Next week, Statistics Canada is offering a free online learning session on the 2016 Census of Population – Immigration, Ethnocultural Diversity and Housing. This webinar will provide a helpful introduction to the data released last week. They advise that it may be too basic for advanced data users.
Are you interested in starting an open data project for your municipality or organization?
Just released: Data on Aboriginal peoples, immigration and ethnocultural diversity, and housing from the 2016 Census program. Read CDP’s latest newsletter to get more information about what’s available and a summary of data.
Here are key results from The Daily:
The study Chronic Low Income Among Immigrants in Canada and its Communities provides new evidence on the incidence of chronic low income among immigrants aged 25 or older during the 2000s as well as variations across 29 Canadian cities and regions. Chronic low income is defined as having a family income under a low-income cut-off for five or more consecutive years.
Alan Broadbent writes What We Don’t Know:
The Newsletter from the Homeless Partnering Strategy has a few updates:
Statistics Canada is conducting a public consultation on the 2021 Census of Population from September to December 2017. We encourage you to participate in this online consultation and to forward information about the consultation to other census data users.
From the Association of Public Data Users (APDU):
On Thursday, September 7, the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking released their mandatory report. The report includes over 20 recommendations to facilitate the sharing of data across agencies and the evaluation of federal programs.
The report includes recommendations on:
From Open Government:
September is a month for back to school, fresh starts and back to work! We hope you have enjoyed plenty of fun in the sun this summer! Here’s a peak at some of what we have been working on lately.
Your Chance to Get Involved
Just released today - income data from the 2016 Census. Read the The Daily for some key results from the 2016 Census, such as a the median total income of Canadians is $70,336 in 2015. However, growth was not distributed evenly across Canada - median income growth was highest in Nunavut and Saskatchewan (resource-based provinces) while median income growth was slowest in Ontario and Quebec.
Here are some articles from Statistics Canada: