This series of interactive dashboards, built using Tableau software, allows users to easily view and interact with data from the Community Data Program catalogue. Each dashboard explores a different theme and provides opportunities for users to visualize and analyze data at geographies of their choice. The dashboards are designed to be intuitive for users at all levels of data knowledge, and useable on both PC and Mac computers.
The software required to use these dashboards is Tableau Reader, which can be downloaded here for free. For more detailed instructions on installing and using Tableau Reader, click here.
Dashboards
Longitudinal Immigration Database ICARE Dashboard, 2012-2019
The Longitudinal Immigration Database ICARE Dashboard presents data from the IMDB ICARE tables T1 and T2 in a series of interactive charts. Data on immigrant taxfiler mobility and economic outcomes are compared with settlement service delivery, admission categories and world areas of birth. The dashboard includes time series showing data on immigrant taxfiler landing groups over time, and charts showing data for individual tax years.
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Village of 100 Dashboard, 2021
This interactive Tableau dashboard presents a selection of census indicators for a chosen geography, as if it were a village of 100 people. This is a new version of the previous Village of 100 dashboard, updated with 2021 Census data.
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Housing Dashboard - Version 1
The Housing Dashboard is an interactive data storytelling tool, helping users to understand and tell stories about housing in their communities. The dashboard guides users through a selection of housing indicators from sources including Statistics Canada and CMHC, offering questions and relevant information to guide interpretation of the data. There are four parts in the dashboard, with each intending to answer a different question about housing. These questions relate to the topics of housing supply and demand, housing affordability, choice in the housing market, and core housing need.
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Community Recovery Dashboard - Version 3
The Community Recovery Dashboard is a monitoring tool for medium and long term COVID-19 recovery. The dashboard uses data from the Census and Labour Force Survey to look at the state of geographic areas across Canada prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to assess and compare their capacities for recovery from COVID-19's economic and health impacts.
The dashboard allows you to view profiles of individual geographies across Canada, ranging in scale from national to neighbourhood-sized, as well as compare select indicators across geographies using interactive maps and charts.
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Census Profile 2021: Education, Labour Force and Commuting Dashboard
The 2021 Census Profile: Education, Labour Force and Commuting Dashboard displays data from Statistics Canada's 2021 Census Profile on the topics of educational attainment, fields of study, labour force status and employment, commuting, as well as employment by occupation and industry. This dashboard allows users to view 2021 Census indicators in an interactive map and generate detailed profiles of individual geographies.
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Census Profile 2021: Immigration, Mobility, Ethnocultural and Religious Diversity Dashboard
The 2021 Census Profile: Immigration, Mobility, Ethnocultural and Religious Diversity Dashboard displays data from Statistics Canada's 2021 Census Profile on the topics of immigration, place of birth, mobility, and ethnocultural and religious diversity. This dashboard allows users to view 2021 Census indicators in an interactive map and generate detailed profiles of individual geographies.
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Census Profile 2021: Housing and Indigenous Identity Dashboard
The 2021 Census Profile: Housing and Indigenous Identity Dashboard displays data from Statistics Canada's 2021 Census Profile on the topics of Indigenous Identity, types and sizes of dwellings, housing affordability, core housing need, tenure and primary household maintainers. This dashboard allows users to view 2021 Census indicators in an interactive map and generate detailed profiles of individual geographies.
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Census Profile 2021: Non-Official Languages Dashboard
The 2021 Census Profile: Non-Official Languages Dashboard displays data on non-official languages from Statistics Canada's 2021 Census Profile. This dashboard contains an interactive map and allow users to view the top non-official languages spoken in a selected census tract.
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Census Profile 2021: Linguistic Diversity Dashboard
The 2021 Census Profile: Linguistic Diversity Dashboard displays data from Statistics Canada's 2021 Census Profile on the topic of linguistic diversity and use of English and French in Canada. This dashboard allows users to view 2021 Census indicators in an interactive map and generate detailed profiles of individual geographies.
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Census Profile 2021: Income Dashboard
The 2021 Census Profile: Income Dashboard displays data from Statistics Canada's 2021 Census Profile on the topics of of individual, household and family income, as well as low income and income inequality. This dashboard allows users to view 2021 Census indicators in an interactive map and generate detailed profiles of individual geographies.
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Census Profile 2021: Families and Households Dashboard
The 2021 Census Profile: Families and Households Dashboard displays data from Statistics Canada's 2021 Census Profile on the topics of marital status, household type, family size and type, and persons not in census families. This dashboard allows users to view 2021 Census indicators in an interactive map and generate detailed profiles of individual geographies.
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Census Profile 2021: Age, Gender, Household Size and Dwelling Type Dashboard
The 2021 Census Profile: Age, Gender, Household Size and Dwelling Type Dashboard displays population and household data from Statistics Canada's 2021 Census Profile. This dashboard allows users to view 2021 Census indicators in an interactive map and generate detailed profiles of individual geographies.
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Census Population 2021 Dashboard
The 2021 Census Population Dashboard displays population and household data from Statistics Canada's 2021 Census. Population values are compared with those from the 2016 Census and across geographies using an interactive map. The data in this dashboard covers all of Canada.
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Community Decision Support Tool for Housing Issues: Demonstration Version
The Community Decision Support Tool for Housing Issues: Demonstration Version displays data from Statistics Canada and CMHC on the subject of housing.
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Community Health Profile Dashboard
The Community Health Profile Dashboard provides a health overview of health regions across Canada, using data from the 2017/2018 Canadian Community Health Survey, including smoking frequency, access to a regular healthcare provider, and prevalence of hearth disease. These indicators are compared across the total, immigrant, recent immigrant populations.
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Mobility In and Out of Local Immigration Partnerships Dashboard
The Mobility In and Out of Local Immigration Partnerships Dashboard visualizes immigrant mobility data for custom LIP geographies using the Longitudinal Immigration Database [IMDB].
This dashboard allows you to compare mobility indicators by immigration admission category, admission year (or landing year), tax year, age and gender of immigrant taxfilers
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Liquid Assets Dashboard
The Liquid Assets Dashboard represents the modeled estimate of 2016 mean liquid assets of economic families and persons not in economic families at the census division (CD) level which is produced by Statistics Canada.
Two data sets were used to obtain the final estimates: the 2016 Survey of Financial Security (SFS) and the 2016 Census of Population.
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Racialized Persons Profile Dashboard
The Racialized Persons Profile Dashboard provides an overview of selected variables from the 2016 Census, for the Indigenous and visible minority populations 15 years and over, at a geography of your choice.
In addition to viewing profiles of PT, CD, CSD, CMA, CA and CT geographies, this dashboard allows you to compare indicators across census tracts in a CMA or CA using interactive maps and charts.
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Racialized Households Profile Dashboard
The Racialized Households Profile Dashboard provides an overview of selected variables from the 2016 Census, for the total, Indigenous and visible minority households, at a geography of your choice.
In addition to viewing profiles of PT, CD, CSD, CMA, CA and CT geographies, this dashboard allows you to compare indicators across census tracts in a CMA or CA using interactive maps and charts.
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Employment Profile Dashboard
The Employment Profile Dashboard provides an overview of employment indicators for a geography of your choosing, using data from the 2016 Census.
In addition to viewing profiles of PT, CD CSD, CMA, CA and CT geographies, this dashboard allows you to compare and rank indicators across census tracts in a CMA or CA using interactive maps and charts.
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Education Profile Dashboard
The Education Profile Dashboard provides an overview of education indicators for a geography of your choosing, using data from the 2016 Census.
In addition to viewing profiles of PT, CD CSD, CMA, CA and CT geographies, this dashboard allows you to compare and rank indicators across census tracts in a CMA or CA using interactive maps and charts.
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Housing Profile Dashboard
The Housing Profile Dashboard provides an overview of housing indicators for a geography of your choosing, using data from the 2016 Census.
In addition to viewing profiles of PT, CD CSD, CMA, CA and CT geographies, this dashboard allows you to compare and rank indicators across census tracts in a CMA or CA using interactive maps and charts.
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Income Profile Dashboard
The Income Profile Dashboard provides an overview of income indicators for a geography of your choosing, using data from the 2016 Census.
In addition to viewing profiles of PT, CD CSD, CMA, CA and CT geographies, this dashboard allows you to compare and rank indicators across census tracts in a CMA or CA using interactive maps and charts.
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Poverty Profile Dashboard
The Poverty Profile Dashboard provides an overview of poverty indicators for a geography of your choosing, using data from the 2016 Census.
In addition to viewing profiles of PT, CD CSD, CMA, CA and CT geographies, this dashboard allows you to compare and rank indicators across census tracts in a CMA or CA using interactive maps and charts.
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Regional Profile Dashboard
The Regional Profile Dashboard provides a detailed overview for a geography of your choosing, using Census Profile indicators relating to census families, households, demographics, employment, income and education.
In addition to PT, CD CSD, CA and CMA geographies, this dashboard allows you to view profiles of census tracts, as well as compare and rank indicators across census tracts in a CMA or CA using interactive maps and charts.
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Village of 100
This interactive Tableau dashboard presents a selection of indicators for a geography of your choosing, as if it were a village of 100 people.
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Profile: All Immigrants
This interactive Tableau dashboard allows you to view a selection of census variables for the immigrant population at a geography of your choice.
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Profile: Recent Immigrants
This interactive Tableau dashboard allows you to view a selection of census variables for the recent immigrant (period of immigration 2011-2016) population at a geography of your choice.
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Installing Tableau Reader
In order to view any of the Community Data Program's Tableau products, you will need Tableau Reader installed on your computer. Tableau Reader is a free program that allows you to open and interact with Tableau packaged workbook files (.TWBX), the format in which our data analysis and visualization tools are available.
Tableau Reader can be downloaded here. Click the Download Now button and the download should begin immediately.
Open the downloaded file to install the software on your computer. Once Tableau Reader is installed, double-clicking a packaged workbook file should open it automatically. If this is not the case, right-click the packaged workbook then select Open with > Tableau Reader. Alternatively, you can start Tableau Reader first, then use File > Open to locate and open a packaged workbook file.
After opening a packaged workbook once, it should be easily accessible from Tableau Reader's start screen anytime open you the software, as long as you don't move or delete the file (if you do, just repeat these steps).
Using Tableau Reader
The main function of Tableau Reader is to allow you to open and interact with Tableau dashboards, however it does offer a few tools that are helpful to know:
- The arrows in the top-left are Undo and Redo buttons. You can use these to undo/redo any interaction with the dashboard.
- Clicking File > Revert to Saved or pressing the F12 key will reset the dashboard to its original state.
- Clicking File > Export As PowerPoint or File > Print to PDF allows you to export parts or all of the dashboard to a PowerPoint slideshow or a PDF document.
- Under the Story or Dashboard dropdown menus, there are options for exporting or copying the page you are vieweing as an image.
Note that Tableau Reader is only for viewing and interacting with dashboards - it does not allow you to edit or extract data from them.
If you have any questions about using these dashboards, email us at information@communitydata.ca.