It's Love Data Week!!
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?”
The Statistics Canada Centre for Demography has released the Annual Demographic Estimates by Age and Gender: Subprovincial Areas for the 2024 reference year.
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.
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Statistics Canada is now offering their Executive Bootcamp on Disaggregated Data!
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.
CBC: This Canadian is the new world champion of spreadsheets, and he has the belt to prove it
Toronto's Michael Jarman wins 2024 Microsoft Excel World Championships in Las Vegas
Statistics Canada Webinars: Expand Your Data Knowledge with Free Virtual Sessions
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.
Statistics Canada – Opportunities of working remotely in rural labour markets: Small area estimation from the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions, first to third quarter of 2024
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 – Small area estimates of employment and unemployment rate for self-contained labour areas
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.
Statistics Canada – Coverage Technical Report for the 2021 Census of Population
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.
Webinar: Exploring Statistics Canada Data with the Beyond 20/20 Browser
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.