis, forecasts, trends, risk, statistics and access to the Economist.

  • International Monetary Fund - eLibrary Data

    For most countries in the world it contains current data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions (including balance of payments and international investment position), government finance, and national accounts.

  • OECD iLibrary

    OECD iLibrary contains all the publications and datasets released by OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development), International Energy Agency (IEA), Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and International Transport Forum (ITF) since 1998.

  • World Bank e-Library

    World Bank e-Library is the electronic portal to the World Bank's full-text collection of books, reports, and other documents.

  • Global Development Finance

    The database covers external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructuring, and scheduled debt service projections.

  • PAIS International -- Public Affairs Information Service
    The PAIS is a database that provides information in the subject areas of Political Science, Economics, Social Science and Legislation
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Government Information

  • Government of Canada Homepage
    Web page for Canada's Federal Government
  • CIA World Factbook

    Published by the US CIA, the World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

  • Provincial Governments
    Links to provincial and territorial government homepages.
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics

    The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the United States Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.

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Statistics and Data

  • Equinox Data Delivery System

    Data about communities, individuals and spending patterns. A significant amount of data is provided by Statistics Canada and other Canadian sources as well as  international sources such as the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

  • StatsCan - Statistics Canada

    Statistics compiled by the Canadian Government. Current and historical.

  • OECD.Stat Extract
    Includes data and metadata for OECD countries and selected non-member economies.
  • Market Research Handbook
    Contains summary of census data, market surveys, and other statistics such as household spending and income.
  • CANSIM via CHASS

    CANSIM is a huge database of raw statistical data from Statistics Canada covering a wide spectrum of subjects.

  • Spending Patterns in Canada
    This annual survey collects information about expenditures by households and families in Canada on a wide variety of goods and services. When you are on the catalogue record click on Connect to Internet Resource.
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Web Sites

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