Society and community
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0.1%(quarterly change)
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2.8 million jobs0.8%(quarterly change)
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Percentage of total gross domestic product attributable to non-profit institutions - Canada
(Fourth quarter 2023)8.3%
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- Stats in brief: 11-001-X20242613665Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2024-09-17
- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2021023Description:
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: 2024-09-17 - Table: 18-10-0004-01Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census subdivision, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area partFrequency: MonthlyDescription:
Monthly indexes for major components and special aggregates of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), not seasonally adjusted, for Canada, provinces, Whitehorse, Yellowknife and Iqaluit. Data are presented for the current month and previous four months. The base year for the index is 2002=100.
Release date: 2024-09-17 - Stats in brief: 11-001-X20242603628Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2024-09-16
- Table: 16-10-0047-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: MonthlyDescription:
Monthly Canadian manufacturers' sales, new orders, unfilled orders, raw materials, goods or work in process, finished goods, total inventories, inventory to sales ratios and finished goods to sales ratios for durable and non-durable goods by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), in dollars unless otherwise noted. Unadjusted and seasonally adjusted values available from January 1992 to the current reference month.
Release date: 2024-09-16 - Articles and reports: 75-006-X202400100007Description: This study uses data from multiple waves of the Canadian Social Survey (CSS) to examine trends in three key Quality of Life indicators, namely life satisfaction, experiences of financial hardship, and future outlook. Monitoring these well-being indicators following periods of considerable social and economic change is particularly important. Beginning in the summer of 2021, the CSS, a new quarterly survey, captured the latter part of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the rising cost of living in Canada, allowing for an understanding of how Canadians are coping with these challenges.Release date: 2024-09-13
- Stats in brief: 11-627-M2024033Description: This infographic examines declines in Canadians’ well-being over the past few years, and how these downward changes vary across different segments of the population. Life satisfaction, financial difficulty, and future outlook, which are key quality of life indicators, are presented.Release date: 2024-09-13
- Journals and periodicals: 75-006-XGeography: CanadaDescription: This publication brings together and analyzes a wide range of data sources in order to provide information on various aspects of Canadian society, including labour, income, education, social, and demographic issues, that affect the lives of Canadians.Release date: 2024-09-13
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202425738424Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2024-09-13
- Table: 33-10-0398-01Geography: Population centreFrequency: WeeklyDescription:
The RT-LBCI is released as an experimental statistic. It is intended to provide a real-time signal on business activities following the disruptions brought about by the pandemic and through the recovery phase.
Release date: 2024-09-13
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- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2021023Description:
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: 2024-09-17 - Table: 18-10-0004-01Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census subdivision, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area partFrequency: MonthlyDescription:
Monthly indexes for major components and special aggregates of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), not seasonally adjusted, for Canada, provinces, Whitehorse, Yellowknife and Iqaluit. Data are presented for the current month and previous four months. The base year for the index is 2002=100.
Release date: 2024-09-17 - Table: 16-10-0047-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: MonthlyDescription:
Monthly Canadian manufacturers' sales, new orders, unfilled orders, raw materials, goods or work in process, finished goods, total inventories, inventory to sales ratios and finished goods to sales ratios for durable and non-durable goods by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), in dollars unless otherwise noted. Unadjusted and seasonally adjusted values available from January 1992 to the current reference month.
Release date: 2024-09-16 - Table: 33-10-0398-01Geography: Population centreFrequency: WeeklyDescription:
The RT-LBCI is released as an experimental statistic. It is intended to provide a real-time signal on business activities following the disruptions brought about by the pandemic and through the recovery phase.
Release date: 2024-09-13 - Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024026Description: The Business Ownership Diversity Dashboard allows users to examine the distribution of businesses in Canada by equity and diversity indicators and by business variable dimensions. Equity and diversity indicators include visible minority status, age, immigrant status, Indigenous group, and gender. Business variable dimensions include the location of business operations, revenue size, business size (number of employees), and industry sector.Release date: 2024-09-12
- Table: 14-10-0287-03Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription: Number of persons in the labour force (employment and unemployment), unemployment rate, participation rate and employment rate by province, sex and age group. Data are presented for 12 months earlier, previous month and current month, as well as year-over-year and month-to-month level change and percentage change. Data are also available for the standard error of the estimate, the standard error of the month-to-month change and the standard error of the year-over-year change.Release date: 2024-09-06
- Table: 14-10-0289-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: MonthlyDescription: Number of employed persons by actual hours worked at main job and North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), last 5 months. Data are also available for the standard error of the estimate, the standard error of the month-to-month change and the standard error of the year-over-year change.Release date: 2024-09-06
- Table: 12-581-XDescription: Canada at a Glance presents current statistics on Canadian society, including subjects such as the population, education, health, prices and the economy, among others. Updated yearly, this booklet is a very useful reference for those who want quick access to a current statistical portrait of Canada.Release date: 2024-09-04
- Table: 36-10-0434-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: MonthlyDescription: Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at basic prices, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) aggregates, by Industry, volume measures, monthly, 5 most recent time periods.Release date: 2024-08-30
- Table: 36-10-0687-01Frequency: QuarterlyDescription:
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government of Canada implemented various support and recovery measures to support the Canadian economy. This table presents the major programs (e.g. Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy, Canada Emergency Response Benefit, etc.) within the System of Macroeconomic Accounts. The data are at quarterly rates and are not seasonally adjusted.
Release date: 2024-08-30
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- 1,161. Rural roots ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X20000035375Geography: CanadaDescription:
For some time, concerns have been raised about the movement of young people away from rural areas, mainly to find work. This article provides information on the extent to which youths stay, leave or return to rural communities. (Adapted from a recently published analytical report.)
Release date: 2000-09-06 - Articles and reports: 11F0019M2000140Geography: CanadaDescription:
The correlation of occupational gender composition and wages is the basis of pay equity/comparable worth legislation. A number of previous studies have examined this correlation in US data, identifying some of the determinants of low wages in "female jobs", as well as important limitations of public policy in this area. There is little evidence, however, from other jurisdictions. This omission is particularly disturbing in the case of Canada, which now has some of the most extensive pay equity legislation in the world. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive picture, circa the late 1980's, of the occupational gender segregation in Canada and its consequences for wages. We also draw explicit comparisons of our findings to evidence for the United States. We find that the link between female wages and gender composition is much stronger in the United States than in Canada, where it is generally small and not statistically significant. The relatively more advantageous position of women in female jobs in Canada is found to be linked to higher unionization rates and the industry-wage effects of "public goods" sectors.
Release date: 2000-09-05 - 1,163. Rural Youth: Stayers, Leavers and Return Migrants ArchivedArticles and reports: 11F0019M2000152Geography: CanadaDescription:
There has been for some time substantial concern regarding the loss of young people in rural communities. There is a sense that most rural communities offer few opportunities for their younger people, requiring them to leave for urban communities, most likely not to return. While there is a considerable body of research on interprovincial migration, relatively little is currently known about migration patterns in rural and urban areas in Canada.
According to our analysis, in virtually all provinces young people 15 to 19 years of age are leaving rural areas in greater proportions than urban areas - in part to pursue post-secondary education. While there are more complex migration patterns affecting the 20-29 age group, the net result of all migration is that the Atlantic provinces - as well as Manitoba and Saskatchewan - are net losers of their rural population aged 15-29. The problem is particularly acute in Newfoundland. In the Atlantic provinces, rural areas which fare worse than the national average - in terms of net gains of youth population - do so not because they have a higher than average percentage of leavers but rather because they are unable to attract a sufficiently high proportion of individuals into their communities.
Of all individuals who move out of their rural community, at most 25% return to this community ten years later. The implication of this result is clear: one cannot count on return migration as a means of preserving the population size of a given cohort. Rather, rural areas must rely on inflows from other (urban) areas to achieve this goal. Some rural communities achieve this; that is, they register positive net in-migration of persons aged 25-29 or older, even though they incur a net loss of younger people.
Individuals who move out of rural areas generally experience higher earnings growth than their counterparts who stay. However, it remains an open question in which direction the causality works: is the higher earnings growth the result of the migration process itself or does it reflect the possibility that people with higher earnings growth potential are more likely to become movers?
Release date: 2000-09-05 - 1,164. Community involvement: The influence of early experience ArchivedArticles and reports: 11-008-X20000015087Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article considers the degree to which organized activities in youth may influence community involvement in adulthood.
Release date: 2000-06-13 - 1,165. The other side of the fence ArchivedArticles and reports: 11-008-X20000015088Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article asks whether we talk to our neighbours and how often we do so. It focuses on the role that housing type, family life cycle and place of residence may play in neighbourhood interaction.
Release date: 2000-06-13 - Articles and reports: 11-008-X20000015089Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article examines the time parents spend with their children in families where both mother and father are employed full-time.
Release date: 2000-06-13 - 1,167. Distinguishing Characteristics of Active Volunteers in Canada ArchivedArticles and reports: 75F0033M2000002Geography: CanadaDescription:
This report summarizes a study conducted to identify distinctive traits shared by active volunteers in Canada.
Release date: 2000-05-29 - 1,168. Voluntary Organizations in Ontario in the 1990s ArchivedArticles and reports: 75F0033M2000001Geography: Province or territoryDescription:
This report summarizes a study that was undertaken to ascertain the state of the voluntary sector in Ontario.
Release date: 2000-05-15 - 1,169. Youth volunteering on the rise ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X20000014888Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article reveals what types of volunteer organizations attract young people, and considers some factors that may have encouraged growth in youth volunteering, including changes in the labour market.
Release date: 2000-03-08 - Articles and reports: 21-601-M1996030Description:
This paper looks at trends in rural employment in Canada and compares them with trends for other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries.
Release date: 2000-01-14
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- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 92-397-XDescription:
This report covers concepts and definitions, the imputation method and data quality for this variable. The 2001 Census collected information on three types of unpaid work performed during the week preceding the Census: looking after children, housework and caring for seniors. The 2001 data on unpaid work are compared with the 1996 Census data and with the data from the General Social Survey (use of time in 1998). The report also includes historical tables.
Release date: 2005-01-11 - 22. Living with the Farm Next Door ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 96-328-M2004005Description:
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 - 23. 2001 Census Religion User Guide ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 92-402-GDescription:
This guide provides general information on the concept of religion in the census and to the evolution of the religion question over the past 100 years. The guide discusses the religion classification used in the 1991 and 2001 Censuses and various products of the 2001 Census.
Release date: 2004-03-25 - 24. Definitions of 'Rural' ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 21-601-M2002061Description:
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 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0048M2002001Geography: CanadaDescription:
This report contains both inventory of and guide to sources of publicly available data on the nonprofit sector in Canada and a discussion of the characteristics and limitations of these data.
Release date: 2002-03-21 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 12-584-GDescription:
This book introduces technical aspects of the Statistics Canada Total Work Accounts System (TWAS). The TWAS is designed to facilitate the analysis of issues that require simultaneous consideration of both paid work and unpaid productive work. Its key contribution is to allocate the deemed output of each episode of unpaid work activity to a specific beneficiary or group of beneficiaries (called "destinations"). The guide presents the criteria used to decide the allocation of each work episode to one of the destinations, as well as the pseudo code for DESTIN, the key variable of the System. This pseudo code allows programmers to quickly create the actual programming code needed to derive the DESTIN variable in their own microdata files of diary-based time-use records. The guide also discusses illustrative applications of the System, as well as its key limitations.
Release date: 2002-02-12 - 27. Definitions of Rural ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 21-006-X2001003Geography: CanadaDescription:
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 - 28. Societal Indicators ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 89F0123XDescription:
This web page contains examples of societal indicators identified in Managing for results, 1999 tabled in Parliament by the President of the Treasury Board of Canada. Information on societal trends is provided on three clusters of societal indicators: health, environment and physical security; economic opportunity and participation; and social participation and inclusion.
Release date: 2001-01-23 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0033M2000003Geography: CanadaDescription:
This report provides an overview of an inventory of publicly available data on the nonprofit sector.
Release date: 2000-06-12 - 30. On Poverty and Low Income ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 13F0027XDescription:
Recently there has been extensive and recurring media coverage of Statistics Canada's low income cut-offs and their relationship to the measurement of poverty. At the heart of the debate is the use of the low income cut-offs as poverty lines even though Statistics Canada has clearly stated, since their publication began over 25 years ago, that they are not. The high profile recently given this issue has presented Statistics Canada with a welcome opportunity to restate its position on these issues, views which seem to have become lost in the debate.
Release date: 1999-04-01
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