Hands-on Tutorials
A step by step tutorial on Statistics Canada API and python library
Statistics Canada provides a wide range of data for public use, including data for Canada’s economy, society and environment. In addition to manually browsing the webpage to access the data, Statistics Canada also provides Web Data Service, i.e. API access to their database. What’s even better, there is a python library stats_can that wraps up the API commands and allows users to write simple codes to read data automatically. This article will provide a step by step tutorial on how to achieve that.
Identify desired data item and its vectorID
Go to Statistics Canada subpage Data, input keywords, for instance, GDP, and click on the search icon.
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Rui Zhang
Data scientist with a background of oceanography, rock climbing enthusiast, immigrant in Canada. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rui-zhang-ocean/
