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  • 1. Employment Insurance Beneficiaries in Rural and Small Town Canada: Interactive Dashboard
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024011
    Description: This dashboard is designed for users to explore current and historical counts of employment insurance beneficiaries by geography, age group, sex, and beneficiary details. This web-based application undergoes monthly updates.
    Release date: 2025-06-19
  • 2. Rural and Small Town Canada, 2023 to 2024
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025039
    Description: This infographic from the Rural Data Lab of Statistics Canada presents a visual overview of notable trends and statistical findings from select Rural and Small Town Canada data visualization tools. These tools feature recent data on topics such as population, housing, business, and access to services. The infographic highlights key observations focused on rural and small town areas.
    Release date: 2025-06-18
  • 3. Annual demographic estimates, rural and small town and functional urban areas: Interactive dashboard
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2021030
    Description: This interactive dashboard can be used to visualize the factors of population growth and how they have changed over time for rural and urban areas. The dashboard shows population, population growth, factors of population growth (natural increase, international migration, interprovincial migration, intraprovincial migration), and the proportion of the population by age group. Users can view the data by province or territory, as well as by year, age group, and rural or urban area.
    Release date: 2025-06-18
  • 4. Employment by industry in rural Canada: Interactive dashboard
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2021006
    Description: This interactive data visualization provides an overview of employment in rural Canada. The dashboard allows users to compare employment in different industries. Data can be visualized for Canada or for a selected province.
    Release date: 2025-06-10
  • 5. Business Counts in Rural and Small Town Canada: Interactive Dashboard
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024008
    Description: This dashboard is designed for users to explore current and historical counts of employer and non-employer businesses by geography, employment size and industry. This web-based application undergoes semi-annual updates.
    Release date: 2025-06-10
  • 6. Business Conditions in Rural and Small Town Canada: Interactive Dashboard
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024009
    Description: This dashboard features data from the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions. It is designed for users to explore the obstacles, expectations, and future outlook of businesses in rural and small town areas. This web-based application undergoes quarterly updates.
    Release date: 2025-06-10
  • 7. Number and Size of Communities in Rural and Small Town Canada: Interactive Dashboard
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024012
    Description: This dashboard features tables and a map designed for users to explore the number and the size of communities by different definitions of rural, including that of rural and small town (census subdivisions outside census metropolitan areas or census agglomerations) and that of rural areas (non-population centres) according to the Census of Population Program. This web-based application undergoes updates every five years with the census.
    Release date: 2025-06-10
  • 8. Rural Data Viewer
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2021023
    Description: This map viewer displays select databases relevant to rural communities and regions. It presents an interactive rural data visualization to help illustrate key information derived from statistical programs. This web application will be updated on an ad-hoc basis.
    Release date: 2025-05-05
  • 9. Police-reported crime in rural areas of the Canadian provinces, 2023
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025032
    Description: Using data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, incidents, victims, and accused persons are explored, with differences between rural and urban areas highlighted. In addition, variation between rural areas is also examined, with comparisons made between provinces, and between northern and southern regions within the provinces.
    Release date: 2025-04-29
  • 10. The outlook of rural businesses, first quarter of 2025
    Articles and reports: 21-006-X2025003
    Description: This article examines the business conditions and expectations of rural and small town businesses in Canada, with comparison to urban counterparts by industry for contextual support. Topics include business obstacles, expectations for the next year, workforce changes and other subjects from the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions, first quarter of 2025.
    Release date: 2025-03-24
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  • 1. Employment Insurance Beneficiaries in Rural and Small Town Canada: Interactive Dashboard
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024011
    Description: This dashboard is designed for users to explore current and historical counts of employment insurance beneficiaries by geography, age group, sex, and beneficiary details. This web-based application undergoes monthly updates.
    Release date: 2025-06-19
  • 2. Annual demographic estimates, rural and small town and functional urban areas: Interactive dashboard
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2021030
    Description: This interactive dashboard can be used to visualize the factors of population growth and how they have changed over time for rural and urban areas. The dashboard shows population, population growth, factors of population growth (natural increase, international migration, interprovincial migration, intraprovincial migration), and the proportion of the population by age group. Users can view the data by province or territory, as well as by year, age group, and rural or urban area.
    Release date: 2025-06-18
  • 3. Employment by industry in rural Canada: Interactive dashboard
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2021006
    Description: This interactive data visualization provides an overview of employment in rural Canada. The dashboard allows users to compare employment in different industries. Data can be visualized for Canada or for a selected province.
    Release date: 2025-06-10
  • 4. Business Counts in Rural and Small Town Canada: Interactive Dashboard
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024008
    Description: This dashboard is designed for users to explore current and historical counts of employer and non-employer businesses by geography, employment size and industry. This web-based application undergoes semi-annual updates.
    Release date: 2025-06-10
  • 5. Business Conditions in Rural and Small Town Canada: Interactive Dashboard
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024009
    Description: This dashboard features data from the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions. It is designed for users to explore the obstacles, expectations, and future outlook of businesses in rural and small town areas. This web-based application undergoes quarterly updates.
    Release date: 2025-06-10
  • 6. Number and Size of Communities in Rural and Small Town Canada: Interactive Dashboard
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024012
    Description: This dashboard features tables and a map designed for users to explore the number and the size of communities by different definitions of rural, including that of rural and small town (census subdivisions outside census metropolitan areas or census agglomerations) and that of rural areas (non-population centres) according to the Census of Population Program. This web-based application undergoes updates every five years with the census.
    Release date: 2025-06-10
  • 7. Rural Data Viewer
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2021023
    Description: This map viewer displays select databases relevant to rural communities and regions. It presents an interactive rural data visualization to help illustrate key information derived from statistical programs. This web application will be updated on an ad-hoc basis.
    Release date: 2025-05-05
  • 8. Rural Canada Housing Profiles, 2023
    Table: 45-20-00042024005
    Description: The Rural Canada Housing Profiles (RCHP) 2023 provides tables on housing in rural and small town (RST) Canada. Comprising five tables, the RCHP database addresses themes such as residential building permits; investment in residential building construction; residential property characteristics; occupied private dwelling characteristics; and private household characteristics. The tables were developed using data from several Statistics Canada programs including the Building Permits Program, Investment in Building Construction Program, Canadian Housing Statistics Program, and the 2021 Census of Population. Data are organized geographically at the following levels (where applicable): Canada, province or territory, census subdivisions (CSD), and RST area or functional urban area.
    Release date: 2025-03-11
  • 9. Rural Canada Housing Profiles: Interactive Dashboard
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2023023
    Description: This interactive dashboard provides a visual overview of selected housing indicators from the Rural Canada Housing Profiles database, including the numbers and values of residential building permits, the values of investment in residential building construction, and residential property characteristics. Data are provided at the following geographic levels (wherever applicable): Canada, province or territory, census subdivisions (CSD), and rural and small town (RST) area or functional urban area. RST areas are defined as those outside of census metropolitan areas (CMAs) or census agglomerations (CAs). Functional urban areas are those inside CMAs or CAs.
    Release date: 2025-03-11
  • 10. Rural Statistics in Canada
    Table: 45-20-0004
    Description: The publication features products and data highlights that focus on rural areas of Canada or that have a rural dimension present. Rural areas are typically areas outside of Canada's Census Metropolitan Areas (CMA) and Census Agglomerations (CA). The publication also includes explanatory notes on key concepts and definitions.
    Release date: 2025-03-11
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Analysis (137) (0 to 10 of 137 results)

  • 1. Rural and Small Town Canada, 2023 to 2024
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025039
    Description: This infographic from the Rural Data Lab of Statistics Canada presents a visual overview of notable trends and statistical findings from select Rural and Small Town Canada data visualization tools. These tools feature recent data on topics such as population, housing, business, and access to services. The infographic highlights key observations focused on rural and small town areas.
    Release date: 2025-06-18
  • 2. Police-reported crime in rural areas of the Canadian provinces, 2023
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025032
    Description: Using data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, incidents, victims, and accused persons are explored, with differences between rural and urban areas highlighted. In addition, variation between rural areas is also examined, with comparisons made between provinces, and between northern and southern regions within the provinces.
    Release date: 2025-04-29
  • 3. The outlook of rural businesses, first quarter of 2025
    Articles and reports: 21-006-X2025003
    Description: This article examines the business conditions and expectations of rural and small town businesses in Canada, with comparison to urban counterparts by industry for contextual support. Topics include business obstacles, expectations for the next year, workforce changes and other subjects from the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions, first quarter of 2025.
    Release date: 2025-03-24
  • 4. Rural and Small Town Canada Analysis Bulletin
    Journals and periodicals: 21-006-X
    Geography: Canada
    Description: This series of analytical articles provides insights on the socio-economic environment in rural communities in Canada. New articles will be released periodically.
    Release date: 2025-03-24
  • 5. Beyond urban and rural: Rethinking the social geography of Canada
    Articles and reports: 75-006-X202500200003
    Description: Using smaller-level geographic classifications and well-being data from various waves of the Canadian Social Survey, this study aims to develop a more meaningful classification system beyond the traditional ‘urban-rural’ split which is often applied to Canadian geography. More specifically, this study takes a more nuanced look at the traditional urban-rural split by disaggregating at lower levels of geography in order to better understand geographical differences for select Quality of Life indicators, namely life satisfaction and sense of belonging to local community.
    Release date: 2025-01-29
  • 6. The outlook of rural businesses, fourth quarter of 2024
    Articles and reports: 21-006-X2025001
    Description: This article examines the business conditions and expectations of rural and small town businesses in Canada, with comparison to urban counterparts by industry for contextual support. Topics include business obstacles, expectations for the next year, workforce changes and other subjects from the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions, fourth quarter of 2024.
    Release date: 2025-01-13
  • 7. Study: Enhancing data for rural Canada: Small area estimation of remote work opportunities
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202411338008
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-04-22
  • 8. Enhancing data for rural Canada: Small area estimation of remote work opportunities
    Articles and reports: 18-001-X2024001
    Description: This study applies small area estimation (SAE) and a new geographic concept called Self-contained Labor Area (SLA) to the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions (CSBC) with a focus on remote work opportunities in rural labor markets. Through SAE modelling, we estimate the proportions of businesses, classified by general industrial sector (service providers and goods producers), that would primarily offer remote work opportunities to their workforce.
    Release date: 2024-04-22
  • 9. VISTA on the Agri-food Industry and the Farm Community
    Journals and periodicals: 21-004-X
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Each issue contains a short article highlighting statistical insights on themes relating to agriculture, food and rural issues.

    Release date: 2023-11-30
  • 10. The outlook of rural businesses, second quarter of 2023
    Articles and reports: 21-006-X2023003
    Description: This article examines the business conditions and expectations of rural businesses in Canada, with comparison to urban counterparts by industry for contextual support. Topics include business obstacles, expectations for the next year, workforce changes and other subjects from the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions, second quarter of 2023.
    Release date: 2023-07-24
Reference (4)

Reference (4) ((4 results))

  • 1. Rural Canada Non-Profits Metadata and User Guide, 2020 Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 45-20-00042023002
    Description: Rural Canada Non-Profits (RCNP) is a database that provides estimates of Non-Profit Organization (NPO) counts, total revenue and total employment in Canada. This document presents the data sources, methods and classification concepts used in the production of the RCNP.
    Release date: 2023-03-03
  • 2. Living with the Farm Next Door Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 96-328-M2004005
    Description:

    This activity looks at the competing interests and potential for conflict between very large livestock farms and their rural neighbours.

    Release date: 2004-06-09
  • 3. Definitions of 'Rural' Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 21-601-M2002061
    Description: This paper compares six definitions of the word 'rural' from databases at Statistics Canada. Each definition emphasizes different criteria (population size, density, context) and has different associated thresholds. The size of the territorial units (building blocks) from which each definition is constructed also varies.
    Release date: 2002-12-23
  • 4. Definitions of Rural Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 21-006-X2001003
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    The purpose of this bulletin is to review various responses to "Why are you asking about rural populations?"; to summarize and compare alternative definitions that have been used to delineate the "rural" population within the databases at Statistics Canada; and to offer alternative definitions of "rural" that would be appropriate to each reason for asking about the rural population.

    Release date: 2001-11-19
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