On October 17, 2016, Statistics Canada will launch its new crowdsourcing campaign!
The crowdsourcing pilot project will focus on mapping buildings across Canada, starting with Ottawa or Gatineau. Crowdsourcing involves collecting information from a large community of users, relying on the principle that individual citizens are experts within their local environments.
Indigenous populations in Calgary and Alberta: data sources and resources
Now that school is back in full swing, here is a quick look at education for adults (aged 25 to 64) from the 2011 National Household Survey:
The Columbia Basin-Boundary Community Data Consortium is CCSD’s 32nd to be established within the CDP. Located in southeast British Columbia, this consortium is led by Selkirk College through its Columbia Basin Rural Development Institute. The consortium catchment area includes the Regional Districts of East Kootenay, Central Kootenay, Kootenay Boundary, in addition to Revelstoke, Golden, Valemount and Columbia Shuswap Regional District Areas A and B with a combined population of 161,741 (in 2011).
The overall collection response rate of 98.4 percent for the 2016 Census of Population is higher than for each of the 2011 and 2006 Census programs. The collection response rate for the long form was 97.8 percent, the best ever recorded!
Check out the response rates by province or territory here.
Statistics Canada thanks Canadians for their time and commitment in this short video.
Learn more about the City of Toronto Poverty Reduction Strategy and engage in discussion with others! Participants are challenged to develop ideas that support the strategy and poverty-related issues. Each challenge is tied to one of the six issue areas: housing stability, service access, transit equity, food access, quality jobs and livable wages, and systemic change.
Jayme Jones, BSc, MA, Researcher, Selkirk Innovates at Selkirk College
The Globe and Mail reports that Statistics Canada have early indications that the overall census response rate is 98% and about 96% for the long-form census. This is “probably the most successful census since 1666,” said chief statistician Wayne Smith. At last count, 13.74 million questionnaires had been completed out of a total of about 14 million households.
Canada’s Third Biennial Plan to the Open Government Partnership (2016-18) has now been published! The Open Government team is working on improving public services, such as enhancing access to datasets and increasing transparency to budget/finance information.