Statistics & Data

The Statistics Canada website includes full-featured access to the results of the census. The Census covers information about the age, sex, family structure, and languages of the Canadian population.

You can break down census information into smaller geographic areas, such as provinces, metropolitan areas (cities), and census tracts.

Starting with the 2011 Census, Statistics Canada replaced a mandatory long-form questionnaire with a voluntary National Household Survey. This survey gives insight into core social indicators of Canadian society, including aboriginal peoples, immigration and ethnocultural diversity, education and labour, mobility and migration, and income and housing.

Similar to the Census Profiles above, the NHS Profiles give access NHS information for specific geographic regions.

The United States Census Bureau provides access to all census data from their decennial Census of Population (most recent data from 2010) and Economic Census (2012).

A single source of global census data is provided by the United Nations Statistics Division.

IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.