Statistics Canada Opens Up CANSIM

An item noted by Susannah Tredewell on the VALL website, CANSIM data has been made available free of charge by StatsCan under the Statistics Canada Open Licence Agreement.

CANSIM is Statistics Canada’s key socioeconomic database, receives periodic updates daily to its various tables, and “provides fast and easy access to a large range of the latest statistics available in Canada.”

They’ve also added a screencast video tutorial, which would have been a nice addition to the 4 videos StatsCan currently has on its Youtube channel. It seems rather odd, I must say, when an organization’s youtube channel is used exclusively for marketing fodder, and isn’t made available to showcase a core product — like, say, a newly available free statistics collection.

Too bad. An embed code to would have come in handy, and would have allowed me to share the tutorial video here on Slaw.