CANSIM – Socio-economic statistics…direct to your desktop

Updated daily, CANSIM provides you with the latest figures available in Canada.

CANSIM is used by:

CANSIM features:

Market researchers, analysts, economists, business professionals, professors, and the general public in order to:

  • Track trends
  • Analyze market potential
  • Study economic activity
  • Make investment decisions
  • Evaluate social conditions
  • Conduct feasibility studies
  • Forecast economic conditions
  • Plan programs or services
  • Profile demographics
  • Over 35 million time series
  • Over 2500 tables
  • Search by text, table number or time series number
  • Browse by subject or survey number
  • Page by page help function
  • Interactive table listing
  • Online user guide and toll-free telephone support
  • Various download formats
  • Detailed table information available prior to purchase
  • Reliable, timely data from a trusted source

Options and pricing

Online Find, purchase and download the data you require directly to your desktop for $3 per time series with a credit card.
Disc-on-demand Get the most recent version of the entire CANSIM database on CD or DVD Rom for $5,000.
Prepaid Accounts Make a one-time minimum payment of $1,000 and open a Prepaid Account which you can use, much like a line of credit, to purchase CANSIM data. To set up a CANSIM Prepaid Account, contact us.

Do you have questions about CANSIM?

See our FAQ page, User Guide (pdf) or contact infostats@statcan.ca for personalized help.


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