Guides: GEOG303: Health Geography: Home

Key CANADIAN Assignment Resources

CANSIM
40 million time series. Updated daily. Mostly national and province-level. 630 tables just for health.
Census (Statistics Canada Website)
CHASS Census Analyzer
Aggregate Canadian census data back to 1961.
Health Indicators (CIHI)
80 health indicators measuring the health of the Canadian population and the effectiveness of the health care system.

CDC WONDER
Rich query tool for U.S. public health data. Includes state level.
American FactFinder
NGHIS (U.S. Census data)
Aggregate, harmonized U.S. Cesus data. Decennial and non-decennial as well as 5 and 3-year ranges.
FastStats (CDC Nationa Center for Health Statistics)

eurostat
European social, economic and health statistics.
FAOSTAT
Global Health Observatory Data (GHO)
WHO's main health statistics/aggregate data repository.
IMF DATA
Macroeconomic and financial data, including: Balance of Payments, Direction of Trade Statistics, Government Finance Statistics, International Finance Statistics, and more...
OECD.Stat
Enables users to search for and extract data from across the subject databases (Agriculture, Economics, Education, Development, etc.) included in OECDiLibrary's statistics.
STATcompiler
Demographic and health indicators for over 90 countries.
UNData
A database designed by the United Nations Statistics Division which combines several major UN databases and other international organizations into one easy-to-search database.
World Development Indicators (The World Bank)
Social, economic and health statistics.

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