Data Liberation Initiative (DLI)

The Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) is an excellent example of a cost effective method for improving data resources for Canadian post secondary institutions. With this program, participating institutions pay an annual subscription fee that allows their faculty and students unlimited access to numerous Statistics Canada public use microdata files, databases and geographic files. Use of these files is limited to academic research and teaching purposes. To read additional information on this program.

The DLI community includes lists of participating institutions and their official contacts, the External Advisory Committee and the Statistics Canada DLI team; instructions for joining the DLI listserv; and links for DLI contacts to submit and check an order on-line. The DLI community

The DLI collection includes the list of data and metadata products in collection; survey names and acronyms; product release dates; additions and changes to the collection; etc. The DLI collection

Reports and reference material includes the DLI newsletter; minutes from the EAC meetings; various reports and links to many other helpful reference and training materials. Reports and reference material

The Learning resources program provides information for secondary students and teachers as well as links to E-STAT. Learning resources

The Research Data Centre (RDC) program provides researchers with access to detailed microdata. Research Data Centre (RDC)