Research guides: Resources Guide to Chinese Canadian Studies: Find Statistics & Data

Find Statistics about Chinese in Canada

Map and Data Library
Get help from the Map and Data Library to find data you need.
Immigration Data from Statistics Canada
Data tables and analysis articles on immigration and ethnocultural diversity
Immigration statistics [electronic resource]
Electronic coverage as of Sept. 27, 2002: 1966-1996.
Canada Year Book (CYB) Historical Collection
This digital collection, provided by Statistics Canada, covers the first century of Canada's history, from 1867 to 1967, with historical text, tables, charts and maps, supplemented by interconnected learning resources for students and teachers.
Canadian Census Analyser
The Census Analyzer allows members of the University of Toronto research community to generate custom tables from the Census of Canada (1961-2016) and the National Household Survey (2011). The interface enables the selection of relevant variables and census geographies, providing access to data down to the dissemination area (DA) level.

Canadian Public Opinion Polls
In terms of geographic coverage, the main focus in this collection is Canada and Canadians. Every Canadian province and territory is accounted for in the collection. There are also polls that report on the opinions of people living in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe.
Chinese Canadian Immigrant Pipeline, 1912-1923
This tool is designed to help visualize a decade in the patterns of immigration from China to Canada from 1912 to the imposition of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1923, broken down by month.
This tool has three modes.
1. The first breaks down immigration by the district of origin in China.
2. The second breaks down by occupation, split into four fairly loose categories.
3. The third mode breaks down by age group.
Chinese Canadian Immigrant Flows, 1912-1923
This tool is designed to help visualize a decade in the flows of immigration from China to Canada from 1912 to the imposition of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1923, broken down by month.
The tool visualises the flows between the "Four Counties" to each of the selected cities in Canada every month over the 1912 to 1923 period.