In this issue: Product Profile for Taxfiler data · Data acquisition update · Working Poverty Measure · ENVISION booking · Call-out for data use cases · Drupal migration · Update on terms of use
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T1-derived datasets from the Income Statistics Division of Statistics Canada (known as Annual Estimates for Census Families and Individuals, or simply Taxfiler data) are an important source of Canada-wide small-area income data.
Taxfiler data offers income-related information down to the CT and rural six-digit postal code level. This information is generated from individual tax files from the Canada Revenue Agency, and published on a yearly basis.
Have you used CDP data for analysis? To publish something? Because you love data? Let us know. We're seeking use cases of CDP data for three reasons:
1. It helps us understand which datasets are popular and useful in a way that surveys don't necessarily capture.
2. It helps us market the program to prospective organisations and consortia who frequently ask the question: What are existing members doing with the data?
3. When we post a link to a report on the website, it gives you something to show off on your Consortium's page.
The CDP team is working hard to draft our custom data orders for the National Household Survey and other surveys. The Urban Poverty Tables are always a key component of our order. In the past, we have requested poverty data by employment status and age. This year we would like to review past practice and open up a conversation about the most useful measure of working poverty to include. Several different definitions of working poverty have been used in recent years, including John Stapleton’s work for the Metcalf Foundation in Toronto.
Over the summer we migrated communitydata.ca from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. (Drupal is a content management system, or CMS that lets non-web developers like myself create content, like this blog post.) Drupal 6 and its security updates will soon be going the way of the dodo; we migrated to Drupal 7 to ensure the site remains safe.
The basic functioning of the site is more-or-less identical to the pre-Labour Day version, except for a few changes:
At long last, the 2012 CIC Permanent Residents Rounded Data Cube has become available. It contains data on permanent resident landings up to and including 2012, down to the Census Subdivision (read: municipality) level.
Along with cataloguing the data, we've produced a variable spreadsheet to help you navigate what's available before you dive in. There are a LOT of crosstabulations that you can play with.
Today Statistics Canada released its Housing and Income data from the 2011 National Household Survey. Here's a summary of the resources they've made available.
1. Two written summaries in The Daily
The Income and Housing release date for the 2011 National Household Survey has been delayed from August 14 to September 11, 2013.
We expect a similar delay in receiving custom NHS products.
Also, our most recent correspondence with Statistics Canada indicates that 2011 Taxfiler data will be available on September 18, including Family, Senior, and NID tables.
The 2011 Taxfiler order will include all geographies available in the 2010 order, plus Census Division.
Statistics Canada recently released its yearly list of changes to municipal boundaries, status, and names. You can find it at this URL:
http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/bsolc/olc-cel/olc-cel?catno=92f0009x&lang=eng
Taxfiler tables from Statistics Canada's Income Statistics Division (formerly SAAD Division) have arrived.
