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 national statistical standards, data sources and methods used for collecting and publishing more detailed data.
Business and consumer services and culture
Education, training and learning
Families, households and marital status
- Census family status of person
- Census family status, variant with children
- Gender diversity status
- Gender diversity status of couple family
- Household size of private household
- Household type
- Household type, multigenerational variant
- Household type of private household
- Housing suitability
- Housing suitability of private household
- Marital status
- Marital status of person
Geography
Housing
- Core housing need of private household
- Presence of mortgage payments of owner household
- Shelter cost of private household
- Shelter cost to income ratio
- Shelter-cost-to-income ratio of private household
- Status of presence of mortgage payments
- Status of subsidized housing
- Subsidized housing of renter household
- Tenure of private household
- Variant of status of tenure of household
Immigration and ethnocultural diversity
Income, pensions, spending and wealth
- After-tax income
- After-tax income of person
- After-tax income of private household
- Low-income status
- Low-income status of economic family
- Low-income status of person
- Low-income status of private household
- Shelter-cost-to-income ratio of private household
- Total income
- Total income of person
- Total income of private household