Statistical data and metadata standards are a set of rules that enable consistent and repeatable description, representation, structuring, and sharing of data and metadata. Statistics Canada has many statistical standards, data sources and methods used for collecting and publishing statistical data. This page contains standard classifications of interest relating to the concepts of gender, diversity and inclusion.
Disability
Ethnocultural diversity
First Nations, Métis, and Inuit
- Enrollment under an Inuit land claims agreement
- Indigenous ancestry
- Indigenous ancestry responses 2021 - List
- Indigenous group
- Indigenous group response
- Indigenous identity
- Membership in a First Nation or Indian band
- Membership in a Métis organization or Settlement
- Registered or Treaty Indian status
- Residence inside or outside Inuit Nunangat
- Residence on or off reserve 2021
Gender, sex at birth, sexual orientation and couple relationships
- Cisgender, transgender and non-binary
- Gender
- Gender diversity status
- Gender diversity status of marriage or common-law union
- Gender diversity status of marriage or common-law union, variant
- Gender diversity status, variant
- Opposite- or same-sex married spouse of common-
- law partner
- Opposite- or same-sex status
- Sex at birth
- Sex at birth, variant
- Sexual orientation
Immigration
Languages
- First Official Language Spoken
- Knowledge of Official Languages
- Languages 2021 - List
- Languages 2021 - Collapsed classification
- Languages 2021 - Indigenous languages variant - List
- Languages 2021 - Inuit languages variant
- Languages 2021 - total responses - List
- Non-official languages 2021 - List
- Number of Non-official Languages