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Statistics Canada Census Program (formerly Census of Canada) This link opens in a new window (Statistics Canada) Provides access to data from the most recent Census as well previous Census data back to 1991.
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Statistics Canada Data Tables (formerly CANSIM) This link opens in a new window (Statistics Canada) Statistics Canada's key site for statistics.
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Federal Science Libraries Network (FSLN) This link opens in a new window (Government of Canada) The Federal Science Libraries Network (FSLN) is a one-stop, self-serve portal where you can access library services and search the print collections and repositories of seven science-based departments and agencies from a single place. Wherever possible, departmental publications, reports, data sets and other content are freely available for anyone to access or download.
Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) This link opens in a new window (New Digital Research Infrastructure Organization & Compute Canada) Search FRDR to find research datasets originating from researchers affiliated with Canadian institutions. - Please note that not all of the Ontario Data Catalogue results in this database are fully Open Access.
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Borealis: The Canadian Dataverse Repository (formerly Scholars Portal Dataverse) This link opens in a new window (University of Toronto) A bilingual, multidisciplinary, secure, Canadian research data repository, supported by academic libraries and research institutions across Canada that supports open discovery, management, sharing, and preservation of Canadian research data. - Seneca users only have access to full-text content that results from checking "Public" (under the "Access" facet) after running a search.
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World Health Statistics (WHO) WHO's annual World Health Statistics reports present the most recent health statistics for the WHO Member States. All reports are available for download in Adobe PDF and excel when applicable.
Global Health (Our World in Data) In this entry we provide an overview of the available empirical evidence on aggregate health outcomes, focusing on long-run cross-country data from mortality and morbidity tables; and then provide an analysis of available evidence on health determinants, focusing specifically on the returns to macro healthcare investments.
OECD.Stat: Health OECD.Stat includes data and metadata for OECD countries and selected non-member economies.

Statistics Canada Health Reports A Canadian peer-reviewed journal of population health and health services research.
Canadian Cancer Society: Statistics An annual report of cancer incidence and mortality in Canada.
Canadian Community Health Survey Provides topical health data: arthritis, Body Mass Index, etc.
Canadian Institute for Health Information Provides reports about Canada’s health care.
FluWatch This site provides access to the weekly reports discussing the watch of flu activity in Canada.
Public health surveillance Provides health statistics on Cancer, Cardiovascular Diseases, Major Chronic Diseases, Notifiable Diseases, and Injury Surveillance.
Statistics Canada Canadian Health Indicators Provides data about health, determinants of health, health system performance and health system characteristics.
Statistics Canada Health Fact Sheets Provides topical health data, smoking, diabetes, etc.

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