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This project uses data from a variety of sources, most available under an open data license. All other material is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License..

Our suggested attribution for this project is:

Adshade, M., Graves, J., Hasan, H., and other COMET Contributors. 2023. ‘The COMET Project: Creating Online Materials for Econometric Teaching’. https://comet.arts.ubc.ca/.

• The 2016 Census Data was provided under the Statistics Canada Open License (Public).

  • Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census Public Use Microdata File (PUMF). Individuals File, 2019. Reproduced and distributed on an “as is” basis with the permission of Statistics Canada.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, 2016 Census Public Use Microdata File (PUMF). Individuals File, 2019. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

• The 2019 Survey of Financial Security was provided under the Statistics Canada Open License (Public).

  • Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Financial Security, 2019, 2021. Reproduced and distributed on an “as is” basis with the permission of Statistics Canada.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Survey of Financial Security, 2019, 2021. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product. ​

• The Penn World Table was provided by Feenstra, Robert C., Robert Inklaar and Marcel P. Timmer (2015), “The Next Generation of the Penn World Table” American Economic Review, 105(10), 3150-3182, available for download at www.ggdc.net/pwt

  • The Penn World Table Penn World Table 10.0 by Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar and Marcel P. Timmer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This research received support through grants from the National Science Foundation, the Sloan Foundation and the Transatlantic Platform’s Digging into Data program.

• The 2019 Survey of Financial Security was provided under the Statistics Canada Open License (Public).

  • Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Financial Security, 2019, 2021. Reproduced and distributed on an “as is” basis with the permission of Statistics Canada.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Survey of Financial Security, 2019, 2021. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

• We also use data from the World Bank’s World Development Indicators and Quarterly Public Sector Debt databases.

  • Both of these are licensed under the CC by 4.0 open license.

• All of the citations for the data used in the GEOG 374 notebooks are cited in the specific notebooks.

• The data used in the ECON 490 modules is simulated, as is the salmon data in the ECON prep modules and was created for this project. It falls under the license for the project in general (see above).

  • The simulation for the salmon data was based on data from the Pacific Salmon Foundation’s salmon watersheds program