Over the summer we migrated communitydata.ca from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7.

At long last, the 2012 CIC Permanent Residents Rounded Data Cube has become available.  It contains data on permanent resident landings up to and including 2012, down to the Census Subdivision (read: municipality) level.

Today Statistics Canada released its Housing and Income data from the 2011 National Household Survey.  Here's a summary of the resources they've made available. 1. Two written summaries in The Daily

The Income and Housing release date for the 2011 National Household Survey has been delayed from August 14 to September 11, 2013. We expect a similar delay in receiving custom NHS products.

Statistics Canada recently released its yearly list of changes to municipal boundaries, status, and names.  You can find it at this URL:

Taxfiler tables from Statistics Canada's Income Statistics Division (formerly SAAD Division) have arrived.

Thanks to everyone who attended the 2013 Community Data Canada (virtual) Rountable last Wednesday titled Measuring financial vulnerability in Canadian cities and communities.

For those who are interested in mapping the TransUnion credit data, but don't know how, Richard Lau at Community Development Halton has created a tutorial to explain the process. 

Video tutorial on finding Census data for communities, from the Statistics Canada website: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/sc-rb/news-bulletin/11-016-x/11-016-x2013005-eng.html#a7

In this issue: Product Profile for the CIC Data Cube · June 19 webinar on financial vulnerability · Protocol for publishing TransUnion data Check out the newsletter!

Note: This profile refers to the 2010 data, but applies to subsequent CIC data as well.

TransUnion data is new to the Community Data Program.  We're excited about the remarkably fine-grained data on consumer debt—data that most of us have never had access to at any scale.

Here's a list of NHS questions, FYI: http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/ref/nhs-enm_guide/guide_6-eng.cfm#A_7_1

Today Statistics Canada released profile tables for two National Household Survey topics : Aboriginal Peoples and Immigration and Ethnocultural

With the April 19 meeting behind us, it's important to take stock of what we accomplished together.  Before we get into it, we should point out that the gathering in Brampton was productive for three reasons.  First, we got the chance to meet one another in person.  For those who k

The Statistics Canada website has made standard Census products easy to find and download at any given geographic scale and file format.  Because these products are now free and open, we won't worry about bringing them into the Community Data Catalogue -- at least not for now.  For this

Update: Information from this blog post has been updated to the latest iteration of Schedule C, formally approved by the Steering Committee, and to be adopted this year. --

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Three quick notes before we start 3. TransUnion Credit Report Characteristics basics 4. Digging into the data: variables, values, and units 5. What the table actually looks like: a sample row 6. What to do now

Several people have been asking me about Beyond 20/20 training in recent weeks.  Fortunately, Beyond 20/20 provides a number of online training videos to help new users understand how it works.  This post explains Beyond 20/20, and provides links to the training videos for Beyond 20/20