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  • Stats in brief: 11-001-X202523840207
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-08-26

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-20-00042026006
    Description: This fact sheet offers a summary of content changes for the 2026 Census specific to the following topics: labour market activities, commuting and education. The tested changes for each topic are explained, along with the resulting approach for 2026.
    Release date: 2025-07-04

  • Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025009
    Description: The infographic “From home to work: Commuting in Canada’s cities, May 2024” uses data from the May 2024 Supplement to the Labour Force Survey (Surveys and statistical programs - Labour Market Indicators) to analyze at the effects of the pandemic on commuting in many census metropolitan areas across Canada, whether by car, public transport, walking or biking.
    Release date: 2025-02-03

  • Articles and reports: 89-657-X2024006
    Description: This article looks at how the unique circumstances of 2021 that drove the increase in working from home affected English- and French-speaking workers differently in the Montréal metropolitan area and how commuting flows in this region differ by language profile.
    Release date: 2024-10-15

  • Stats in brief: 11-001-X202428937710
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-10-15

  • Articles and reports: 82-003-X202400900001
    Description: Active commuting (AC) to and from work is associated with numerous health benefits, through increased physical activity. This study examined whether occupation types and part-time work, by sex, were associated with AC in a population-based sample of Canadian workers. This study examined the associations between occupational classifications, part-time work, and AC (i.e., walking, cycling) and public transit use, in a nationally representative sample of Canadian adults, while controlling for other relevant sociodemographic characteristics (e.g., education, income, urbanity). This study also explored how associations between occupational classifications and AC differed by sex and how AC rates may have changed over time.
    Release date: 2024-09-18

  • Stats in brief: 11-001-X202423938551
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-08-26

  • Table: 98-10-0477-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census division, Census subdivision
    Frequency: Occasional
    Universe: Employed labour force aged 15 years and over in private households, 2021 Census — 25% Sample data
    Variable list: Language spoken most often at home (11), Place of work status (7)
    Description: Data on place of work status by language spoken most often at home for the employed labour force aged 15 years and over in private households in Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions, and census subdivisions.
    Release date: 2023-11-15

  • Table: 98-10-0478-01
    Geography: Census metropolitan area, Census agglomeration, Census tract
    Frequency: Occasional
    Universe: Employed labour force aged 15 years and over in private households, 2021 Census — 25% Sample data
    Variable list: Language spoken most often at home (11), Place of work status (7)
    Description: Data on place of work status by language spoken most often at home for the employed labour force aged 15 years and over in private households in census metropolitan areas, tracted census agglomerations and census tracts.
    Release date: 2023-11-15

  • Table: 98-10-0479-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census division, Census subdivision
    Frequency: Occasional
    Universe: Employed labour force aged 15 years and over having a usual place of work or no fixed workplace address, in private households, 2021 Census — 25% Sample data
    Variable list: Main mode of commuting (21), Time leaving for work (7), Commuting duration (7), Place of work status (3A)
    Description: Data on place of work status by main mode of commuting, time leaving for work, and commuting duration for employed persons aged 15 years and over, with a usual place of work or no fixed workplace address, in private households in Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions, and census subdivisions.
    Release date: 2023-11-15
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  • Stats in brief: 11-001-X202523840207
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-08-26

  • Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025009
    Description: The infographic “From home to work: Commuting in Canada’s cities, May 2024” uses data from the May 2024 Supplement to the Labour Force Survey (Surveys and statistical programs - Labour Market Indicators) to analyze at the effects of the pandemic on commuting in many census metropolitan areas across Canada, whether by car, public transport, walking or biking.
    Release date: 2025-02-03

  • Articles and reports: 89-657-X2024006
    Description: This article looks at how the unique circumstances of 2021 that drove the increase in working from home affected English- and French-speaking workers differently in the Montréal metropolitan area and how commuting flows in this region differ by language profile.
    Release date: 2024-10-15

  • Stats in brief: 11-001-X202428937710
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-10-15

  • Articles and reports: 82-003-X202400900001
    Description: Active commuting (AC) to and from work is associated with numerous health benefits, through increased physical activity. This study examined whether occupation types and part-time work, by sex, were associated with AC in a population-based sample of Canadian workers. This study examined the associations between occupational classifications, part-time work, and AC (i.e., walking, cycling) and public transit use, in a nationally representative sample of Canadian adults, while controlling for other relevant sociodemographic characteristics (e.g., education, income, urbanity). This study also explored how associations between occupational classifications and AC differed by sex and how AC rates may have changed over time.
    Release date: 2024-09-18

  • Stats in brief: 11-001-X202423938551
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-08-26

  • Articles and reports: 11-621-M2023020
    Description: This article draws on data from the Census of Population for May 2016 and May 2021 and from supplements to the Labour Force Survey for May 2022 and May 2023 to provide an updated picture of commuting in Canada.
    Release date: 2023-08-22

  • Articles and reports: 14-28-0001202300100003
    Description: In the publication Quality of Employment in Canada, the Commuting time indicator refers to the average length of time, in minutes, usually required by a person to travel to their place of work in their main job (one way). The data are for all employed persons aged 15 and over who have a usual place of work located in Canada. Employed persons who worked from home or worked outside of Canada are excluded.
    Release date: 2023-06-13

  • Stats in brief: 98-200-X2016029
    Description:

    This article in the Census in Brief series examines the proportions of commuters who used sustainable transportation (public transit, walking, cycling or carpooling) to get to work in 2016, with a focus on differences across census metropolitan areas (CMAs).

    Release date: 2017-11-29

  • Stats in brief: 11-627-M2017038
    Description:

    Based on 2016 Census data, the following infographic looks at Canadians’ average commute time, how they get to work, as well as the average commute time for those living in Canada’s largest census metropolitan areas.

    Release date: 2017-11-29
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  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-20-00042026006
    Description: This fact sheet offers a summary of content changes for the 2026 Census specific to the following topics: labour market activities, commuting and education. The tested changes for each topic are explained, along with the resulting approach for 2026.
    Release date: 2025-07-04

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-20-00032021030
    Description: This video is designed to give you a basic understanding of the commuting concepts. It will help you understand the definition of commuting, the target population of commuting questions and why commuting questions are asked. It also describes the census questions that collect data on the three subtopics of commuting.
    Release date: 2023-10-04

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-500-X2021011
    Description: This reference guide provides information to help users effectively use and interpret commuting 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: 2022-11-30

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-500-X2016011
    Description:

    This guide focuses on the following topic: journey to work. 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: 2017-11-29

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-501-X2016013
    Description:

    The Journey to work Release and concepts overview provides an overview of the concepts, definitions and key measures used in the 2016 Census of Journey to work release, as well as the products which will be available on release day and later.

    Release date: 2017-10-04

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3812
    Description: Data from this survey is used to assist in the formulation of transportation policies and planning. The survey collects data from individuals traveling to work from randomly chosen households in Canada.