Taxfiler tables from Statistics Canada's Income Statistics Division (formerly SAAD Division) have arrived.

Thanks to everyone who attended the 2013 Community Data Canada (virtual) Rountable last Wednesday titled Measuring financial vulnerability in Canadian cities and communities.

The presentation slides and recording (.wmv) of the webinar are now available on the Community Data Canada website.

Check out the slides and recording!

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. 

In addition to mapping the TransUnion data using the PCCF, the tutorial explains how to aggregate the TransUnion data to the Census Tract level.  The process is similar for any given areal geography.

Two caveats to aggregating TransUnion data to an areal geographic unit:

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

Statistics Canada is also hosting a webinar on the same topic on Thursday, June 6, at 1:00 p.m. PST (4:00 p.m. EST).  Register here:

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

We have tabulated them in Excel as well.  You can download the spreadsheet here.

Note that these are not questions about the NHS, but rather the actual questions that are found on the National Household Survey.

Today Statistics Canada released profile tables for two National Household Survey topics : Aboriginal Peoples and Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity.  They have published three worthwhile reference documents to accompany the release: a user guide, "Data Quality and C

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 it was a welcome opportunity to catch up.  For the new kids on the block (like me!) it was reassuring to put faces to so many names.  Second, we got the chance to see what others were up to, and to show off what we had done.  Third, it gave us (the CDP team) the opportu

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, this blog post explains how to find standard Census products on the Statistics Canada website.

To date, two products have become available: