Bibliography of Federal Data Sources: Excluding Statistics Canada 1981

Toby Rupert was a librarian living in Toronto.

“This ‘Bibliography’ brings together, for the first time, sources of social and economic data which are produced on a regular basis by other federal departments and agencies. This book and the Statistics Canada Catalogue together provide the key to locating much of the current federally-produced data” (from the Preface, p. iii).

Fifty-one government departments and agencies are listed here. For each is given the statistical service it publishes, the catalogue number, the price, the address, what’s available (contents), and the various types of statistical data via a numbered series listing of table titles. This is all complemented by a subject index. The biggest provider of statistical data would appear to be Agriculture Canada and its associated agencies dealing with livestock and other food products. (Readers may be interested to know that the Canada Yearbook was published by the Department of Agriculture prior to 1905.)