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Summary/description: Odesi (Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure) collects social science data and polling data.  Odesi contains searchable survey questions and variables from thousands of datasets.  It contains both microdata and aggregate data in a variety of formats.  

Coverage and scope: Odesi’s core data comes from Statistics Canada with other data from the Canadian Opinion Research Archive (CORA), Canadian Gallup, and Ispos Reid.

Subjects Covered:
Agriculture
Business and finance
Census of population
Communications and information
Consumer surveys
Crime and justice
Demographics and population
Education
Elections and politics
Geography
Government finances and economic indicators
Health
Labour and employment
Natural resources and environment
Public opinion polls
Social surveys
Trade
Travel

Help and Tutorials:
Searching for Data
Downloading Data
Other tutorials