The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a voluntary international initiative that aims to secure commitments from governments to their citizenry to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption, and harness new technologies to strengthen governance. Open data is an important component of open government.
Now that we're starting to get data from the NHS (well, profile tables at least) we've decided to release a Product Profile that brings together existing information on the NHS and, where relevant, the Census.
There's plenty of new data in the catalogue, including 2011 Taxfiler data, and our first semi-custom Census topic-based tabulations. No, unfortunately that doesn't mean custom geographies (yet). Just Census tables at smaller geographies than are available on the Statistics Canada website.
We've begun organising a webinar on NHS and Taxfiler data with a focus on income. It will be an opportunity to discuss emerging good practice with respect to measuring poverty, assessing NHS quality, working with small-area income data, and using Taxfiler tables. Date: Thursday, April 10, 2014. Stay tuned for updates.
In Part 2 of this Product Profile, we explain some of the issues associated with the voluntary nature of the NHS, and how to address them. We also show what some consortia have begun to do about NHS data quality, especially with respect to mapping the global non-response rate. (More about global non-response rates in a moment.)
In addition, you may want to check out some other resources on the NHS:
The 2013-2014 Ontario Works Service Plan prepared by the District of Nipissing Social Services Administration Board uses Canadian Business Patterns data from the Community Data Program. Check out the report and data below.
January 13, 2014 – Peggy Taillon, President and CEO of the Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD), is pleased to announce a new partnership with Professor Ann Dale, Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Community Development, Royal Roads University.
The Regional Municipality of York has released a publication on the 2011 Census and National Household Survey including both issues and demographic highlights.
Edit 2014-02-03: Family data, Seniors and NID tables now have CMA, CA, and CD-level data.
From the Taxfiler dataset, the Family data tables 1-18 now include additional Census geographic scales:
There's quite a bit of new data in the catalogue. Here are links to the tables that we've recently added: