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Welcome to the CHASS Data Centre

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This collection of on-line databases and custom built search and retrieval programs are maintained by Information & Instructional Technology (formerly known as “Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences/CHASS” at the University of Toronto).

CANSIM

The Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System (CANSIM) is Statistics Canada's key socioeconomic database. Updated daily, CANSIM provides fast and easy access to a large range of the latest statistics available in Canada. CANSIM comprises over 40 million time series and thousands of tables.

CANSIM can be used to:

  • Track trends
  • Analyze market potential
  • Study economic activity
  • Make investment decisions
  • Evaluate social conditions
  • Conduct feasibility studies
  • Forecast economic conditions
  • Plan programs or services
  • Profile demographics

CANSIM @ CHASS features:

  • Most frequently retrieved series by Academia
  • Search by text, table number or time series number
  • Browse by subject, survey number, table titles and labels or by Statistics Canada's keywords classification for tables
  • Various download formats
  • Historical versions of CANSIM (available only at CHASS)
  • Bilingual

CANSIM @ CHASS is updated daily via a direct data feed from Statistics Canada.

Access is allowed to the following subscribers.

Visit CANSIM website.