The 2014 Postal Code Conversion File (enhanced by Environics Analytics) is now available in the catalogue. For those not familiar with the PCCF, it allows you to map each six-digit postal code with a latitude/longitude coordinate.

Schedule B lists data products that we intend to acquire during any given program year (April 1 to March 31). Over the past few months, we've been busy acquiring and cataloguing several new data tables. Since then, 12 data products have been added or updated to the most recent year.

Census and NHS Profile tables are now available at the Health Region ("HR") geographic scale for all of Canada. These same tables are also freely available from Statistics Canada, but are rather difficult to find on their site.

Materials from the Annual Meeting Annual Report, 2013-2014 Agenda

We will be hosting the Community Data Canada roundtable with the theme of small-area income data, on 18 June 2014. The webinar-style roundtable will take place between 1:30 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. ET. If you would like to share your experience with Taxfiler, NHS, or TransUnion data, let us know.

Schedule B is a list of data products to order this program year (April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2015). The schedule is listed on communitydata.ca. As with the last Schedule B, the latest version will include links to the tables in question once they have been added to the catalogue.

Yesterday we launched the first iteration of the new data catalogue. Purpose: to help you find data more easily.

We're in the process of renovating the data catalogue. Over the course of the week, the appearance of certain aspects of the site may change. We'll provide an update when everything's ready to roll.

Community Development Halton published their 93rd issue of the Community Lens. This issue focuses on seniors in special care facilities within Halton Region.

[Courtesy of Environics Analytics]

There appears to be an issue with the NMCD_Max variable in the 2013Q1 TransUnion Credit Report Characteristics dataset. Other variables do not appear to be affected.

Custom geographies are still progressing at Statistics Canada. Nine out of 17 communities are finished, and the remainder are in sight. The delayed delivery appears to be due to a spike in custom orders at Statistics Canada over the past several months.

The April webinar on small area income data has been postponed to the summer. Stay tuned for updates.

At the 2013 Annual Meeting, we took stock of how users were using CDP data, and established five objectives for data usage for the 2013-2014 program year. With only three weeks remaining in 2013-2014, we've begun to look back and assess how well we did.*

The Social Planning Network of Ontario (SPNO) issued a statement on the National Household Survey in January. The statement is copied below.

The CCSD’s President and CEO, Peggy Taillon, today announced the addition of a new program to its suite, Community Analytics.

Several users reported issues unzipping 2011 Taxfiler and 2011 NHS tables from the communitydata.ca catalogue over the past three weeks. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused. We've isolated the problem, and the current files appear to be unzipping properly.

Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph, the Lead organisation for the WDG Consortium, recently published bulletins based on the 2011 Census and NHS. Check them out below.

In its Community Dispatch (Vol. 19, No. 1) Community Development Halton maps global non-response rates by census tract for all of Halton. View Community Dispatch Vol. 19, No. 1

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.

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.

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.

In Part 1 of this Product Profile, we explain some basic information about the 2011 NHS, (and 2011 Census while we're at it). First we provide descriptions of the standard geographies you're most likely to encounter with Census and NHS data.