This guide is intended to help researchers find statistical information and lists key international statistics.
The UBC Library catalogue has many resources to help you to understand and work with statistics. Here are a few sample titles:
Data and statistics are often used interchangeably but there is an important distinction between the two terms. Data is the raw information from which statistics are created. Or put another way, statistics provide an interpretation and summary of data and are ususally viewed in charts, graphs or tables.
Source: US Statistical Abstract
Data or datasets are collections of numeric data that can be analyzed using specialized software such as Stata, SPSS, or R. Ofen referred to as "raw data".
Source: Country and City Data Book, ICPSR
If you need data, you will need to go to Abacus - the Research Data Collection of the British Columbia Research Libraries' Data Services.
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