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- Journals and periodicals: 11-627-MDescription: Every year, Statistics Canada collects data from hundreds of surveys. As the amount of data gathered increases, Statistics Canada has introduced infographics to help people, business owners, academics, and management at all levels, understand key information derived from the data. Infographics can be used to quickly communicate a message, to simplify the presentation of large amounts of data, to see data patterns and relationships, and to monitor changes in variables over time.
These infographics will provide a quick overview of Statistics Canada survey data.
Release date: 2024-09-13 - Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024026Description: The Business Ownership Diversity Dashboard allows users to examine the distribution of businesses in Canada by equity and diversity indicators and by business variable dimensions. Equity and diversity indicators include visible minority status, age, immigrant status, Indigenous group, and gender. Business variable dimensions include the location of business operations, revenue size, business size (number of employees), and industry sector.Release date: 2024-09-12
- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2019006Description:
This interactive tool allows users to visualize income data of tax filers and their dependants by sex and age for Canada, provinces/territories and census metropolitan area/census agglomeration. It shows the most recent data available from the Annual income estimates for Census families and individuals (T1 Family file).
Release date: 2024-06-27 - Articles and reports: 71-222-X2024002Description: This article examines trends in rates of employment and unemployment, as well as hourly wages and work hours, for the year 2023, and explores how disability intersects with age, sex, educational attainment, and racialized groups to influence labour market outcomes.Release date: 2024-06-13
- Journals and periodicals: 45-20-0002Description: Studies on Gender and Intersecting Identities brings together and analyzes a wide range of important issues related to gender, age, sexuality, disability, ethnocultural characteristics and other intersecting identities. Through a Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA+) lens, these studies will enrich Canadians' understanding of how gender and other identity factors affect the social, economic and financial participation and status of diverse groups of Canadians.Release date: 2024-03-25
- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2019018Description: This interactive data visualization dashboard provides an overview of correctional services programs in Canada. The dashboard features statistics on average daily counts, community and custodial admissions and the characteristics of adults and youth in the correctional system (such as age, sex and Aboriginal identity). A map is available for users to view data by province, territory or federal programs.Release date: 2024-03-19
- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2020018Description: This interactive dashboard allows the visualization of the age and gender structure of the population of Canada, provinces and territories. The data presented cover the period from 1971 to the most recent year. The dashboard shows the proportion of the total population by broad age group, the proportion of centenarians, the distribution of the population by age and gender, the average age, the number of people aged 15 to 64 per person aged 65 years and older and the gender ratio by age group. Data can be visualized for Canada or for a selected province or territory.Release date: 2024-02-21
- Journals and periodicals: 91F0015MGeography: CanadaDescription: Demographic documents is a series of texts intended for scholars and researchers, published occasionally by the Demography Division of Statistics Canada for their methodological, analytical or descriptive interest in the population field.Release date: 2024-02-02
- Table: 84-537-XDescription: This electronic publication contains life tables comprising life expectancy and related estimates by age and sex for Canada, the provinces and territories. Detailed estimates (by single year of age) have been produced for Canada and all of the provinces, except Prince Edward Island, based on two types of complete life tables: three-year estimates (for periods of consecutive three years) and single-year estimates. Aggregated estimates (by five-year age group) have been produced for Prince Edward Island and the three territories separately based on abridged life tables (three-year estimates).Release date: 2023-11-27
- Table: 98-401-XDescription: This product presents information from the Census of Population for various levels of geography. Data include characteristics for: population, age, sex, dwellings, families, marital status, language, income, education and labour as examples.
Starting with the age and sex major day of release and on major days of release thereafter, profile component data are available at the Canada, province and territory, economic region, census division, census subdivision, census metropolitan area, census agglomeration, population centre, census tract, designated place, federal electoral district and dissemination area. This product may be downloaded in various formats, they include CSV, TAB, IVT or XML.
Release date: 2023-11-15
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- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024026Description: The Business Ownership Diversity Dashboard allows users to examine the distribution of businesses in Canada by equity and diversity indicators and by business variable dimensions. Equity and diversity indicators include visible minority status, age, immigrant status, Indigenous group, and gender. Business variable dimensions include the location of business operations, revenue size, business size (number of employees), and industry sector.Release date: 2024-09-12
- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2019006Description:
This interactive tool allows users to visualize income data of tax filers and their dependants by sex and age for Canada, provinces/territories and census metropolitan area/census agglomeration. It shows the most recent data available from the Annual income estimates for Census families and individuals (T1 Family file).
Release date: 2024-06-27 - Data Visualization: 71-607-X2019018Description: This interactive data visualization dashboard provides an overview of correctional services programs in Canada. The dashboard features statistics on average daily counts, community and custodial admissions and the characteristics of adults and youth in the correctional system (such as age, sex and Aboriginal identity). A map is available for users to view data by province, territory or federal programs.Release date: 2024-03-19
- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2020018Description: This interactive dashboard allows the visualization of the age and gender structure of the population of Canada, provinces and territories. The data presented cover the period from 1971 to the most recent year. The dashboard shows the proportion of the total population by broad age group, the proportion of centenarians, the distribution of the population by age and gender, the average age, the number of people aged 15 to 64 per person aged 65 years and older and the gender ratio by age group. Data can be visualized for Canada or for a selected province or territory.Release date: 2024-02-21
- Table: 84-537-XDescription: This electronic publication contains life tables comprising life expectancy and related estimates by age and sex for Canada, the provinces and territories. Detailed estimates (by single year of age) have been produced for Canada and all of the provinces, except Prince Edward Island, based on two types of complete life tables: three-year estimates (for periods of consecutive three years) and single-year estimates. Aggregated estimates (by five-year age group) have been produced for Prince Edward Island and the three territories separately based on abridged life tables (three-year estimates).Release date: 2023-11-27
- Table: 98-401-XDescription: This product presents information from the Census of Population for various levels of geography. Data include characteristics for: population, age, sex, dwellings, families, marital status, language, income, education and labour as examples.
Starting with the age and sex major day of release and on major days of release thereafter, profile component data are available at the Canada, province and territory, economic region, census division, census subdivision, census metropolitan area, census agglomeration, population centre, census tract, designated place, federal electoral district and dissemination area. This product may be downloaded in various formats, they include CSV, TAB, IVT or XML.
Release date: 2023-11-15 - Table: 98-401-X2021001Description:
This product presents information from the Census of Population for various levels of geography. Data are from the 2021 Census of Population and are available according to the major releases of the 2021 Census release dates: February 9, 2022 – Population and dwelling counts; April 27, 2022 – Age, Sex at birth and gender, Type of dwelling; July 13, 2022 – Families, households and marital status, Canadian military experience, Income; August 17, 2022 – Language; September 21, 2022 – Indigenous peoples, Housing; October 26, 2022 – Immigration, place of birth, and citizenship, Ethnocultural and religious diversity, Mobility and migration; November 30, 2022 – Education, Labour, Language of work, Commuting, Instruction in the official minority language. Starting with the population and dwelling counts release and on major days of release thereafter, profile component data are available at the following geographic levels: Canada, province and territory, economic region, census division, census subdivision, census metropolitan area, census agglomeration, population centre, census tract, designated place, federal electoral district, aggregate dissemination area and dissemination area. This product may be downloaded in various formats, which include CSV, TAB or IVT.
Release date: 2022-12-15 - Table: 95F0217X1996005Description:
Series Description - The Basic Summary Tabulations Series (1996 Census of Population) provides data based on approximately 75 cross-tabulations of three or four census variables at five very detailed levels of geography. This series shows specific characteristics of the Canadian population considered either as individuals or in terms of their family or household relations, or with a characteristic pertaining to Canadian dwellings. The BSTs provide data based on a 20% sample except for Age, Sex, Marital Status and Common-law Status which are collected from a 100% sample.
These tables are available on diskette and cover all census variable information such as Demographics; Families (Number, Type and Structure); Structural Type of Dwelling and Household Size; Immigration and Citizenship; Languages (e.g. Mother Tongue); Aboriginal Origins, Ethnic Origin and Visible Minorities (Population Groups); Labour Market Activities and Household Activities (unpaid work); Place of Work and Mode of Transportation; Education; Mobility and Migration; as well as Individual and Family Income.
For ease in understanding the five levels of geography, the OLC numbers have related the last 3 digits to reflect the different geographies. See the information below.
**Under Geographic Coverage, we have listed the five geographies with OLC numbers.
BSTs ending with the following OLC #s represent:
001 - Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions002 - Census Metropolitan Areas, Tracted Census Agglomerations and Census Tracts003 - Canada, Provinces, Territories, Federal Electoral Districts (1987 Representation Order) and Enumeration Areas004 - Canada, Provinces, Territories and Federal Electoral Districts (1996 Representation Order)005 - Canada, Provinces, Territories and Forward Sortation Areas
Release date: 2019-03-03 - Table: 95F0199X1996002Description:
Series Description - The Basic Summary Tabulations Series (1996 Census of Population) provides data based on approximately 75 cross-tabulations of three or four census variables at five very detailed levels of geography. This series shows specific characteristics of the Canadian population considered either as individuals or in terms of their family or household relations, or with a characteristic pertaining to Canadian dwellings. The BSTs provide data based on a 20% sample except for Age, Sex, Marital Status and Common-law Status which are collected from a 100% sample.
These tables are available on diskette and cover all census variable information such as Demographics; Families (Number, Type and Structure); Structural Type of Dwelling and Household Size; Immigration and Citizenship; Languages (e.g. Mother Tongue); Aboriginal Origins, Ethnic Origin and Visible Minorities (Population Groups); Labour Market Activities and Household Activities (unpaid work); Place of Work and Mode of Transportation; Education; Mobility and Migration; as well as Individual and Family Income.
For ease in understanding the five levels of geography, the OLC numbers have related the last 3 digits to reflect the different geographies. See the information below.
**Under Geographic Coverage, we have listed the five geographies with OLC numbers.
BSTs ending with the following OLC #s represent:
001 - Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions002 - Census Metropolitan Areas, Tracted Census Agglomerations and Census Tracts003 - Canada, Provinces, Territories, Federal Electoral Districts (1987 Representation Order) and Enumeration Areas004 - Canada, Provinces, Territories and Federal Electoral Districts (1996 Representation Order)005 - Canada, Provinces, Territories and Forward Sortation Areas
Release date: 2019-01-14 - Table: 95-633-XDescription: This product presents selected data from the linkage between the Census of Agriculture and the Census of Population at the national and provincial levels, every five years. It provides a socioeconomic profile of the farm population (i.e., operators and their families) at the person, family and household levels, and includes variables such as age, sex, marital status, ethnicity, country of birth, mother tongue, educational attainment and income.
Agriculture–Population Linkage databases have been created quinquennially since 1971, with the exception of 1976 and 2011.
Release date: 2018-11-27
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- Journals and periodicals: 71-588-XGeography: CanadaDescription:
This series of analytical reports provides an overview of the labour market conditions among the Aboriginal off-reserve populations, based on estimates from the Labour Force Survey. These reports examine the Aboriginal labour force characteristics by Aboriginal identity, as well as diverse socio-economic and employment characteristics.
Release date: 2017-03-16 - 32. Adult correctional statistics in Canada, 2015/2016 ArchivedArticles and reports: 85-002-X201700114700Description:
This Juristat article provides a statistical overview of adults admitted to and released from custody and community supervision in Canada in 2015/2016. 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 in the correctional system (such as age, sex and Aboriginal identity) are also discussed.
Release date: 2017-03-01 - 33. Youth correctional statistics in Canada, 2015/2016 ArchivedArticles and reports: 85-002-X201700114702Description:
This Juristat article provides a statistical overview of youth under correctional supervision in Canada in 2015/2016. Analysis is presented at the national as well as the provincial and territorial levels. Average counts, intakes, admissions and the characteristics of youth in the correctional system (such as age, sex and Aboriginal identity) are discussed.
Release date: 2017-03-01 - 34. Youth correctional statistics in Canada, 2014/2015 ArchivedArticles and reports: 85-002-X201600114317Description:
This Juristat article provides a statistical overview of youth under correctional supervision in Canada in 2014/2015. Analysis is presented at the national as well as the provincial and territorial levels. Average counts, intakes, admissions and the characteristics of youth in the correctional system (such as age, sex and Aboriginal identity) are discussed.
Release date: 2016-03-22 - 35. Adult correctional statistics in Canada, 2014/2015 ArchivedArticles and reports: 85-002-X201600114318Description:
This Juristat article provides a statistical overview of adults admitted to and released from custody and community supervision in Canada in 2014/2015. 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 in the correctional system (such as age, sex and Aboriginal identity) are also discussed.
Release date: 2016-03-22 - Stats in brief: 11-627-M2016002Description:
The infographic is called Demographic Estimates, Census Metropolitan Areas – Canada, 2015 and is designed to inform readers about the latest demographic growth and aging trends at the Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) level.
Release date: 2016-02-10 - Journals and periodicals: 89-645-XGeography: CanadaDescription:
Aboriginal Statistics at a Glance provides data users with a thematic guide to Aboriginal data at Statistics Canada. It includes data for the First Nations (North American Indian), Métis, and Inuit populations. Each theme is illustrated with a chart presenting key indicators, a plain language definition of the indicator and links to related data tables and published articles to further assist users in meeting their data needs. Data sources include the 1996, 2001 and 2006 censuses of population, the 2006 Aboriginal Peoples Survey, the 2005 Canadian Community Health Survey, and the 2007/2008 Adult Correctional Services Survey.
Release date: 2015-12-24 - Articles and reports: 11F0019M2015368Description:
While an extensive literature examines the association between immigrants' characteristics and their earnings in Canada, there is a lack of knowledge regarding the relative importance of various human capital factors, such as language, work experience and education when predicting the earnings of economic immigrants. The decline in immigrant earnings since the 1980s, which was concentrated among economic immigrants, promoted changes to the points system in the early 1990s and in 2002, in large part, to improve immigrant earnings. Knowledge of the relative role of various characteristics in determining immigrant earnings is important when making such changes. This paper addresses two questions. First, what is the relative importance of observable human capital factors when predicting earnings of economic immigrants (principal applicants), who are selected by the points system? Second, does the relative importance of these factors vary in the short, intermediate, and long terms? This research employs Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB).
Release date: 2015-08-26 - 39. Full-time Employment, 1976 to 2014 ArchivedArticles and reports: 11-626-X2015049Description:
This Economic Insights article addresses three questions: (1) How has the full-time employment rate - the percentage of the population employed full time - evolved since the mid-1970s overall? (2) How has the full-time employment rate changed across age groups, education levels, sex, and regions? (3) To what extent have movements in full-time employment rates been driven by changes in the socio-demographic characteristics of Canadians and by changes in labour market participation rates, unemployment rates, and part-time employment rates?
Release date: 2015-07-09 - 40. Interprovincial Employment in Canada, 2002 to 2011 ArchivedArticles and reports: 11-626-X2015047Description:
This article in the Economic Insights series presents an overview of interprovincial paid employment over the 2002-to-2011 period. Interprovincial workers are individuals who maintain a permanent residence in a given province or territory but work in another. The results are based on Statistics Canada’s Canadian Employer-Employee Dynamics Database and pertain to employees aged 18 or older who earned at least $1,000 in 2002 dollars.
Release date: 2015-06-29
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- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-20-00032021008Description: The objective of this video is to provide an overview of a key indicator of the most basic demographic characteristics of the population - Age. This video explains the main concepts relating to age, the quantitative and qualitative aspect of the age variable and how age is used by the public and private sector to assess and meet social and business needs.Release date: 2022-04-27
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-500-X2021014Description: This reference guide provides information to help users effectively use and interpret age, sex at birth and gender 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
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-501-X2016002Description:
The Age and sex Release and concepts overview provides an overview of the concepts, definitions and key measures used in the 2016 Census of Population age and sex release, as well as the products which will be available on release day and later.
Release date: 2017-03-15 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 92-380-XDescription:
This report focuses on five demographic variables: date of birth, age, sex, marital status and common-law status. The report describes how the data were collected, verified, processed, edited and imputed. The final section covers how the data were evaluated.
Release date: 2003-10-28 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 62F0026M2002001Description:
This report describes the quality indicators produced for the 2000 Survey of Household Spending. It covers the usual quality indicators that help users interpret the data, such as coefficients of variation, non-response rates, slippage rates and imputation rates.
Release date: 2002-06-28 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 92-400-XDescription:
The new product entitled "2001 Census Standard Products Stubsets" provides detailed information about all census variables, by category. It is released on the Internet only.
This series includes six general reference products: Preview of Products and Services, Census Dictionary, Catalogue, Standard Products Stubsets, Census Handbook and Technical Reports.
Release date: 2002-06-27 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 13F0026M2001001Description:
This document briefly describes the Survey of Financial Security and presents the questionnaire used for the interview. The Survey of Financial Security (SFS) was conducted during May and June of 1999. The information was collected by personal interview, using a paper questionnaire. Introductory material was sent to the respondent prior to the first contact by the interviewer.
Approximately 23,000 dwellings were selected for the sample, most using the Labour Force Survey frame. The high-income sample was drawn from geographic areas with a larger concentration of high-income households.
The survey collected the following type of information: (1) general demographic information on all members of the family, (2) more detailed information on the education, employment, income, etc., on those family members 15 years of age and older, and, (3) asset and debt information on the family as a whole.
Release date: 2001-01-24 - 8. Labour Market and Income Data Guide ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0010XDescription:
The publication guides the user through the vast array of labour market and income data sources. It offers detailed descriptions of the various surveys, including the data collected. A summary chart gives snapshot information for comparisons.
Release date: 2000-09-13 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 92-370-XDescription:
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This series includes five general reference products - the Preview of Products and Services; the Catalogue; the Dictionary; the Handbook and the Technical Reports - as well as geography reference products - GeoSuite and Reference Maps.
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Technical Reports examine the quality of data from the 1996 Census, a large and complex undertaking. While considerable effort was taken to ensure high quality standards throughout each step, the results are subject to a certain degree of error. Each report looks at the collection and processing operations and presents results from data evaluation, as well as notes on historical comparability.
Technical Reports are aimed at moderate and sophisticated users but are written in a manner which could make them useful to all census data users. Most of the technical reports have been cancelled, with the exception of Age, Sex, Marital Status and Common-law Status, Coverage and Sampling and Weighting. These reports will be available as bilingual publications as well as being available in both official languages on the Internet as free products.
This report deals with coverage errors, which occured when persons, households, dwellings or families were missed by the 1996 Census or enumerated in error. Coverage errors are one of the most important types of error since they affect not only the accuracy of the counts of the various census universes but also the accuracy of all of the census data describing the characteristics of these universes. With this information, users can determine the risks involved in basing conclusions or decisions on census data.
Release date: 1999-12-14 - 10. Sampling and Weighting (Reference Products: Technical Reports: 1996 Census of Population) ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 92-371-XDescription:
This report deals with sampling and weighting, a process whereby certain characteristics are collected and processed for a random sample of dwellings and persons identified in the complete census enumeration. Data for the whole population are then obtained by scaling up the results for the sample to the full population level. The use of sampling may lead to substantial reductions in costs and respondent burden, or alternatively, can allow the scope of a census to be broadened at the same cost.
Release date: 1999-12-07
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