News Home / News Chat with an Expert! 2016 Census: Families, households, marital status and language As Canada celebrates its 150th anniversary, Statistics Canada will publish the latest chapter in the story of our country and its people. 07/31/2017 Webinar: Dr. Doug Norris to Discuss Families, Households, Marital Status and Language Data On August 2, Statistics Canada will release the third wave of data from the 2016 Census, covering families, households, marital status and language. In his third webinar in an ongoing series examining census results, demographic expert Dr. 07/20/2017 Digital Literacy and Data Use Digital literacy goes beyond data management, statistics, and visualization - it drives the impact investment movement, social media for good efforts, and collective evaluation and evidence-based decision making efforts! 07/17/2017 You're Invited to NPI's State of the North! Northern Policy Institute's State of the North is an annual conference that brings together policy experts and community leaders to explore the state of Northern Ontario from economic, social and environ 07/11/2017 Dot Density Maps using Winnipeg's Open Data Ed Manley, an urban researcher in the UK, decided to take open data from Winnipeg and make dot density maps. One shows variation in ethnicity, one shows linguistic variation, and another shows income disparity. 06/27/2017 CDP Annual Meeting 2017 Community Data Program Annual Meeting 2017 This year's Annual Meeting was held in Kingston. It was a wonderful event with lots of discussion and ideas! Thank you to those who joined online! 06/20/2017 Job Vacancy and Wage Survey (JVWS) - wages by occupation, 2016 The average hourly wage paid to full-time payroll employees in 2016 was $27.70, excluding overtime pay, tips, and incentive and performance pay. Wages varied notably across occupations and geographic regions. 06/15/2017 June 12-13, 2017 - the CIC Community Indicators Symposium! If you are in Winnipeg, MB, on June 12-13, 2017... join the 2017 CIC Community Indicators Symposium. 06/08/2017 Data Power 2017 - International Conference at Carleton University Data Power 2017 is a two-day, international conference organized by Carleton and Sheffield universities. It follows the successful 2015 conference, held in the UK. 06/07/2017 HUMA's report - Breaking the Cycle: A Study on Poverty Reduction Here's a new report from HUMA on poverty! The HUMA committee is the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities. The committee reports to the House of Commons on the following matters: 06/02/2017 Transform the Sector Video Series Now there's a video series that captures the highlights of Transform the Sector 2017! 05/31/2017 Economic Insights: Tracking Recent Changes in Absolute Income Mobility in Canada From Statistics Canada: 05/23/2017 Environics Analytics Webcasts Miss out on any of the webinars hosted by Environics Analytics? You can view the event recording and download the presentation here: http://www.environicsanalytics.ca/footer/webcasts 05/12/2017 OPS Open Data Training - online sessions available Join the Open Government Office as they take you on a journey through the Open Data publishing process! This interactive training session will take you through the steps required to turn your ministry's or agency's data into Open Data as required by the Open Data Directive. 05/11/2017 2016 Census of Agriculture - tables and reference maps Canadian agriculture has grown with the country 05/10/2017 2016 Census: Age, Sex and Type of dwelling data - Chat with an Expert On May 3rd 2017, Statistics Canada will publish the second series of results from the 2016 Census of Population. This will focus on the age and sex distribution of the Canadian population and on the types of dwellings in 2016. 05/02/2017 Ontario to launch guaranteed minimum income pilot program in Hamilton, Lindsay and Thunder Bay Premier Kathleen Wynne announced that the Ontario Basic Income Pilot (OBIP) will give up to 4,000 low-income earners in Hamilton, Lindsay and Thunder Bay a basic annual income of $17,000. 04/28/2017 Webinar: Dr. Doug Norris to Discuss the Latest Age and Sex Data Statistics Canada will release the second wave of data from the 2016 Census on May 3, covering the age and sex composition of Canada’s population, dwelling types and the makeup of those living in group housing. 04/21/2017 CANSIM Webinar from Statistics Canada on April 26, 2017 Statistics Canada is delighted to invite you to a free online learning session on CANSIM! Learn useful tips on how to access data from CANSIM, Statistics Canada’s key socioeconomic database. Highlights of this webinar include: 04/12/2017 211 Ontario Data for Social Benefit Webinar 211 Ontario has a comprehensive set of data from the non-profit sector! Watch this webinar to learn more! 04/11/2017 The IFSD starts nowcasting Canadian real GDP growth Randall Bartlett, chief economist at the University of Ottawa’s Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy (IFSD), calls StatsCan data the closest thing Canadians have to the “gospel truth.” However, “much of this data is released with a signif 04/04/2017 Big Data is about the explode policymaking as we know it! Canada 2020 has released a new paper examining the ways open government, big data and predictive analytics are about to transform the way policy is made in Canada. 03/28/2017 Transform the Sector 2017 Recap It’s been a month since the Transform the Sector, but Powered by Data still feel energized by the conference after seeing 300 people from government, foundations, and nonprofits come together with international and Canadian experts to discu 03/27/2017 New data from the 2016 Nunavut Government Employee Survey The public service is the largest employer in Nunavut. 03/27/2017 Federal budget 2017: More funding for data collection on the housing market The government will spend nearly $300 million over the next decade to collect data about the housing market. 03/23/2017 « first ‹ previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … next › last »
Chat with an Expert! 2016 Census: Families, households, marital status and language As Canada celebrates its 150th anniversary, Statistics Canada will publish the latest chapter in the story of our country and its people. 07/31/2017
Webinar: Dr. Doug Norris to Discuss Families, Households, Marital Status and Language Data On August 2, Statistics Canada will release the third wave of data from the 2016 Census, covering families, households, marital status and language. In his third webinar in an ongoing series examining census results, demographic expert Dr. 07/20/2017
Digital Literacy and Data Use Digital literacy goes beyond data management, statistics, and visualization - it drives the impact investment movement, social media for good efforts, and collective evaluation and evidence-based decision making efforts! 07/17/2017
You're Invited to NPI's State of the North! Northern Policy Institute's State of the North is an annual conference that brings together policy experts and community leaders to explore the state of Northern Ontario from economic, social and environ 07/11/2017
Dot Density Maps using Winnipeg's Open Data Ed Manley, an urban researcher in the UK, decided to take open data from Winnipeg and make dot density maps. One shows variation in ethnicity, one shows linguistic variation, and another shows income disparity. 06/27/2017
CDP Annual Meeting 2017 Community Data Program Annual Meeting 2017 This year's Annual Meeting was held in Kingston. It was a wonderful event with lots of discussion and ideas! Thank you to those who joined online! 06/20/2017
Job Vacancy and Wage Survey (JVWS) - wages by occupation, 2016 The average hourly wage paid to full-time payroll employees in 2016 was $27.70, excluding overtime pay, tips, and incentive and performance pay. Wages varied notably across occupations and geographic regions. 06/15/2017
June 12-13, 2017 - the CIC Community Indicators Symposium! If you are in Winnipeg, MB, on June 12-13, 2017... join the 2017 CIC Community Indicators Symposium. 06/08/2017
Data Power 2017 - International Conference at Carleton University Data Power 2017 is a two-day, international conference organized by Carleton and Sheffield universities. It follows the successful 2015 conference, held in the UK. 06/07/2017
HUMA's report - Breaking the Cycle: A Study on Poverty Reduction Here's a new report from HUMA on poverty! The HUMA committee is the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities. The committee reports to the House of Commons on the following matters: 06/02/2017
Transform the Sector Video Series Now there's a video series that captures the highlights of Transform the Sector 2017! 05/31/2017
Economic Insights: Tracking Recent Changes in Absolute Income Mobility in Canada From Statistics Canada: 05/23/2017
Environics Analytics Webcasts Miss out on any of the webinars hosted by Environics Analytics? You can view the event recording and download the presentation here: http://www.environicsanalytics.ca/footer/webcasts 05/12/2017
OPS Open Data Training - online sessions available Join the Open Government Office as they take you on a journey through the Open Data publishing process! This interactive training session will take you through the steps required to turn your ministry's or agency's data into Open Data as required by the Open Data Directive. 05/11/2017
2016 Census of Agriculture - tables and reference maps Canadian agriculture has grown with the country 05/10/2017
2016 Census: Age, Sex and Type of dwelling data - Chat with an Expert On May 3rd 2017, Statistics Canada will publish the second series of results from the 2016 Census of Population. This will focus on the age and sex distribution of the Canadian population and on the types of dwellings in 2016. 05/02/2017
Ontario to launch guaranteed minimum income pilot program in Hamilton, Lindsay and Thunder Bay Premier Kathleen Wynne announced that the Ontario Basic Income Pilot (OBIP) will give up to 4,000 low-income earners in Hamilton, Lindsay and Thunder Bay a basic annual income of $17,000. 04/28/2017
Webinar: Dr. Doug Norris to Discuss the Latest Age and Sex Data Statistics Canada will release the second wave of data from the 2016 Census on May 3, covering the age and sex composition of Canada’s population, dwelling types and the makeup of those living in group housing. 04/21/2017
CANSIM Webinar from Statistics Canada on April 26, 2017 Statistics Canada is delighted to invite you to a free online learning session on CANSIM! Learn useful tips on how to access data from CANSIM, Statistics Canada’s key socioeconomic database. Highlights of this webinar include: 04/12/2017
211 Ontario Data for Social Benefit Webinar 211 Ontario has a comprehensive set of data from the non-profit sector! Watch this webinar to learn more! 04/11/2017
The IFSD starts nowcasting Canadian real GDP growth Randall Bartlett, chief economist at the University of Ottawa’s Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy (IFSD), calls StatsCan data the closest thing Canadians have to the “gospel truth.” However, “much of this data is released with a signif 04/04/2017
Big Data is about the explode policymaking as we know it! Canada 2020 has released a new paper examining the ways open government, big data and predictive analytics are about to transform the way policy is made in Canada. 03/28/2017
Transform the Sector 2017 Recap It’s been a month since the Transform the Sector, but Powered by Data still feel energized by the conference after seeing 300 people from government, foundations, and nonprofits come together with international and Canadian experts to discu 03/27/2017
New data from the 2016 Nunavut Government Employee Survey The public service is the largest employer in Nunavut. 03/27/2017
Federal budget 2017: More funding for data collection on the housing market The government will spend nearly $300 million over the next decade to collect data about the housing market. 03/23/2017