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  • 1. Investment in building construction February 2026 - Open in new window/tab
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202611019277
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2026-04-20
  • 2. Building permits February 2026 - Open in new window/tab
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20261033592
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2026-04-13
  • 3. Firm size and labour productivity growth in Canadian residential construction - Open in new window/tab
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202600200003
    Description: Canada has experienced relatively low productivity growth in the construction sector over the last several decades. This study examines the evolution of labour productivity in residential construction from 2001 to 2023 by using firm-level data from the National Accounts Longitudinal Microdata File. In addition to providing statistics on labour productivity growth, the study decomposes the growth in labour productivity by firm size (by number of employees), and province, showing which types of firms contribute to aggregate growth. It also provides statistics on labour productivity growth for some large census metropolitan areas.
    Release date: 2026-02-25
  • 4. Why do people move within Canada? A study on the reasons for internal migration and mobility using the Canadian Housing Survey - Open in new window/tab
    Articles and reports: 91F0015M2026001
    Description: This article provides a recent overview of the commonly reported reasons for which households move from one place to another within Canada, based on the information collected from the 2022 Canadian Housing Survey (CHS). The study provides results by various breakdowns including the type of movement, such as interprovincial and intraprovincial moves.
    Release date: 2026-02-16
  • 5. Building construction price indexes fourth quarter 2025 - Open in new window/tab
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202602718843
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2026-01-27
  • 6. Non-permanent residents in the homeownership market - Open in new window/tab
    Articles and reports: 46-28-0001202500100005
    Description: This article assesses the role of non-permanent residents (NPRs) in the housing market by examining the prevalence of NPRs among owners and buyers of residential properties. It also examines the prevalence of owners among NPRs. Together, these two measures offer a more complete picture of NPRs in terms of their share of property ownership and their housing tenure. This article is the first of a series investigating homeownership among newcomers to Canada.
    Release date: 2025-12-11
  • 7. Housing Statistics in Canada - Open in new window/tab
    Journals and periodicals: 46-28-0001
    Description: This publication provides insights on housing data and analysis at Statistics Canada. Readers can access in-depth information on the latest housing data released by the Agency. The series relies on both descriptive and analytical methods to analyze administrative and survey data sets that relate to housing.
    Release date: 2025-12-11
  • 8. Quarterly Rent Statistics: Technical Report on Methodology and Assumptions - Open in new window/tab
    Articles and reports: 46-28-0001202500100004
    Description: This report outlines the methodology behind the Quarterly Rent Statistics (QRS) program. It covers data sources, the target population, key concepts, data processing procedures and techniques used to produce experimental asking rent estimates for Canadian Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs). It also outlines the rationale behind the selection criteria and the limitations of asking rent data, as well as the approaches used to mitigate selection bias through advanced weighting strategies.
    Release date: 2025-12-02
  • 9. Stock and consumption of fixed capital 2024 - Open in new window/tab
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20253223677
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-11-18
  • 10. Geography of teleworkable jobs in the greater Toronto area - Open in new window/tab
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202500900004
    Description: Office vacancies are higher across Canadian cities than what it was prior to the onset of COVID-19 pandemic because of the widespread adoption of work from home (WFH) and hybrid working arrangements. A better understanding of where teleworkable jobs—jobs that can be done from home—are located informs whether WFH is potentially a viable mechanism for increasing the supply of convertible buildings in areas where housing shortages are most prevalent. This article shows the geography of teleworkable jobs in Toronto and across the Greater Toronto Area.
    Release date: 2025-09-24
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  • 1. A Framework for Projecting Housing Use Associated with Immigrants and Non-Permanent Residents - Open in new window/tab
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 11-633-X2026002
    Description: Recent changes in Canada’s immigration levels have heightened interest in understanding how immigration affects housing demand. This article develops a methodological framework for projecting housing use associated with permanent residents (PRs) and non-permanent residents (NPRs) under alternative immigration scenarios. The framework applies observed per capita housing use rates from the Census of Population to estimate incremental housing use by tenure over time.
    Release date: 2026-04-24
  • 2. Content changes for the 2026 Census of Population: Income and expenditures, housing and homelessness - Open in new window/tab
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-20-00042026005
    Description: This fact sheet offers a summary of content changes for the 2026 Census specific to the following topics: income and expenditures, and housing and homelessness. The tested changes for each topic are explained, along with the resulting approach for 2026.
    Release date: 2025-07-04
  • 3. Report on content changes for the 2026 Census of Population: Homelessness - Open in new window/tab
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-20-00052026002
    Description: This report outlines the steps taken to develop new questions capturing data about homelessness for the 2026 Census of Population questionnaire.
    Release date: 2025-07-04
  • 4. Key household indicators, 2021 Census of Population - Open in new window/tab
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-20-00032021023
    Description: Data collected by the Census of Population are used to create different household indicators to help governments and organizations assess housing needs in Canada. This video focuses on six key household indicators that help governments and organizations manage the state of housing in Canada, namely, shelter costs, shelter-cost-to-income ratio, housing adequacy, housing suitability, housing affordability and core housing need.
    Release date: 2022-10-26
  • 5. Housing Characteristics Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2021 - Open in new window/tab
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-500-X2021005
    Description: This reference guide provides information to help users effectively use and interpret housing characteristics data from the 2021 Census. This guide contains definitions and explanations of concepts, questions, classifications, data quality and comparability with other sources for this topic.
    Release date: 2022-09-21
  • 6. Introduction to housing data, 2021 Census of Population - Open in new window/tab
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-20-00032021021
    Description: The objective of this video is to offer insights into housing variables and key household indicators like housing adequacy, suitability and affordability. It explains where housing questions are found on the Census of Population questionnaire, the importance of housing data and how housing data are used by governments, businesses and social service agencies.
    Release date: 2022-09-21
  • 7. Housing and dwelling characteristics, 2021 Census of Population - Open in new window/tab
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-20-00032021022
    Description: This video introduces household and dwelling characteristics and their use in dissemination and analysis. It also presents the housing variables that are commonly used in analyses such as household maintainer, tenure, total income of household, household size and household type. In addition, the video shows the dwelling characteristics that describe the physical attributes of the living quarters occupied by the household, such as number of rooms, number of bedrooms, period of construction, dwelling condition, condominium status and value (owner estimated).
    Release date: 2022-09-21
  • 8. Type of Dwelling Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2021 - Open in new window/tab
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-500-X2021001
    Description:

    This reference guide provides information to help users effectively use and interpret type of dwelling data from the 2021 Census. This guide contains definitions and explanations of concepts, questions, classifications, data quality and comparability with other sources for this topic.

    Release date: 2022-03-30
  • 9. Geographic Attribute File - Open in new window/tab
    Geographic files and documentation: 92-151-X
    Description:

    The Geographic Attribute File contains information at the dissemination block level, based Census standard geographic areas. The data available include population counts, dwelling counts, and land area. In addition, the Geographic Attribute File contains higher level standard geographic codes, names and, where applicable, types and classes. Data for higher level standard geographic areas can be derived by aggregating dissemination block level data. The dissemination area representative point coordinates are also included in the Geographic Attribute File.

    Release date: 2022-02-09
  • 10. Updated content for the 2021 Census of Population: Income and expenditures, and housing - Open in new window/tab Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-20-00012020005
    Description:

    This fact sheet offers a concise overview of updated—new or modified—content for the 2021 Census of Population that is specific to the theme of income and expenditures, and housing, which includes the following topics: income and expenditures, and housing. The changes considered for these topics are explained, along with the resulting approach for 2021.

    Release date: 2020-07-20

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