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1. Selected indicators of quality of life in Canada
Data Visualization: 71-607-X2022007
Description: This dashboard provides an interactive view of eight indicators from the Quality of Life Framework for Canada: Life satisfaction, sense of meaning and purpose, future outlook, loneliness, someone to count on, sense of belonging to local community, perceived mental health, and perceived health. The data can be organized by province, gender and other characteristics such as age group. This dashboard is based on quarterly data from the Canadian Social Survey.
Release date: 2025-07-08
2. Hopefulness about Canadian society
Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202500500001
Description: Although national unity appears to be increasing, relatively little is known about whether this aligns with increased hopefulness about society in the future. Using data from the Survey Series on People and their Communities, this short article summarizes findings of new measures on hopefulness about society in relation to unity, as measured by respondents' feelings of connectedness to Canadians in general. A unique feature of this article is the focus on societal future outlook.
Release date: 2025-05-28
3. Unity in Canada: Experimental measures of feelings towards people with similar or different views
Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202500500004
Description: Unity and social connectedness are key to forming cohesive societies. Using the Survey Series on People and their Communities, this study focuses on six new experimental questions about respondents' feelings toward people based on whether they share similar or differing views on politics, racism and gender identity.
Release date: 2025-05-28
4. Consuming user-generated videos and its impact on wellbeing
Articles and reports: 75-006-X202500100007
Description: This study examines the characteristics and predictors of Internet users who watch user-generated videos (UGVs). It also looks at the relationship between consumption of UGVs and select quality of life indicators. It situates the activity of watching UGVs alongside other Internet activities, as well as the amount of time spent on the Internet. Finally, this study sheds light on the identified risks and benefits associated with going online to watch UGVs.
Release date: 2025-05-21
5. Beyond urban and rural: Rethinking the social geography of Canada
Articles and reports: 75-006-X202500200003
Description: Using smaller-level geographic classifications and well-being data from various waves of the Canadian Social Survey, this study aims to develop a more meaningful classification system beyond the traditional ‘urban-rural’ split which is often applied to Canadian geography. More specifically, this study takes a more nuanced look at the traditional urban-rural split by disaggregating at lower levels of geography in order to better understand geographical differences for select Quality of Life indicators, namely life satisfaction and sense of belonging to local community.
Release date: 2025-01-29
6. Quality of life indicators by census subdivision
Data Visualization: 71-607-X2025003
Description: This interactive map brings together data from 13 waves of the Canadian Social Survey to visualize six quality of life indicators at four levels of geography: province, census division, census subdivision, and census metropolitan area.
Release date: 2025-01-28
7. Charting change: How time-series data provides insights on Canadian well-being
Articles and reports: 75-006-X202400100007
Description: This study uses data from multiple waves of the Canadian Social Survey (CSS) to examine trends in three key Quality of Life indicators, namely life satisfaction, experiences of financial hardship, and future outlook. Monitoring these well-being indicators following periods of considerable social and economic change is particularly important. Beginning in the summer of 2021, the CSS, a new quarterly survey, captured the latter part of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the rising cost of living in Canada, allowing for an understanding of how Canadians are coping with these challenges.
Release date: 2024-09-13
8. Life satisfaction in Canada, 2023
Stats in brief: 11-627-M2024002
Description: The Quality of Life Framework includes indicators that are meaningful in measuring a person's happiness and well-being like life satisfaction, for instance. Using data from Wave 10 of the Canadian Social Survey (collected from July 14, 2023 to September 07, 2023), this infographic looks at levels of life satisfaction amongst the Canadian population aged 15 years and older in Canada's 10 provinces. Survey respondents were asked: "Using a scale of 0 to 10, where 0 means 'Very dissatisfied' and 10 means 'Very satisfied,' how do you feel about your life as a whole right now?"
Release date: 2024-03-20
9. Confidence in Canadian Institutions
Stats in brief: 11-627-M2023057
Description: This infographic focuses on confidence in selected institutions in Canada including the Canadian media, the Federal Parliament, the justice system and courts, the school system, and the police, as reported in the Canadian Social Survey collected from October to December 2022. The infographic displays data for the population aged 15 years and older who live in Canada's 10 provinces, showing results for the survey question "How much confidence do you have in the following institutions?" Confidence in institutions is an indicator in Canada's Quality of Life Framework.
Release date: 2023-11-14
10. Municipal Quality of Life Dashboard
Data Visualization: 71-607-X2023025
Description: This interactive dashboard presents selected quality of life indicators for Canadian municipalities. It presents the most recent data available from the Census of Population for census subdivisions.
Release date: 2023-07-14

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1. Selected indicators of quality of life in Canada
Data Visualization: 71-607-X2022007
Description: This dashboard provides an interactive view of eight indicators from the Quality of Life Framework for Canada: Life satisfaction, sense of meaning and purpose, future outlook, loneliness, someone to count on, sense of belonging to local community, perceived mental health, and perceived health. The data can be organized by province, gender and other characteristics such as age group. This dashboard is based on quarterly data from the Canadian Social Survey.
Release date: 2025-07-08
2. Quality of life indicators by census subdivision
Data Visualization: 71-607-X2025003
Description: This interactive map brings together data from 13 waves of the Canadian Social Survey to visualize six quality of life indicators at four levels of geography: province, census division, census subdivision, and census metropolitan area.
Release date: 2025-01-28
3. Municipal Quality of Life Dashboard
Data Visualization: 71-607-X2023025
Description: This interactive dashboard presents selected quality of life indicators for Canadian municipalities. It presents the most recent data available from the Census of Population for census subdivisions.
Release date: 2023-07-14
4. Ontario Material Deprivation Survey (OMDS), 2009 Public Use Microdata File
Public use microdata: 75M0012X
Description:
The Ontario Material Deprivation Survey (OMDS) was conducted on behalf of the Ontario Government. The OMDS was fielded in March and April 2009 as a supplement to the Labour Force Survey. The aim was to gauge the ability of families to satisfy basic material needs such as food, clothing, housing, as well as social needs of participation and leisure. The survey included questions about ten items deemed to be necessities, due to lack of resources, as well as questions on income. The list of ten items came from a 2008 study by the Daily Bread Food Bank of Toronto. The survey was designed to produce estimates of the incidence of missing two or more items (out of ten) for Ontario and various geographic subgroups. It was also designed to provide contextual data on demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of Ontario families and individuals.
Release date: 2010-03-31
5. Comparable Health Indicators - Canada, Provinces and Territories Archived
Table: 82-401-X
Geography: Province or territory
Description:
This Internet publication presents comparable health indicators for Canada, the provinces and territories. Indicators have been jointly selected by provincial and territorial health ministries, and Health Canada. Comparable Health Indicators address primary health care, home care, other programs and services, catastrophic drug coverage and pharmaceutical management, diagnostic and medical equipment, health human resources and healthy Canadians.
Release date: 2009-05-25
6. Aboriginal Children's Survey, 2006: Supporting Data Tables Archived
Table: 89-634-X2008005
Geography: Province or territory
Description:
A series of supporting data tables accompany the analytical article from the 2006 Aboriginal Children's Survey (ACS). These supporting data tables provide data at the provincial/regional level for Aboriginal, off-reserve First Nations, Métis and Inuit children under 6 years old for major themes covered in the analytical article: How often the child talks or plays together with different people, focusing attention on each other for five minutes or more; Feelings about home and daily life (housing conditions; support network from family, friends, or others; main job or activity; way spend free time; finances); Feelings about community (as a place with good schools, nursery schools and early childhood education programs; as a place with adequate facilities for children for example, community centres, rinks, gyms, parks; as a safe community; as a place with health facilities; as a place with actively involved members of the community; as a place with First Nations, Métis and Inuit cultural activities); Child care arrangements (percentage of children in child care; percentage of children in a child care arrangement that provides learning opportunities; percentage of children in a child care arrangement that promotes traditional and cultural values and customs); and, Percentage of children living in low-income families.
Release date: 2008-10-29
7. Participation and Activity Limitation Survey 2006: Tables (Part IV) Archived
Table: 89-628-X2008010
Description:
This fourth set of tables presents a series that examines how caring for a child with a disability influences the family unit, and more specifically, the parents who care for them. Such as household income, health and stress, employment and finances, marital relationships, and childcare arrangements.
Release date: 2008-09-25
8. National Population Health Survey - Public Use Microdata Files - Household Component Archived
Public use microdata: 82M0009X
Description:
The National Population Health Survey (NPHS) used the Labour Force Survey sampling frame to draw the initial sample of approximately 20,000 households starting in 1994 and for the sample top-up this third cycle. The survey is conducted every two years. The sample collection is distributed over four quarterly periods followed by a follow-up period and the whole process takes a year. In each household, some limited health information is collected from all household members and one person in each household is randomly selected for a more in-depth interview.
The survey is designed to collect information on the health of the Canadian population and related socio-demographic information. The first cycle of data collection began in 1994, and continues every second year thereafter. The survey is designed to produce both cross-sectional and longitudinal estimates. The questionnaires includes content related to health status, use of health services, determinants of health, a health index, chronic conditions and activity restrictions. The use of health services is probed through visits to health care providers, both traditional and non-traditional, and the use of drugs and other mediciations. Health determinants include smoking, alcohol use and physical activity. A special focus content for this cycle includes family medical history with questions about certain chronic conditions among immediate family members and when they were acquired. As well, a section on self care has also been included this cycle. The socio-demographic information includes age, sex, education, ethnicity, household income and labour force status.
Release date: 2000-12-19
9. The Cost of Independence: Socio-economic Profiles of Independent Truck Drivers Archived
Table: 53F0002X
Description:
Nearly 50,000 or one in five (22%) Canadian truck drivers on the road in 1998 were independent truckers or "owner-operators". However, similar to other forms of self-employment, the net-earnings and socio-economic characteristics of owner-operators have often been ignored by researchers for reasons of analytical convenience or data limitations. New data products recently released by Statistics Canada such as the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) have the potential to fill much of this gap. The 1997 SLID cross-sectional micro-data files offer a limited but meaningful insight into the work patterns of the owner-operator population, complementing and validating well-established business surveys such as the annual Small for-hire carrier and Owner-operator Survey (SFO). The purpose of this study, through a multivariate analysis of the 1997 SLID and the 1997 SFO survey, was to compare the work patterns and backgrounds of owner-operators to company drivers (paid truck drivers employed by carriers). The study found that while drivers may choose to be self-employed to gain independence, owner-operators tend to work longer hours to meet fixed and variable costs, in return for lower after-tax earnings and a greater likelihood of high work-life stress. The analysis also found that the odds of self-employment among truckers were highest among drivers over 40 years of age with no post-secondary training.
Release date: 2000-06-07
10. National Population Health Survey 1994-1995 Archived
Public use microdata: 82F0001X
Description:
The National Population Health Survey (NPHS) uses the Labour Force Survey sampling frame to draw a sample of approximately 22,000 households. The sample is distributed over four quarterly collection periods. In each household, some limited information is collected from all household members and one person, aged 12 years and over, in each household is randomly selected for a more in-depth interview.
The questionnaire includes content related to health status, use of health services, determinants of health and a range of demographic and economic information. For example, the health status information includes self-perception of health, a health status index, chronic conditions, and activity restrictions. The use of health services is probed through visits to health care providers, both traditional and non-traditional, and the use of drugs and other medications. Health determinants include smoking, alcohol use, physical activity and in the first survey, emphasis has been placed on the collection of selected psycho-social factors that may influence health, such as stress, self-esteem and social support. The demographic and economic information includes age, sex, education, ethnicity, household income and labour force status.
Release date: 1995-11-21

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1. Hopefulness about Canadian society
Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202500500001
Description: Although national unity appears to be increasing, relatively little is known about whether this aligns with increased hopefulness about society in the future. Using data from the Survey Series on People and their Communities, this short article summarizes findings of new measures on hopefulness about society in relation to unity, as measured by respondents' feelings of connectedness to Canadians in general. A unique feature of this article is the focus on societal future outlook.
Release date: 2025-05-28
2. Unity in Canada: Experimental measures of feelings towards people with similar or different views
Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202500500004
Description: Unity and social connectedness are key to forming cohesive societies. Using the Survey Series on People and their Communities, this study focuses on six new experimental questions about respondents' feelings toward people based on whether they share similar or differing views on politics, racism and gender identity.
Release date: 2025-05-28
3. Consuming user-generated videos and its impact on wellbeing
Articles and reports: 75-006-X202500100007
Description: This study examines the characteristics and predictors of Internet users who watch user-generated videos (UGVs). It also looks at the relationship between consumption of UGVs and select quality of life indicators. It situates the activity of watching UGVs alongside other Internet activities, as well as the amount of time spent on the Internet. Finally, this study sheds light on the identified risks and benefits associated with going online to watch UGVs.
Release date: 2025-05-21
4. Beyond urban and rural: Rethinking the social geography of Canada
Articles and reports: 75-006-X202500200003
Description: Using smaller-level geographic classifications and well-being data from various waves of the Canadian Social Survey, this study aims to develop a more meaningful classification system beyond the traditional ‘urban-rural’ split which is often applied to Canadian geography. More specifically, this study takes a more nuanced look at the traditional urban-rural split by disaggregating at lower levels of geography in order to better understand geographical differences for select Quality of Life indicators, namely life satisfaction and sense of belonging to local community.
Release date: 2025-01-29
5. Charting change: How time-series data provides insights on Canadian well-being
Articles and reports: 75-006-X202400100007
Description: This study uses data from multiple waves of the Canadian Social Survey (CSS) to examine trends in three key Quality of Life indicators, namely life satisfaction, experiences of financial hardship, and future outlook. Monitoring these well-being indicators following periods of considerable social and economic change is particularly important. Beginning in the summer of 2021, the CSS, a new quarterly survey, captured the latter part of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the rising cost of living in Canada, allowing for an understanding of how Canadians are coping with these challenges.
Release date: 2024-09-13
6. Life satisfaction in Canada, 2023
Stats in brief: 11-627-M2024002
Description: The Quality of Life Framework includes indicators that are meaningful in measuring a person's happiness and well-being like life satisfaction, for instance. Using data from Wave 10 of the Canadian Social Survey (collected from July 14, 2023 to September 07, 2023), this infographic looks at levels of life satisfaction amongst the Canadian population aged 15 years and older in Canada's 10 provinces. Survey respondents were asked: "Using a scale of 0 to 10, where 0 means 'Very dissatisfied' and 10 means 'Very satisfied,' how do you feel about your life as a whole right now?"
Release date: 2024-03-20
7. Confidence in Canadian Institutions
Stats in brief: 11-627-M2023057
Description: This infographic focuses on confidence in selected institutions in Canada including the Canadian media, the Federal Parliament, the justice system and courts, the school system, and the police, as reported in the Canadian Social Survey collected from October to December 2022. The infographic displays data for the population aged 15 years and older who live in Canada's 10 provinces, showing results for the survey question "How much confidence do you have in the following institutions?" Confidence in institutions is an indicator in Canada's Quality of Life Framework.
Release date: 2023-11-14
8. Preparing for weather-related emergencies in Canada Archived
Stats in brief: 11-627-M2023028
Description: This infographic presents data on level of concern about the risk of and steps taken to prepare for a weather-related emergency or natural disaster, of people living in Canada. This infographic is based on responses to the questions: "How concerned are you about the risk of a weather-related emergency or natural disaster affecting your household?" and "In the past 12 months, have you [or has someone in your household] taken steps to prepare in the event of a weather-related emergency or natural disaster affecting your household?" which were included in wave 7 of the Canadian Social Survey collected from October to December 2022. Results for level of concern and steps taken are shown for the ten provinces in Canada as well as for households able to cover an unexpected $500 expense or not.
Release date: 2023-06-01
9. Trust in neighbours Archived
Stats in brief: 11-627-M2023022
Description: Trust in others is an indicator in the Quality of Life Framework for Canada. The data presented in this infographic were collected during wave 5 of the Canadian Social Survey, which was conducted from April to June 2022. This infographic focuses specifically on trust in neighbours, based on responses to the question “How many people do you trust in your neighbourhood?”, where the response categories included “Most of the people,” “Many of the people,” “A few of the people” and “Nobody.” Results are presented according to selected demographic characteristics, including gender and age group. This infographic also shows how Canadians’ life satisfaction and sense of belonging to their local community vary in relation to how many neighbours they trust.
Release date: 2023-04-19
10. Statistics Canada’s Quality of Life Statistics Program: April 2021 to March 2023
Articles and reports: 75F0002M2023001
Description: This discussion paper describes the work being achieved and undertaken by Statistics Canada, in partnership with the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, the Department of Finance Canada and the Privy Council Office, on developing the Quality of Life Framework for Canada and related outputs, including an online Hub. This is the first paper in a series that will provide updates on the progress of work relating to the Framework.
Release date: 2023-04-19

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1. Infrastructure Capital: What Is It? Where Is It? How Much of It Is There? Archived
Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 15-206-X2008016
Description: This paper focuses on the role of investments in infrastructure in Canada. The size of infrastructure investments relative to other capital stock sets this country apart from most other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries. The paper reviews the approaches taken by other researchers to define infrastructure. It then outlines a taxonomy to define those assets that should be considered as infrastructure and that can be used to assess the importance of different types of capital investments. It briefly considers how to define the portion of infrastructure that should be considered 'public'. The final two parts of the paper apply the proposed classification system to data on Canada's capital stock, and ask the following questions: how much infrastructure does Canada have and in which sectors of the economy is this infrastructure located? Finally, the paper investigates how Canada's infrastructure has evolved over the last four decades, both in the commercial and non-commercial sectors, and compares these trends with the pattern that can be found in the United States.
Release date: 2008-03-12
2. Key Indicators in Canada Archived
Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 11F0027M2005037
Description:
In recent years there has been considerable international interest in key indicators. This paper surveys recent Canadian attempts to develop key indicators of economic, social, environmental or physical well-being. It classifies and discusses over forty such projects and publications in detail; briefly lists a further twenty projects; and provides references to a number of up-to-date surveys and annotated bibliographies which contain additional examples of indicator development in Canada. The paper provides information on a number of research centres working on indicator development and discusses international indicators which are relevant to the Canadian scene, either because they represent 'rototypes' of some particular kind of measure, or else might be regarded as constituting 'best practice' in an area. The paper also examines the motivations behind indicator development and seeks to address the question of whether efforts to extend measurement outside the economic field constitute attempts to "measure the unmeasurable".
Release date: 2005-11-30
3. What Is "Sustainable" Agriculture? Archived
Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 96-328-M2004017
Description:
This activity focusses on the concept of sustainability as it applies to agriculture. To fully understand the concept of sustainability, we need to understand all aspects of it: environmental, economic and social sustainability.
Release date: 2004-10-29

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