Notes from the last Data Purchase and Access Working Group meeting is now up!

The agenda from this meeting:

• Update on acquisitions
• Custom geographies update
• T1FF order update
• Census order update

Click here to read the meeting notes.

From the Backgrounder: Opportunity for All – Canada’s First Poverty Reduction Strategy

Statistics Canada continues to make its data more accessible and dynamic with the launch of Food Stats, a comprehensive one-stop shop for statistical information on food.

On behalf of Statistics Canada’s Agriculture Division:

OECD released this report called Divided Cities, Understanding Intra-urban Inequalities, providing an "assessment of spatial inequalities and segregation in cities and metropolitan areas from multiple perspectives. The chapters in the report focus on a subset of OECD countries and non-member economies, and provide new insights on cross-cutting issues for city neighbourhooods."

Read it here!

Last week was the Community Data Program’s Annual Meeting, hosted by Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health in Guelph, Ontario.

A new study looks at measurements of happiness in Canadian communities and finds that the old saying is true: money isn’t everything.

Researchers are increasingly using data to gauge qualitative factors like quality of life. While important aspects like affordable housing and short commutes can be easily put into numbers, the most important factor- sense of community belonging- remains somewhat more abstract.

The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, a CDP Member Organization, is carrying out the Fort McMurray region’s first official population count since the mass evacuation during the May 2016 wildfire.

Socio-economic supervisor Kodjo Efu is leading the effort to figure out how many of the 80,000+ evacuees have since returned.

Montreal-based Powered by Data is sharing their new project on administrative data sharing. In this blog post, they show how this type of data-sharing can offer innovative solutions to problems facing nonprofits.

The Community Data Project's Annual Report for the year ending March 31, 2018 is now available.

Contents include the year in review, the program budget, and plans for the next year, including data acquisition. We've also included highlights of our recent website redesign and results from the user survey.

Thanks to everyone at the Canadian Council on Social Development for their support!

Statistics Canada is hosting a “Chat with an Expert” session- Gross domestic product by industry: Provinces and territories, 2017.

From Statistics Canada:

How did the economy of my province or territory compare to that of other provinces or territories in 2017?