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  • 1. Artificial intelligence adoption and productivity in Canadian firms
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202600400002
    Description: Artificial intelligence (AI) is widely recognized as a transformative technology with the potential to reshape business operations and drive productivity growth. Understanding the relationship between AI adoption and business performance is critical for shaping policies that foster innovation, technology diffusion and sustainable economic growth, especially given Canada’s persistent productivity challenges. This article summarizes key findings from the study “The Role of Complementary Capabilities in AI Adoption and Productivity: Firm-Level Evidence from Canada” by Li and Liu (2026), published in Canadian Public Policy. Using a novel firm-level database that links multiple waves of the Survey of Digital Technology and Internet Use (SDTIU) to administrative business microdata, the study examines factors influencing AI adoption among Canadian businesses and explores the relationship between AI adoption and firms’ labour productivity.
    Release date: 2026-04-22
  • 2. Who are the users of digital government services? Exploring the characteristics of Canadian individuals and businesses using digital government services
    Articles and reports: 22-20-00012026001
    Description: Government services are undergoing a digital transformation to modernize their delivery and provide individual Canadians and Canadian businesses with digital programs and services that are efficient, secure and user-centric. While measuring the availability of digital government services is often the focus of modernization efforts, the factors affecting demand for these services are also important to consider when evaluating their adoption rates. Using data from two technology use surveys, this article profiles individual and business users of digital government services and examines the barriers faced by current and potential users.
    Release date: 2026-04-08
  • 3. Digital Insights
    Articles and reports: 22-20-0001
    Description: Digital Insights brings together a variety of data from across Statistics Canada and other sources to provide insights and analysis on the digital economy and society in Canada. The topics covered include: e-commerce, digital trade, cyber security and cybercrime, and the impacts of Internet and other technology use on the Canadian economy and society.
    Release date: 2026-04-08
  • 4. Survey on the Use of Digital Technologies by Health Care Providers 2025
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202608940470
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2026-03-30
  • 5. Potential occupational exposure to artificial intelligence and automation among certified journeypersons in Canada
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202600100001
    Description: Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation hold the potential to transform the nature of work, raising concerns about how different occupations may be affected. The risks associated with technological advancements are particularly relevant for the skilled trades, where work is task-intensive and specialized. This article examines potential exposure to AI- and automation-related job transformation among certified journeyperson occupations.
    Release date: 2026-01-28
  • 6. Canadian employment trends in the era of generative artificial intelligence: Early evidence
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202600100003
    Description: Artificial intelligence (AI) holds the potential to transform the nature of work, and its ability to replace human labour remains a central concern. This study highlights recent labour market trends, distinguishing jobs potentially more exposed to and less complementary with AI from other jobs.
    Release date: 2026-01-28
  • 7. Disconnect to reconnect? How technology is reshaping how Canadians connect with friends 2025
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202529740467
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-10-24
  • 8. Analysis on expected use of artificial intelligence by businesses in Canada, third quarter of 2025
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2025011
    Description: This article explores how businesses plan to use AI over the next 12 months and the types of AI they intend to use when producing goods or delivering services. It also explores how businesses expect AI to affect their employment levels, what operational changes they anticipate over the next 12 months and why some are choosing not to use AI. It involves an examination of the data produced by the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions.
    Release date: 2025-09-11
  • 9. One-Stop-Shop for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Official Statistics Archived
    Articles and reports: 11-522-X202500100027
    Description: Several challenges encountered when constructing U.S. administrative record-based (AR-based) population estimates for 2020 are identified. They include locational accuracy, person coverage and its consistency over time, filtering out non-residents and people not alive on the reference date, uncovering missing links across person and address records, and predicting demographic characteristics. Several ways to address these issues are discussed. Regression results illustrate how the challenges and solutions affect the AR-based county population estimates.
    Release date: 2025-09-08
  • 10. Concern about misinformation: Connections to trust in media, confidence in institutions, civic engagement, and hopefulness
    Articles and reports: 75-006-X202500100008
    Description: This study uses data from the Survey Series on People and their Communities to explore how Canadians are navigating the complexities of today’s information environment. Specifically, it examines the characteristics of those who reported having high levels of concern about misinformation online and how this concern may relate to perceptions of media trustworthiness, confidence in institutions, hopefulness about national unity and democracy, as well as voting behaviour.
    Release date: 2025-06-18
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  • 1. Artificial intelligence adoption and productivity in Canadian firms
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202600400002
    Description: Artificial intelligence (AI) is widely recognized as a transformative technology with the potential to reshape business operations and drive productivity growth. Understanding the relationship between AI adoption and business performance is critical for shaping policies that foster innovation, technology diffusion and sustainable economic growth, especially given Canada’s persistent productivity challenges. This article summarizes key findings from the study “The Role of Complementary Capabilities in AI Adoption and Productivity: Firm-Level Evidence from Canada” by Li and Liu (2026), published in Canadian Public Policy. Using a novel firm-level database that links multiple waves of the Survey of Digital Technology and Internet Use (SDTIU) to administrative business microdata, the study examines factors influencing AI adoption among Canadian businesses and explores the relationship between AI adoption and firms’ labour productivity.
    Release date: 2026-04-22
  • 2. Who are the users of digital government services? Exploring the characteristics of Canadian individuals and businesses using digital government services
    Articles and reports: 22-20-00012026001
    Description: Government services are undergoing a digital transformation to modernize their delivery and provide individual Canadians and Canadian businesses with digital programs and services that are efficient, secure and user-centric. While measuring the availability of digital government services is often the focus of modernization efforts, the factors affecting demand for these services are also important to consider when evaluating their adoption rates. Using data from two technology use surveys, this article profiles individual and business users of digital government services and examines the barriers faced by current and potential users.
    Release date: 2026-04-08
  • 3. Digital Insights
    Articles and reports: 22-20-0001
    Description: Digital Insights brings together a variety of data from across Statistics Canada and other sources to provide insights and analysis on the digital economy and society in Canada. The topics covered include: e-commerce, digital trade, cyber security and cybercrime, and the impacts of Internet and other technology use on the Canadian economy and society.
    Release date: 2026-04-08
  • 4. Survey on the Use of Digital Technologies by Health Care Providers 2025
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202608940470
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2026-03-30
  • 5. Potential occupational exposure to artificial intelligence and automation among certified journeypersons in Canada
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202600100001
    Description: Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation hold the potential to transform the nature of work, raising concerns about how different occupations may be affected. The risks associated with technological advancements are particularly relevant for the skilled trades, where work is task-intensive and specialized. This article examines potential exposure to AI- and automation-related job transformation among certified journeyperson occupations.
    Release date: 2026-01-28
  • 6. Canadian employment trends in the era of generative artificial intelligence: Early evidence
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202600100003
    Description: Artificial intelligence (AI) holds the potential to transform the nature of work, and its ability to replace human labour remains a central concern. This study highlights recent labour market trends, distinguishing jobs potentially more exposed to and less complementary with AI from other jobs.
    Release date: 2026-01-28
  • 7. Disconnect to reconnect? How technology is reshaping how Canadians connect with friends 2025
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202529740467
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-10-24
  • 8. Analysis on expected use of artificial intelligence by businesses in Canada, third quarter of 2025
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2025011
    Description: This article explores how businesses plan to use AI over the next 12 months and the types of AI they intend to use when producing goods or delivering services. It also explores how businesses expect AI to affect their employment levels, what operational changes they anticipate over the next 12 months and why some are choosing not to use AI. It involves an examination of the data produced by the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions.
    Release date: 2025-09-11
  • 9. One-Stop-Shop for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Official Statistics Archived
    Articles and reports: 11-522-X202500100027
    Description: Several challenges encountered when constructing U.S. administrative record-based (AR-based) population estimates for 2020 are identified. They include locational accuracy, person coverage and its consistency over time, filtering out non-residents and people not alive on the reference date, uncovering missing links across person and address records, and predicting demographic characteristics. Several ways to address these issues are discussed. Regression results illustrate how the challenges and solutions affect the AR-based county population estimates.
    Release date: 2025-09-08
  • 10. Concern about misinformation: Connections to trust in media, confidence in institutions, civic engagement, and hopefulness
    Articles and reports: 75-006-X202500100008
    Description: This study uses data from the Survey Series on People and their Communities to explore how Canadians are navigating the complexities of today’s information environment. Specifically, it examines the characteristics of those who reported having high levels of concern about misinformation online and how this concern may relate to perceptions of media trustworthiness, confidence in institutions, hopefulness about national unity and democracy, as well as voting behaviour.
    Release date: 2025-06-18
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  • 1. Internet Use in Canada Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 56F0003X
    Description:

    This electronic product is a comprehensive reference tool that contains an inventory of surveys, conducted by Statistics Canada, used to measure household/individual Internet use. Product features include survey names; descriptions (including information such as objective of survey, sample size, frequency, target group and response rate); user guides; charts and graphs. Also included is an extremely useful Questionnaire Comparability Chart that displays common content among questionnaires. This is a useful source of background information for respondents, researchers and those involved in survey development and questionnaire design.

    Release date: 2004-09-23
  • 2. Electronic Publications Pilot 1996 - 1997: Final Report Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 11-534-X
    Description:

    This report describes the Electronic Publications Pilot (EPP) which was conducted to gather knowledge on how library staff and their clients are adjusting to the Internet. The pilot was conducted from September 1996 to September 1997 as a joint initiative of Statistics Canada and the Depository Services Program (DSP), in partnership with the depository library community. The objective of the pilot was to assess the impact of replacing print publications with electronic equivalents via the Internet in DSP libraries. This objective was based on an assumption that the electronic medium will complement print rather than replace it entirely and that departments will continue to produce some print publications in the future. The major conclusions of the pilot cover resources and training, web site feedback, selection of publications for conversion to electronic format, web site access and security, publication functionality and access and archiving.

    Release date: 1999-01-28
  • 3. Survey of Digital Technology and Internet Use
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4225
    Description: The Survey of Digital Technology and Internet Use measures the adoption and use of various digital technologies, including the Internet.
  • 4. National Electronic Media Use Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4424
    Description: In March 1996, Statistics Canada conducted the National Electronic Media Use Survey (NEMUS) on behalf of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
  • 5. Canadian Internet Use Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4432
    Description: The Canadian Internet Use Survey (CIUS) measures household access to the Internet and individual online behaviours including electronic commerce.
  • 6. P.E.I. Community Access Points Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4441
    Description: The purpose of the Prince Edward Island Community Access Points Survey was to build a profile of general Internet use and to assess the level of interest for community access points to the Internet.
  • 7. General Social Survey - Access to and Use of Information Communication Technology
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4505
    Description: The two primary objectives of the General Social Survey (GSS) are: to gather data on social trends in order to monitor changes in the living conditions and well being of Canadians over time; and to provide information on specific social policy issues of current or emerging interest. This survey collects detailed information on access to and use of technology in Canada.
  • 8. Survey on the Use of Digital Technologies by Health Care Providers
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5419
    Description: The Survey on the Use of Digital Technologies by Health Care Providers (SUDTHCP) collects data from health care providers on their use of digital health systems, including whether they send and receive patient clinical information electronically and barriers to using digital health tools. The SUDTHCP also collects information on health care providers’ knowledge of digital health systems to measure their digital health literacy.

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