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  • 21. Household characteristics, by tenure including first-time homebuyer status
    Table: 46-10-0083-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Household characteristics, including household type, age group of the reference person (the person responsible for housing decisions), employment status of the reference person, visible minority status of the reference person, and degree of difficulty for the household to meet its financial needs, by tenure including first-time homebuyer status, Canada, provinces, population centres, select census metropolitan areas (CMAs) and census agglomerations (CAs).
    Release date: 2024-09-10
  • 22. Housing indicators, by tenure including first-time homebuyer status
    Table: 46-10-0084-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Housing indicators, including dwelling characteristics (as well as condominium status and structural type of dwelling), level of dwelling and neighbourhood satisfaction reported by the reference person (the person responsible for housing decisions), reasons for moving from previous dwelling, by tenure including first-time homebuyer status, Canada, provinces, populations centres, select census metropolitan areas (CMAs) and census agglomerations (CAs).
    Release date: 2024-09-10
  • 23. Core housing need, by tenure including first-time homebuyer and social and affordable housing status
    Table: 46-10-0085-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Core housing need, by tenure including first-time homebuyer and social and affordable housing status, Canada, provinces, populations centres, select census metropolitan areas (CMAs) and census agglomerations (CAs).
    Release date: 2024-09-10
  • 24. Dimensions of core housing need, by tenure including first-time homebuyer and social and affordable housing status
    Table: 46-10-0086-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Dimensions of core housing need, by tenure including first-time homebuyer and social and affordable housing status, Canada, provinces, populations centres, select census metropolitan areas (CMAs) and census agglomerations (CAs).
    Release date: 2024-09-10
  • 25. Flows and stocks of fixed non-residential and residential capital, by sector and asset, provincial and territorial
    Table: 34-10-0163-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Quarterly
    Description: This table contains 1812 series, with data for years 2009 – 2018 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (14 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; Nova Scotia; New Brunswick;… ) Prices (3 items: Current prices; 2017 constant prices; Chained (2017) dollars) Sector (4 items: Total all sectors; Business sector; Government sector; Non-profit institutions serving households sector) Flows and stocks (3 items: Investment; Geometric depreciation; Geometric end-year net stock) Assets (7 items: Total assets; Total non-residential; Non-residential buildings; Engineering construction; ...).
    Release date: 2024-08-30
  • 26. Canadian Statistical Geospatial Explorer Hub
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2020010
    Description: The Canadian Statistical Geospatial Explorer empowers users to discover geo enabled data holdings of Statistics Canada at various levels of geography including at the neighbourhood level. Users are able to visualize, thematically map, spatially explore and analyze, export and consume data in various formats. Users can also view the data superimposed on satellite imagery, topographic and street layers.
    Release date: 2024-08-21
  • 27. Ownership type of residential property owners by residency status and number of properties owned, with the number of buyers and sale price, where available
    Table: 46-10-0030-01
    Geography: Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    Data on the number of residential property owners and their assessment value by ownership type, residency status and number of properties owned. As well as data on the number of resident buyers of properties sold in a market and a non-market sale, during the previous reference period, and data on the sale price of those properties sold in a market sale.

    Release date: 2024-08-21
  • 28. Legal type and industry of business and government owners of residential property
    Table: 46-10-0035-01
    Geography: Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    Data on the number of business and government owners of residential property, and the total assessment value of the properties they own, by legal type, industry and the number of properties owned.

    Release date: 2024-08-21
  • 29. Single and multiple residential property owners: Demographic data and value of properties owned
    Table: 46-10-0038-01
    Geography: Province or territory, Census subdivision, Census metropolitan area, Census agglomeration, Census metropolitan area part, Census agglomeration part
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Data on resident owners who are persons occupying one of their residential properties: sex, age, total income, the type and the assessment value of the owner-occupied property, as well as the number and the total assessment value of residential properties owned.
    Release date: 2024-08-21
  • 30. Total family income and characteristics of residential property owners by family type
    Table: 46-10-0051-01
    Geography: Province or territory, Census subdivision, Census metropolitan area, Census agglomeration, Census metropolitan area part, Census agglomeration part
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Data on total family income and characteristics of resident owners who are persons occupying one of their residential properties and filed their T1 tax return form: sex, age, family type and size, employment status, claimant status of the home buyers' amount for the purchase of a home and the total assessment value of residential properties owned.
    Release date: 2024-08-21
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  • 21. Housing, wealth and debt: How are young Canadians adapting to current financial and housing pressures?
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202400300004
    Description: Barriers to important milestones and traditional adulthood transitions have intensified in Canada. Sustained food inflation, elevated housing prices, and increasingly unaffordable rental costs across much of the country are casting a shadow over the middle-class dream for many households—and, in particular, for young families. This article provides an overview of household balance sheets and key financial metrics for young families as they adjust to current market conditions and begin to build financial resilience.
    Release date: 2024-03-27
  • 22. Research to Insights: Disparities in Wealth and Debt Among Canadian Households
    Stats in brief: 11-631-X2024002
    Description: The following presentation uses recently disaggregated macroeconomic accounts data to explore the contribution of housing to the accumulation of wealth and debt for Canadian families.
    Release date: 2024-02-28
  • 23. Nationally, renters report lower quality of life than homeowners
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202405037664
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-02-19
  • 24. The housing trajectories of Canadian-born racialized population groups
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202301200003
    Description: For many Canadian households, the home is the primary asset and means of wealth accumulation. This study examines the housing trajectories of Canadian-born racialized population groups at different ages and points in their lives, using 1996 to 2021 Canadian census data. Racialized groups are further disaggregated by birth cohort.
    Release date: 2023-12-21
  • 25. Shelter in the Canadian CPI: An overview, 2023 update
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2023007
    Description: This article is an overview of the treatment of Shelter in the Canadian Consumer Price Index (CPI). It describes the concepts and methodologies related to the construction of that component and briefly discusses considerations to be taken into account when using the estimates.
    Release date: 2023-12-19
  • 26. Housing Experiences in Canada: Renters who are in poverty, seniors and recent immigrants, 2021
    Articles and reports: 46-28-0001202100100025
    Description: This article about people in poverty, seniors, and recent immigrants is part of the "Housing Experiences in Canada" fact sheet series. This series focuses on housing indicators that provide information on the housing experiences of different population groups, with a focus on those identified in legislation that recognizes housing as a human right.
    Release date: 2023-11-22
  • 27. Parents and children in the Canadian housing market: Does parental property ownership increase the likelihood of homeownership for their adult children?
    Articles and reports: 46-28-0001202300100004
    Description: This study examines the likelihood of 1990s-born children to be homeowners in 2021 based on the residential property ownership status of their parents. This analysis is based on administrative data from the Canadian Housing Statistics Program for eight Canadian provinces and three Canadian territories. The homeownership rate of children is analyzed based on the number of residential properties excluding vacant land owned by their parents, with controls added for province, age, and income level.
    Release date: 2023-11-20
  • 28. Stock and consumption of fixed capital 2022
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20233203677
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2023-11-16
  • 29. A toolkit for understanding housing supply
    Articles and reports: 46-28-0001202300100003
    Description: This article draws together a variety of publicly available data sources into a toolkit of indicators that can be used by researchers, practitioners and the public to describe housing dynamics from a supply-side lens. The article then leverages this toolbox to illustrate trends in housing prices, supply and key determinants of residential construction over the past 12 years in selected census metropolitan areas (Halifax, Montréal, Ottawa–Gatineau, Toronto, Edmonton and Vancouver).
    Release date: 2023-10-25
  • 30. Survey of Household Spending 2021
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X2023291232
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2023-10-18
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  • 1. Key household indicators, 2021 Census of Population
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-20-00032021023
    Description: Data collected by the Census of Population are used to create different household indicators to help governments and organizations assess housing needs in Canada. This video focuses on six key household indicators that help governments and organizations manage the state of housing in Canada, namely, shelter costs, shelter-cost-to-income ratio, housing adequacy, housing suitability, housing affordability and core housing need.
    Release date: 2022-10-26
  • 2. Housing Characteristics Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2021
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-500-X2021005
    Description: This reference guide provides information to help users effectively use and interpret housing characteristics 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: 2022-09-21
  • 3. Introduction to housing data, 2021 Census of Population
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-20-00032021021
    Description: The objective of this video is to offer insights into housing variables and key household indicators like housing adequacy, suitability and affordability. It explains where housing questions are found on the Census of Population questionnaire, the importance of housing data and how housing data are used by governments, businesses and social service agencies.
    Release date: 2022-09-21
  • 4. Housing and dwelling characteristics, 2021 Census of Population
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-20-00032021022
    Description: This video introduces household and dwelling characteristics and their use in dissemination and analysis. It also presents the housing variables that are commonly used in analyses such as household maintainer, tenure, total income of household, household size and household type. In addition, the video shows the dwelling characteristics that describe the physical attributes of the living quarters occupied by the household, such as number of rooms, number of bedrooms, period of construction, dwelling condition, condominium status and value (owner estimated).
    Release date: 2022-09-21
  • 5. Type of Dwelling Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2021
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-500-X2021001
    Description:

    This reference guide provides information to help users effectively use and interpret type of dwelling 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
  • 6. Geographic Attribute File
    Geographic files and documentation: 92-151-X
    Description:

    The Geographic Attribute File contains information at the dissemination block level, based Census standard geographic areas. The data available include population counts, dwelling counts, and land area. In addition, the Geographic Attribute File contains higher level standard geographic codes, names and, where applicable, types and classes. Data for higher level standard geographic areas can be derived by aggregating dissemination block level data. The dissemination area representative point coordinates are also included in the Geographic Attribute File.

    Release date: 2022-02-09
  • 7. Updated content for the 2021 Census of Population: Income and expenditures, and housing Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-20-00012020005
    Description:

    This fact sheet offers a concise overview of updated—new or modified—content for the 2021 Census of Population that is specific to the theme of income and expenditures, and housing, which includes the following topics: income and expenditures, and housing. The changes considered for these topics are explained, along with the resulting approach for 2021.

    Release date: 2020-07-20
  • 8. First-time homebuyer concept: Technical reference note Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0002M2020001
    Description:

    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.

    Release date: 2020-01-15
  • 9. Core Housing Need, 2016 Census of Population
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-509-X
    Description:

    This product presents 2016 Census highlights on core housing need. Tables and a figure feature distributions, rates and multiple dimensions of core housing need from current and previous censuses for various levels of geography. A short explanation of the indicator and references to other resources as well as downloadable materials are also provided.

    Release date: 2017-11-15
  • 10. Housing Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2016
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-500-X2016005
    Description:

    This guide focuses on the following topic: housing.This reference guide provides information that enables users to effectively use, apply and interpret data from the 2016 Census. This guide contains definitions and explanations of concepts, classifications, data quality and comparability to other sources. Additional information is included for specific variables to help general users better understand the concepts and questions used in the Census.

    Release date: 2017-10-25

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