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ENVISION5 is the latest released version of ENVISION, with changes to its interface. ENVISION5 has been enhanced with increased functionality, providing more advanced mapping, reporting and display features.
07/18/2016
Recently, a draft plan for two years of Open Government was posted with the intention of receiving feedback and suggested improvements.
07/11/2016
Arief Kartolo, a M.A.
06/27/2016
The Annual Meeting was held on May 26th and 27th in Banff, AB and was a great success! We had one and a half days of very engaged discussion and extremely helpful feedback on the program.
06/27/2016
Last Friday May 20th, 2016 CCSD's Katherine Scott (VP Research) and Michel Frojmovic (CDP Lead) presented at ECONOUS2016, the National Community Economic Development Conference.
05/23/2016
We are excited for our upcoming annual meeting!  For a day and a half starting Thursday May 26th, we will be meeting in Banff, Alberta with twenty of our consortium leads (plus more via webinar) to plan out the upcoming program year!
05/20/2016
Led by the United Way Perth-Huron (operating as the Social Research and Planning Council), the Perth-Huron Community Data Consortium is CCSD’s 31st consortium to be established within the CDP.
05/20/2016
Led by the Northern Policy Institute (NPI), the (Rest of) Northern Ontario Community Data Consortium is CCSD’s 30th consortium to be established within the CDP.
05/20/2016
In this Guide, we explain some basics of Microsoft Excel. The concepts covered are relatively simple to understand, but easy to overlook as a typical user. They will allow you to use Excel more efficiently for any purpose.
12/09/2014
In this Guide, we explain some basics of Beyond 20/20 Professional Browser and its .ivt file format, using an example table from the 2011 Census. You're welcome to read all the way through, or simply cherry-pick what you need.
12/09/2014
Ottawa, October 22, 2014 – The Canadian Council on Social Development’s President and CEO, Peggy Taillon, together with partner
10/23/2014
August and September saw a flood of new data. Schedule B—the list of data we intend to acquire this program year—is now up to date. Here’s a summary of the newest additions.
10/16/2014
The Munk Schook of Global Affairs is organizing a panel discussion on data and policy in Canada, moderated by the Toronto Star's Carol Goar. Speakers will include Former Chief Statistician of Canada Munir Sheikh, as well as Mel Cappe, and David Hulchanski.
09/15/2014
Profiles at custom geographies Census and NHS Profiles are now available at custom geographies. To download Profiles at custom geographies, select CG (for custom geography) on the product page of the Census and NHS Profiles.
08/26/2014
You may have noticed that all standard NHS topic-based tabulations—those that are freely available on the Statistics Canada website—are now available
08/21/2014
The Building Permits dataset provides the count (units) and value (dollars) of residential and non-residential construction down to the census subdivision (CSD). The 2013 data is now in the catalogue.
08/21/2014
The first batch of Community Poverty Project tables are in!
08/20/2014
The 2014 Postal Code Conversion File (enhanced by Environics Analytics) is now available in the catalogue. For those not familiar with the PCCF, it allows you to map each six-digit postal code with a latitude/longitude coordinate.
08/19/2014
Schedule B lists data products that we intend to acquire during any given program year (April 1 to March 31). Over the past few months, we've been busy acquiring and cataloguing several new data tables. Since then, 12 data products have been added or updated to the most recent year.
08/19/2014
Census and NHS Profile tables are now available at the Health Region ("HR") geographic scale for all of Canada. These same tables are also freely available from Statistics Canada, but are rather difficult to find on their site.
06/02/2014
Materials from the Annual Meeting Annual Report, 2013-2014 Agenda
05/26/2014
We will be hosting the Community Data Canada roundtable with the theme of small-area income data, on 18 June 2014. The webinar-style roundtable will take place between 1:30 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. ET. If you would like to share your experience with Taxfiler, NHS, or TransUnion data, let us know.
05/26/2014
Schedule B is a list of data products to order this program year (April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2015). The schedule is listed on communitydata.ca. As with the last Schedule B, the latest version will include links to the tables in question once they have been added to the catalogue.
05/26/2014
Yesterday we launched the first iteration of the new data catalogue. Purpose: to help you find data more easily.
04/08/2014
We're in the process of renovating the data catalogue. Over the course of the week, the appearance of certain aspects of the site may change. We'll provide an update when everything's ready to roll.
03/31/2014