Those of you around Winnipeg may want to check out "Canadian agriculture: evolution and innovation," a presentation and panel discussion from Statistics Canada. This is part of their Talking Stats series being held across Canada in 2017. This presentation will highlight the new ways Statistics Canada is integrating data from multiple sources in order to reduce the burden on farmers and to make information more relevant and timely for agro-businesses and analysts.
Next week, Statistics Canada is offering a free online learning session on the 2016 Census of Population – Immigration, Ethnocultural Diversity and Housing. This webinar will provide a helpful introduction to the data released last week. They advise that it may be too basic for advanced data users.
Are you interested in starting an open data project for your municipality or organization?
Just released: Data on Aboriginal peoples, immigration and ethnocultural diversity, and housing from the 2016 Census program. Read CDP’s latest newsletter to get more information about what’s available and a summary of data.
Here are key results from The Daily:
The study Chronic Low Income Among Immigrants in Canada and its Communities provides new evidence on the incidence of chronic low income among immigrants aged 25 or older during the 2000s as well as variations across 29 Canadian cities and regions. Chronic low income is defined as having a family income under a low-income cut-off for five or more consecutive years.
Alan Broadbent writes What We Don’t Know:
The Newsletter from the Homeless Partnering Strategy has a few updates:
Statistics Canada is conducting a public consultation on the 2021 Census of Population from September to December 2017. We encourage you to participate in this online consultation and to forward information about the consultation to other census data users.
From the Association of Public Data Users (APDU):
On Thursday, September 7, the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking released their mandatory report. The report includes over 20 recommendations to facilitate the sharing of data across agencies and the evaluation of federal programs.
The report includes recommendations on:
From Open Government:
September is a month for back to school, fresh starts and back to work! We hope you have enjoyed plenty of fun in the sun this summer! Here’s a peak at some of what we have been working on lately.
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