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Finding Data on Women: A Guide to Major Sources at Statistics Canada

This new 144 page handbook is a carefully explained and compiled overview of where to look up Statistics Canada information on women. One section is given over to Statistics Canada new initiatives, including a planned survey on unpaid work. Another is titled “Diversity” offering a range of sources, although heavily dependent on the Census and post Census surveys.

The Violence Against Women survey of 12,300 women is described and follow up sources of information are given along with the titles of a few analytical papers. We are also given a bibliography, glossary, contacts, a summary of surveys - but no index.

While this very useful publication is available free of charge, many of the survey results are no longer free. The book gives us details on where to start finding the data about ourselves and our sisters, information we gave freely to surveys and the Census, but we are still going to have to pay for many of the facts.