Canada’s 2026 census will include new questions on sexual orientation, homelessness, and general health to address gaps in national data.
Now available: The 2025 Census Subdivision Boundary File, the 2025 Road Network File, and the Interim List of Changes to Municipal Boundaries, Status, and Names.
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) has released "The Future of Rural Canada," a new report outlining a vision for robust rural communities nationwide. The report focuses on critical areas such as infrastructure, public safety, climate adaptation and resilience, housing and homelessness, and digital connectivity.
We have been asked by researchers from the University of Regina to share an invitation to participate in an online survey of the open data community that has been funded by the DDI (Data Documentation Initiative) Alliance. This may be of interest to those of you who use or provide open data or FAIR data or who are interested in using semantic metadata to improve the usability of your data.
Mark your calendars! On Tuesday, May 27, 2025, from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT, Imagine Canada and the Canadian Centre for Nonprofit Digital Resilience (CCNDR) are hosting "Unlocking Digital Skills for Success." This free online event will explore practical solutions for digital readiness, inclusion, and embedding digital skills in nonprofit operations. Learn from experts and discover how to navigate digital transformation effectively.
Statistics Canada is proposing updates to the Market Basket Measure (MBM) of poverty, creating a "2023-base MBM" to ensure it accurately reflects the current cost of a modest, basic standard of living, with preliminary data suggesting a slight increase in both the poverty threshold and rate compared to the 2018-base. This revised methodology, which also includes updates for the Northern Market Basket Measure (MBM-N), is currently under review with stakeholders, and finalization is expected in fall 2025.
Engagement is crucial to ensuring this strategy captures the diverse perspectives and needs within the nonprofit sector. To kickstart this effort, they've launched a survey aimed at identifying key priority areas and shaping initiatives designed to provide effective support to organizations.
Love Data Week is an international celebration of data that takes place each year during February – this year it’s celebrated from Feb. 10 to 14, 2025. This year’s theme is “Whose Data is it, Anyway?”
This release includes an update to the Annual demographic estimates, rural and small town and functional urban areas: Interactive dashboard. Visualize trends in population estimates for rural and small town or functional urban areas based on 2021 Census counts.
Are you a Director in a provincial, territorial or municipal government in Canada? Are you focused on policy or program operations and interested in enhancing your data acumen skills? Statistics Canada is piloting a unique program for policy/program executives to enhance their ability to leverage disaggregated data for informed policy decisions.
Toronto's Michael Jarman wins 2024 Microsoft Excel World Championships in Las Vegas
Join Statistics Canada’s free virtual webinars to explore topics like health data, labour market insights, and data literacy. These sessions are perfect for beginners and cover essential tools to navigate, interpret, and communicate statistics effectively.
New data on remote work opportunities in rural labour markets are now available, covering the first to third quarters of 2024, by sector (goods and services) and for all rural labour markets across Canada...
Statistics Canada has released new data using small area estimation methods to improve labour force characteristics for sub-provincial areas, including census metropolitan areas, census agglomerations, and self-contained labour areas, which are regions outside urban centers grouped by commuting patterns from Census data.
This report provides information on coverage errors at the national, provincial and CMA levels. CDP members in CMAs could use these values to get an idea of coverage errors at the community level.
This webinar will provide you with basic knowledge on Beyond 20/20. This user-friendly software is used at Statistics Canada to organize, manage, and disseminate socioeconomic data.
Funding for digital infrastructure is becoming increasingly essential for nonprofit organizations to thrive and survive in today's climate.
The webinar will explore a key indicator for police-reported crime in Canada.
Western University’s Network for Economic and Social Trends have launched an online mapping portal allowing users to map and explore historical census data dating as far back as 1951.
The latest issue of the Canadian Research Data Centre Network’s (CRDCN) quarterly newsletter, The Data Matter, features an article about researchers using geographical and Statistics Canada microdata to uncover housing insights for policymakers and planners.
The Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN) is hosting a session on February 29th on the Canadian Health Survey of Children & Youth (CHSCY) as part of their CRDCN-Statistics Canada Open Mic Series.
On March 4th, the First Nations Information Governance Centre (FNIGC) will be hosting an information session webinar on the First Nations principles of ownership, control, access, and possession (OCAP).
The eighth annual GC Data Conference is being held on February 21st and 22nd, with the theme of "From Insight to Foresight". The event will be hosted virtually and registration is open to the general public.
Statistics Canada have provided a news update following COP28 on their recent and upcoming environmental data releases. Click to see the full update.
On Tuesday, November 28, 2023, HealthyDesign.City will be hosting a webinar coinciding with the official release of the HealthyPlan.City mapping tool. Click to see the full invitation.