With Halloween around the corner, can you feel the spook-tacular excitement? Every year across the country, many Canadians get into the spirit to celebrate this unique tradition of candy, costumes and decorations. Let’s have a look at the stats behind this day.
We love an apple with lunch, baked in a dessert, or in a hot cider. Whatever way you slice it, there’s a lot of this fruit in Canada.
Marketed production of fresh apples totalled 347 125 tonnes in 2021, down 10.3% from 2020.
In 2020, the poverty rate fell in Canada—and it fell quite a bit.
In fact, the poverty rate dropped to 6.4%, down from 10.3% in 2019. In that one year, the rate declined almost as much as it had over the four preceding years.
Jobs in the culture sector rose above pre-pandemic levels for the first time, increasing 3.2% to 692,986 in the second quarter of 2022. Sport employment bounced back with the end of restrictions on attendance at professional sporting events but remained below pre-pandemic highs. Employment in the sport sector increased 7.2% to 94,742 jobs in the second quarter, following a 4.3% decline in the first quarter.
Full-time employment is an integral part of financial well-being and can be linked to several other positive outcomes for workers.
The proportion of women working full time—defined as usually working 30 hours and more per week—continues to increase, albeit at a slower pace than in previous decades.
Say what? Listen to those pet sounds! Is that your dog barking and jumping extra high for joy, or your cat purring extra lovingly?
Obviously, they thought, “wouldn’t it be nice if we could wake up in the morning with some data to chew on?”
Every decade since confederation, federal riding boundaries are adjusted to reflect how Canada’s population has changed. Your collective responses to the 2021 Census are the guiding force for these proposed border changes.
New condominium prices were up overall in Western Canada, and flat or down in Eastern Canada from the first quarter to the second quarter.
Thanksgiving is here, and Canadians are ready to gobble-gobble their way through tasty dinners. And you know Statistics Canada wants a seat at the table! Drumstick roll please…here are the numbers.
In August, Canadians were paying on average 10.8% more for food purchased from grocery stores compared with the same month a year earlier, rising at the fastest pace since 1981, with some noticeable price increases in breakfast fare.
