Part of the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) program of statistical tools from Statistics Canada, the Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System (CANSIM) is Statistics Canada's key socioeconomic database comprised of over 40 million time series and thousands of tables. CANSIM @ CHASS is updated daily via a direct data feed from Statistics Canada.
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:
- 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