| Geography | CVs for operating revenue |
|---|---|
| percent | |
| Canada | 0.29 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 0.00 |
| Prince Edward Island | 0.00 |
| Nova Scotia | 0.00 |
| New Brunswick | 0.00 |
| Quebec | 0.66 |
| Ontario | 0.42 |
| Manitoba | 0.17 |
| Saskatchewan | 3.54 |
| Alberta | 0.51 |
| British Columbia | 0.50 |
| Yukon | 0.00 |
| Northwest Territories | 0.00 |
| Nunavut | 0.00 |
| Geography | CVs for operating revenue | |
|---|---|---|
| percent | ||
| Amusement parks and arcades | Other amusement and recreation industries | |
| Canada | 1.71 | 0.57 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 0.00 | 2.68 |
| Prince Edward Island | 0.00 | 1.43 |
| Nova Scotia | 0.00 | 1.11 |
| New Brunswick | 0.00 | 1.87 |
| Quebec | 0.00 | 1.20 |
| Ontario | 2.86 | 0.62 |
| Manitoba | 0.00 | 1.13 |
| Saskatchewan | 0.00 | 1.73 |
| Alberta | 5.46 | 1.42 |
| British Columbia | 3.67 | 2.17 |
| Yukon | .. | 0.00 |
| Northwest Territories | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Nunavut | .. | 0.00 |
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In efforts to improve our users' experience, Statistics Canada is considering making enhancements to the design and functionality of the website's navigation by subject.
This consultation ensured that the website’s navigation by subject is compliant with a set of usability principles and that navigation is accessible to all users.
Statistics Canada conducted in-person usability consultations in Ottawa, Ontario. Participants were asked to complete a series of tasks and to provide feedback on the products.
This consultation is now closed.
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Participants used two proposed designs of the website's navigation by subject and were asked to provide feedback on their look and functionality.
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Under the authority of the Statistics Act, Statistics Canada is hereby requesting the following information, which will be used solely for statistical and research purposes and will be protected in accordance with the provisions of the Statistics Act and any other applicable law. This is a mandatory request for data.
The information being requested is annual aggregated oil and gas production royalty data including:
This request does not contain any personal information.
Annual data as of 2023 (ongoing).
Other provincial and territorial public administration
Statistics Canada requires this information to create and publish statistics on the oil and gas extraction industry. The data are used by both the quarterly Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Supply Use Table programs. Having reliable GDP estimates will ensure Canadians can make informed decisions when it comes to employment opportunities, consumer confidence, investment decisions, entrepreneurship, and innovation as well as access to social welfare services. This information request will also ensure the accuracy of Oil and Gas Extraction survey (OGEX) estimates, which are used by industry experts for economic analysis, modelling, and forecasting.
Statistics Canada may also use the information for other statistical and research purposes.
These organizations are responsible for collecting oil and gas royalty information within their jurisdiction and would be the most reliable in providing the data.
September 2024
August 12, 2024
The information being requested includes service address information (address of building consuming electricity), meter addresses (usually provided as latitude and longitude coordinates), whether the meter is active or not, and the type of customer at the address (residential or other).
This request does not include personal information.
Monthly data beginning with January 2021.
This information is being requested from electricity distribution companies from public and private sectors.
Statistics Canada will use the requested data to enhance the quality of the Statistical Building Register maintained by the Agency, which will support the Census of Population and other statistical programs that may use the Statistical Building Register as a survey frame and allow them to provide better statistical information to Canadians.
The electricity distribution company data will help increase the coverage and classification of buildings and building units in the Statistical Building Register, particularly in rural areas of Canada.
The Census and other statistical programs will benefit from the data by using it to conduct their collection operations more efficiently and maximize the quality of the data collected.
Electricity distribution companies were selected as data providers because these organizations deliver electricity services to physical locations and maintain service addresses in their records, thus being the best suited source of information to improve coverage and quality of the Statistical Building Register.
Monthly data beginning with January 2021.
December 17, 2020
Requested data includes:
This request does not include personal information.
Annual data as of 2023 (ongoing)
Environment and Climate Change Canada
Statistics Canada requires this information to create and publish a more complete picture of renewable and low carbon fuels.
The information will complement collected data to improve measures of Canada’s low carbon energy transition and will ensure Statistics Canada keeps pace with new and emerging energy sources. The information will be used by policy makers, researchers, industry stakeholders for policy development and evaluation, fulfilling national reporting obligations to international organisations, modelling activities, and the development of a fully representative statistical framework on Canadian energy activities by incorporating emerging renewable fuels into the Report on Energy Supply and Demand.
Statistics Canada may also use the information for other statistical and research purposes.
This organization collects and maintains data pertaining to renewable and low carbon fuels.
January 2024 and onwards.
January 4, 2024
The high frequency (i.e., every 5 minutes, every hour, etc.) aggregated electricity data being requested includes system load (total quantity of power that is being consumed by electrical components or devices on the system), electricity generation, pricing information and interchange/trade (volume of electricity that crosses provincial/territorial or national borders) by province or territory.
This request does not contain any personal information.
High frequency (i.e., every 5 minutes, every hour, etc.) data held at the time of this request and ongoing.
All provincial and territorial electricity transmission system operators.
Statistics Canada requires this information to create and publish statistics on high frequency electricity data, a key deliverable under the Canadian Center for Energy Information (CCEI) initiative. This project will contribute to the overall mandate and objective of the CCEI by improving access to timely, relevant, high quality energy information in Canada by offering Canadians and policy makers a more comprehensive and accurate picture of the electricity system through new datasets, tools and visualizations, and contribute to the building of energy-related dashboards to monitor Canada's progress towards net zero targets, which is a Government of Canada priority.
These statistics will complement existing monthly and annual survey data to provide more timely electricity indicators which could be used as an input to Gross Domestic Product nowcasting efforts, as well as for analytical and modelling needs of researchers and analysts.
Statistics Canada may also use the information for other statistical and research purposes.
These organizations collect and maintain up-to-date data on electricity generation, movement, and pricing.
June 2023 and onward.
June 1, 2023
Inventory of solar electricity generators and their annual generation capacity. Annual generation capacity is the maximum amount of electricity that could potentially be generated within a year.
This request does not contain any personal information.
Yearly data as of 2023 (ongoing).
Hydro-electric, fossil-fuel and other electric power generation and distribution organizations and provincial regulatory services.
Statistics Canada requires this information to develop methods for modelling monthly solar electricity generation.
This project will support the work of policy makers and researchers within the public, private and academic sectors. Better coverage and accuracy in solar generation estimates will help assess the impact of renewable electricity sources, as well as help inform modelling and investment decisions in technologies and programs relating to solar electricity generation.
Statistics Canada may also use the information for other statistical and research purposes.
These organizations collect and maintain up-to-date information on solar electricity generation capacity.
January 2023 and onward.
January 4, 2024
Origin and destination of crude oil and liquid petroleum products moved by marine carriers within, to or from Canada on a monthly basis.
This request does not contain any personal information.
January 2019 up to the most recent available reference period.
Transport Canada
These data will enable the Energy Statistics Program at Statistics Canada to validate and confront newly collected marine data from the Monthly Energy Transportation and Storage Survey (METSS). Data validation with administrative data are required to evaluate data accuracy, completeness, and coherence.
METSS will publish with confidence, quality marine estimates due to enhanced, proactive data comparisons with an existing data source from another government department. Additionally, this data is used as an input to the GDP and as such Canadians can be assured that this major indicator of the country's economic health upon which the federal government may implement fiscal policies is accurate.
Statistics Canada may also use the information for other statistical and research purposes.
Transport Canada administers the Marine Origin and Destination Survey (MODS) and is the only source for these data to be used for validation.
Spring 2023
The Energy Statistics Program at Statistics Canada.
August 29, 2023
Statistics Canada is requesting information on facility types including: Battery (BT), Oil Sands Processing Plant (OS), Well Production (PROD), Tank Terminal (TM), Pipeline (PL), Gas Gathering Systems (GS), Gas Plant (GP), Flare (FLARE), Vented (VENT), Shrinkage (SHR) and Fuel (FUEL).
The requested data will complement data already acquired by Statistics Canada.
This request does not contain any personal information.
Data from June 2021 and onward will be requested.
This data are is being requested from provincial and territorial public administrations on crude oil and natural gas.
The requested information will be used for advanced estimates to the Monthly Gross Domestic Product (GDP) program and CCEI. Access to this data allows Statistics Canada to fill important gaps caused by the timeliness of the data currently received.
Data can be used by policy makers, researchers, and industry stakeholders to makes decisions regarding Canadian oil and gas extraction.
Statistics Canada may also use the information for other statistical and research purposes.
Provincial and territorial public administrations collect and maintain up to date data on movements of hydrocarbons across several provinces, and are currently the most accessible source for this information.
This information will be requested in June 2021 and onward (monthly).
May 13, 2021
Under the authority of the Statistics Act, Statistics Canada is hereby requesting the following information which will be used solely for statistical and research purposes and will be protected in accordance with the provisions of the Statistics Act and any other applicable law. This is a mandatory request for data.
CCOFOG data are presented for all general government sectors: the federal general government sector, the provincial general and territorial government sector, the local general government sector, the colleges and universities sector, and the health, school board and Canada and Quebec Pension Plan sectors. Canadian Classification of the Functions of Government (CCOFOG) coding is applied at the program level for the general ledger accounts, specified purpose accounts, special funds, and income statements of specific entities, such as colleges and universities. A complete list of government entities is available at Public Sector Universe.
The published CCOFOG data represent only expenses, with the exception of the consumption of fixed capital. They also exclude acquisitions of non-financial assets.
The CCOFOG classification has three levels. The highest level is referred to as the division and has 10 separate categories. The second level is referred to as the group and the lowest level is referred to as the class. The classifications are available at Canadian Classification of Functions of Government (CCOFOG) 2014.
The primary mandate of a government's program, together with additional information provided by the Canadian Government Finance Statistics (CGFS) coding, is used to assign the CCOFOG classification. When a program has multiple mandates requiring multiple CCOFOG codes, available financial documents are used to determine the main proportion of the observed expense. The total value of the government's program is then assigned to that CCOFOG code.
In general, special funds usually have a single function and thus a single CCOFOG code is assigned. For example, a social housing authority would have all expenses coded to 71069 – Housing.
The assignment is always at the lowest level of CCOFOG detail, which is the class level.
The 2014 Government Finance Statistics Manual, published by the International Monetary Fund, provides an overview of the COFOG assignment rules in Chapter 6 and its annex. Canada rigorously adheres to the guidelines described in the manual but has introduced certain nuances that more accurately reflect the Canadian reality. The "Canadian decisions" section explains these nuances by class and/or function.
When a program significantly impacts a number of different classes in the same group, or if there wasn't enough detail, an aggregate was sometimes created. For example, aggregate 70459 – Transport n.e.c. was created to represent the sum of transport expenses that could not be specifically allocated to the Road Transport, Water Transport, Railway Transport, Air Transport and Pipelines and other transport systems classes.
Division 701- General public services
Centralized services such as Access Ontario are classified under 70133 – Other general services. Services shared by certain departments, such as information technology and human resources, are deemed to be "centralized" if they cover more than two departments.
Government research institutes are generally classified under Basic research (70149); most other research institutes are assigned to applied research or experimental development in their area of expertise (health, agriculture, etc.).
All negotiations of territorial treaties with Aboriginal bands are included in class 70169 – General public services.
All expenses identified under the CGFS classification as interest expense, are classified under 70179 – Public debt transactions.
Transfers to governments for infrastructure expenses are coded under group 7018 – Transfers of a general character between different levels of government. Code 70181 was created to identify transfers to the federal government, while code 70182 identifies transfers to provincial governments and code 70183, transfers to local governments.
Division 702- Defence
Military defence is exclusively a federal government jurisdiction – these expenses will not be found at the provincial/territorial or local level.
Division 703- Public order and safety
In Canada, probation and parole monitoring programs are the responsibility of prison administrations and not the courts as recommended by the Government Finance Statistics Manual. To preserve the comparability of international data, we have left these programs under the courts, but we have set them apart by identifying them by a specific code, 70331. This code will make it easier to transfer the program when Canada publishes its public order and safety expenses under its Justice framework.
Similarly, two key Public order and safety programs in Canada also received their own unique codes: 70332 for legal aid and 70333 for administrative tribunals.
704- Economic affairs
Expenses related to status of women boards and other gender equality initiatives are included in 70412- General labour affairs because, historically, the employment component was the initial focus of these programs.
A CCOFOG group was created to integrate the expenses of programs involving immigration and citizenship, namely, 70413 – Citizenship and immigration.
As mentioned earlier, a special aggregation was created to combine transport expenses when there is not enough detail to identify a specific class: 70459 – Transport n.e.c.
705 – Environmental protection
At the local government level, it is sometimes difficult to separate water supply (70639) and waste water management (70529) expenses; in these instances, a new CCOFOG classification was created to aggregate the two types of expenses (70631).
706 – Housing and community amenities
At the local government level, it is sometimes difficult to separate water supply (70639) and waste water management (70529) expenses; in these instances, a new CCOFOG classification was created to aggregate the two types of expenses (70631).
707 – Health
708 – Recreation, culture and religion
709 – Education
The level of available detail in our source data on education expenses does not allow us to estimate pre-elementary and elementary data or the first and second cycles at the secondary level. We have therefore grouped these classes together in a new aggregated category, 70929 – Elementary and secondary education.
We are also unable at this time to separate non-doctoral higher education (70941) from doctoral (70942); we have therefore combined these two classes into a new aggregated category University education (70949).
Furthermore, when there was not sufficient detail to distinguish college education (70939) from university education (70949), the default choice was to classify this expense under university education (70949).
710 – Social protection
To accommodate the requirements of public order and safety expenses, under group 7107 – Social exclusion n.e.c. a new class was created 71071 – Victim's services.
Real Time Remote Access (RTRA) is an online tabulation tool allowing subscribers to run SAS programs in real time to extract results from masterfile subsets in the form of tables. RTRA system data users do not gain direct access to the microdata and cannot view the content of the microdata file. RTRA data users can calculate frequencies, means, percentiles, percent distribution, proportions, ratios and shares.
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This subscription-based service offers access to Statistics Canada's Public Use Microdata Files (PUMFs). Unlimited access to all microdata and documentation is available through Statistics Canada's Electronic File Transfer Service (EFT) and an Internet Protocol (IP) restricted online database with an easy-to-use discoverability tool. Select files are also available free of charge from the Statistics Canada website.
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The Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) is a partnership between post-secondary institutions and Statistics Canada with the goal of improving access to data resources. This user-centric program builds statistical capacity and leadership through microdata access training and support for an ever-expanding research data collection.
This membership-based service offers access to students and faculty to Statistics Canada's Public Use Microdata Files (PUMFs) and Masterfile’s' "0" frequency codebooks. Unlimited access to all microdata and documentation is available through Statistics Canada's Electronic File Transfer (EFT) service and an Internet Protocol (IP) restricted online database with an easy-to-use discoverability tool. Select files are also available free of charge from the Statistics Canada website. Various secondary data providers repackage the select Statistics Canada data on their own research data repositories including Abacus, ODESI and CHASS.
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