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  • 71. Use of thermostats
    Table: 38-10-0049-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Every 2 years
    Description: This table shows the presence of and usage characteristics of thermostats by Canadian households.The unit of measure is percent.The table is biennial.
    Release date: 2025-12-09
  • 72. Use of fertilizer and pesticides
    Table: 38-10-0052-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Every 2 years
    Description: This table shows the use of fertilizer and pesticides by Canadian households. The unit of measure is percent. The table is biennial.
    Release date: 2025-12-09
  • 73. Indoor water conservation practices
    Table: 38-10-0102-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Every 2 years
    Description: This table shows the indoor water conservation practices, Canada and provinces. The table is biennial.
    Release date: 2025-12-09
  • 74. Disposal of boxes from online purchases
    Table: 38-10-0142-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Every 2 years
    Description:

    Disposal of boxes from online purchases by Canadian households.

    Release date: 2025-12-09
  • 75. Disposal of boxes from online purchases, by household income
    Table: 38-10-0143-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Every 2 years
    Description:

    Disposal of boxes from online purchases by Canadian households, by household income.

    Release date: 2025-12-09
  • 76. Lawn care and landscaping equipment
    Table: 38-10-0148-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Every 2 years
    Description:

    Lawn care and landscaping equipment used by Canadian households.

    Release date: 2025-12-09
  • 77. Household hazardous waste
    Table: 38-10-0155-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Every 2 years
    Description:

    Presence of various types of household hazardous waste and disposal methods used in previous 12 months.

    Release date: 2025-12-09
  • 78. Trees, bushes and hedges on property
    Table: 38-10-0273-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Every 2 years
    Description: Percentage of households that had trees, bushes or hedges on their property, and whether trees were planted or cut down in the last five years. The data is from the Households and the environment survey.
    Release date: 2025-12-09
  • 79. Households and the environment survey, dwelling's main source of water
    Table: 38-10-0274-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Every 2 years
    Description: This table shows the main source of water for Canadian households, whether the household had had their water tested by a laboratory in the twelve months preceding interview and whether a problem had been found. The unit of measure is percent. The table is biennial.
    Release date: 2025-12-09
  • 80. Households and the environment survey, primary type of drinking water consumed
    Table: 38-10-0275-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Every 2 years
    Description: This table shows the primary type of drinking water consumed by Canadian households. The unit of measure is percent. The table is biennial.
    Release date: 2025-12-09
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  • 211. Controlling the Temperature in Canadian Homes Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-001-M2008006
    Description:

    Rising energy costs and environmental concerns are clear incentives for households to adopt energy conservation measures. Turning down the thermostat temperature setting at night and using programmable thermostats are two ways a household's energy consumption may be reduced. Using results from the 2006 Households and the Environment Survey, the author explores some of the demographic factors associated with these behaviours.

    Release date: 2008-09-25
  • 212. Against the flow: Which households drink bottled water? Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-002-X200800210620
    Geography: Canada
    Description: Using data from the Households and the Environment Survey, the study examines the characteristics of households drinking bottled water in the home.
    Release date: 2008-06-25
  • 213. Canadian industry's expenditures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-002-X200800210623
    Geography: Canada
    Description: This study compares businesses' greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction activities and expenditures by establishment size using data from the Survey of Environmental Protection Expenditures.
    Release date: 2008-06-25
  • 214. The Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators: On population-weighted ground-level ozone Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-002-X200800210624
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This study extends the trend analysis and builds upon the Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI) ground-level ozone indicator. It presents two additional population-weighted ground-level ozone concentration trends from 1990 to 2005.

    Release date: 2008-06-25
  • 215. Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators: Air Quality Indicators: Data Sources and Methods
    Journals and periodicals: 16-254-X
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This report presents details on the data sources and methods underlying the air quality indicators as they were reported in Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators, 2007 (16-251-XWE). The air quality indicators focus on human exposure to ground-level ozone and fine particulate matter.

    Details on the indicators reported after 2007 can be found on Environment Canada's site: &&www.ec.gc.ca/indicateurs-indicators/

    Release date: 2008-06-20
  • 216. Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Indicator: Data Sources and Methods
    Journals and periodicals: 16-255-X
    Geography: Canada
    Description: This report presents details on the data sources and methods underlying the greenhouse gas emissions indicator as it was reported in Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators, 2007 (16-251-X). The greenhouse gas indicator describes the trend in emissions and the contribution to the trend by energy production, energy consumption and other factors.

    Release date: 2008-06-20
  • 217. Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators: Freshwater Quality Indicator: Data Sources and Methods Archived
    Journals and periodicals: 16-256-X
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This report presents details on the data sources and methods underlying the freshwater quality indicator as it was reported in the Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators, 2007 (16-251-XWE). The national freshwater quality indicator provides an overall measure of the suitability of water bodies to support aquatic life in selected monitoring sites in Canada.

    Details on this indicator reported after 2007 can be found on Environment Canada's site: www.ec.gc.ca/indicateurs-indicators/

    Release date: 2008-06-20
  • 218. Climate change in Canada Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-201-X200700010542
    Geography: Canada
    Description: The article "Climate Change in Canada" begins with an explanation of the science necessary to explore this topic. It continues to examine greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, investigating the driving forces behind those emissions and how those forces may have changed over time. It illustrates some of the impacts of climate change on our land, wildlife and peoples. The article concludes with a presentation of the activities that Canadians, industry and governments are undertaking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to the changing climate, and also profiles some promising areas for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the future.
    Release date: 2008-04-22
  • 219. Disposal of household special wastes Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-002-X200800110539
    Geography: Canada
    Description: Households across the country regularly produce special wastes ranging from dead batteries to old paint containers. This study focuses on four special wastes for which information was collected in the 2006 Households and the Environment Survey' leftover or expired medication, dead batteries, old computer and communication equipment and leftover paint.
    Release date: 2008-03-27
  • 220. Is composting organic waste spreading? Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-002-X200800110540
    Geography: Canada
    Description: Diverting organic waste is one way of reducing the amount of waste being sent to landfills. Materials such as food waste and leaf and yard trimmings are often composted at home using compost bins or they are collected curbside and processed at centralized composting facilities. The study examines composting in Canada using data from the Waste Management Industry Survey and the Households and the Environment Survey.
    Release date: 2008-03-27
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  • 11. Urban greenness: Data product specifications
    Geographic files and documentation: 16-510-X2024004
    Description: This product contains specifications intended for users of the urban greenness geospatial files. This document provides important technical information for users and links to methodology.
    Release date: 2024-11-21
  • 12. Water yield: Geospatial files
    Geographic files and documentation: 16-510-X2024001
    Description: This product contains gridded datasets of annual and 30-year average estimates of water yield. Tracking water yield—an estimate of renewable water supply derived from National Water Data Archive (HYDAT) streamflow data—provides information to help understand water resources available for human use and ecosystem needs. Annual datasets are available for the years 1971 to 2021 and cover southern Canada. Thirty-year averages are available for 1971-2000, 1981-2010, and 1991-2020. They cover the terrestrial and freshwater extent of Canada, except for the Arctic Archipelago.
    Release date: 2024-09-19
  • 13. Water yield: Data product specifications
    Geographic files and documentation: 16-510-X2024002
    Description: This product contains specifications intended for users of the water yield geospatial files. This document provides important technical information for users and links to methodology.
    Release date: 2024-09-19
  • 14. Contiguously Settled Areas: Boundaries and User Documentation
    Geographic files and documentation: 16-510-X2023001
    Description: This product contains contiguously settled area (CSA) boundaries for a subset of Canadian population centres for 2010 and 2020 with user documentation. The CSA boundaries are derived from land cover data and represent the geographic extent of settled areas based on their physical footprint on the landscape. The boundaries can be used for reference, mapping and spatial analysis of settled areas and urban ecosystems. The CSA boundaries are created and maintained under the umbrella of the Census of Environment, and will support Statistics Canada's ecosystem accounting efforts.
    Release date: 2023-10-27
  • 15. Ecological Land Classification
    Classification: 12-607-X
    Description:

    The Ecological Land Classification (ELC) is Statistics Canada's official classification for ecological areas in Canada.

    The ELC was developed to enable the production of integrated statistics for ecological areas. It is a hierarchical framework that classifies ecological areas or ecosystems and that incorporates all major components of ecosystems: air, water land and biota. All boundaries in the ecological framework are matched to soil landscape polygons from the Soil Landscapes of Canada (SLC).

    There are 15 ecozones at the top of the ecological land classification hierarchy. They cover the entire terrestrial extent of Canada.

    These ecozones are subdivided into 53 ecoprovinces that contain 194 ecoregions, which can be further subdivided into 1,027 separate ecological units called ecodistricts.

    Release date: 2018-01-23
  • 16. Methodological Guide: Canadian System of Environmental-Economic Accounting
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 16-509-X
    Description: The Methodological Guide: Canadian System of Environmental-Economic Accounting provides readers with information on environmental-economic accounts at Statistics Canada. It provides links to produced data and publications and describes the concepts, sources, and methods used to compile them. Topics include ecosystem accounting, asset accounts (natural resources in physical and monetary terms), physical flow accounts (energy and water use, and waste and greenhouse gas emissions), environmental activity statistics (expenditures on environmental protection), and the applications and extensions of those accounts (attribution of physical flows to final demand and intensity measures).

    This user's guide has been developed by the Environmental Statistics Program to facilitate access to environmental-economic accounting information throughout Statistics Canada and to explain its linkage with international standards, the United Nations System of Environmental-Economic Accounting. This guide is continually being updated to maintain its relevance.

    Release date: 2016-04-22
  • 17. Environmental Statistics: Teacher’s Kits and Educational Resources
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 16-507-X
    Description:

    These educational resources provide instructors with innovative materials, lesson plans and case study assignments based on environmental statistics produced by Statistics Canada. Resources have been developed for educators at the elementary, high school and post-secondary levels.

    Curriculum links include grades 1 to 12 geography, social studies, biology, mathematics, science and economics, as well as introductory post-secondary geography and environmental science.

    Release date: 2015-09-17
  • 18. Households and the Environment Survey – Elementary level teacher’s kit Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 16-507-X2015001
    Description:

    These educational resources provide instructors with innovative material, lesson plans, handouts and assignments to accompany the 2011 Households and the Environment report (catalogue no. 11-526-X). The materials and activities were developed for Statistics Canada by Enable Education.

    Resources were developed for an elementary school audience. Curriculum links include grades 1 to 3 mathematics, social studies, science and technology, as well as arts, language arts, and health and safety.

    Release date: 2015-09-17
  • 19. Households and the Environment Survey – Secondary level teacher’s kit Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 16-507-X2015002
    Description:

    These educational resources provide instructors with innovative material, lesson plans, handouts and assignments to accompany the 2011 Households and the Environment report (catalogue no. 11-526-X). The materials and activities were developed for Statistics Canada by Enable Education.

    Resources were developed for a secondary school audience. Curriculum links include grades 9 to 12 science, business, environmental science, mathematics, with cross-curricular links to family studies, language arts, technology education and visual arts.

    Release date: 2015-09-17
  • 20. What is the value of an ecosystem? Teacher’s Kit for Human Activity and the Environment 2013: Measuring ecosystem goods and services in Canada Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 16-507-X2014001
    Description:

    These educational resources provide instructors with innovative materials, lesson plans and case study assignments to accompany the 2013 release of the Human Activity and the Environment article, “Measuring ecosystem goods and services in Canada.” The materials and activities were developed by the Critical Thinking Consortium, a non-profit, registered association of 55 educational partners—school districts, schools, teacher associations and other educational organizations.

    Resources were developed for a junior high school, senior high school and introductory post-secondary audience. Curriculum links include grades 7 to 12 geography, social studies, biology, science and economics, as well as introductory post-secondary geography and environmental science.

    Release date: 2014-09-24

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