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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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Using the latest data from the Vital Statistics - Death Database, this article presents information about the most common comorbid conditions in COVID-19 deaths, as well as the extent to which these conditions differ by age groups. Comorbidities are defined as chronic and acute conditions, diseases, disorders, and complications appearing on the medical certificate of cause of death where COVID-19 was involved in the death.

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The wages of Canadian women have caught up substantially to those of their male counterparts, particularly from the 1970s to the early 1990s. However, the convergence in earnings by gender has slowed down since 1998. Researchers have struggled to explain this phenomenon with human capital alone (e.g., education and job tenure). Using data from the Canadian Employer–Employee Dynamics Database between 2001 and 2015, this study examines the impact of firms’ hiring and pay-setting policies on the gender earnings gap in Canada.

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Although refugee claimants seek asylum in Canada for humanitarian reasons, their labour market outcomes play a crucial role in their successful integration, which is why it is important to monitor the degree of labour market success achieved by refugee claimants. This study compares the long-term labour market outcomes of refugee claimants who eventually became permanent residents in Canada (RC-PRs) with those of government-assisted refugees (GARs) and privately sponsored refugees (PSRs), as well as with refugee claimants who did not become permanent residents in Canada (RC-NPRs).

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The entrepreneurship indicator database provides data describing the dynamics of a subset of Canadian enterprises, such as the number of active enterprises with one or more employees, the number of high-growth enterprises, the number of births and deaths of active enterprises with one or more employees, the survival of newly created enterprises, and more.

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This infographic highlights key findings from the new motor vehicle registration survey in British Columbia for the first and second quarter of 2020.

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This infographic highlights key findings from the new motor vehicle registration survey in Canada for the first and second quarter of 2020.

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This infographic highlights key findings from the new motor vehicle registration survey in Ontario for the first and second quarter of 2020.

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This infographic highlights key findings from the new motor vehicle registration survey in Quebec for the first and second quarter of 2020.

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This paper uses monthly data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) to examine the labour market impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Indigenous people from March 2020 to August 2020. Trends in employment, unemployment and labour force participation are examined by Indigenous identity as well as by sex and age group.

Description: Articles in the Economic Insights series highlight issues related to the growth and development of Canada's economy. In some cases, these articles highlight new insights or synthesize the results of previous research carried out by Statistics Canada; in others, they provide contextual information that accompanies the release of new data or updates from previous papers. The Economic Insights series features concise examinations of economic events, research results, trends, and important structural changes in the economy.

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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.