statscanpy 1.1.1

Basic package for querying & downloading StatsCan data by table name.

StatsCanPy

Basic package for querying & downloading StatsCan data by table name. Saves data into a dataframe (Pandas or PySpark).

Allows for querying datasets via plain text search or table ID.

Installation

pip install statscanpy

Usage

Basic Usage

  from statscanpy import StatsCanPy

  # if isSpark==True, data returns will be in PySpark; otherwise it will return as a pandas.DataFrame
  statscan = StatsCanPy(path="/data/saved/here", isSpark=True)

Getting Table ID from Table Name

  await statscan.get_table_id_from_name("Household spending, Canada, regions and provinces")

Getting Table Data from Table Name

  await statscan.get_table_from_name("Household spending, Canada, regions and provinces")

Searching for Table(s) by String

  statscan.find_table_id_from_name("GDP", limit=15)

Further Reading

• StatsCan Data
• StatsCan API