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  • 1. Quarterly rent statistics second and third quarters 2025
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202533636909
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-12-02
  • 2. Distributions of household economic accounts for income, consumption, saving and wealth of Canadian households second quarter 2025
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202528215681
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-10-09
  • 3. Renters’ shelter costs by duration of tenancy
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202500800003
    Description: Renters’ shelter costs can vary substantially by duration of tenancy. Renters who recently moved into their dwelling can pay substantially more than longstanding renters. This tenure-based discrepancy in rents paid can have important implications in terms of affordability and residential mobility. This study sheds light on trends in shelter cost differences by duration of tenancy from 1996 to 2021, and how this gap in rental costs between recent renters and longer-term renters varies across municipalities and neighbourhoods.
    Release date: 2025-08-27
  • 4. Household Expenditures Research Paper Series
    Journals and periodicals: 62F0026M
    Description: This series provides detailed documentation on the issues, concepts, methodology, data quality and other relevant research related to household expenditures from the Survey of Household Spending, the Homeowner Repair and Renovation Survey and the Food Expenditure Survey.
    Release date: 2025-05-21
  • 5. Survey of Household Spending 2023
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X2025141232
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-05-21
  • 6. How Canadian households spent their money in 2023
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025026
    Description: This infographic highlights some results from the 2023 Survey of Household Spending, such as how much Canadian households spent on various categories of goods and services and how it differed from 2021 and 2019.
    Release date: 2025-05-21
  • 7. Impacts of rising costs and claims on personal automobile insurance profitability and consumers in Canada
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2025003
    Description: This study delves into the contributing claims and cost factors that have impacted the premiums consumers pay for auto insurance and the financial pressures insurers face. The engine type, brand name, and location of the vehicle have contributed, in addition to the overall rising cost of repairs, parts, and the vehicles themselves. Coverage types, and provincial regulation have also impacted both insurers and consumers alike, disproportionally impacting certain provinces. Claims severity impacted by the aforementioned as well as thefts and extreme weather, have contributed to the fact that owning a vehicle and insuring a vehicle has become more costly since 2020.
    Release date: 2025-04-02
  • 8. Study: Impacts of rising costs and claims on personal automobile insurance profitability and consumers in Canada January 2020 to December 2024
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202509239562
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-04-02
  • 9. RRSP, TFSA and FHSA Contributions 2023
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20250913548
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-04-01
  • 10. Research to Insights: Perspectives on Affordability and Inequality
    Stats in brief: 11-631-X2025001
    Description: This presentation highlights data and analysis conducted at Statistics Canada that underscores the affordability challenges facing Canadian households during the period of high inflation that followed the COVID-19 pandemic. It draws on recent data from Statistics Canada’s Distribution of Household Economic Accounts, the Survey of Financial Security and the Canadian Social Survey.
    Release date: 2025-01-22
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  • 1. User Guide for the Survey of Household Spending, 2023
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 62F0026M2025001
    Description: This guide presents information of interest to users of data from the Survey of Household Spending (SHS). It includes descriptions of the survey terms and variables definitions as well as of the survey methodology and data quality. The guide also includes a section describing various examples of estimates that can be drawn from the survey data.
    Release date: 2025-05-21
  • 2. User Guide for the Survey of Household Spending, 2021
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 62F0026M2023001
    Description: This guide presents information of interest to users of data from the Survey of Household Spending (SHS). It includes descriptions of the survey terms and variables definitions as well as of the survey methodology and data quality. The guide also includes a section describing various examples of estimates that can be drawn from the survey data.
    Release date: 2023-10-18
  • 3. 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
  • 4. User Guide for the Survey of Household Spending, 2019 Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 62F0026M2021001
    Description: This guide presents information of interest to users of data from the Survey of Household Spending (SHS). It includes descriptions of the survey terms and variables definitions as well as of the survey methodology and data quality. The guide also includes a section describing various examples of estimates that can be drawn from the survey data.
    Release date: 2021-01-22
  • 5. User Guide for the Survey of Household Spending, 2017 Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 62F0026M2018001
    Description:

    This guide presents information of interest to users of data from the Survey of Household Spending (SHS). It includes descriptions of the survey terms and variables definitions as well as of the survey methodology and data quality. The guide also includes a section describing various examples of estimates that can be drawn from the survey data.

    Release date: 2018-12-12
  • 6. Survey of Household Spending Technical Note, 2017 Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 62F0026M2018002
    Description:

    The Survey of Household Spending (SHS) conducted by Statistics Canada collects detailed spending information as well as selected information on dwelling characteristics and household equipment. This technical note provides additional information on the quality of the SHS data and their fitness for use.

    Release date: 2018-12-12
  • 7. User Guide for the Survey of Household Spending, 2016 Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 62F0026M2017002
    Description:

    This guide presents information of interest to users of data from the Survey of Household Spending (SHS). It includes descriptions of the survey terms and variables definitions as well as of the survey methodology and data quality. The guide also includes a section describing various examples of estimates that can be drawn from the survey data.

    Release date: 2017-12-13
  • 8. User Guide for the Survey of Household Spending, 2015 Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 62F0026M2017001
    Description:

    This report describes the quality indicators produced for the 2015 Survey of Household Spending. These quality indicators, such as coefficients of variation, nonresponse rates, slippage rates and imputation rates, help users interpret the survey data.

    Release date: 2017-01-27
  • 9. User Guide for the Survey of Household Spending, 2014 Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 62F0026M2016001
    Description:

    This report describes the quality indicators produced for the 2014 Survey of Household Spending. These quality indicators, such as coefficients of variation, nonresponse rates, slippage rates and imputation rates, help users interpret the survey data.

    Release date: 2016-02-12
  • 10. User Guide for the Survey of Household Spending, 2013 Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 62F0026M2015001
    Description:

    This report describes the quality indicators produced for the 2013 Survey of Household Spending. These quality indicators, such as coefficients of variation, nonresponse rates, slippage rates and imputation rates, help users interpret the survey data.

    Release date: 2015-01-22

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