Several users reported issues unzipping 2011 Taxfiler and 2011 NHS tables from the communitydata.ca catalogue over the past three weeks. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused. We've isolated the problem, and the current files appear to be unzipping properly.
The affected files include:
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph, the Lead organisation for the WDG Consortium, recently published bulletins based on the 2011 Census and NHS. Check them out below.
In its Community Dispatch (Vol. 19, No. 1) Community Development Halton maps global non-response rates by census tract for all of Halton.
The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a voluntary international initiative that aims to secure commitments from governments to their citizenry to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption, and harness new technologies to strengthen governance. Open data is an important component of open government.
Now that we're starting to get data from the NHS (well, profile tables at least) we've decided to release a Product Profile that brings together existing information on the NHS and, where relevant, the Census.
There's plenty of new data in the catalogue, including 2011 Taxfiler data, and our first semi-custom Census topic-based tabulations. No, unfortunately that doesn't mean custom geographies (yet). Just Census tables at smaller geographies than are available on the Statistics Canada website.
We've begun organising a webinar on NHS and Taxfiler data with a focus on income. It will be an opportunity to discuss emerging good practice with respect to measuring poverty, assessing NHS quality, working with small-area income data, and using Taxfiler tables. Date: Thursday, April 10, 2014. Stay tuned for updates.
In Part 2 of this Product Profile, we explain some of the issues associated with the voluntary nature of the NHS, and how to address them. We also show what some consortia have begun to do about NHS data quality, especially with respect to mapping the global non-response rate. (More about global non-response rates in a moment.)
In addition, you may want to check out some other resources on the NHS:
The 2013-2014 Ontario Works Service Plan prepared by the District of Nipissing Social Services Administration Board uses Canadian Business Patterns data from the Community Data Program. Check out the report and data below.
January 13, 2014 – Peggy Taillon, President and CEO of the Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD), is pleased to announce a new partnership with Professor Ann Dale, Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Community Development, Royal Roads University.