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

Homeownership and shelter costs in Canada

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.

Thanks to everyone who attended the 2013 Community Data Canada (virtual) Rountable last Wednesday titled Measuring financial vulnerability in Canadian cities and communities.

The presentation slides and recording (.wmv) of the webinar are now available on the Community Data Canada website.

Check out the slides and recording!

For those who are interested in mapping the TransUnion credit data, but don't know how, Richard Lau at Community Development Halton has created a tutorial to explain the process. 

In addition to mapping the TransUnion data using the PCCF, the tutorial explains how to aggregate the TransUnion data to the Census Tract level.  The process is similar for any given areal geography.

Two caveats to aggregating TransUnion data to an areal geographic unit:

Video tutorial on finding Census data for communities, from the Statistics Canada website:

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/sc-rb/news-bulletin/11-016-x/11-016-x2013005-eng.html#a7

Statistics Canada is also hosting a webinar on the same topic on Thursday, June 6, at 1:00 p.m. PST (4:00 p.m. EST).  Register here: