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Staying apart from their parents and grandparents has been one of the hardest adjustments that Canadians have had to deal with since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the older population being at greater risk of infection and death from this disease. For months, most of them followed the quarantine rules, by staying home and adapting their behaviours to the infectious nature of the COVID-19. While before the outbreak visiting with one's parents was a relatively simple decision, it has since become a more delicate one. Studies have attempted to assess the risk of the virus transmission based on the frequency of intergenerational in-person contacts before the physical distancing recommendations were implemented.

This infographic provides a snapshot of the frequency and the duration of visits between adult children and their parent(s) in Canada. The results refer to Canadians who were aged 25 to 64, who were not living with their parents, and who had at least one biological or adoptive parent alive at the time of the surveys.

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This infographic provides a snapshot of the net worth of Canadian families by province and family type in 2019. In addition, there's a focus on the most common asset and debt holdings of families. This infographic uses data from the Survey of Financial Security.

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This article contributes to a series studies of COVID-19 impact on Canadian industries, with focus on the Retail Services Price Index (RSPI). The study analyzes the movements of RSPI during 2020 pandemic by subsectors, including clothing stores, grocery stores, and electronic stores, etc. It also compares different responses of retail sectors during 2020 pandemic and during 2008-2009 recession. Based on the in-depth analysis, the article also provides an outlook of the price index trend for the year 2020.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had unprecedented impacts on many key aspects of life, such as health, social connections, mobility, employment and incomes. Life satisfaction provides the best available umbrella measure of the combined effects of these changes on the well-being of Canadians. Using population-representative samples from two Statistics Canada surveys, this study compares the life satisfaction of Canadians before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had unprecedented impacts on many key aspects of life, such as health, social connections, mobility, employment and incomes. Life satisfaction provides the best available umbrella measure of the combined effects of these changes on the well-being of Canadians. Using population-representative samples from the 2018 Canadian Community Health Survey and the June 2020 Canadian Perspectives Survey Series, this study uses these data to compare life satisfaction in Canada before and during the pandemic, drawing comparisons across the population as a whole and among different regions and demographic groups.

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This Juristat article provides a statistical overview of adults and youth admitted to and released from custody and community supervision in Canada in 2018/2019. Analysis is presented at the national as well as the provincial and territorial levels. Average counts and the incarceration rates are presented. Admissions and the characteristics of adults and youth in the correctional system (such as age, sex and Aboriginal identity) are also discussed.

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In the past, the Bank of Canada (the Bank) and Statistics Canada both produced aggregate measures of borrowing, or credit, for sectors of the Canadian economy. The Statistics Canada measures were on a quarterly basis as part of the National Balance Sheet Accounts (NBSA) whereas the Bank of Canada published monthly statistics. While both estimates are drawn from the same data sources and paint a similar picture of the indebtedness of Canadian households and non-financial businesses, some reconcilable differences existed in the aggregate measures. Starting in December 2020 Statistics Canada will be producing monthly estimates that will be integrated into the larger NBSA framework. This will provide users with a single and consistent set of monthly estimates that align with the internationally recognized national accounting principles detailed in the United Nations System of National Accounts This guide will serve as a review of the historical differences between each organization's credit aggregates, the conceptual and statistical changes that will occur as a result of the integration of monthly estimates within the NBSA, and a detailed overview of the methods that will be employed to estimate the outstanding credit debt of households and non-financial private corporations by lending sector.

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Statistics Canada has undertaken a broad range of initiatives designed to understand the impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians. This research paper highlights experimental methods designed to measure the impact of the pandemic on month-by-month family income trends of Canadians long before detailed annual statistics become available. The approach integrates weekly earnings available from the Canadian Labour Force Survey (LFS) together with information specific to government transfers including special COVID-19 benefits collected through administrative data sources and imputation. The objective is to shed light on the impact of labour market disruptions on Canadians and their families and the extent to which emergency benefits introduced by the government offset these disruptions. This paper describes the data sources used, estimation strategies employed, initial results, limitations, and potential future developments.

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This study assessed the association between household food insecurity and self-perceived mental health status and anxiety symptoms among Canadians in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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This study quantified prevalence trends of annually reported major depressive episodes, anxiety disorders, and comorbid major depressive episodes and anxiety disorders among working-age Canadians by labour force status between 2000 and 2016.

Description: This report is a product of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP). It is intended to facilitate the comparison of educational systems in Canada's provinces and territories with those of countries that belong to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The document presents a series of indicators harmonized to the definitions and methodologies used by the OECD in Education at a Glance. The indicators are designed to serve as a basis for decision making and for development of programs in the field of education.

PCEIP is an ongoing initiative of the Canadian Education Statistics Council: a partnership between Statistics Canada and the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada, that provides a set of statistical measures on education systems.

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This interactive data visualization tool features characteristics of students enrolled in, or graduating from, postsecondary programs offered in public postsecondary institutions in Canada (such as gender and status of student in Canada). It also provides an overview of program characteristics based on the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED 2011) and on the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP Canada 2016 cannabis variant) STEM/BHASE groupings.

Description: The Open Database of Cultural and Art Facilities (ODCAF) is a listing of cultural and art facilities across Canada. Facilities are classified in to one of the following nine types: art or cultural centre, festival site, gallery, heritage or historic site, library or archive, museum, theatre/performance and concert hall, and miscellaneous.

The listing contains the names, addresses, and geo coordinates of facilities, as well as the facility type as assigned in the data source. The ODCAF is based on data from authoritative sources that include among them provincial, territorial and municipal governments, and professional associations.

The ODCAF is released as open data under the Open Government License - Canada and provided as a zipped comma-separated values (.csv) file.

Description: The Open Database of Healthcare Facilities (ODHF) is a listing of healthcare facilities across Canada. Facilities are classified into one of three types: ambulatory health care services, hospitals, and nursing and residential care facilities. The listing contains the names, addresses, and geo coordinates of facilities, as well as the facility type as assigned in the data source.

The ODHF is based on data from authoritative sources that include among them all levels of government and public health and professional healthcare bodies. The ODHF is released as open data under the Open Government License - Canada and provided as a zipped comma-separated values (.csv) file.

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This product describes the similarities and differences between two sets of United Nations (UN) guidelines for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions: the United Nations System of Environmental-Economic Accounts (SEEA) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Statistics Canada's Greenhouse Gas Account is compiled based on the SEEA guidelines, while the National GHG Inventory is prepared by Environment and Climate Change Canada in accordance with the UNFCCC.

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This product enhances the industrial detail available for the agricultural and agri-food manufacturing sector within the national accounting framework. This detail allows users to analyze the supply and use of products across a broader range of farming and processing activities as well as facilitate the comparison of economic relationships and impacts across more industries than is possible in the core supply and use tables.

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An efficient and modern transportation system has always been key to supporting a strong and competitive economy, and improving Canadians' quality of life. The Transportation Data and Information Hub (TDIH) provides easy access to a comprehensive, timely and accessible source of multimodal transportation data and transportation system performance measures. The TDIH aims to facilitate discussions and foster collaboration among key stakeholders from both the public and private sectors. The goal of the TDIH is to identify synergies and efficiencies that support effective decision-making in Canada, and ensure that the transportation system continues to contribute towards building a strong economy.

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The activity indicators draw from a variety of data sources to provide information on Canada's transportation system. The indicators are presented in a data table and are updated monthly.

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The performance indicators draw from a variety of data sources to provide information on how Canada's transportation system is performing. The indicators are presented in a data table and are updated monthly.

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This table presents selected indicators from the short form Census at the Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations level.

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From September 15th to October 23rd, Statistics Canada conducted the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions to examine how COVID-19 is affecting businesses in Canada. This infographic presents the impact of COVID-19 on businesses in Canada.

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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the Canadian economy and the ability of businesses to operate. Using data from the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions, a comparison was made to assess the impact of COVID-19 on businesses majority-owned by women.

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This study used 2015 national-level data, the most recent available, to characterize the intake of ultra-processed foods among Canadians and to examine changes since 2004.

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Using data from the 2003 to 2013 cycles of the Canadian Community Health Survey, this study’s objective was to characterize smoking history by sex using birth cohorts beginning in 1920. Smoking histories for each birth cohort included age at smoking initiation and cessation, which was used to construct smoking prevalence for each calendar year from 1971 to 2041. A secondary objective was to characterize smoking history by socioeconomic status.

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Income data for Canadian tax filers shed light on the distribution of income in 2018. This infographic illuminates selected characteristics of the top 1% of tax filers in Canada that year, including information on age, gender, and geographic location. The top 1% of tax filers is defined as the 1% of tax filers with the highest total incomes when ranked nationally. These estimates are for a pre-pandemic period and do not reflect any impacts of COVID-19. However, they do provide a baseline for analysing changes to the top of the income distribution during the pandemic period, once those data become available.

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This article examines the nature of crime reported in 2018 by police services that were identified in this study as serving populations where over half the residents were Indigenous. The study used data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey to identify those offences which account for differences between rates of crime reported by police serving majority Indigenous populations when compared with police serving predominantly non-Indigenous populations. In addition, the article examines the characteristics of criminal incidents in these communities and presents information on the socioeconomic conditions of the populations served by these police services.

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A summary of methodological treatments as applied to the October 2020 Consumer Price Index (CPI) in response to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on price collection, price availability, and business closure.

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This article presents an analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic impact on the Canadian beef supply chain, from Ranch to Slaughter House, from Wholesale to Retail and from domestic market to Imports/Exports. The study uses various data sources from Statistics Canada and Agriculture and Agri-food Canada (AAFC) with main focus on wholesale services prices. This publication also uses data from the product-based development project for the Wholesale Services Price Index (WSPI) using the North American Product Classification System (NAPCS). This project is part of Statistics Canada's user-centric modernization initiative. The product-based WSPI data are not yet released to the public.

Note: The WSPI represents the change in the price of wholesale services, which is defined as the margin price (or margin). The margin is the difference between the average purchase price and the average selling price of a given product. It is not a wholesale selling price.

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As a result of the widespread measures taken to contain the spread of COVID-19, the Canadian economy contracted. By the end of May, the Canadian economy had been transformed by COVID-19 and many businesses had begun to adapt to the new reality by shifting to teleworking, reducing hours, laying off staff, applying for government funding or seeking rent relief. As parts of Canada were exposed to a second wave of COVID-19 and other parts were in recovery, Statistics Canada ran the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions to better understand the ongoing impacts on businesses. Based on the results of the survey, while the majority of businesses in Canada were impacted, smaller businesses with 1 to 99 employees were slightly more affected.

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This article looks at the labour market outcomes of 2015 postsecondary graduates three years after graduation. Specifically, it examines their employment status, job permanency, relatedness of their job or business to their 2015 educational program, the degree to which graduates feel qualified for their job, their employment income and their job satisfaction. This article answers the question: How are graduates of 2015 faring in terms of their integration into the labour market?

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This tutorial covers navigating and downloading spatial data from Canada’s Open Maps platform, the integrated geospatial data archive for the federal government. Learn to search and filter for datasets of interest, distinguish different components of spatial datasets, and apply common referencing guides in isolating files that correspond to your area of interest. Procedures for accessing census boundary files and tables from Statistics Canada for integration in GIS are also shown. Ensure to download these and remaining datasets listed at the end of the video for use in following tutorials. Apply these skills to download spatial data relevant to your own areas of work and expertise, from Open Maps and other (e.g. provincial and municipal) geospatial archives in taking full advantage of the diverse and finer-resolution datasets that are publicly available. These skills should enable you to isolate and download a variety of layers, and examine most processes or features of interest.

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In this introductory tutorial, you’ll learn to navigate QGIS’s user-friendly interface, procedures to load spatial datasets in to the program from the Browser Panel and how to order vector layers of different geometry types for visualization in the Map Canvas. Additionally, learn how to save a project file (.qgz) and which properties are retained. Add your spatial data folder as a Favourite in the Browser Panel to facilitate loading data in future projects and tutorials. The demonstrated loading procedures extend to most major spatial formats including ESRI Shapefiles, file geodatabases, geopackages, as well as raster formats such as GeoTIFFs and JPEG2000 files, while those for other files (e.g. web-based and spatial databases) can be consulted in the QGIS user manual and other online resources. Apply these skills to load, toggle, rename and reorder (points above lines above polygons) layers of interest to you. As with other programs, ensure to save your project files frequently.

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This QGIS tutorial demonstrates tools for interacting with spatial data in the map canvas. Follow along as we learn foundational skills, such as changing the extent and scale of the canvas, bookmarking locations for repeated use, and applying interactive tools to select and identify features from selected layers in the Layers Panel. Use the Zoom tools to tailor the canvas to selected datasets or features and help isolate layers, such as those at differing extents, in differing projections, or hidden by other layers. The covered tools and procedures will enable you to quickly assess loaded layers, interactively select features and list their attributes, and prepare layers for mapping (e.g. grouping layers and bookmarking canvas). Note: The Identify tool can also be used on Raster layers, returning the value for the selected cell / pixel.

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Following up from interacting with spatial data in the map canvas, this introductory QGIS tutorial covers additional data and available functions in the attribute table and Layer Properties box of loaded vector layers. Follow along as we introduce the layout of attribute tables and cover functions to select, sort, filter and perform simple edits to features. We’ll also discuss key tabs in the Layer Properties box, which provides summary information (spatial and tabular) on the selected layer and additional functions such as visualizing and joining layers (covered in detail in Tutorials # 9-10, and 12-13 respectively). Apply these procedures to vector layers of thematic relevance to your area of work and expertise in quickly selecting, filtering and updating feature attributes to conform to those of interest within QGIS. We’ll expand directly upon these skills in Demos 7 and 8, where we’ll learn to select features by attributes or criteria of interest, update and add new fields, and edit the attributes for large selections of features.

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This note provides the definition of a first-time homebuyer concept used in the 2018 Canadian Housing Survey (CHS). It also includes the methodology used to identify first-time homebuyers and provides sensitivity analysis under alternative methodologies.