Library Guides: Business Administration: Country Data

Country Information & Data

International business requires knowledge and statistics about the countries you're dealing with. These resources contain information and/or data about countries.

Sources by Country

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Includes citations and full text content to more than 1200 of the most important business journals. Non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses, and videos from the Harvard Faculty Seminar Series.

Bank of Canada
The Bank of Canada is the nation's central bank. The 4 main functions are:monetary policy, financial systems, currency, funds management.
Canadian Industry Statistics
From Industry Canada, Canadian Industry Statistics (CIS) analyses industry data on many economic indicators using the most recent data from Statistics Canada. CIS looks at industry trends and financial information, such as GDP, Labour Productivity, Manufacturing and Trade data.
Government of Canada - Business and Industry
This website provides support for Canadian businesses and includes a section on Research and Business Intelligence.
Canadian Statistics
Trent Library's webpage on searching Statistics Canada.
Statistics Canada - Data Concepts
Read this guide to gain a better understanding of what data is and how it's organized.
Canadian Census
Statistics Canada
Statistics by Subject
Statistics Canada portal of statistics by subject.
Surveys by Subject
Statistics Canada portal of surveys by subject.
ODESI
Trent Library's page on searching ODESI: a web based data repository, extraction and analysis service which includes Statistics Canada microdata and aggregate data, Canadian Gallup Polls, CORA (Canadian Opinion Research Archive) and other data sets.
Canadian Cluster Data
Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity. This site provides open data on Canadian regional clusters and economies to support Canadian business, economic development and public policy. Note: as of May 2019, the Institute stopped updating cluster data, but the historical data may be useful.

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Includes citations and full text content to more than 1200 of the most important business journals. Non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses, and videos from the Harvard Faculty Seminar Series.
United States Census Bureau This link opens in a new window
The Census Bureau's mission is to serve as the nation’s leading provider of quality data about its people and economy.

Pew Research Center
A nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research.

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Includes citations and full text content to more than 1200 of the most important business journals. Non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses, and videos from the Harvard Faculty Seminar Series.
IMF (International Monetary Fund) Data This link opens in a new window
Online datasets from the IMF. Includes: International Financial Statistics, Balance of Payment Statistics, Government Finance Statistics , Direction of Trade Statistics, and and Trade and Investment.
OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new window
Online access to OECD books, reports, annuals, working papers, loose-leaf binders, periodicals and databases. Many, but not all, are available for free. The Trent Library does not cover the cost to purchase documents.
UNdata This link opens in a new window
United Nations databases.
World Bank - Data This link opens in a new window
The World Bank provides free and open access to a comprehensive set of data about development in countries around the globe, together with other datasets cited in the data catalog.
World Development Indicators This link opens in a new window
The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates on economic, social, environmental, business, and technology indicators.

Google Search Tips

Add keywords that represent statistics to the subject search:

cannabis (stat or statistics or data or dataset)

To narrow to Canadian websites, try these strategies:

Add Canada as a keyword - canada cannabis (stat or statistics or data or dataset)
After doing a search in Google, look for the Advanced Search option under Settings to select a Region - Canada.

To narrow your search to government websites add special operators to the end of your search. Here are some examples:

site:gc.ca will find pages within the Government of Canada website
site:statcan.gc.ca will find pages within the Statistics Canada website
site:ic.gc.ca will find pages within the Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada website
site:ontario.ca will find pages with the Government of Ontario website

Example Google search: cannabis site:statcan.gc.ca