Statistics Canada

Name: Statistics Canada
Creator: Statistics Canada
License: statcan-open

Open · redistributedstatcan-opendemographylabouroutputpricesrates

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

Temporal coverage

1946-01-01 – 2026-05-01

Frequencies

Annual, Monthly, Quarterly

Distinct geographies

Licensing & provenance

License: statcan-open
Required attribution: Source: Statistics Canada (Open Licence)
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted

How to cite

Statistics Canada. Retrieved from https://www150.statcan.gc.ca. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from the official source, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download statcan series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/statcan.html
Update cadence: weekly
Update strategy: giant changed units
Storage layout: per-series files: one zstd parquet per productId (~8,207 cubes, .done markers present), columns series_key(VECTOR), obs_date(date32), value, geo, uom, coordinate, status; plus _manifest.jsonl, _errors.log, _sizecache.json, _tmp/ zip staging.

Full description

Full-coverage grouped ingest of Statistics Canada (WDS). Enumerates the ENTIRE cube catalog via getAllCubesListLite (~8,200 cubes), then for each cube pulls the full-table CSV bulk download (getFullTableDownloadCSV -> zip URL on www150), streams the data CSV, and writes ONE Parquet per cube. Parquet columns (grouped, one file per productId): series_key : StatCan VECTOR id (e.g. "v41690973") -- the canonical series key obs_date : date32 (REF_DATE parsed: YYYY / YYYY-MM / YYYY-MM-DD) value : float64 (null when suppressed/"..") geo : geography label uom : unit of measure coordinate : StatCan dimension coordinate (e.g. "1.1.2") status : STATUS flag (".."=unavailable, E=use w/ caution, F=too unreliable, etc.) License: statcan-open (Statistics Canada Open Licence). Memory is bounded: zips stream to a temp file, the CSV is parsed row-by-row, and rows are flushed to the Parquet writer in batches (so even the 2 GB cube is fine). Resumable: a cube with an existing .parquet + .done marker is skipped. Usage: python jobs/ingest_statcan.py --dry 5 # enumerate + process 5 small cubes, print python jobs/ingest_statcan.py # full run (all cubes) python jobs/ingest_statcan.py --workers 6 # set concurrency (default 6)

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)

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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-07-14 from the central registry · browse all datasets