Thursday, January 22, 2015

ICO Q4 2014

Question

Is the ICO available to the public for free (from non-DLI sources) or does it have to be purchased? When I went to the order form, I didn't see a price for it but neither did I see anything indicating it is free. 

Answer

Yes, the open licence agreement applies and yes it is now free per the Statistics Canada policy.

As the CD is no longer available, should external clients wish to obtain the ICO information, please ask them to email the external email address and they will arrange for their permissions to the Statistics Canada ICO EFT {Electronic file transfer} service.