The November 21 webinar "Using the NHS at the scale of cities and communities" was a great success, with 215 registrations, and 158 attendees.

Community Development Halton published a piece on charitable giving in Halton Region using 2010 taxfiler data on charitable donations.

Community Data Canada is hosting a free webinar to discuss how the National Household Survey can serve the needs of municipalities and community sector organisations at the municipal and sub-municipal scale (census division, census subdivision, census tract, and dissemination area).

Statistics Canada delivered a presentation on the National Household Survey at the National Housing Research Committee on November 5, 2013.

Congratulations to the City of Guelph and the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW) for receiving the Community Indicators Consortium Impact Award for 2013 for their work on the

Find 2006 Census tables more easily in the communitydata.ca catalogue with a new .xls metadata reference file that we recently put together. 

We recently acquired and catalogued 2011 National Household Survey (NHS) Profiles for all of Canada down to the census tract (CT) and dissemination area (DA) level. 

All members of the CDP have access to the Envision tool from Environics Analytics, this tool allows you to easily create a map/report with the 2006 Census and 2011 Census/NHS data.

Sara Mayo at SPCH has recently published a report on income inequality in Hamilton, Ontario.  Here's a quote from the release:

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

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.

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.

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.

Over the summer we migrated communitydata.ca from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7.

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.

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.

Statistics Canada recently released its yearly list of changes to municipal boundaries, status, and names.  You can find it at this URL:

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.

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. 

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

In this issue: Product Profile for the CIC Data Cube · June 19 webinar on financial vulnerability · Protocol for publishing TransUnion data Check out the newsletter!

Note: This profile refers to the 2010 data, but applies to subsequent CIC data as well.

TransUnion data is new to the Community Data Program.  We're excited about the remarkably fine-grained data on consumer debt—data that most of us have never had access to at any scale.