News

The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) has some great data tools that are available upon request.

Population and Dwelling Counts have been released! Check out our newsletter Making it Count 5.4 for links to the new Census release, CDP news, and other resources.

Employment and Social Development Canada has released a report that provides a look at the key findings of the 2016 Coordinated Point-in-Time (PiT) Count.

International Development Week (IDW) runs from February 5 to 11, 2017 to celebrate Canadian contributions to poverty reduction in the developing world, and engage Canadians to learn about those efforts. Since its inception in 1991, IDW has become a uniquely Canadian tradition.

Statistics Canada is currently preparing for the 2021 Census content consultation, scheduled to run from September to December 2017.

The Canadian Press reports:

There is a Call for Proposals due on February 15, 2017 for Community Indicators!

Recently, The Guardian published an article about the declining ability of statistics to accurately represent the world. Private companies are taking over and controlling big data – and putting democracy in peril.

NEW: Taxfiler data at the CSD level are now available for select tables! Click on the year to be directed to the product page.

Taxfiler (T1FF) - Family Data:

ViVA is a joint research institute between Simon Fraser University (SFU), the University of British Columbia (UBC), and the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), dedicated to effective and innovative education and knowledge enrichment.

Here are some Open Government news and updates!

If you missed the first Tax Filer Data webinar session on Wednesday, January 18th, then join us on Wednesday, February 1st for a second session!

Between July 2016 and February 2017, Employment and Social Development Canada will be consulting with Canadians on accessibility legislation.

The Canadian Health Measures Survey is stopping in South Calgary the next few days!

As of January 3rd, 2017, Canadians can fill out an online form to indicate their desire to sponsor a parent or grandparent. From those forms, immigration officials will randomly draw 10,000 individuals who will then be asked to submit full applications within 90 days.

Statistics Canada created this infographic on Canadian pride from the General Social Survey, 2013.

Holiday greetings from the Canadian Council on Social Development and the Community Data Program Team!

Call for Proposals: Spring Community Indicators Symposium 

Winnipeg, MB - Canada

June 12 & 13, 2017

Based on data from the 2014 General Social Survey, this is the first Statistics Canada study that examines the characteristics associated with being a victim of cyberbullying or cyberstalking and various indicators of trust, personal behaviour and mental health.

The notes from the last Training and Capacity Building Working Group meeting have been posted to the site.

On December 7, the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, 

From May to November 2016, Global Affairs Canada held open consultations with the public to help shape an new international assistance policy. 

Here are some highlights (points that repeatedly came up) from the consultation events and written submissions:

The increase in federal health transfers to the provinces will be held to 3% this year instead of 6% - a cost-saving measure the government is keeping as negotiations for another health-care accord go on.

The Data purchase and access working group (DPAWG) helps the Community Data Program management team identify data needs, improve data access, acquire data, and and address related technical concerns.

Taxfiler data, or T1-derived datasets, are generated from individal tax files from the Canada Revenue Agency from the Income Statistics Division of Statistics Canada. These datasets are published on a yearly basis and are an increasingly important source of Canada-wide income data.