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- Journals and periodicals: 96-325-XGeography: CanadaDescription: This publication features short and accessible analytical articles that delve further into key findings and emerging trends identified in Census of Agriculture and other data sources related to agriculture. Subjects of analysis include matters related to farm land, crops, livestock, farm finances, technology, the environment and the farm population, as well as other economic and social aspects of Canada’s agriculture industry. Analytical articles are written in plain language and are intended to be a valuable source of information for a broad audience, including policy analysts, students, researchers, agricultural operators, the media and the public at large.Release date: 2024-03-07
- Articles and reports: 96-325-X202100100020Description: Indigenous Peoples are an integral part of the farm population and have been contributing to the agricultural landscape of what is now Canada for many centuries before the arrival of settlers. This article provides a socioeconomic portrait of the Indigenous farm population, touching on population changes, gender, age, education, type of farming activity and income.Release date: 2024-03-07
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 32-26-0007Description: Census of Agriculture data provide statistical information on farms and farm operators at fine geographic levels and for small subpopulations. Quality evaluation activities are essential to ensure that census data are reliable and that they meet user needs. This report provides data quality information pertaining to the Census of Agriculture, such as sources of error, error detection, disclosure control methods, data quality indicators, response rates and collection rates.Release date: 2024-02-06
- Articles and reports: 96-325-X202100100019Description: Goats are raised to produce dairy, meat, fibre and skin products. The demand for these products has risen over time in Canada. Results from the Census of Agriculture show that despite a decline in the number of farms reporting goats, the overall number of goats reported on farms in Canada has significantly increased over the last 30 years—largely because of increases in Ontario, where the greatest share of goats has been reported.Release date: 2024-01-30
- Articles and reports: 96-325-X202100100018Description: The gender pay gap is a longstanding issue that exists in various industries across Canada, including the agricultural sector. This article provides analysis on the gender pay gap among Canada’s farm operators over time and explores the gender pay gap in 2020 by geography, farm type, revenue class, level of education, field of study, racialized group and population centre.Release date: 2023-12-08
- Articles and reports: 96-325-X202100100017Description: This article provides insights on the ethnocultural diversity of farm operators, according to various socioeconomic characteristics, such as racialized group or Indigenous self-identification, mother tongue, place of birth, immigrant status, gender, age, educational attainment, farm type, and revenue class.Release date: 2023-10-27
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 32-26-0006Description: This report provides data quality information pertaining to the Agriculture–Population Linkage, such as sources of error, matching process, response rates, imputation rates, sampling, weighting, disclosure control methods and data quality indicators.Release date: 2023-08-25
- Stats in brief: 11-627-M2023042Description: This infographic looks at the educational attainment of farm operators by field of study, gender and age group. The main data source for this product is the 2021 Agriculture–Population Linkage (linkage between the Census of Agriculture and the Census of Population).Release date: 2023-08-25
- Stats in brief: 11-627-M2023043Description: This infographic looks at various aspects of the immigrant farm population, including mother tongue and places of birth. The main data source for this product is the 2021 Agriculture–Population Linkage (linkage between the Census of Agriculture and the Census of Population).Release date: 2023-08-25
- Stats in brief: 11-627-M2023044Description: This infographic looks at the distribution of the Canadian farm population by province, area (rural vs urban), median household income and farm type. The main data source for this product is the 2021 Agriculture–Population Linkage (linkage between the Census of Agriculture and the Census of Population).Release date: 2023-08-25
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- Table: 32-10-0402-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: Every 5 yearsDescription: Agriculture–Population Linkage, 2021. Farms classified by operating arrangement and household income class.Release date: 2023-08-25
- Table: 32-10-0450-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: Every 5 yearsDescription: Agriculture–Population Linkage, 2021. Farm population households classified by major source of income and income class.Release date: 2023-08-25
- Table: 32-10-0451-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: Every 5 yearsDescription: Agriculture–Population Linkage, 2021. Census families and economic families in the farm population classified by size.Release date: 2023-08-25
- Table: 32-10-0455-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: Every 5 yearsDescription: Agriculture–Population Linkage, 2021. Census families and economic families in the farm population classified by farm type and share of family income earned by operators. Farm type is based on the North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS).Release date: 2023-08-25
- Thematic map: 95-634-XDescription: These static thematic maps provide the spatial density distribution of specific Census of Agriculture data themes by census division (CD). The data portrayed in these maps may be qualitative (e.g., predominant farm types) or quantitative (e.g., livestock inventory variation between the last two censuses).
This product is provided in printable format.
Release date: 2022-12-23 - Thematic map: 95-634-X202100100001Description: These static thematic maps provide the spatial density distribution of specific Census of Agriculture data themes by census division (CD). The data portrayed in these maps may be qualitative (e.g., predominant farm types) or quantitative (e.g., livestock inventory variation between the last two censuses).
This product is provided in printable format.
Release date: 2022-12-23 - Data Visualization: 32-26-0003Description: The Census of Agriculture Mapping Tool is a user-friendly interactive web mapping application that allows for a quick visualization of the spatial distribution of Census of Agriculture data, for any census year since 2016. Users can select census variables for viewing at four geographic levels: province or territory, census agricultural region (CAR), census division (CD) and census consolidated subdivision (CCS).
Notes: A reference guide for this product is available from within the tool (follow the link below).
Release date: 2022-12-19 - Table: 32-10-0384-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: Every 5 yearsDescription:
Census of Agriculture, 2021. Number of licensed cannabis cultivators and production areas under cover or in open fields.
Release date: 2022-11-17 - Profile of a community or region: 32-26-0004Description:
This tool provides a statistical profile of farm and farm operator variables from the Census of Agriculture for a specific geographic location—or community—selected by users within the province/territory, census agriculture region (CAR), census division (CD) or census consolidated subdivision (CCS) levels of geography.
Release date: 2022-06-15 - Table: 32-10-0446-01Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census division, Census agricultural region, Census consolidated subdivisionFrequency: Every 5 yearsDescription:
Census of Agriculture, 2016. Farms reporting technologies used on the operation in the year prior to the census.
Release date: 2022-05-11
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- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202213122863Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2022-05-11
- 32. Looking forward: Preparing for the release of results from the 2021 Census of Agriculture ArchivedStats in brief: 11-001-X202205333203Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2022-02-22
- 33. Study: English-speaking workers in Quebec’s agriculture and agri-food industries in 2006 and 2016 ArchivedStats in brief: 11-001-X202106026943Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2021-03-01
- 34. Study: French-speaking workers in Ontario’s agriculture and agri-food industries in 2006 and 2016 ArchivedStats in brief: 11-001-X202102527503Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2021-01-25
- 35. Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 15, Life on Land ArchivedArticles and reports: 11-637-X202000100015Description: As the fifteenth goal outlined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Canada and other UN member states have committed to protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss by 2030. This 2020 infographic provides an overview of indicators underlying the fifteenth Sustainable Development Goal in support of life on land, and the statistics and data sources used to monitor and report on this goal in Canada.Release date: 2020-10-20
- 36. The changing face of the immigrant farm operator ArchivedArticles and reports: 96-325-X201900100003Description:
This article focuses on the emergence of the United States and China as the top countries of birth for farm operators that immigrated to Canada between 2011 and 2016.
It compares immigrant farm operators born in the United States and China who came to Canada between 2011 and 2016 with non-immigrant and other immigrant farm operators. The article explores topics such as where they live and the type and size of the farms they are working on.
Release date: 2019-07-03 - 37. Dominant farm type by census division defined by the 2012 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) ArchivedArticles and reports: 95-634-X201700154907Description:
This sixth set of thematic maps, based on the data from the 2016 Census of Agriculture, shows maps on a dominant farm type for each province of Canada by census division. Each province has two series of classification: the census divisions are defined by the 2012 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) where one is by the most important source of gross farm receipts and the other is by the highest count of agricultural operations for a predominant type of production.
Release date: 2019-06-04 - Articles and reports: 96-325-X201900100002Description:
As farms evolve into increasingly automated and technologically advanced operations, Canadian farm operators are placing a greater emphasis on educational attainment.
This article examines the past 20 years of farm operators' educational attainment, as well as the relationship between educational attainment and the characteristics of farm operators and their agricultural operations.
This article examines the major field of study reported by farm operators, including the top major field of study reported for each province. This article also discusses how educational attainment influences opportunities for off-farm work and the gross farm receipts of farm operators. In addition, it takes a look at how farm operators are leveraging technology for their farms, as well as the breakdown of farm types, in relation to farm operators' highest level of educational attainment.
Release date: 2019-03-21 - Articles and reports: 96-325-X201900100001Description: This article is Statistics Canada’s first-ever publication on Aboriginal peoples and agriculture. It explores the part that Aboriginal persons play in the agricultural population in 2016. It examines how Aboriginal farm operators resemble or differ from their non-Aboriginal farm operator counterparts, and how likely they are to be engaged in off-farm paid employment. It also discusses the most common farm types for Aboriginal farm operators.Release date: 2019-01-17
- Articles and reports: 96-325-X201700154925Description:
This article focuses on the emergence of the next generation of Canadian farm operators. The rise of adaptive and educated female farm operators in synergy with progressive and resourceful young farm operators is changing the perception of the typical farmer.
Faced with modernizing farming practises, female and young farm operators are placing greater emphasis on educational attainment. While agricultural operations evolve into large-scale, capital-intensive entities, female and young farm operators are adapting by diversifying revenue streams and acquiring farm land through innovative methods.
Release date: 2018-12-13
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- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 32-26-0007Description: Census of Agriculture data provide statistical information on farms and farm operators at fine geographic levels and for small subpopulations. Quality evaluation activities are essential to ensure that census data are reliable and that they meet user needs. This report provides data quality information pertaining to the Census of Agriculture, such as sources of error, error detection, disclosure control methods, data quality indicators, response rates and collection rates.Release date: 2024-02-06
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 32-26-0006Description: This report provides data quality information pertaining to the Agriculture–Population Linkage, such as sources of error, matching process, response rates, imputation rates, sampling, weighting, disclosure control methods and data quality indicators.Release date: 2023-08-25
- Geographic files and documentation: 92-639-GDescription:
This reference guide provides an overview of the Agricultural Ecumene Boundary File product (see the notes below), including the general methodology used to create the files and other important technical information.
This product is provided in printable format.
Release date: 2022-09-27 - Geographic files and documentation: 92-639-XDescription:
The Agricultural Ecumene Boundary File delineates areas of significant agricultural activity in Canada. This product is generalized for small-scale mapping and can be used to clip or intersect with any geographic boundary file, administrative or natural, to limit the data display to those areas where agricultural activity is concentrated in Canada. When used in dot density and choropleth thematic maps, the ecumene concept provides a more accurate depiction of the spatial distribution of data within geographic areas.
Release date: 2022-09-27 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 32-26-0002Description:
This reference guide may be useful to both new and experienced users who wish to familiarize themselves with and find specific information about the Census of Agriculture.
It provides an overview of the Census of Agriculture communications, content determination, collection, processing, data quality evaluation and dissemination activities. It also summarizes the key changes to the census and other useful information.
Release date: 2022-04-14 - Geographic files and documentation: 92-637-XDescription:
This Cartographic Boundary File for Canada contains the boundaries of all 82 census agricultural regions delineated for the 2011 Census of Agriculture together with the shoreline around Canada and the larger inland lakes, all integrated in a single layer. The boundary file co-ordinates are latitude/longitude and are based on the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83). The file is available in ARC/INFO Interchange, MapInfo Interchange and Geography Markup Language formats.
A reference guide is also provided.
Release date: 2021-11-17 - Notices and consultations: 95-635-XDescription: To stay relevant, preparing for a new Census of Agriculture requires a thorough evaluation of data requirements. Before each census, Statistics Canada conducts consultations to solicit input and feedback on the Census of Agriculture's content. This report describes those consultations and the process that was followed to test and determine which topics could be potentially retained for the next census.Release date: 2019-10-02
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 16-257-XDescription:
Environment Accounts and Statistics Division is Statistics Canada's focal point for the collection, analysis and dissemination of environmental information. This reference guide briefly describes the division's programs, as well as all publications and electronic products offered on a quarterly, annual, biennial and occasional basis.
Release date: 2014-04-17 - Geographic files and documentation: 92-637-GDescription:
This Cartographic Boundary File for Canada contains the boundaries of all 82 census agricultural regions delineated for the 2011 Census of Agriculture together with the shoreline around Canada and the larger inland lakes, all integrated in a single layer. The boundary file co-ordinates are latitude/longitude and are based on the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83). The file is available in ARC/INFO Interchange, MapInfo Interchange and Geography Markup Language formats.A reference guide is also provided.
Release date: 2012-05-10 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-302-XDescription:
The Overview of the Census is a reference document covering each phase of the Census of Population and Census of Agriculture. It provides an overview of the 2011 Census from legislation governing the census to content determination, collection, processing, data quality assessment and data dissemination. It also traces the history of the census from the early days of New France to the present.
In addition, the Overview of the Census informs users about the steps taken to protect confidential information, along with steps taken to verify the data and minimize errors. It also provides information on the possible uses of census data and covers the different levels of geography and the range of products and services available.
The Overview of the Census may be useful to both new and experienced users who wish to familiarize themselves with and find specific information about the 2011 Census. The first part covers the Census of Population, while the second is about the Census of Agriculture.
Release date: 2012-02-08
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