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.

Here's a list of NHS questions, FYI: http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/ref/nhs-enm_guide/guide_6-eng.cfm#A_7_1

Today Statistics Canada released profile tables for two National Household Survey topics : Aboriginal Peoples and Immigration and Ethnocultural

With the April 19 meeting behind us, it's important to take stock of what we accomplished together.  Before we get into it, we should point out that the gathering in Brampton was productive for three reasons.  First, we got the chance to meet one another in person.  For those who knew each other

The Statistics Canada website has made standard Census products easy to find and download at any given geographic scale and file format.  Because these products are now free and open, we won't worry about bringing them into the Community Data Catalogue -- at least not for now.  For this reason, t

Update: Information from this blog post has been updated to the latest iteration of Schedule C, formally approved by the Steering Committee, and to be adopted this year. --

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Three quick notes before we start 3. TransUnion Credit Report Characteristics basics 4. Digging into the data: variables, values, and units 5. What the table actually looks like: a sample row 6. What to do now

Several people have been asking me about Beyond 20/20 training in recent weeks.  Fortunately, Beyond 20/20 provides a number of online training videos to help new users understand how it works.  This post explains Beyond 20/20, and provides links to the training videos for Beyond 20/20 Profession

The June 2012 order from our list of upcoming data products (Schedule B) is now in the Community Data Program Catalogue!  Let's take a quick look at the highlights.