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  • 1,781. Consumer spending in urban and rural Canada Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-001-X199000325
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    In Canada, there are both similarities and differences in the way urban and rural households spend their income and these patterns have tended to persist over time.

    Release date: 1990-08-24
  • 1,782. The gift of time Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-001-X199000248
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    In 1987, the time contributed by volunteers to various organizations was the equivalent of over 500,000 full-time jobs. This study profiles volunteers and the organizations they serve.

    Release date: 1990-05-29
  • 1,783. General Social Survey Historical Database
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 8011
    Description: The Historical Database gathers the data from existing cycles of the General Social Survey (GSS) together in an easily accessed form so that researchers may follow trends in Canadian society over time.
  • 1,784. Survey of Volunteer Workers
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3806
    Description: The purpose of the survey was to basic information on volunteer workers in general, rather than focusing on the characteristics, activities, or motivations of any particular group of volunteer workers.
  • 1,785. Survey of Leisure Time Activities and Reading Habits
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3815
    Description: This survey is aimed at determining directly who reads, how much reading is done and what is read, including types of material and subject matter. Also general leisure time activity data were updated.
  • 1,786. Survey of Volunteer Activity
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3865
    Description: The objectives of this survey are to provide information on the activities of volunteers and the organizational settings in which they work.
  • 1,787. Violence Against Women Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3896
    Description: This one-time-only survey examines the safety of women both inside and outside the home - perceptions of fear, sexual harassment, sexual violence, physical violence and threats by strangers, dates/boyfriends, other known men, husbands and common-law partners.
  • 1,788. General Social Survey - Giving, Volunteering and Participating
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4430
    Description: The two primary objectives of the General Social Survey (GSS) are: - to gather data on social trends in order to monitor changes in the living conditions and well-being of Canadians over time; and - to provide information on specific social policy issues of current or emerging interest.
  • 1,789. General Social Survey - Caregiving and Care Receiving
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4502
    Description: The two primary objectives of the General Social Survey (GSS) are: to gather data on social trends in order to monitor changes in the living conditions and well being of Canadians over time; and to provide information on specific social policy issues of current or emerging interest. The purpose of this survey is to provide a snapshot of the lives of caregivers and care receivers in today's Canada.
  • 1,790. Time Use Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4503
    Description: The two primary objectives of the General Social Survey (GSS) are: to gather data on social trends in order to monitor changes in the living conditions and well-being of Canadians over time; and to provide information on specific social policy issues of current or emerging interest.
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  • 11. Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on postsecondary education of First Nations people living off reserve, Métis and Inuit
    Table: 41-10-0079-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on postsecondary education of First Nations people living off reserve, Métis and Inuit by gender and age group, population aged 15 years and over, Canada, provinces and territories.
    Release date: 2024-09-27
  • 12. 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: 2024-09-26
  • 13. 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: 2024-09-26
  • 14. 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: 2024-09-26
  • 15. Railway carloadings statistics, by total tonnage transported, monthly
    Table: 23-10-0216-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Monthly railway industry carloading statistics for intermodal and non-intermodal traffic in metric tonnes, for the period from January to the most current month of the current year, Canada, Eastern Division and Western Division.
    Release date: 2024-09-20
  • 16. Business Ownership Diversity Dashboard
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024026
    Description: 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
  • 17. Canada at a Glance
    Table: 12-581-X
    Description: 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
  • 18. Federal government COVID-19 support measures in the System of Macroeconomic Accounts, quarterly
    Table: 36-10-0687-01
    Frequency: Quarterly
    Description:

    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
  • 19. Federal government COVID-19 support measures included in subsidies on production, quarterly
    Table: 36-10-0687-02
    Frequency: Quarterly
    Description:

    This table contains payments made to business from federal government COVID-19 support measures which are treated as subsidies on production, at quarterly rates and not seasonally adjusted.

    Release date: 2024-08-30
  • 20. Federal government COVID-19 support measures included in current transfers to non-profit institutions serving households, quarterly
    Table: 36-10-0687-03
    Frequency: Quarterly
    Description:

    This table contains payments made to non-profit institutions serving households from federal government COVID-19 support measures which are treated as current transfers to non-profit institutions serving households, at quarterly rates and not seasonally adjusted.

    Release date: 2024-08-30
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  • 61. Use of Government COVID-19 Liquidity Support Programs by Immigrant-owned Businesses and Those Owned by Canadian-born Individuals
    Articles and reports: 11F0019M2024002
    Description: Immigrant-owned businesses were more likely to be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic than other businesses, as they were more concentrated in industries requiring in-person contact and were smaller in scale. To support businesses affected by the pandemic, the Government of Canada launched various COVID-19 liquidity support programs, including the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS), the Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance (CECRA), the Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy (CERS) and the Canada Emergency Business Account (CEBA). These programs were designed to help affected businesses by partially covering their main expenses, such as wages, rent and property expenses.
    Release date: 2024-03-06
  • 62. Sports: More than just a game
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2024008
    Description: This infographic focuses on sports participation, based on data from the Survey Series on People and their Communities - Sport, Workplace Culture, Political Engagement and Shared Values collected from May to July 2023. The infographic presents data for the population aged 15 years and older on sport participation rates, the most popular sports, barriers to sport participation and reasons to participate in sports. This project falls under the Disaggregated Data Action Plan (DDAP) and aims to showcase data on sports participation among racialized individuals and immigrants.
    Release date: 2024-03-05
  • 63. Discrimination and racism in sports in Canada
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202406437257
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-03-04
  • 64. Rural Statistics in Canada
    Journals and periodicals: 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: 2024-03-01
  • 65. The decline in the citizenship rate among recent immigrants to Canada: Update to 2021
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202400200002
    Description: Becoming a citizen can bring benefits to both immigrants and receiving countries. For instance, obtaining citizenship grants immigrants the right to vote and allows them to have political influence. Additionally, it can enhance immigrants’ economic opportunities. This article examines the trends in citizenship rates among recent immigrants who have been in Canada for five to nine years, based on census data from 1991 to 2021. It also examines the possible impact of COVID-19 on the most recent trend in citizenship rates.
    Release date: 2024-02-28
  • 66. Work precarity, employment characteristics and health among Canada’s long-term care and seniors’ home workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202400200001
    Description: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted several issues among health care workers in Canada’s long-term care and seniors’ (LTCS) homes, including labour shortages, staff retention difficulties, overcrowding, and precarious working conditions. There is currently a lack of information on the health, well-being, and working conditions of health care workers in LTCS homes—many of them immigrants—and a limited understanding of the relationship between them. Using data from the 2021 Survey on Health Care Workers’ Experiences During the Pandemic, this paper examines differences between immigrant and non-immigrant workers’ health outcomes and precarious working conditions during the pandemic.
    Release date: 2024-02-21
  • 67. Reported need for and access to oral health care services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202400200002
    Description: The COVID-19 pandemic interrupted routine and preventive dental services until precautions could be implemented to limit virus transmission. Access to services for dental emergencies was maintained. This study describes self-reported access to oral health care services in Canada during the first 12-month period of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the reported need for routine or emergency oral health care. It also compares the access to, and the unmet need for, dental services by various sociodemographic characteristics, including by province.
    Release date: 2024-02-21
  • 68. Nationally, renters report lower quality of life than homeowners
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202405037664
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-02-19
  • 69. Confidence in institutions and the media 2023
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202404437890
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-02-13
  • 70. Gender Results Framework: A new data table on workplace harassment
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202404337364
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-02-12
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Reference (51) (30 to 40 of 51 results)

  • 31. General Social Survey Historical Database
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 8011
    Description: The Historical Database gathers the data from existing cycles of the General Social Survey (GSS) together in an easily accessed form so that researchers may follow trends in Canadian society over time.
  • 32. Survey of Volunteer Workers
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3806
    Description: The purpose of the survey was to basic information on volunteer workers in general, rather than focusing on the characteristics, activities, or motivations of any particular group of volunteer workers.
  • 33. Survey of Leisure Time Activities and Reading Habits
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3815
    Description: This survey is aimed at determining directly who reads, how much reading is done and what is read, including types of material and subject matter. Also general leisure time activity data were updated.
  • 34. Survey of Volunteer Activity
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3865
    Description: The objectives of this survey are to provide information on the activities of volunteers and the organizational settings in which they work.
  • 35. Violence Against Women Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3896
    Description: This one-time-only survey examines the safety of women both inside and outside the home - perceptions of fear, sexual harassment, sexual violence, physical violence and threats by strangers, dates/boyfriends, other known men, husbands and common-law partners.
  • 36. General Social Survey - Giving, Volunteering and Participating
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4430
    Description: The two primary objectives of the General Social Survey (GSS) are: - to gather data on social trends in order to monitor changes in the living conditions and well-being of Canadians over time; and - to provide information on specific social policy issues of current or emerging interest.
  • 37. General Social Survey - Caregiving and Care Receiving
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4502
    Description: The two primary objectives of the General Social Survey (GSS) are: to gather data on social trends in order to monitor changes in the living conditions and well being of Canadians over time; and to provide information on specific social policy issues of current or emerging interest. The purpose of this survey is to provide a snapshot of the lives of caregivers and care receivers in today's Canada.
  • 38. Time Use Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4503
    Description: The two primary objectives of the General Social Survey (GSS) are: to gather data on social trends in order to monitor changes in the living conditions and well-being of Canadians over time; and to provide information on specific social policy issues of current or emerging interest.
  • 39. National Survey of Community Sector Organizations
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5023
    Description: The objective of this survey is to produce statistical information on the finances, human resources and challenges faced by these organizations.
  • 40. General Social Survey - Social Identity
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5024
    Description: The two primary objectives of the General Social Survey (GSS) are: to gather data on social trends in order to monitor changes in the living conditions and well-being of Canadians over time; and to provide information on specific social policy issues of current or emerging interest.

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