Students

Fun stuff to see

• Animated population pyramids
• Canada's population clock
• Thematic maps

Special interest

• Listen Up! Podcasts and audio learning
• Census of Canada resources
• Data analysis projects and fairs for tips on collecting primary data or finding and using secondary data.
• Investigating social justice issues New!
• Summary tables for current national and provincial data
• Community Profiles to display and compare data and maps for all Canadian communities (cities, towns, villages, etc.).
• The Daily offers unparalleled access to newly released data, schedules of major releases and announcements of new products and services. Journalists use this source for news reports. Many articles have a link to a CANSIM table number. Please note that there is a $3 charge for CANSIM information. There is no charge if you copy the CANSIM table number and search for it in E-STAT. E-STAT is updated once a year during the summer months and provides free data to educational institutions.
• Resources by school subject link to relevant lesson plans, articles and data. Your teacher may assign some of these lessons, or they could provide ideas for your projects. Some resources require access to E-STAT, the educational research tool.

Learn how to collect and use data

• Statistics: Power from Data!
• How to cite Statistics Canada products.

Tool

• Convert lengths between metric and imperial.