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### Related packages
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The cancensus package is designed for working with Canadian Census data. In addition to Census data, Statistics Canada provides access to a vast [socio-economic data repository](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/type/data) with thousands of data tables available for public access.
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The [cansim package](https://mountainmath.github.io/cansim/index.html) is designed to retrieve and work with public Statistics Canada data tables. The cansim prepares retrieved data tables as analysis-ready tidy dataframes and provides a number of convenience tools and functions to make it easier to work with Statistics Canada data.
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Data downloaded through the cansim package that comes with standard geographic attributes will typically share a common geographic ID that can be matched to Census data.
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