The Columbia Basin-Boundary Community Data Consortium is CCSD’s 32nd to be established within the CDP. Located in southeast British Columbia, this consortium is led by Selkirk College through its Columbia Basin Rural Development Institute. The consortium catchment area includes the Regional Districts of East Kootenay, Central Kootenay, Kootenay Boundary, in addition to Revelstoke, Golden, Valemount and Columbia Shuswap Regional District Areas A and B with a combined population of 161,741 (in 2011).

The overall collection response rate of 98.4 percent for the 2016 Census of Population is higher than for each of the 2011 and 2006 Census programs. The collection response rate for the long form was 97.8 percent, the best ever recorded!

Check out the response rates by province or territory here.

Statistics Canada thanks Canadians for their time and commitment in this short video.

Learn more about the City of Toronto Poverty Reduction Strategy and engage in discussion with others! Participants are challenged to develop ideas that support the strategy and poverty-related issues. Each challenge is tied to one of the six issue areas: housing stability, service access, transit equity, food access, quality jobs and livable wages, and systemic change.

The Globe and Mail reports that Statistics Canada have early indications that the overall census response rate is 98% and about 96% for the long-form census. This is “probably the most successful census since 1666,” said chief statistician Wayne Smith. At last count, 13.74 million questionnaires had been completed out of a total of about 14 million households.

Canada’s Third Biennial Plan to the Open Government Partnership (2016-18) has now been published! The Open Government team is working on improving public services, such as enhancing access to datasets and increasing transparency to budget/finance information.

ENVISION5 is the latest released version of ENVISION, with changes to its interface. ENVISION5 has been enhanced with increased functionality, providing more advanced mapping, reporting and display features. With these improved features, ENVISION5 is now more user-friendly and visually appealing. Using the “trade analysis tool”, you can filter your geographies using a map and select the variables you want to analyse! How-to videos are available in the help section of ENVISION. Book a licence here: http://communitydata.ca/envision.

Recently, a draft plan for two years of Open Government was posted with the intention of receiving feedback and suggested improvements. To date, more than 50 deliverables have been completed, such as the launch of open.canada.ca website and publishing mandate letters online. Now, Canada is working on restoring the mandatory long-form census and developing the International Open Data Charter.

Arief Kartolo, a M.A. student at the University of Windsor has prepared this excellent research report for the Windsor-Essex Working Table that investigates the workings of data consortia in the Community Data Program. Here is an excerpt from the Executive Summary:

The Annual Meeting was held on May 26th and 27th in Banff, AB and was a great success! We had one and a half days of very engaged discussion and extremely helpful feedback on the program. It was also a real pleasure to meet such engaged stakeholders in person and see how they are using the data in their communities. Check out the report from the Annual Meeting to see what was discussed and the actions arising for the 2016-17 program year.