Data & Odesi - Data and Statistics - Guides de recherche · Research guides at University of Ottawa

About Data Sources

Statistics Canada Surveys A-Z
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"The Integrated Meta Data Base (IMDB) is a corporate repository of information on each of Statistics Canada’s [approximately] 400 active surveys." Michel Cloutier
and Alice Born. Metadata at Statistics Canada: implementation opportunities and challenges. Retrieved from: http://www.bis.org/ifc/publ/ifcb33h.pdf (September 18, 2013)
Available DLI products
About DLI
Data Liberation Initiative
Release dates of new DLI products
ICPSR Data User Help Video Tutorials
Access ICPSR
Inter-university Consortium of Social and Political Research
About ICPSR
About the COOL RDC
Ottawa Statistics Canada Research Data Centre (RDC), or
"COOL: Carleton, Otttawa, Outaouais, Local" RDC.
RDC datasets
Research Data Centres holdings
Data and Statistics Glossary
About Odesi

Get data ...

DOWNLOAD in many formats, Stata, SPSS, SAS, text and more
socio-economic & population health survey data

Two ways to find your data ...

Direct browse!

- Browse content, then tabulate or download data
... Consult this how-to navigate video first

ODESI - Data Service of Scholars Portal » Ce lien s'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre / This link opens in a new window
- Not sure where to start?
Then search by variables, survey name, questions and answers;
... Consult this how-to search video first.
- You may also choose to search ICPSR data or
... see other search options provided by ICPSR here
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Two ways to "get" your Odesi data!

Download your data from Odesi for use in SPSS, Stata etc.
- Note the download icon at the top of the screen, right of centre, as in screen shot below:
- Consult the video on downloading a full dataset or downloading a subset
Make a table for downloading (Excel) or graphing
- Now capture your table, e.g., Download to Excel
  Note the Excel icon at the top of the screen, as in screen shot : or the graphing icons positioned just to the left.
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further guides

Guide to Browsing and Downloading in Odesi
Provides screen shots on how to find, subset and download data from a survey in Odesi. Follow this example for thousands of Odesi surveys.
Guide to Searching and Exploring Data on ODESI
Covers:
- Searching by variables
- Creating Tables-to-go (tabulate and weight data)
- Explore data
... then you can download
Five Easy Steps:Very Quick Odesi Guide
1) Find data,
2) Check findings / Look under the hood,
3) Tables to Go (create your own statistics and remember to weight the results!) ,
4) Data to Go (download data),
5) Assistance
ODESI subject guide (Scholars Portal)
A subject guide in the same format as this one, which provides detailed information about using Odesi.
Odesi Video Tutorials

HOW-TO

Odesi Video tutorials here!

Guide to Browsing and Downloading in Odesi - pdf

Software guides:
SAS e-guides

SPSS e-guides and tutorials

Stata guides, electronic & print

Français

Version française

Data Liberation Initiative

What is the DLI? The Data Liberation Initiative allows researchers at the University (students and faculty) to have unlimited access to many Statistics Canada survey data, including public use microdata files, databases as well as geographic files.

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