SOCI2260 (Smith)

Government websites at all levels (federal, provincial, and municipal) can have valuable information useful for your assignments. When doing online searches, adding a government web domain to the end of your search can help your results.

Add .gc.ca or bc.ca to the end of your Google search string to find federal or provincial government resources; Add .gov if searching for U.S. government sites 

Examples:

• searching charities and not-for-profits .gc.ca in Google will help limit to charities and not-for-profits from federal government websites
• searching charities and not-for-profits .bc.ca in Google will help limit to charities and not-for-profits from provincial government websites
• searching charities and not-for-profits City of Vancouver in Google help limit to charities and not-for-profits from municipal government websites

CANSIM - Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System

CANSIM is a collection of time series data from Statistics Canada covering a variety of social, economic, and other aspects of Canadian life. Many CANSIM data tables are available freely online but we also have access to the CHASS version (link below).

On CANSIM, you can find the following:

• survey data
• multiple reported statistics
• detailed variables

Please refer to your class materials and instructor for help using CANSIM. The resource below may also be helpful:

• Accessing CANIM data through CHASS (University of Toronto)
• How to use the data tables (Statistics Canada, video)

When citing information from CANSIM data, please check out the library's APA guide.