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  • 1. 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
  • 2. 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
  • 3. 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
  • 4. 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
  • 5. 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
  • 6. 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
  • 7. Impacts of rising prices on the well-being of Indigenous people 2024
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202501737690
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-01-17
  • 8. Estimation of Energy Poverty Rates Using the 2021 Census of Population
    Articles and reports: 46-28-0001202400100001
    Description: This report examines the energy poverty rates using the data from the 2021 Census. It presents the energy poverty rates by various dwelling and household characteristics. It examines the how energy poverty rates change when indirect payments for dwelling energy are estimated and included in the definition.
    Release date: 2024-02-20
  • 9. How Canadians spent their money in 2021 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2023056
    Description: This infographic highlights some results from the 2021 Survey of Household Spending, such as how much Canadian households spent on various categories of goods and services and how it differed from 2019. It also presents the effect that the COVID-19 pandemic had on expenses for pets, bicycles, home mortgages, recreational services and travel in 2021. Finally, it shows how spending on Internet services in Whitehorse and Yellowknife has changed since 2019.
    Release date: 2023-10-18
  • 10. Estimating Expenditures on Children by Families in Canada, 2014 to 2017
    Articles and reports: 11F0019M2023007
    Description: Caring for children is among the key functions of families and the larger society. In Canada, the question of affordability issues for families with children has become an increasingly important area of public policy. Also, information on the monetary cost of meeting children’s needs for food, shelter, clothing, health care, and education is important for family planning and budgeting decisions made by people raising children.
    Release date: 2023-09-29
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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. User Guide for the Survey of Household Spending, 2019
    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
  • 4. 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
  • 5. 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
  • 6. 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
  • 7. 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
  • 8. 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
  • 9. User Guide for the Survey of Household Spending, 2012 Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 62F0026M2014001
    Geography: Province or territory
    Description:

    This report describes the quality indicators produced for the 2012 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: 2014-01-29
  • 10. User Guide for the Survey of Household Spending, 2011 Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 62F0026M2013001
    Geography: Province or territory
    Description:

    This report describes the quality indicators produced for the 2011 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: 2013-01-30

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