A Data story: Data-driven Insights on the Black Communities in Canada

Release date: March 5, 2021

A Data Story: Data-driven Insights on the Black Communities in Canada - Transcript

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The discussion today is intended to highlight StatCan's existing data on Canadas Black community and openly discuss opportunities to strengthen disaggregated data collection. Todays event will be in both official languages. Interpretation services are available by clicking the Globe icon at the bottom right. To hear speakers original audio in both English and French with no interpretation, do not select any channel. It is important that you do not mute the original audio.

That figure is up to one third of businesses in British businesses in British Columbia and Ontario driving both economic growth and employment across the country. In addition, one in four Canadians in the labour market are visible With that said, the pandemic has also highlighted that visible It is imperative that we understand these challenges, particularly how they have impacted specific minority groups to ensure we develop policies and programs being Unfortunately, disaggregated data on businesses owned by visible minorities, including Black-owned businesses, has historically been an area where significant data gaps have existed and the current pandemic has further illuminated these gaps, particularly from a business lens.

>> Peter Flegel: Good day all. thank you for joining Statistics Canada's event: Data-Driven Insights on Black Communities in Canada. I'm Peter Flegel, the Executive Director of the Federal Anti-Racism Secretariat at the Department of Canadian Heritage, and I will be moderating today's event. thank you for joining Statistics Canada's event: Data-Driven Insights on Black Communities in Canada. I'm Peter Flegel, the Executive Director of the Federal Anti-Racism Secretariat at the Department of Canadian Heritage, and I will be moderating today's event. I would like to begin by acknowledging that we are all located on Indigenous land and it is our duty to consistently acknowledge this.

I would like to begin by acknowledging that we are all located on Indigenous land and it is our duty to consistently acknowledge this. Before we begin, I would like to make a few housekeeping announcements: Todays event will be in both official languages. Interpretation services are available by clicking the Globe icon at the bottom right. To hear speakers original audio in both English and French with no interpretation, do not select any channel. It is important that you do not mute the original audio. Cart services are available should you require closed captioning. This virtual event is also being streamed on StatCan's Facebook Live and will be recorded and shared on StatCan's website.

The Q&A session will follow the panel discussion, and we encourage you to post questions and comments in the chat box and we will do our best to answer them at the end.

A couple of people, Alicia and Rola the monitoring that event should any participants have any technical or general questions.

These use the Q&A box exclusively for questions to the panel. The discussion today is intended to highlight stats can data on Canada's Black communities and openly discuss opportunities to strengthen the segregated data collection.

The honourable Augustine Akuoko-Asibey presented the subjective. Black history month 2021 is true is now. This theme was adopted to recognize and highlight that: Now is the time to build on the enormous contributions to all sectors of society that Black communities in Canada have made, and continue to make, to the growth, well-being and prosperity of our country. Now is the time to celebrate and acknowledge the long and rich history of Black communities in our nation. Now is the time to heal the wounds of the past and present, and work towards a better and consciously more inclusive society.

Black history month happens over because it is about the 27th anniversary of the coming into becoming the first Nation's declaration of Canada into January, 2018, the first Minister also announced the government of the 10 year of people of African origin. Dissent.

This year, Black history month will celebrated six-year dissent. The Federal Anti-Racism Secretariat is committed to working with diverse Black communities to ensure recovery measures from the federal family are more equitable, and address the specific challenges faced by people of African descent in Canada.

We believe that it is through continued dialogue that we can foster a stronger relationship with communities and thus, continue to build trust and collaboration between the Government of Canada and communities. I am excited to introduce the fantastic group of panelists who will share their expertise on the matter. Before I do so, I welcome the Chief Statistician, Mr.

Anil Arora, with some opening remarks, followed by a keynote address by Directors, Ms. Tina Chui and Mr. Augustine Akuoko-Asibey. Over to you.

>> Anil Arora: Thank you very much Peter for that very kind introduction and for those opening remarks. I would like to acknowledge that I am speaking to you from the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin people.

I want to thank todays participants and everyone watching, for joining us in this timely and important discussion during Black History Month.

As you all know, we take our work at statistics Canada very seriously and we know what is your and share shapes this course and allows us as a society to know our strengths and weaknesses and shapes priorities and policies direction.

Equally, what we cannot measure or do not shed light on has consequences. We not only passively put out data but facilitate dialogue and thus helps the 8 policy options and ability to ask better questions.

We beyond simply providing objective facts but we portray the dreams, aspirations, of our society. For example, cap the population of Canada thinks flaming opportunities are better than their parents. For black Canadians, a full three quarters think the same.

We are always striving to provide a complete story with facts to robust evidence and experience and we have many chapters to instill rights in the story when it comes to black Canadians and that is of a fully inclusive society and economy.

We are truly fortunate to have a census of the population conducted every 5 years in this country and serves as an extremely important baseline kept up-to-date can base our surveys in our programs upon. As you know, we are in the process of finalizing the 2021 Census to be conducted in May of this very year. Our agency is well on its way to modernizing and keeping up with the demands for data and analysis. We now use innovative collection methods and integrated data and new sources.

That I can say unequivocally that the pandemic has made the work of this aggravating data based on ethnicity, gender and other key social lenses and emerging priorities and delivering on this necessity and this data can help measure our nations progress towards a fairer and more open society especially as we move from pandemic response to recovery.

My colleagues Augustine Akuoko-Asibey and Tina Chui are ready to tell you more about what we have done and what we are doing and what we must do and it is my pleasure to ask them to take it from here so I thank you, again for joining us, today.

Thank you, two our distinguished panelists and I hope you enjoy and take away a few key points from today's session. I will join you at the end of the session for some closing remarks. Thank you, and MERCI!

>> Tina Chui: Thank you, ANIL, it is an honour to be speaking at this data story event and to join this timely and necessary conversation and I would like to begin with the statement that may seem obvious. We all come from different places and I know that I have not experience the discrimination and racism that a black Canadian might face every day.

My experience is of an immigrant woman who identifies and can also be perceived as a visible minority. I am also someone who has dedicated her career to the protection and analysis of social statistics at statistics Canada and I hope I bring to you today some relevant information from our agency to contribute to our discussion and I would also like to hear your data needs so I could bring back to my team for our planning going forward.

The key information on black Canadians have been from the census-- a gold mine of data on the demographic contribution of black Canadians.

From the census, we know that the black population has played a significant role to defy Canada's diversity. In 1871, the black population in Canada was estimated to be just over 20,000 people in this figure did not change through the first half of the 20th century. In 1951, the black population in Canada was estimated to be about 218,000 people or about 1 percent of the population.

After world War, things change rapidly and we saw greater diversity in immigration. Between 1971 and 1981, the black population by 600 percent reaching a quarter million people. From 1976 to 2016, the black population has doubled from nearly 600,000 to just under 1.2 million accounting for 3.5 percent of Canada's total population.

According to our projections, it suggests this could increase to as much as 5.6 percent by 2036. This growth also brought greater diversity. (SPEAKING FRENCH) Almost twice as many black people experience poor housing needs compared to other Canadians. (SPEAKING FRENCH) The Covid 19 hit us, then Covid 19 hit us and its impact has been felt. Left Canadians on the front line in the fight against the virus.

One fifth of employed black Canadians worked in the healthcare industry putting them at greater risk of exposure. We also see the economic impact of Covid 19 falling disproportionately on black Canadians. The labour force survey revealed that unemployment rate for black Canadians were significantly higher than in words, the pressure applied by the pandemic is only aggravating inequalities. Despite these challenges, there are reasons to be optimistic.

(SPEAKING FRENCH) Nearly all black surveyed say they want to achieve a bachelor agree that use are also on unequal footing with White youth in terms of mental health and are less likely to experience suicidal thoughts then white youth.

(SPEAKING FRENCH) Statistics Canada says (SPEAKING FRENCH) The census is the foundation of our knowledge on black Canadians and the only source that can highlight how to row Genuity of the black population. Taking place in May, we will bring this information up-to-date and we are also looking at ways to further disaggregate all the black communities in our dissemination of the census results.

Many surveys have increased their sample sizes in order to present more details segregated data. For example, the survey on social identity and the labours for survey produced up-to-date employment rates for populations including black people but gaps continue to exist and there are still a lot to be done-- in particular, our health and justice and community data are incomplete among many priorities, need mortality rates disaggregated by racialized communities to better understand how Covid 19 and other courses of death disproportionately affect the black population.

We also left data on Canadian businesses operated by black Canadians and to speak more about this gap and the economic size of the issue, our next speaker will be Augustine Auoko-Asibey, Director of agriculture at statistics Canada.

>> Augustine Akuko-Asibey: Thank you very much Tina, I hope you can hear me well. From an economic perspective, it is no question that prosperity and diversity both go hand-in-hand. Simply put-- canada should job innovation and dream. Visible minority abilities including the black community to see how diversity is a driver of the Canadian economy, with businesses across Canada being run by visible minorities (one and 4) Driving both economic growth and employment across the country.

In addition, one in 4 Canadians in the labour market are visible minorities. And immigrants are highly educated in comparison to Canadian and essential to fill the vast number of professional scientific and technical positions we see in Canada.

With that said, the pandemic has also highlighted that visible minorities have faced challenges-- particularly in finance, a revenue losses during the Covid 19 pandemic.

(SPEAKING FRENCH)

The promising source of this information for businesses or statistics Canada is what we just got from the Canadian revenue agency to provide all that he businesses by industry and region. However, as a data collector by the Canada revenue agency, that does not include information of business ownership by minority groups and leaves us with estimates in this piece.

Why do statistics Canada have been tracking social economic populations of some group and particularly woman or visible minorities at large for some time-- we still have ways to go to better understand the impact on visible minorities on the economy at large. Questions we need to be able to answer is the program decisions include: what is the proportion of the economy that includes the black community and other groups.

What proportion of premiers are black Canadians and do they have wall assets to finance their capital to expand and grow their businesses? What proportion of black Canadians are in senior influential positions?

We know that diversity is our strength and we know that investing this diverse city will reap benefits but without understanding the facts and trends in the data to inform decisions and investments, we are missing opportunities to effectively grow our economy by leaving talent behind.

With a greater emphasis on the importance of this data, statistics Canada has taken the following actions to collect this information and better understand the impact on minorities or businesses-- specifically, the survey on business conditions in collaboration with the Canadian finance to measure the impact of the pandemic of business conditions.

Statistics Canada added a self identification question on the Canadian survey to collect data civic to minority groups including black owned businesses. There is also a survey on financing and growth of small to medium enterprises and statistics Canada has agreed to collect more detailed information on specific minority groups in the survey to be conducted in 2021 which is new and to the survey and will allow us to access more data for specific minority groups and small to medium enterprises.

There is also knowledge following the prime ministers announcement to support black owned businesses in 2020, statistics Canada continues to watch closely with partners to support this initiative especially in our interest on this new program and the support it to success in any way they can.

Addressing the data and better understanding the economic conditions for black-owned businesses and we acknowledge our position in the space. To conclude, the data we get from businesses owned by specific groups, indigenous and specifically visible minority groups is essential to ensure inform policies and programs are put in place to support a truly inclusive economic recovery. Collusive growth is the hat of Canada's prosperity and want to make sure we can adapt better in this space and opportunities to invest in assets and take on partnerships and business communities and with that, our transition to Peter...

>> Peter Flegel: Thank you very much. Thank you, Anil, Tina, Augustine and Statistics Canada, for hosting this event. For those really good words of introduction. Now, over to the panel discussion. Like I mentioned earlier, I would like to introduce the well-versed group of panelists here with us today. We are very fortunate to have Dr. Malinda Smith, Dr. Malinda S. Smith inaugural vice Provost and a professor of political science professor at the University of Calgary. She serves on the Statistics Canada Working Group on Black communities in Canada, the Canada Research Chairs Advisory Committee on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Policy, and the Inter-Institutional Advisory Committee for National Dialogues and Action for Inclusive Higher Education and Communities. She is a former Vice President Equity Issues for the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and currently serves as Chair of its Advisory Committee on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Decolonization.

Next, we have Richard Sharpe has worked within the Federal Public Service for over 24 years. He has recently been appointed as the Director of the Racial Equality, Anti-racism, Diversity and Inclusion Initiative at the Department of Justice Canada. Richard is currently winding up an Interchange Canada assignment with the Dream Legacy Foundation. His work involved leading initiatives in support of the Government of Canada commitments to the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent. Richard is one of the founders of the Federal Black Employee Caucus that has been working with federal public service and union leadership to address anti-black racism in the federal public service. Over the last few years, Richard has been a speaker on addressing systemic racism, anti-black racism and providing insight on how to be an ally within the Black Lives Matter movement.

And from the BlackNorth Initiative, we have Dahabo Ahmed-Omer: Dahabo has accumulated a wealth of experience and accomplishments in the performance measurement, policy development, HR planning analysis and employment equity and diversity sectors. Ms. Ahmed has been the recipient of notable awards over the years including the exceptional service within the Federal Public Service, the Canada150 Community Builder Award, The Hope Academy community contribution award, the Ottawa Black History Community Leadership Award and most recently the top 100 under 40 Most Influential Person of African descent in support of United Nations decade.

(SPEAKING FRENCH) Madame Myrlande Pierre... is responsible for the mandate of that mission by the charter of human freedom and rights and the surveillance on the equality and equal access to work in public services, racist files fluting profile racial profiling are under her responsibility, she is an expert and a nationally recognized in social economic integration and particularly on socioeconomic integration, cases of discrimination and the importance are the cornerstones of her work.

>> Peter Flegel: Finally, we have Dr. Lance McCready from the University of Toronto. Dr. McCready's research program is concerned with the education, health and well-being of urban youth. His most recent research focuses on the educational trajectories of young black men in Canadian urban centres, and programs and services for ethnic and racial minority males who are underrepresented in North American colleges and Universities. Conceptually, he is interested in the way intersectionality, social determinants of health, and gender relations frameworks can be mobilized to develop more effective programs that promote academic achievement, well-being, school engagement, and access to higher education.

So thank you all for joining us, today, so let's start the panel discussion.

You will each have 9 minutes to answer and also leave time for questions.

Perhaps, start off with Dahabo. According to the most recent Census, 3.5% of Canada’s population is Black. The Black North Initiative based their corporate pledge on this data to set the goal of corporations having a minimum of 3.5% of executive and board roles based in Canada being held by Black leaders by 2025. Many have said that the reason this is not already a reality is because anti-Black racism is pervasive in sectors across Canada, including data gathering and analysis. What's your take on the relationship between data and representation in the business world?

>> Dahabo Ahmed Omer: Thank you, Peter. And thank you, ANIL, it's nice to see you again and so many familiar faces, Tina of course Peter yourself. I am really glad to be part of this conversation and I know that generally across all of our sectors have been talking about data and the importance of statistical data and the impact it has on the way better and an equitable society for black Canadians.

You know, the reality Peter is that the context in which Black communities live in today is quite stark and quite a horrendous reality and I just was reading today snapshot that statistics Canada put out and realizing that the idea of what we thought was happening by communities in Covid 19 and having numbers tell us sort of that reality and experiences, it's scary you know.

I was reading the numbers and as I kept going through, it's just one page and it's just a snapshot and I can't wait to see sort of the details. But for now, the reality for black Canadians is worse then what we ever thought. Covid 19 is obviously nothing about Covid 19 as racist.

I think the challenge faced by black communities is there an highlighted and heightened by Covid 19. Say to ourselves that we will be able to build a society that is going to be more inclusive-- will have to look at the reality of black Canadians.

I will tell you right now, free percent of black Canadians said they're being treated unfairly while 52 percent of the community thinks discrimination is no longer a problem.

Those things, power we as a society going to combat an issue in terms of acknowledge meant. I know there is in a debate on antiblack racism but the statistics tell us otherwise.

They tell us there is visuals and institutions and sectors that don't believe this is an issue so if we go further into that and asking about the relation between the issue and the data-- you know, when we look at the reality of black Canadians, I want us to think about entire facets of who a black Canadian is.

I could tell you today that the black people face to reduce likelihood of ceding a job hiring process, having an impaired career progression, access to healthcare and mental mental healthcare generally. They have lower educational achievement and over policed.

So, in every single sector, black Canadians are impacted in a negative way. There was an report done by stats Canada in July of last year that said black Canadians are nearly two times more likely to be unemployed than nonminority Canadians, and it 70 percent or than non-visible minority Canadians-- a snapshot that shows today. So you can imagine, we are dealing with the collide of two pandemics, the racial pandemic and Covid 19 pandemic coming together and killing black Canadians every single day.

So the relationship for me is one that is actually costing lives. So we have Black communities that are unable to take care of their families and getting proper healthcare. University educated black Canadians on average, sense to every dollar when compared to their white peers. That is 20 cents.

I give you these numbers because I think it's important for you to understand the gaps are real and represent people. Every number I give you I want you to close your eyes and think about human being, think of a person, your neighbour, your colleague, your friends, people into our communities that are being impacted in such a way that it does not allow them to survive or thrive in this world.

The earning gap shows that black Canadians do not have the same return on educational investments as white Canadians. On average, a black Canadian worker earns about $12,004 less impaired to other Canadians. The wage discrimination in itself is costing right now...is occupational segregation, let's call it for what it is, is costing the black community $1.5 billion annually. $1.5 billion is being taken away from Black communities every single year.

So the relationship between data and the way that we create an inclusive society great. I think there was a time where we were screaming on top of our lungs and using anecdotal evidence to push the conversation forward, but now there is overwhelming data and numbers, overwhelming amount of evidence that is showing us that the reality is not what we hoped it to be.

So it starts everywhere, is happening across the board and if we just look at the opportunities to grow within-- economically grow, so there was a... University of Toronto did sort of a white tint resume project in the study and it was part of the race and safe preservation.

It began in 2016 or 2017, GG or everyone correct me on that if I'm wrong. Studies show that relation in resume screening-- just for having a black name is getting up to 12 times of the work callbacks for black Canadians.

Just by having something that sounds like a black name. I don't even know what a black sounding name is and I think my name sounds fantastic!

My name means gold. It's a cultural name and I don't think there such thing as a black name or white name, but it's these unconscious biases. Answer to racism and its reason why white resumes with no criminal record gets three times more call back and if you look at white resumes with criminal records-- they get 12 times more call back similar black resumes.

I mean, these are the things that we are dealing with, and so, it saddens me and it's disheartening to know that your name-- something that is given to you for the moment coming to this earth literally starts at that very moment, the first identity you're given us something that will hold you back surviving and thriving in prospering society.

Imagine that-- just your name, hadn't had an opportunity to do anything in society yet but just your name. You know when the corporate world, it's the same everywhere and black Canadians, they make up less than 1 percent of senior executives.

Senior leadership sort of roles-- I think they represent .0.8 percent, representing 3.5 percent of our population in Canada.

So I asked why 7 of the largest Black communities don't have any black executives, how come the 5 largest banks don't have any black executives, how come the largest telecom companies do not have a single black executive? These are in enormous gap so if we are truly to use that data to create that sense of belonging and inclusivity and equity and these are fantastic words we use, cannot just say will now get rid of those numbers and just put black bodies in those roles.

That is not equity either and that is not inclusion either and I will tell you what-- I want everyone who is here to listen to me and I know there's a couple hundred of people here so this is a great opportunity to talk to its many of you as possible.

If you look at representation, it's not about putting a black body into a leadership role, it's far from it, in fact it's about creating an environment around them that allows, and for them to feel like they belong, as though they understand why they are there.

They are not there because of the colour of their skin but really there because of their skill sets, of their experiences, of their educational background and professional background, but also to understand the fact that they are from an minority community that is now an asset-- is not an impediment or detriment anymore.

It adds to the value. There was work done for McKenzie which is a company that works in BlackNorth, and they realize that it actually makes, a company makes more money when their workforce is diverse because of the skill sets that are at the table.

You are literally leaving money at the table by not insuring your company is diverse and as wide and great and grand as nature. It saddens me when I think about these things because, again, the reality in every sector. I want you to ask yourself and I think I will probably get cut off by Peter which he just try to do that to me, Peter I will say one more thing because I think it's important to say, I want to-- for all the leaders on the line here today, I want you to think about something.

Which is when you look at your black staff and representation. Want you to think about the fact that these communities are dealing with challenges and by the time they come into the workforce, they have dealt with an enormous amount of racism and racial discrimination. There is enough facts out there and I want you to say what will you do to support these individuals so that they do not suffer any longer and you will look at, the entire facet of who they are you won't just look at one part of who they are but you will look at everything, the access to healthcare, their growth in your workforce, the fact that 41 percent of black Canadians right now who are impacted by police grounding our black people.

46 percent of people the police uses tasers on his black people in same thing in places, pepper sprayed, 46 percent of them are black people and these are your people in your community so there such a relationship there and I want to start to look at the entire person from birth to this moment: how to make that person included to our workspace and how do we do that?

>> Peter Flegel: Thank you, for that very insightful relationship between all the data at our disposal and discrepancies feeling systemic barriers see in the private sector and written large across Canadian societies.

Which brings us to our next catalyst. Richard Sharpe. Statistics Canada has a lot of data around populations designated as visible minorities which has been used in various ways. In your view, what are gaps that exist in what and how we collect? When you consider how this data is applied (for example in establishing representative leadership goals) what do you think we need to do differently in the short, medium and long term?

>> Richard Sharpe: Thank you, Peter and thank you to Anil, Tina and Augustine, I'm grateful to be on this panel distinguished panelists.

Before I start, sorry lost my posted stuff-- can you guys still see me?

>> Peter Flegel: No we cannot.

>> Sorry were just having connection if so we took you video to be able to hear you better.

>> Dahabo Ahmed Omer:

>> Richard Sharpe: Sorry I thought I went dark before I had a chance to speak about is fine. I just wanted to say right off the top that-- if I'm standing tall it's definitely on the shoulder of my brothers and sisters.

I know from my understanding of this years Black history month, for me it's not only around the recognition of past contributions for people in this country but it is also about justice and development of black people in Canada. After all, Justice and development are themes of the International decade of people with African Descent and we are in the middle of historic times.

Our discussions of how we address the black experience must be focused on what we need to do to address historic injustices and antiblack racism spirits in our society, our previous speaker spoke to this online that our reality is not a rosy one in this country.

We only have three years left of a decade so we are looking for some tangible results to support for that decade. In response to the question that you pose Peter... I think stats Canada has been doing an excellent job of collecting data.

They have demonstrated excellent data collection usage. I think the relation here just to be a bit provocative, has been the profound fear of data in this country and what it tells us about what. I'm also saying that discrepancies will be... in the federal and public services.

Stats Canada has one of the tools with they provided to us and made available to us on demand, and so this allows us as part of our workforce and for recruitment, and retention, and what I think into the future. So, with that and we asked from stats Canada to be able only so much just that.

We are now moving into a space to our central agencies are asking. Data after much requests to look at issues we know that visible minorities, hey visible minority term reflects the reality of the Black communities it not homogenous group, so what we need to do let's look at how to not only disaggregate that data but look to the of our workforce and our future realities of our population and the lack of internal federal government disaggregated workforce has been an issue in terms of being able to plan for the future.

Addressing the challenges in the gaps that we have within 4 black and indigenous people and people. The reports that came out our golden and experience I've had a black people in this country, that is not my issue.

My issue is central around how we something called workforce availability data and the fact that it always seems to underreport the true representation of folks in this country and that is why of the discrimination secretary in the Department of Justice I am working Closely with ANIL'S to get modelling and tools to do some work that I will talk about next to address racism and discrimination in the organization and in terms of the gaps-- I feel that again, stats Canada and support workplace research and data and demographics in order to help place with the changing and growing population.

Need to address our dependency on outdated sources, years to create the creation of data and reports by our central agencies and then used by our departments and sectors, we need to have a better understanding of how this impacts on the policies and programming decisions around employment for black and indigenous racialized. We also need-- I would also ask stats Canada to support us on this, develop a better understanding on what intersection now it is.

It is not very well understood in the antiracism contacts in the public sector and people do not have a good understanding of it so that makes it difficult to translate that into practical terms. Data and research supports misunderstanding. In terms of when considering how data is used, what do we need do differently?

Again, I think stats Canada is rising to the occasion and providing us with more information that we can. And this is a time where our communities and governments have called for some meaningful changes to address systemic racism as we have heard, this is not work for the faint of heart and having good data surrounding our work makes it possible for us to again make decisions, so for me in the short term, stats Canada can help us in establishing fictive modelling or forecasted demographic workforce to help us understand what is happening in Canada now and what our workforce reality is and what it would be in the last 1015 years and where able to do that for the general population but for some reason, we aren't able to do that within the public service.

We are constantly looking back, for so 5 to 8 years for representation numbers to establish baselines that are on ballistic and do not serve us well in terms of making sure that our workforces are represented. If we are truly married to workforces ability, we should make sure the numbers are grounded so like I am saying, I'm repeating myself in current and future realities-- if three-point 5 percent candidates population are determined to be black 2016 and our numbers are growing in this country doubling every 20 years, in 5 years a lot can happen. Is our real representation dates today? What about in 2025, w.

>> How do we translate that in terms of how we plan for workforce so again, in the medium turn our departments need to see how we address this the best way possible. That is again, something stats Canada is available to help us with and I'm not sure where using stats as much as we should.

So doing some of the work has become a challenge in terms of us basing it on reality and I think predictive modelling should be foundational to workforce availability.

That is again, why we are working with stats put something in place that not only might work for Jay but for the rest of public service. Thank you.

>> Peter Flegel: Wonderful, thank you so much Richard for having given us some good ideas for how we can make use of statistics Canada and now we will be to Myrlande Pierre Based on your experiences, what are the challenges pertaining to the collection of diversity and inclusion data at the institutional level â€" e.g., Public service, universities or the education sector, police services, businesses, health, etc.?

>> Myrlande Pierre: Thank you, for the invitation by statistics Canada. And thank you to ANIL, for this invitation. It's an honour to be on this panel and have this conversation together.

It's a conversation that's not only necessary but it's not an easy conversation to speak about racism and discrimination and these are conversations that are challenging, but we are at a turning point in our history.

In our social context, to note the concerns of civil society and how we need to be called exponentially respond.

Before I have a specific answer to your question-- and to get into the heart of this question, I would like to contextualize a little bit, because I believe before speaking about data, need to situate the challenges. This means that we need to look at certain questions that are key in my opinion.

What are the main challenges to fight against systemic and structural in the employment and other sectors? For example, security, public safety, education, employment, it is important to have that integration but as well, for participation so I think these are the issues that need to guide the research methodology and how we can highlight and make this data useful. Another question that seems important to me is-- what are the imperatives that we need to look at so that institutions, all institutions, democratic, as well as administrative, or state run organizations, Crown corporations, can have either membership on the Black communities.

I think this is on the strategy of collective goodwill and data collection, as well as how we can take into account the fact that Black communities and indigenous communities have a systemic discrimination in other sectors that compromise fundamental rights to work, in Quebec as well as in Canada in terms of discrimination in employment, Mike particular area of interest-- because all my academic baggage comes, I have the expertise as well in that area.

It is the charter of rights and liberties in Quebec and also the Canadian charter of rights and freedoms. There are laws to ensure representation of groups that are victims of discrimination, so when the government or minister strategy needs to take all these issues into account so the actions that prioritized, we need to take into account the reality and as it was mentioned before me-- there are realities that called out to all parts of society.

Collectively, need to handle and address these challenges and speak about the reality of the black community of QUEBEC and of Canada and we cannot do that without speaking about stomach discrimination and racism.

So that would be my answer. There's a whole context as well, it invites us to look at the entirety of this issue, we have people of Afghan dissent that need to-- then need the involvement of everyone in order to carry out the promotion of respect and of human rights, and of rights and freedom for those of Afghan dissent, as well as the cultural diversity and patrimony which every day, it is more diverse and another important aspect I would like to talk about is when you talk about lack communities, they are not the monolithic unit, they're not an homogenous group, there's a lot of diversity about linguistic diversity, generational-- for certain communities for example, in Montreal and Quebec, THE HATIAN, speak about second or third generation of immigrants, speak about young active members of the Canadian society were educated here in Canada share all the values that we hold that they are confronted by discrimination and by racism, unfortunately.

Speak about an underrepresentation of Black communities in the public sectors, senior executives, to look at certain particularities for black woman in the public sector, and intersection analogy, helps us takes into account signs of discrimination as well, the relationship between intersection analogy within society that process within our society and this is key to me and before even speaking about the hall importance of data collection which must come from and which much the port the social observation we have, it's always a complementary approach in the analysis of the data collection is complementary to in-depth and quality analysis where we can understand problems that the various communities deal with-in terms of Black communities.

So I will not get into all the statistical data because I think you have already shown disparities that exist whether among the youth, or the wall of the black community, the higher rates of unemployment, policing the racial profiling the young blacks-- 4 or 5 times more likely to be called out by the police. So there is a problem we have is a society to resolve in a lasting way. You have a little just more Peter?

>> Peter Flegel: Two minutes.

>> Myrlande Pierre: So the intersectionality within the context of analysis in order to understand how these various forms of discrimination are showing themselves, I would also like to say-- as regards to data collection, we need to take into account the whole issue of this aggregated data which seem so fundamental to me because this helps drive public policy. Taken into account, complex and multifaceted effects of the black community.

Here I am speaking about disaggregated data rights, YOUTH RIGHTS, we recommend b that they be collected in a national, ethnic but also race and disabilities and other factors that can make the reality even more complex for certain groups of people. In healthcare, the current health crisis, unprecedented health crisis has on exasperated the inequalities and we have a marginalized group who was already victimized, already experiencing various forms of discrimination and the fact that this pandemic shed light on social inequalities and racial inequalities, by collecting the data through the human rights commission, this has been an invitation to collect the data in order to meet the needs of the population and we see how these racial and social inequalities are exasperated by this pandemic and shed light, and differentiation between noxious expert as well as race.

For example, in a black community or woman... there are women who are victims of racism and this is very evidence on the front lines. Populations are affected by the health crisis, so it's in exasperation, of social inequalities and data collections both in healthcare sent public health and safety and in terms of law and must take into account the entire complexity of these realities. So I will and here. I could keep on talking quite well. But thank you.

>> Peter Flegel: Thank you, for having me follow these points and dealing with the complexities and contacts which are faced by. And now we will hear from Dr. Lance T. McCready As we've mentioned one of the goals of data is to help create and reflect a narrative. There is a commonly held belief that Black youth (particularly Black male youth) are less likely to graduate from high school; we often hear about the school to prison pipeline. What data is supporting this narrative and is it accurate? Do we need to be supporting public institutions like schools and provincial health bodies to collect better data that can be used to provide better programming that leads to better outcomes for Black youth?

>> Dr. Lance McCready: Thank you very much and I'm happy to be participating on this panel with such analysts as well.

I actually think that the way this question is phrased is a bit curious [laughing] there's a lot of quotes that call into question whether or not the school to prison pipeline, the disproportionate expulsion in disciplinary actions taken against black students are indeed true. I want to first argue that, yes, it is indeed true.

But before we sort of through all that-- what I want to do is I want to provide a definition of the school-to-prison pipeline.

Do know definitively that black people are overrepresented in candidates prison. At least 8 points 6 percent in federal prisons and 3 percent of the populations. So they are definitely overrepresented in Canada's population.

The term school-to-prison pipeline aims to highlight a complex network of relations that naturalize of youth of colour in our schools and communities into underemployment and permanent detention. This is not a novel phenomenon.

Public education in Canada has historically framed particular populations as more surplus or peripheral to our democracy yet imperative for low-wage work and jobs available for white employment.

With indigenous as eventual schools, segregated schools, chronicle access to resource and public education has final and target non-white and YOUTH, participation in the streets or economy or prison. This is also drawn on the part of Eric miners living in the US Canadian scholar, who is a well-known sort of researcher of prison.

How do we know that a school-to-prison pipeline exists. I think we heard some about that outcome data from stats Canada, 7 out of 10 black adults how to postsecondary diploma, that the higher education attainment of the black population immigration status. Only 60 percent thought that they actually could get that out of 97 percent of the black population who want to get a degree.

I think that there are many authors such as Carl James and others who have provided pretty compelling evidence that perceptions of being able to obtain a postsecondary degree are related to there and interactions with teachers and other people in the school education system.

I actually do not think a lot of the stats Canada can really shed a lot of lights on the particular mechanisms within schools that sort of contributes to a school-to-prison pipeline.

So I do think that we have to look too much of the administrative data that our provinces collect and let me make a provocative point, I think it's just a practical in a reality is not all school districts should be mandated to have a student census that collects demographic data on their students and provides more in-depth information about house bins are engaging in school and whether or not there engaging in educational outcomes and without that data, cannot really show if there is a school to prison pipeline indeed.

In attempt to not have to address this reality, many school districts do not collect student census data. I think it's very interesting that the lack of data and in some cases, the deliberate to collect this data is even trickled into our universities in our educational Touche and such that when I presented a research project on a school-to-prison pipeline, one of my colleagues commented that they just did not like the term school-to-prison pipeline.

Not that it exists or not that there was data to show it was in a reality but just that they do not like it. I think we would not be able to avoid this concept in this reality, is phenomenon collected this data. I think one of the provinces that is a leader and this is Ontario.

There are several reports in Ontario that basically showed that there is a school-to-prison pipeline. In other words, there are school supply nary practices, other policies and practices that are actually driving students out of school, after their days work being pushed out of schools into the criminal justice system. I will name a few of them, Stephen Lewis report in 1972, 1990 the falcon reported 2007, most recently that we rise together Peel District School report in 2016, towards race and equity report in 2017, the Toronto action plan to confront antiracism in 2018, racial profiling report in 2017...

We have all these reports so the question is for me, is it really about the data? Is it really that we have not collected data or there isn't compelling evidence? Is there really a need for us to sort of put a school to prison pipeline IN QUOTES.

On top of those statistical status, there's a number of reports that present compelling qualitative data including interviews, focus groups, video footage of students being-- while black students particularly being unfairly disciplined.

They have black students recounting their interactions teachers and guidance counsellors and other school professionals and describing the particular ways in which they are being pushed out of school. In addition to that, the lack of resources in their community that are able to even counteract or work with schools to create more or better environments where they can thrive.

So, with regards to the school to prison pipeline-- I do think that, yes, all school districts should have a student census where they collect the data to really determine what these relationships are between students being pushed out of school in particular groups of students being pushed out the door and possibly into the criminal justice system.

But at the same time, I am unclear why there as always. A call for more data whether or not we have the data to prove this when I think several provinces actually do. I don't think the issue there is a lack of data, I think in some cases it's how that data is used. Are we really using this data to actually contribute to the development of the effective policies and programs that create educational environments where in this case-- black YOUTH, but not as I could say black people can thrive?

Stats Canada pulling out measures or showing data where these are communities that black people can thrive. I think the question should be are there indicators that the school culture has shifted to indicate that black culture YOUTH can thrive and in other words, are there indicators from stats Canada data that show there is a progression towards greater prosperity for black students and families in Canada the years such that they can thrive?

I think we identified a number of key areas, and I think that we need to sort figure out how we can use datasets to have measures to show that but I also think that this data has to be made more publicly available and have access to Black communities and black researchers who may have particular insights on how to use this data and to create that really show thriving. It's currently extremely difficult as a researcher and a stroller (a trained scholar and researcher) To gain access to stats Canada so we can do creative work that we are trained to do to provide a basis for stronger programs and policies that create education systems where black youth can thrive in their communities.

Finally-- I will end with saying that I think it is important that whatever we do, it to speaks to the lived experiences of Black students and we do not want to be doing all of the statistical analysis and data collection so that we are creating this policy and culture of documentation that is nothing to the development of stronger programs and policies that help what's writing communities.

In terms of the rest of the data we should be collecting, I really look to groups like critical resistance in the knighted states, defunding the police movements here in Canada that has really called for the creation of genuinely safe and healthy communities that respond to harm without relying on prisons and punishments.

In other words, do we have these programs? We have these alternatives to prison and punishment that can really set the stage for black youth to thrive?

>> Peter Flegel: Thank you very much for those great points and providing a great understanding of historical groups of anti-black racism the school to prison pipeline and also the need for data at a more local or provincial level and shedding light on the mechanisms that sustain the pipeline but also the ways in which data is used that is already at the disposal and the need for data sets to measure so that black youth can thrive. Very important points you added which contributes to our problem.

Which brings us to MALINDA. A common theme people flag in this data collecting conversation is around nomenclature, definitions and classification of Black Canadians, Visible Minorities and other terms that people are contemplating. Can you share your thoughts on how these conversations should be approached in the context of data collection?

>> Dr. Malinda Smith: Thank you very much for the question and I too the audience and to MR. ANIL, and the team at StatCan for the invitation in the audience for attending.

I just want to same speaking to you from the University of Calgary, which is in Alberta city of Calgary. I also want to acknowledge that this is Black history month and that the theme is the future is now, Alberta has officially recognized Black history month for the past 5 years and then finally, still have the event of African Descent.

This language and terminology of Black is an umbrella term that is used to capture the diversity and complexity of the black population in Canada, visible minority similarly is used to capture the non-white population of Canada and all these languages are contested so I think it's important for us to teach out how they emerged.

Let me begin with the black population of Canada-- and to say that, for the longest time to talk three clusters of weather the African nova Scotians who have been here for over 5 generations or more, whether we think merrily about the largest Caribbean population that has been here was the largest source region since the 1980s and here we are thinking about the largest plus group would be the Haitians in QUEBEC and Jamaicans and others from English-speaking Caribbean in Ontario.

But more recently, the growing numbers on the prairies primarily Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and of course British Columbia. Also then, 1980s-- the largest growth husband from the African continent and that has been the source country and it has shifted and more, user significant percentage, of Francophones, the black population compared to the larger population Canada are likely to speak French as a first language but also more likely to have complexity of linguistic background.

There is no singular black population, I think this has been highlighted in various works out of stats Canada under the diversity and complexity of black population Canada, that will be informed by stats Canada a group in the communities.

I'm thinking here of the work in 2019 under the diversity of the black population, a growing number diversity but also 2020, three studies from the results of the census, on education, marketing integration of black youth, black population and education and resilience in social or joint of Canada's black population.

I think while the date is filling important gap, I think it also shows the data remains and the segregated data we need for analysis. So the data also shows that, yes, we have not just 1.2 million people, but three-point 5 million, we are hundred and 47 different places from birth, there's over 200 different ethical origins.

Mostly young people in over half have been and are immigrants and they've arrived at different points and as I highlighted different countries that it's is the recent snapshot that turned out in terms of BAs.

Hi, aspirations optimism, given this complexity on the black population I think what this is highlighting. This highlights that there is no singular black Canadian identity single black candidate, whether there is no model black Canadian and the very idea of black Canada is multiple moments of blackness, multiple relations in the states and multiple points of entry in a complex web of different histories.

This conceptual framework of multiplicity is reflected in the data stories of black Canadians from statistics Canada and the multiple reports that of produce Black history month people of African Descent and highlighted in the presentation by Tina Chui and Augustine Akuoko-Asibey among the other studies.

So what that complexity highlights is also fallacy of the idea of social profiling based on a single identity on blackness of the skin we are in s skin type. This causes a lie that you can see a person for skin colour on the street and you can stop them and identify anything significant about who they are there contributions to society.

So racial profiling in this complexity is to be an impossibility.

The second point I want to raise in this question is common for visible minorities and I have a slightly different view about how to think about it, perhaps using the analogy of the MW see peak which did not hire the word, then Negro and that word but we use historical and contextual persist but also it has a linear knowledge he that is rooted in human rights that can inform data.

So problematic and this word has been called to be retired and it's emphasized in relation to what we are not-- in defined to what we are being non-white, or even the non-observed, non-caucasian.

Social scientists have called out terms because again, it defines us in terms of what we are not. But I actually like the term precisely because it roots itself into this recognition of skin colour or the history and contemporary basis of discrimination and antiblack racism and social disadvantage and marginality that results from an.

Name actually reflects precisely what it is paradoxically. To that extent that it allows us to test the lens of this historical in fact of blackness but also the fact of antiracism but also the very idea that black people but also Asian people, Chinese people, West Asian people, they had a history of discrimination.

Different but also to be related, which highlights this racial pecking order that disrupts the idea of the nice and polite Canadian, disrupts the idea, of Canada not having strip racism and that racism has borrowed blackness from elsewhere like America.

This allows us to focus on this history and contested. So, yes, it masks the minorities, and complex minorities under this concept and it defines us as us on what we are included in this non-caucasian concept, but think about it, the naming of this process is shown that Canada is implicitly acknowledging white privilege and white supremacy.

Let's keep that terminology in order to ground our focus and have that reflect what is antiblack racism. I agree that visible minority is offensive in a sense, I agree with the idea that it's rooted in Eurocentrism and is divisive and differentiates Canadians having order of a 1900 Alberta newspaper referring to it.

Diversely is meaningless in terms of Toronto and Vancouver with the visible majorities, especially with what's unfolding in Canada in which we are seeing white backlash against. So you have to see the paradigm shift visible minorities are being continued to use for pragmatic business because it's rooted.

But this call for aggregated data laxative station and I think stats Canada is moving into that direction and I think reluctant of race-based data.

I prefer just racialized people of colour or all of these categories are socially contested or thought to be-- but soon we have to be mindful of what we are trying to do when in this case, I think because visible minorities is linked to the employment will tie think stats Canada should hold onto these terms so that when the data is distributed or disseminated, it should be disaggregated to speak to each of these groups, so a lot of pragmatic accommodations to this language but equity stating groups and I will wrap up now-- causes a problem because in some ways, it does not help must understand the ways in which equity for the most part in Canada and in today's universities and institutions is primarily in terms of equity.

A mess in terms of what we see gender, women, other equity seeking groups, gender-based inequalities groups and black people in racialized minorities, station, aboriginal people get caught up in plus.

So that gender is actually the centre in context in which we think about equity, and as long as we are doing that we actually don't have equity along equity seeking or equity deserving groups. So, this is part of our challenge-- we don't even know how to talk about these things in a way that allows us to speak these complexities but also the rationality of these terms but also there for the purposes of data collection, we really need to be able to think about a concept that allows us to collect out in our system so at the moment, I think we end up with this category of visible minorities which then gets use equity apt and for the purpose of dissemination, to mobilize termination we need to think about ways that centre this on Black or South Asian people.

So with that-- I would like to end by saying, there is no single black Canada, there are multiples of black Canada, with the racial profiling and carting lead us to believe there is a single black Canadian and that singularity in itself is rooted in a stereotype which enables this kind of antiblack racism that also gets rooted in how systemic treatise. Thank you so much for this opportunity.

>> Peter Flegel: Thank you for those great points and really bringing our attention to the multiplicity, and how it can be beneficial for you to use those terms in combating against antiblack racism and structurally in Canadian society.

Definitely, great provocation and very useful for us within the federal government as we continue discussions and try to move the dialogue forward and change the way of systemic racism.

Now I will ask a question for all panelists. Feel free to response. This is...

How can the data that StatCan collects and disseminates better reveal the diverse experiences of Black community members, and be appropriately used to inform Canada goal of a Canada where everyone benefits from equitable access to and participation in the economic, cultural, social and political spheres? WHO would like to start off on that one?

>> Dahabo Ahmed Omer: Thank you, Peter I think we could be better used if we ensure that Black communities are the ones that are interpreting the data on part of the analysis and part of the assessment of the information that's being disseminated.

I think that data can only tell so much and there is story behind these numbers and there's an understanding and experience I think you know it would be really key to ensure that those that are around the table have the black experience and can speak to it and speak to it in such a way that's inclusive because the black experience is different and your experience will not be the same as mine Peter, so how do we make sure in that storytelling of the data that our Adventist call called data story today.

In order to tell that story, I think it's key to have members of our black community who have first-hand knowledge of what these numbers represent and how it has impacted them and what they would like to see to combat some of the issues, the part of that in building of those solutions-- so that would be my first thought.

How do we put those communities that are at the forefront and allow them to drive that agenda?

>> Peter Flegel: Thank you, so it seems to approach the idea of data governance and the governance of data collection and also usage is something that we had the secretary has heard that data collected in a respective way. Go ahead Dr. Malinda S. Smith.

>> Dr. Malinda Smith: I think this is an important question at this time and I want to go back to what's was said earlier about data, I would say as a model stats can use on the Canadian of Canada and its consultation with communities Black communities and indigenous communities highlight something significant which is a principal about "we are not objects". So not about us without us.

And that the money shall I about this blackness of how it ought to be talked about this idea of "borrowed blackness " on this tendency to think about black people in Canada are somehow synonymous United States and important stereotypes that do not work for either group.

I think that highlights were having Canadian centred, differences across regions for example, Atlantic Canada, I talked about the African Nova Scotia and compared to say that black sublists and Alberta came in 1910 the prairies, the stories are still unfolding, I mean,... hidden stories that we haven't even begun to think about.

I also think and I want to highlight what Dr. Lance T. McCready points out and to say that we need consistent data, which should be used in schools and diversities incorporate birds, noncorporate boards and government and StatCan is probably the best institution that is able to that kind of distant data collection and to articulate a good methodology.

So working with the black communities across Canada, I think such a, well a model survey looks like  for example.

This is not to discount all my colleagues like Carl James or my colleagues at Ryerson University, I think it's not just up to individual to create data points. Agencies need to be finding this kind of work, we actually also need data and advocacy groups, would love to see parallel doubt to what exists for woman of the age in Canadian universities where we see education, in common progression through the ranks consistently across the country and mindful is a provincial matter. Stats Canada just went into agreement with police data collection, but that collection of data is still in some ways fraud how to name and how to report the data.

But how it gets interpreted will require engagement with the Black communities, I mean,-- I don't see how stats Canada can do this without actually engaging with the Black communities and a continuing way.

>> Peter Flegel: Thank you for those great points and not only about the heterogeneity of Black communities but also the challenges of assessing blackness as we see in cases and for example, in Latin America, in Northern Africa where there's different definitions particularly on what your talk about and institutions that determine who is and who is not black so that it's definitely an important consideration we need to take into account. Also you have a great point about how communities written at large rather simply research teams-- given the expansion we are seeing in identification in terms of black and Latin America, lacks from the Middle east end Northern Africa and even Pakistan are definitely places we need to expand our understanding based on what is happening on our grounds. Richard, I think I saw your hand? Is Richard still there?

>> Richard Sharpe: They you Peter. Can you guys hear me?

>> Peter Flegel: With a bit of difficulty... but?

>> Peter Flegel: So maybe we'll come back to you Richard. Dr. Lance T. McCready think you had a point.

>> Dr. Lance McCready: Just quickly to add to what Doctor Smith was saying, I just think that stats Canada could expand their training and education piece and why not it be a model of like building sort of these assessments thought measure and all sorts of demographics kind of race, sexual orientation, or gender set out to sort of train more sort of both local or scholars, or people working in cities or municipal governments to really administer and develop sort of good demographic assessment tools. I think that is something that stats Canada begun doing it really is just the tip of the iceberg and I think there's a lot they could be doing and of course, I think that Black communities this case like Afro Caribbean communities, I think there should be a lot of people involved in that you provide sort of insight into the sorts of questions and ways of constructing surveys that would really benefit those communities.

>> Peter Flegel: That's a great point about community involvement and assessment so thank you for that. I think Richard, you may be back.

>> Richard Sharpe: Can you guys hear me now? I came out of the dungeon so I think that might be impacting.

I want to jump on the last two points in particular about community involvement and I'm very happy to say that black are standing out as we speak and Canadian Institute and I would strongly recommend that stats Canada works with CPAP in order to support that organization for data and research as black owned and black led and therefore supported by various communities and I think it's important to understand in our communities will very much like to have sovereignty and to ensure that our data is not being used against us and so one of the ways to put-- researchers and analysts and economists from our communities in the same place to be able to work with academics with others to deal with the Fraser institution for conservatives of the Canadian policies for the left, do that for blacks.

Just sort of a recommendation for stats Canada to fully embrace what is coming down in terms of the creation of this new organization.

>> Peter Flegel: Thank you, Richard. Myrlande Pierre Did you have a few reflections for us? I saw you... Missus Pierre? Are you there? Hello, can you hear?

>> Myrlande Pierre: I'm here. I think that data collection-- disaggregated data election both from statistics Canada's perspective and also for organizations that also collect data, perhaps internal data, this data should be used and I would echo my colleagues-- for what purpose are we using this data?

We need to think about how the state is used and not just to support someone or to help express but also to change the narrative and we speak about problems, systemic obstacles, that people from the black community are facing.

I would also like to say, how from a public health policy perspective and of public perception and how can we optimize the usage of this data to have a better policy to address these issues and all of the complexity so I believe, that it is a way of making better use of this data for public perception, for public policy, also in terms of orientation and priority on a government level.

>> Peter Flegel: Thank you very much for that point. Will now open the floor for any questions that are being seen through the chat Q&A teacher. Please address advice on how we can actively collect race data and ensure we use race data responsibly and for the purpose of improving services and closing gaps.

Who would like to take that question? I could touch an answer because the human rights commission and the youth rights commission, we work with other commissions like human rights commissions.

>> Myrlande Pierre: Across Canada and one of the elements that seemed important to us was for example, in the context of the pandemic in response to highlight the social and racial inequalities and so the commission reiterated the recommendation that was formatted in the past when implementing the data collection process that we need to follow the charter, to comply with the charter.

Need to look at the data and why are we collecting the data and what is the purpose of that and at the heart of that data collection for example, in the context of a health crisis that we are currently experiencing-- it's always against the backdrop of respect of human rights, in the charter of rights and freedom for the provincial charter. Thank you very much.

>> Peter Flegel: Can take another question, what are the elements in the questions about race? A very technical question, who would like to take a snap about one? Perhaps someone from stats can. We have a hand up from Tina.

>> Tina Chui: Thank you for the questions, I just want to mention that since last July, knowing that we do need very timely information on the impact of Covid 19 on Canada's diverse populations, my colleagues worked on the labour Force survey actually edited the questions on the population group questions which you used to derive to the visible minority groups on in the labours for survey so that data has been available last July and I believe that the data table is available on our website.

>> Peter Flegel: Thank you for that clarification and information. The next question is from Melanie who asks, how can stats Canada data from Black communities an aggregated forms be more accessible to community members, are there orders on accessing this raw data and can requests he made for analysis reports? Great question. Tina?

>> Tina Chui: Since it is stats Canada, so I will try to address that. So it's a very good question and I think like I saw some comments on quantitative versus qualitative data is and what not, I want to first of answer that we do actually do qualitative types surgeon every time we put a question on our survey, we have qualitative testing for that question we have to focus group and understand or trying to understand how people interpret the question and what is the story-- like how the communities are where targeted populations that try to measure that information.

So, the question directly is, how can qualitative or quantitative reports be accessed and we produce a lot of analysis and using our data, data is our life in our being so we do use a lot of data sing like that data where we are trying to provide information-- useful and relevant information so that perhaps qualitative researchers can access that information through consultations like Dr. Malinda S. Smith has mentioned we are, increasing and will continue to do that through consultations that would like to get important in terms of what kind of research questions to address and that is another way we try to address the information needs of qualitative research. Thank you.

>> Peter Flegel: Thank you very much. The next and perhaps last question for the panelist would be: how would you highlight the intersectionality of discrimination lived by black people? Like to try that one? I see a smile on Dahabo'S face and a smile on Richard's face.

>> Dahabo Ahmed Omer: I'm trying not to go first again I'm an overachiever I need to just hold up a second so I will go back on mute.

>> Dr. Lance McCready: Go start us off.

>> Dahabo Ahmed Omer: To me intersectionality... I look at myself and I think I'm the perfect representation of that because for being black and being a woman and being a refugee, you know in my culture, also an orphan.

It's part of everything that I carry in the work that I do in the way that the world sees me as well, but I think they're something that we never talk a i a intersection is bull intersectionality so how do we address the invisible once because the visible ones are seen fit what you do when intersectionality is so invisible and for pieces that are not necessarily spoken of.

There are many parts of our community do not speak of being part of the LGBTQ plus community and that there is...while mental health is a huge intersectionality and there's a huge stigma around  that.

So I worry about the person we would never put into to the forefront and how institutions and specifically government-- how does the government look at it say to themselves, we will create something that will be to all of the different identities that one person can carry, a Black communities communities in general, from our backgrounds to our historical context to OUR FAITH so how do we do something that is reactive to our community, don't know if I have the right answer but I think, my intervention is saying that there's too many parts of us that are invisible identities, and those are the most harmful because those are the ones we always forget.

>> Richard Sharpe: If I can jump in Peter, thank you for that Dahabo, when I mention intersectionality issues because partly what we do in Canada's w is because when we talk about gender identities and race, separate them so when we are collecting this data and analysing this and creating stories because data is about creating data stories, to be able to lump such analogy because we have to identify who is the most marginalized and who is at risk, was transgendered, lose one father's black or whose mom is... so we could really focus on those issues and what we s experience in our society so were addressing for all groups.

The black lives matter movement spearheaded by LGBTQ communities, one of the most marginalized communities in terms of the most hate crimes done against. So again, my pet peeve here as I engage with these conversations within government is not the lack of ability to be able to actually deal with intersectionality as a real thing that is happening to black people, and persons of disability and indigenous people, park no icing and distracting the story on what we need to do is distracting us from creating the best laws protect.

People are always in touch with multiple intersectionality and therefore different levels of jeopardy in their lives.

>> Peter Flegel: On that note we are running against the clock so I would like to pass it back to annular board to close us off.

>> Anil Arora: MERCI! Thank you so much Peter, Richard, MALINDA, thank you, to our sign language interpreters as well for an excellent job and thank you very much.

Thank you to all the organizers of this event and to all of you for joining us, today. What has emerged from this event is a narrative of what we know, what we don't know, and above all what we need to know.

What we need to work on together, our panelists app just raced so much issues to get to some of the complexities of weather it's collections, modelling data, data linkages and occasions, to make sure that there is cohesion, how can statistics Canada play a more active would ship role and we need to make sure that we are taking into account the context of how it is changing and we need to do this with your voices and being inclusive and I want to highlight the work of Tina Chui who is ahead head up our centre of diversity and gender inclusion and the amazing work that they are doing in terms of researching concepts and coming up with more and more rich data doing it in a way that is accessible and available to everyone.

I want to thank our advisory committee members, just incredible, guiding us through this complex landscape which I think you will all agree continues to evolve.

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This Black history month gives us the ability to reflect the reality of black Canadians and also to celebrate their achievements. We can do this throughout the whole year, so many black people are inessential roles and during the pandemic, them as front-line workers, healthcare professionals or business owners.

But there are challenges and we know that systemic racism is present and during the pandemic, we are seeing a social and economic trends continue and we are already tracking them among the vulnerable populations.

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>> Anil Arora: We know that Covid 19 is not affecting all Canadians equally and we know that there is the risk of contracting the virus and dying event can depend on not only your age and health but also on your postal code and your income and work status and also, unfortunately, the colour of your skin and be status can be used by many and more decision-makers especially during mission protocol moments like a pandemic and that is the lesson and the challenge and the offer to partner with our colleagues.

Let's take advantage Let's take advantage of this underutilized data in our day today and this will help not only the government and private sectors and civil societies and other leaders but it will be a way to have a more direct impact on the lives of all Canadians and to improve their situation.

>> Anil Arora: And we remain in learning mode and we are learning organization and will continue to work hard our needs during this pivotal year in history and thank you. Merci, mes chèrs amis. We wish you all the best.

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Video - Impact of COVID-19 on Canadians living with long-term conditions and disabilities, American Sign Language

Catalogue number: 11-629-x

Issue number: 2020004

Release date: August 27, 2020

Impact of COVID-19 on Canadians living with long-term conditions and disabilities, American Sign Language - Video transcript

Impact of COVID-19 on Canadians living with long-term conditions and disabilities

Just over one-fifth of the Canadian population has one or more disabilities, however, relatively little is known about their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. As highlighted by a recent release using data from the 2017 Canadian Survey on Disability (CSD), persons with disabilities may be particularly vulnerable during the pandemic.

From June 23 to July 6, 2020, approximately 13,000 Canadians with long-term conditions or disabilities participated in an online questionnaire "Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians: Living with Long-Term Conditions and Disabilities." Today, Statistics Canada is releasing these findings as part of a series of results based on this crowdsourcing initiative. Readers should note that, unlike other surveys conducted by Statistics Canada, crowdsourcing data are not collected under a design using probability-based sampling. Therefore, caution should be exercised when interpreting the findings, and no inferences about the overall Canadian population with long-term conditions and disabilities should be made based on these results. The results are not inclusive of all persons with long-term conditions and disabilities and reflect only the experiences of those who participated in the crowdsourcing.

As a first release, this article provides a general snapshot of the employment and income impacts of COVID-19 on crowdsource participants aged 15 to 64 living with long-term conditions and disabilities.

Today, we also released an article titled, "The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Canadian families of children with disabilities," which provides a snapshot of the experiences of parents who had children with and without disabilities in their household during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data were collected as part of a recent crowdsourcing initiative titled the "Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians: Parenting during the Pandemic: Data Collection Series" and, while not representative of all parents in Canada, provides insights into the experiences of those who participated. Overall, the results indicated that while participants' level of concerns for their families were similar between parents of children who did and did not have disabilities, a higher proportion of parent participants who had a child or children with disabilities were very or extremely concerned about their children's amount of screen time, loneliness or isolation, general mental health, and school year and academic success.

Over one-third of participants with long-term conditions or disabilities report experiencing a temporary or permanent job loss or reduced hours during the pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the Canadian labour market, with over 5.5 million workers affected by either job loss or reduced hours between February and April, according to the April Labour Force Survey (LFS). The most recent release of the LFS shows that the gradual re-opening of the economy has led to a rebound in employment in May and June. The evolution of the COVID-19 shutdown has resulted in a wide range of employment changes and challenges. This impact has also been felt by those with long-term conditions or disabilities who, under normal economic conditions, have lower rates of employment than those without disabilities.

Among participants aged 15 to 64 with a long-term condition or disability, two-thirds (66%) reported being employed prior to the start of the pandemic, while 55% reported they were currently employed. Among those participants who were employed before the start of the pandemic, over one-third (36%) reported experiencing a temporary or permanent job loss or reduced hours since March. Those who reported multiple long-term conditions were more likely to report a temporary or permanent job loss or a reduction in hours since March (41%) compared with those with one long-term condition (31%).

Employment changes are more likely among youth participants and those with lower levels of education

Youth participants with a long-term condition or disability were more likely to report their work situation changed from being employed prior to the shutdown to being currently unemployed or not in the labour force, compared with other age groups. Over half (55%) of those aged 15 to 24 reported being employed prior to the start of the pandemic, compared with 39% reporting current employment. This is in line with findings from the LFS, which indicates youth and students have been disproportionately impacted in employment during COVID-19.

Work situation changes also differed by educational attainment. Among participants with long-term conditions and disabilities aged 25 to 64, those with a high school education or less were more likely to report a change in employment status compared with those with at least some university credentials. Almost half (49%) of those with lower levels of education reported being employed prior to the pandemic, compared with 36% reporting current employment. In contrast, employment among those with higher levels of education fell from 77% to 68%.

The majority of employed participants with long-term conditions or disabilities report working from home

COVID-19 measures have resulted in more people working from home. Previous research estimates that about 39% of jobs in Canada can be done remotely. The majority of currently employed participants with long-term conditions or disabilities aged 15 to 64 reported that they are working from home instead of their usual workplace (58%). About 29% of respondents indicated they were working at their usual workplace outside the home.

Almost half of participants rely exclusively on non-employment income since March

For many Canadians, the large job losses and reduced hours due to COVID-19 meant a decrease in employment income, which might lead to the need for government assistance. A recent Statistics Canada study found that about one-quarter of Canadians could be financially vulnerable during the pandemic in the absence of government transfers. Data from the 2017 Canadian Survey on Disability (CSD) show that persons with disabilities are more likely to live below the poverty line and employed persons with disabilities have lower incomes compared with those without disabilities. Income disruptions as a result of the pandemic could place persons with disabilities in an even more vulnerable position.

Just under one-quarter (24%) of participants aged 15 to 64 with long-term conditions or disabilities reported only receiving employment income since the start of the pandemic. Almost half (45%) said they only received income from non-employment sources during this period. Although not directly comparable, data from the 2017 CSD shows that under regular economic conditions, 37% of persons with disabilities aged 15 to 64 relied solely on employment income and 30% relied exclusively on non-employment income.
Among the non-employment income received since the start of the pandemic, the most commonly reported sources were disability benefits (23%) and COVID-related income supports, such as the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) or the Canada Emergency Student Benefit (CESB) (17%).

Almost one-third of participants report their household income decreased since the start of the pandemic

Over half (54%) of the participants with long-term conditions or disabilities aged 15 to 64 reported their overall household income stayed the same during the COVID-19 pandemic and 8% indicated it had increased. However, 31% of participants said their overall household income decreased since the start of the shutdown. Among those who said their household income decreased, over half (56%) reported it was by more than $1,000 per month. Households with children were more likely to report that their household income had decreased (37%), compared with households without children (33%) and those living alone (20%).

Ability to meet food and grocery needs and needs for personal protective equipment are the most commonly reported impacts of the pandemic

Participants in the crowdsource survey were asked about their ability to meet specific types of financial obligations and essential needs in the context of the pandemic. Those with long-term conditions or disabilities most commonly reported a major or moderate impact on meeting their food and grocery needs (44%) and personal protective equipment needs (40%). The proportion reporting a major or moderate impact among the remaining categories was similar (around 20% to 25%).

Over half of participants have difficulty meeting at least one financial obligation or essential need

Overall, 61% of participants aged 15 to 64 with long-term conditions or disabilities reported a major or moderate impact from COVID-19 on at least one of the types of financial obligations or essential needs.  Participants with multiple long-term conditions were more likely to report impacts (71%), compared with those with one long-term condition (50%). Participants who were living alone (65%) and households with children (64%) were also more likely to report impacts on financial obligations or essential needs than those in households without children (58%).

Note to readers

Data in this release are from Statistics Canada's Crowdsourcing: Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians. The crowdsourcing questionnaire collects data on the current economic and social situation, as well as on people's physical and mental health, to assess the needs of communities and implement suitable support measures during and after the pandemic. This alternative method of collecting information can be used to supplement data obtained from more traditional sources, particularly due to its relatively low implementation cost and ability to increase the granularity of data in a timely manner. Unlike other surveys conducted by Statistics Canada, crowdsourcing data are not collected under a design using probability-based sampling. Therefore, caution should be exercised when interpreting the findings, and no inferences about the overall Canadian population should be made based on these results.

Further caution should be used when interpreting the results due to the method of collection and the population of interest. The survey was only offered in one mode of collection, participants were asked to complete it via an electronic questionnaire. The overall accessibility of the survey was reduced as it was not available in other formats, such as, ASL or LSQ, Braille or audio versions, and it was not available to those without access to a computer or Internet. Proxy interviews were encouraged, to allow family members or caregivers to respond on behalf of a person with a long-term condition or disability.

To identify those with a long-term condition or disability, participants in this crowdsource were asked if they had difficulties from a list of six different areas and then if they identified as a person with a disability. Included in this analysis were respondents that reported a difficulty and self-identified as a person with a disability, those who reported no specific difficulty but identified as a person with a disability and those who reported a difficulty but did not identify as a person with a disability. This differs from the method used by Statistics Canada on the Canadian Survey on Disability (CSD), which administers the Disability Screening Questionnaire (DSQ) to identify persons with a disability and calculate the official rates of disability across Canada.

Among the participants, 21% indicated they had a sensory difficulty, 38% reported a physical difficulty, 25% indicated a cognitive difficulty, 48% reported a mental health-related difficulty and 57% indicated they had some other health problem or condition. Respondents could select more than one difficulty type.

Contact information

For more information, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact us (toll-free 1-800-263-1136; 514-283-8300; STATCAN.infostats-infostats.STATCAN@canada.ca) or Media Relations (613-951-4636; STATCAN.mediahotline-ligneinfomedias.STATCAN@canada.ca).

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<span class="wb-inv">Video - </span>Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohorts (CanCHECs): Creation of a new health surveillance program

Video - Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohorts (CanCHECs): Creation of a new health surveillance program

This video describes a new health surveillance program at Statistics Canada: The Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohorts (CanCHECs).  The video describes the attributes of and the datasets included in the CanCHECs, how the CanCHECs can be used, and their strengths and limitations. Recent examples of research projects based on the CanCHECs are presented along with information about how to apply for access to these data.

Video - Navigating Statistics Canada's Website

Catalogue number: Catalogue number: 11-629-x

Issue number: 2019002

Release date: December 12, 2019

Navigating Statistics Canada's Website - Video transcript

(The Statistics Canada symbol and Canada wordmark appear on screen with the title Navigating Statistics Canada's Website)

(A background image of graphs appears with the words: Navigating Statistics Canada Website, Presented by Jimmy Mikedis, Consulting Analyst)

So in today's presentation, we will be showing you our recently updated website. Throughout the webinar, we will view the site's features, functionalities and show you how to find information on our website. By the end of the presentation, you will be able to efficiently navigate our website. So the first thing I will go ahead and do is share my screen with everybody.

(The Screen goes white and reads: There is no content to view at the moment either because no content is being shared or because an unsupported media object is being shared.)

(The screen changes to the Statistics Canada Home Page)

For those of you who are not familiar with Statitics Canada's website, it is www.statcan.gc.ca So with approximately 25 million data users annually, Statistics Canada has identified the need for a more simplified, coherent and user-friendly website. So, on June 4th we went ahead and updated it with an appearance and a look and feel, which is more congruent to the other Government of Canada websites. The first thing that we will be able to see all the way at the top is a blue banner ad.

(The mouse moves to the top of the page and hovers over the subject tab, then the data tab, then the Analysis tab, then the Reference tab, then the Geography tab, the Census program tab, Surveys and Statistical programs tab, the About Statcan and the Canada.ca.)

So Subject, Data, Analysis, Reference, Geography, Census program, Surveys and and Statistical programs, About StatCan and Canada.ca. We will be going ahead and looking through each single one of these during today's presentation, to see what kind of information is available.

(The mouse moves to the top right hand side and hovers near the icons for Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit,Twitter.)

In the top right hand corner of the homepage, we are going to be able to see the various social media platforms that you can follow us on. So Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, Twitter or Facebook.

(The mouse moves down to hover over the link for MyStatCan)

Right underneath that, we are going to be seeing "My StatCan." So, My StatCan allows you create a profile where you can indicate topics of interests, so that you are alerted by email when the information is released. So let's say that you are curious on information with regards to agriculture on the portal. You can say anytime agriculture-related information is released. Please send me an email. The system will send you an email. And at that point, you can just go ahead and connect to the website in order to access the information.

(The mouse moves left to In the News section)

On the left hand side, we are going to be seeing "In the News." which provides a glimpse of some of our newest releases. To the right of that, we are going to be seeing the Daily.

(The mouse moves to the right to click on the Daily link and the screen changes to the Daily page.)

The Daily is Statistics Canada's official release bulletin, published every morning at 8:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, and it has been published as such since 1932.

(The mouse hovers over to the Asphalt Roofing and Financial market statistics release.)

So here we will be able to see some of our recent releases that were released today. So, as we can see Asphalt Roofing and Financial Market Statistics.

(The mouse clicks the back arrow at the upper left corner to go back to the home page screen. The mouse then clicks on the Interact with data link)

To the right of the Daily, we would see Interact with Data. Interact with Data is a one-stop shop for all visualization tools available for us on the Statistics Canada website.

(The mouse clicks the link for Data visualization.)

So the first we are going to be seeing is Data Visualisation, which essentially, allow you to understand the story behind the data. So it provides information in various statistics in graphical format. Underneath that, we are going to be seeing Infographics, which are essentially one pagers mixed with graphs and statistics. So looking at one of our most frequently consulted ones that was just released information on

(The mouse clicks the link to the Infographic - "Eating out: Nutrition information on menus and menu boards" and scrolls down to show the whole infographic.)

Eating Out: Nutritional information on menus and menu boards. So you can see the information is presented in a very digestible form. So there is key statistics and one word sentences.

(The mouse clicks the back arrow at the upper left corner to go back to the home page screen. The mouse then clicks on the Interact with data link.The mouse clicks the back arrow at the upper left corner to go back to the Data Visualization page where it hovers near the thematic maps links and the Videos.)

Underneath that, we are going to be seeing Thematic Maps, which essentially graph various information on a map of Canada and underneath that we are going to be seeing various Videos Statistics Canada has created as well.

(The mouse clicks the back arrow at the upper left corner to go back to the Home page to the Key Indicators on the right hand side of the page.)

Going back to the Homepage, we'll be going ahead and seeing to the right of Interact with Data, Key Indicators. So, key indicators are available for individuals who are looking for that one quick number. For example, sometimes you'll come up to the Statistics Canada website, and just say, I wonder what the most recent unemployment rate is? So that's where you can find information within this section.

(The mouse moves around showing the Key Indicators and stops at the drop down menu to highlight the word Canada.)

Currently, we are seeing 4 key indicators, that are available at the national level. Should you require an alternate geography, you can always go ahead and access this using the drop-down menu all the way at the top. A list of all indicators that are currently available can be accessed either at the to the top or bottom of the section.

(The mouse moves down the Home page to show the Services and Information section and then hovers over the Data tab on the banner.)

Under Services and Information, we are going to be seeing various tabs. All of these tabs are the same tabs we are going to be seeing all the way at the top in the blue banner. The only two new ones that we are going to be seeing are essentially:

(The mouse moves down to hover over "Request customized products and services".)

Request Customized Products and Services, which allow you to essentially put through a request with Statistics Canada, should information you are looking for are not available on the website. You can always go ahead and see if it can be created for you through a customized order.

(The mouse moves to the right to hover over "Register to our workshops, training and conferences".)

To the right of that, we are going to be seeing Register to our workshops, training and conferences. And we will actually be reviewing this all of the way at the end of today's presentation.

(The mouse moves up to the right to hover over "Most Requested" and moves around the topics Consumer Price Index, Census profiles and population estimates links.)

Here, we'll find information on our Most Requested and visited pages. So you can imagine, this is where we're going to be seeing the Consumer Price Index, information with regards to census profiles, or population estimates.

(The mouse moves down to the Contact Us section)

Underneath, we see the section "Contact Us". "Contact Us" is essentially a team of agents that are available to answer any inquiries whether it be by phone or by email. They are available from 7:30 AM to 7:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, from Monday to Friday, excluding holidays. So, in order to ask any questions, you can use the phone number that appears here, you can use a web form, or send them an email.

(The mouse moves down to highlight the toll free phone number)

(The mouse moves down to the What we are doing section.)

Underneath that, we are going to be seeing the section that's called "What are we doing?" So, in the section, "What are we doing?", it focuses on research and consultations that we are currently conducting to ensure the data we are providing meets the needs of our users.

(The mouse rolls down to the Corporate Information section.)

Underneath that, we'll see Corporate Information which provides information with regards to our Ministry, our Minister, as well as our Chief Statistician.

(The mouse moves down to Of Interest section where it hovers near the various Hub icons.)

Underneath this, we are going to be seeing that Statistics Canada has created some hubs. Hubs are essentially hot topics, and it's all of the data we have with regards to those specific hot topics in one central location, so as we call it a one-stop shop.

(The mouse moves around the Cannabis hub link and the gender diversity and inclusion link.)

So some of our current hot topics, as you can imagine, are cannabis, gender diversity and inclusion. So, as such, we have created a hub to allow you to more easily access this type of information.

(The mouse scrolls up to the top of the home page and clicks on the Subjects tab.)

Going all the way back to the top of the page, we are going to be clicking on the first tab, which is Subjects. Some individuals who come on to Statistics Canada's website, are curious about a specific topic, but they are not exactly sure what information they are looking for. So they are looking for a data table, are they looking for an analytical publication or article? So that's why we've created the Subject's tab.

(The mouse hovers near the list of all the subjects.)

By clicking Subject, there is a list of approximately 30 various subjects, that may be of interest to you and you can simply see what information is available under each topic.

(The mouse clicks on Education, training and learning and the screen changes to Education, training and learning screen.)

We'll go ahead and click on Education, training and learning. we are going to be seeing some key indicators related to this topic.

(The mouse moves around to show some key indicators such as new registration in registered apprenticeship programs and then clicks on the dropdown menu to highlight Canada.)

So the information with regards to new registrations in registered apprenticeship programs. Once again, the system is going to default at a national level. Alternative geographies are available through the dropdown menu.

(The mouse moves down to show filters, then hovers over keywords and subjects.)

Underneath this, we're going underneath the key indicators, we are going to be seeing that we can filter down the results, whether it be by specific keyword, whether it be by a second subject or a third tier subject. Underneath the topic of education, training and learning, we can go ahead and click one of these subjects, in order to narrow down the type of information looked for.

(The mouse moves up to the drop down menu that sorts by date of release.)

So all the way at the top here, we are going to be seeing that the data that is currently, the tables and products that are currently available are sorted in terms of their release date. So that is the default setting. Should you enter in a keyword,

(The mouse moves up to the drop down menu and highlights relevance.)

the sort by criteria will switch to Relevance.

(The mouse moves up to the drop down menu and highlights title.)

If ever you are looking for, essentially, a list of results in an alphabetical format, that's when you can use the Title option.

(The mouse moves down to and hovers over the All tab.)

So underneath here, we are going to be seeing, with regards to once again, Education, training and learning. So with regards to this topic, there are over 1,000 products available,

(The mouse moves down to and hovers over the data, analytical products and reference material tab.)

of which a little over 500 are data tables, a little over 500 are analytical products, and 95 are reference materials.

(The mouse moves to the left and clicks on the Education indicators link and the screen changes to show a lower number of list under the all, data, analytical products and reference material tabs.)

So once again, if we were looking to see information on education indicators, we would simply click Education indicators. What we are going to be seeing, is the list of products have significantly decreased in order to provide you information with regards to education indicators.

(The mouse moves up to the left and hovers over the Subject tab then clicks on the data tab and the screen changes to show the data page.)

So that's how one would go about to use the Subject tab. Using the Data Tab. So, in the past, for those who are familiar in our website, our various data products, whether it be CANSIM tables, or summary tables were available in separate environments. We decided to consolidate everything, and simplified the access using the DATA tab.

(The mouse moves down and moves around the keyword search then the subject's links.)

Similar to what we saw in Subject, we can go ahead and search using a keyword or subject. We do have some new search criteria, that are available at this specific section. We will be able to see geography as well as Statistics Canada surveys. So if you know the specific geography that you are looking for, you can simply go ahead and click on the little box in front, and the amount of items will significantly decrease.

(The mouse hovers over the little box in front of the word Canada under Geography.)

as well as by subject.

(The mouse moves up to the drop down menu that sorts by date of release and then moves down to the tabs and hovers over the all, tables, profiles on a specific community or region; thematic maps; Public use micro use data files and data visualization tabs.)

Similar to the Data tab, we can sort by date, by relevance or by title. Underneath this we are going to be seeing the various types of data tables that are available we have overall tables. Profiles on a specific community or region, thematic maps, Public use micro use data files as well as data visualization. So we understand that this look may be quite different from what we used to have on our website.

(The mouse moves up to the right and highlights the help icon and moves just below to show the link to What's new on our website and clicks on it. The screen changes to show the screen with the What's new on our website video.)

So as such, we have created a little help option all the way at the top, as well as a "What's New?" on our website. So "What's New on our website?" is a short 2 minute video. Although we won't be reviewing it during today's call. I would recommend that right after this presentation, you take a moment and just quickly watch the video to see if it can provide any additional information that may be of use to you.

(The mouse moves up to the right hand corner and clicks on the back arrow to go to the Data screen and the mouse moves down to the bottom of page to show the link to Contact us.)

As you can imagine, with over 800 pages available of results, should you ever require any assistance in finding information. You can always once again go ahead and use the Contact us button, that appears in the bottom left hand corner of every Statistics Canada page. Once again, they are a team of dedicated agents available to help you from 7:30 to 7:30 EST. They are fantastic and provide a very rapid service. So please once again feel free to contact them if you ever you are having a hard time accessing any information.

(The mouse moves up to top of the right hand side of the page to hover over the first result on a link to Bank of Canada data on Assets and Liabilities.)

So let's quickly go ahead and look at the one specific, let's go ahead and look at one of the results. So the first result over here is a table that comes from the Bank of Canada data on assets and liabilities. and it provides averages on Wednesdays. So underneath that we are going to be seeing the unique table number.

(The mouse moves below to highlight the table number below the link.)

So the unique table number is a 2 digit code followed by, a 2 digit code followed by a 4 digit code and then a 2 digit code. The first 2 digits relate to the subject, the second 2 digits indicate if product is a data table or is essentially the overall product type. The next 4 digits are the multidimensional data tables or data cube numbers and the last 2 indicate the amount of views available. So right now we are seeing that this specific table is a view one for table such as the Consumer Price Index. This is where you will often be seeing that the exact same information is presented in multiple formats using various views. So you may be going ahead and seeing the last 2 digits change to, for example, a 2 to a 3. So let's say that your boss or co-worker or even educator, comes up to you and say they want you to find some information on Statistics Canada's website. Let's say they tell you they are looking for information with regards to employment and unemployment rates. for the last 3 years for the province of Québec and the province of Ontario. So you would know that the information you are looking for is essentially in a table format.

(The mouse moves up to the top and hovers over the data tab.)

You would simply click on Data. Then at that point, you would say, let's start off using the keywords. That's how I would go about the overall search. So in that case, I know that I am looking for information with regards to employment.

(The mouse types in the word employment in the keyword search box and a list of suggestions appear below. The mouse clicks on the first suggestion employment and unemployment and it appears in the keyword box.)

So let's start typing in employment. What we are going to see is that the system provides you with some commonly search suggestions. So since the information that I looking for looks very similar to employment and unemployment.

(The mouse clicks on employment and unemployment and then clicks on the little magnifying glass icon.)

I'll go ahead and click on that. As you are going to see, the number of results hasn't changed yet. Because we need to click on the little magnifying glass. Once we go ahead and click on the magnifying glass, we'll see that a filter is now created in the top left hand corner, and the amount of products available has significantly decreased.

(The mouse hovers over the tabs to show that the numbers have decreased.)

Once again, knowing that the information that we're looking for is for the province of Ontario and the province of Québec. Let's say we're looking for that. Let's tell the system we're looking for a table that has that search criteria available.

(The mouse moves to the left under Geography and click on the little box right in front of the province or territories.)

So here we are simply going to click on the little box right in front of the province or territory.

(The mouse moves up to the filters to indicate the second filter criteria that has been added and the way to remove it.)

As as we're going to go ahead and see that a second criteria has been added all the way at the top. Should you ever wish to go ahead and remove it, simply click the little x.

(The mouse hovers over the all tab to show the numbers have decreased.)

We're going to once again see that the amount of products available has significantly decreased. Let's say that we don't want to start reading through the various tables yet. Let's say that we are a very seasoned data user, and that we know the information we are looking for comes from, the Labour Force Survey, which is collecting information on a monthly basis.

(The mouse moves to the left and under Survey and Statistical program clicks on more and a list of links appear below and clicks on Labour Force Survey with 81 in parenthesis.)

We can go ahead and a third filter on so if we add a 3rd filter, we'll now go ahead and see, there are 81 results available. So let's go ahead and start reading the various titles and descriptions, in order to see if the information we are looking for is in the tables. So once again we're looking for information with regards to employment and unemployment for the last 3 years for Ontario and Québec.

(The screen changes to show a list of results. The mouse hovers over the link Labour Force characteristics, by province, monthly, seasonally adjusted.)

So the first tables tells us it is providing information with regards to labour force characteristics.

(The mouse clicks on the word more under the link Labour Force characteristics, by province, monthly, seasonally adjusted to see a description.)

If we're not sure what the definition of labour force characteristics is we can always go ahead and read through the description. So here it is telling us it provides information with regards to employment and unemployment. So looking good.

(The mouse hovers over the link Labour Force characteristics, by province, monthly, seasonally adjusted.)

The next part of the title indicates that it does provide information by province. Once again, great. However, the next thing that is a little worrying to me is that it's monthly information. I know that my colleague, boss or supervisor is looking for annual information. So I wouldn't go ahead and click on the first table.

(The mouse moves to the second result Labour Force characteristics, by census metropolitan area, three-month moving average, seasonally adjusted.)

Let's go ahead and look at the second one. Once again it says Labour Force characteristics, and it is saying by Census Metropolitan Area, and three month moving average. So that is really not what I am looking for.

(The mouse scrolls down and hovers over the next result Labour Force characteristics, by sex, and detailed age group, annual.)

So I'll move on the the third. So here labour force characteristics by sex, and detailed age group, and it's available on annual format. So the description below also says that it is providing information on a province level. So it does look like the information I am looking for.

(The mouse clicks on this result and the screen changes to show a table titled Labour Force characteristics, by sex, and detailed age group, annual [x 1,000].)

So let me go ahead and open it up and quickly see what information is available.

(The mouse moves down the table to hover over the numbers.)

So the first thing we see at the top is the title of the table, and it's saying that the numbers expressed in the table below are in thousands. So once again very important to multiply these numbers in thousands. To the right of the table, we're going to be seeing a little footnote.

(The mouse moves and clicks on to the footnote link and ¬the screen changes to description in a dialogue box. The mouse then clicks on the x in the upper right hand corner to close the box.)

If we click on the footnote, it will simply provide us additional reading material with regards to something that may be of interest to us.

(The screen appears with the table titled Labour Force characteristics, by sex, and detailed age group, annual [x 1,000] and the mouse hovers over frequency, table number.)

Underneath that we'll see details of the table. So it will indicate to us the frequency of this table is on annual basis. It will provide information to table number, it's old CANSIM table number, and at this point, I'd like to add a little parenthesis and indicate that if ever you have an old CANSIM table saved, as a favourite, we have created redirect pages. So if you go ahead and click on your old favourite, it will go ahead and re-open the new table.

(The mouse hovers over geography, the word Canada and the word employment, sex, age group, for 5 years.)

Underneath that it will indicate the information being produced at a national and provincial level. So here, we are going to be seeing that the data within this table focus currently on a national level, with regards to employment, by sex, age group, for 5 years and the table indicates information in the number of persons.

(The mouse scrolls down to show information is broken down by gender and at the bottom hovers over the link for information on how to cite the table.)

Scrolling to the bottom, we will see the information is broken down by gender. And at the bottom we are going to be seeing information on how to cite the table should you ever need to do so for one of your reports.

(The mouse scrolls down to Source [Survey and Statistical program] and clicks on the link and a link to the Labour Force Survey appears below.)

Underneath that, we are going to be seeing "Source".

(The mouse scrolls down and clicks on Related Products and Data appears below with a link to a table Unemployment rate, participation rate and employment rate by sex, annual. Below that is Analysis and a link to Stats in brief: Labour Force Survey, December 2018. The mouse then clicks on Subjects and a list appears below for Labour, Employment, Unemployment, and Labour Force characteristics.)

Underneath that, we see information with regards to related products as well as subject.

(The mouse scrolls up to the top right hand corner of the page to the link for Tips on Data tables.)

Once again, for some of our more seasoned users we have went ahead and created a Frequently Asked Questions section as well as short video tutorials on how to use and modify a specific data table.

(The mouse moves to the left of the page to hover over Geography and Labour Force Characteristics.)

So right here we see that we have what's called a simple modification that's available. So we can modify the table below based on two criteria. One being geography and the other being labour force characteristics. So once again knowing that I am looking for information with regards to employment and unemployment.

(The mouse moves to the drop down menu under Geography and Canada appears underneath. The mouse scrolls down and highlights Quebec.)

I'll go ahead and select Quebec.

(The mouse moves to the right to the drop down menu under Labour Force Characteristics and a list of suggestions appear. The mouse scrolls down to highlight unemployment rate and clicks the apply button.)

and I will put unemployment rate and click on the apply button.

(The screen changes to show a table with information on the unemployment rate for Quebec.)

We'll see that the table below will go ahead and update. Once again, for information with regards to the unemployment rate for Quebec. Let's say we want one table that has information on not only Canada, but Quebec and Ontario and focuses on employment and unemployment.

(The mouse clicks on the add and remove data button and the screen changes to a page where various elements are available on tabs. On the geography, tab the mouse hovers over a link to 11 items and then the mouse clicks on a little arrow to expand the geographies available.)

We wouldn't be able to go ahead and do this with simple modification, but we can go ahead and click on the add and remove data buttons. When we go ahead and click on that, we can see various elements that are available. Of which we can go ahead and modify in the table below. So here we will be seeing 1 of 11 items. But we are only seeing 1 item which is currently Canada. If we expand the little arrow, we will go ahead and see that we can essentially increase the amount of geographies available. Here we will see a little box with a green check mark.

(The mouse hovers over the green check mark by the word Canada. Then it clicked the boxes for Ontario and Quebec to add.)

The green check mark simply indicates that the table below is currently showing that variable. So currently it will show Canada and Canada. Once again, I'll add Ontario and Quebec to this table.

(The mouse hovers over the green check mark by the word Canada. Then it clicked the boxes for Ontario and Quebec to add. The screen changes and the mouse hovers over the Labour Force characteristics tab and then deselects employment and clicks on unemployment, participation rate and employment rate.)

With regards to labour force characteristics, there are 10 items available. So 10 elements available. So I'll go ahead and simply expand all the options. So once again I'm not looking for information with regards to employment. I am really looking for unemployment and participation rate and employment rate. So as such I went ahead and deselected employment, and then I selected the 3 other criteria.

(The mouse hovers the sex tab and then clicks on the age group tab and starts to deselect age categories but stops and clicks once on the box in front of the word All to select all elements and then clicks it a second time and deselects all the elements. The mouse then clicks on the box in front of 15 years and over.)

I'd like the information broken up by gender, and so I'll leave this section as is. And with regards to age group, I know that I am looking for information with regards to individuals 15 years and over. So I can either go ahead and start unseleting the little boxes. Or a very useful trick we use is, in front of the word All, we'll see a little box. If we click it a first time, all the elements will be selected. If we click it a second time, all the elements will become unselected, and then we can click on 15 years and over.

(The screen changes to a new table and the mouse highlights the reference period tab and clicks on the box following from and chooses 2016 and in the box following to highlights 2018 and clicks on the apply button.)

Once again, we know we want information for the last 3 years. This specific table with go back all the wasy to 1976, so we'll simply put 2016 to 2018, and then we'll click on the Apply button.

(The screen changes to show a new table and the mouse hovers over the words Canada, Quebec, Ontario and titles unemployment, employment, participation rate for the last 3 years but we have information broken up by gender as well as individuals 15 years and over.)

Once we click on the apply button, now we'll go ahead and see all the various elements we selected now appear in the table below. So we have information on not only Canada, but we have Quebec, Ontario. We have information for unemployment rate, participation rate and employment rate, for the last 3 years. And we have information broken up by gender as well as individuals 15 years and over. If you are ever interested in customizing the layout of the table,

(The mouse clicks on the customize layout tab and a new screen appears with a box of various elements which the mouse hovers over and then hovers over the words column and row.)

We can click on the button called Customize layout. It will simply provide all the various elements and ask you if you are looking for them in a column or row format. So let's say that we are interested in having the geography switch into a row format.

(The mouse moves to a radio button in front of the word row and selects it and then clicks on apply button. A new screen appears with the table in a row format.)

We would simply click on the little radio button and then click Apply. And as we'll go ahead and see, the table is in a format that may be more conducive to your needs.

(The mouse scrolls up to the top on the right hand side to a Save my selection button and clicks on it. Below it will appear a unique link with all the various elements and layouts selected and save it. The screen changes and a Google page appears. The mouse selects a new tab and the table appears that you saved.)

Wanting to go ahead and save this table, a few different options are available. The first one is Save my selection. By clicking on Save my selection, it'll create a unique link with all the various elements and layouts that you previously selected and save it. So if you were to ahead and create and open it up in a new tab. We'll go ahead to see the information appear exactly the same as what we had requested.

(The mouse scrolls up to the top and clicks on the x for the new tab and the screen changes to show the original window with the table. The mouse then selects the download options button and clicks on it. A new screen appears with six options available.)

Alternatively, we do have the option of downloading the information. When we click on download information, we are going to be seeing 6 options are available to us.

(The mouse highlights the first one- CSV Download the data as currently is displayed.)

So first one is downloading the data as currently displayed.

(The mouse highlights the second one- CSV Download the data as displayed [but excluding accompanying symbols].)

Second one is downloading the data as displayed but excluding any accompanying quality indicators, or any accompanying symbols. So what we mean by this is, a few of your tables have quality indicators, and as such it may cause issues that are doing analysis with a CSV format. So we went ahead and created a second version which excludes this information.

(The mouse highlights the third one- CSV Download the selected data for [in database loading].)

The 3rd option is downloading the selected data for database loading. We'll go ahead and see what that looks like, exactly like in the next few seconds. Underneath that we have metadata information or downloading the entire table.

(The mouse hovers over CSV Download cube metadata information and the next one CSV download the entire table. Then the mouse highlights the SDMX format Download the entire table.)

Underneath that we are going to be seeing information is also available in SDMX format. So this is a format that is available for, that is created to allow information to be shared on international standard. So it is essentially an international standardizing, the exchange of statistical data and metadata amongst international organizations. So in order for let's say, different statistical bureaus or different countries to exchange information this format needs to be available. So let's go ahead and look at the first option, which is to downloading the data as displayed. In order to save us a few seconds, I went ahead and already downloaded it.

(The mouse clicks on the first Download option and an excel spreadsheet appears on the screen. The mouse moves around the sheet to show details of the table are found all the way at the top.)

So very similar to what we saw before, information with regards to the details of the table are found all the way at the top. The data itself is at the middle of the page and relevant footnotes on how to cite are all the way at the bottom. That's how we would use option 1.

(The pointer closes out of the excel spreadsheet and the screen appears with the list of download buttons.)

Option 3 which is downloading the selected database downloading is Option 3 So I'll go ahead and see what that looks like.

(The pointer selects the third Download option.)

So once again to save a few moments I went ahead and downloaded the table.

(An excel spreadsheet appears on the screen.)

So here we are going to be seeing that essentially one line item has been created for each element of the table.

(The pointer highlights Line row 2 of the spreadsheet is selected.)

So if we look at line row 2, we're going to be seeing that information for 2014, Canada, unemployment rate for both sexes, individuals 15 and over are expressed in terms of percentage, and the overall value is 6.9%. One of my favourite features about this specific format, is it provides column K which are vectors.

(The pointer highlights Column K with the title Vector.)

Vectors are essentially a way to access one specific combination of data. Let's say we are interested in the future in obtaining information with regards to Canada, unemployment rate, both sexes, 15 years and over in a percent format. All we would have to simply do is use this specific vector. Vectors are as we are going to be seeing, right underneath here all of the specific,

(The first 6 rows up to the K column are highlighted in grey.)

all of these within this table. All of these are focusing on the exact same variable but a different year. And they all have the same vector. The reason for that is that a vector does not take into account time frames. So let's say that we are interested in having information for these combination of variables.

(The vector under column K is highlighted.)

Go back onto the Statistics Canada website and click on the data tab.

(The screen changes to show the DATA page of Statistics Canada's website. The pointer hovers over the blue Search by vector button.)

So here, there is one option we hadn't seen yet which was to Search by Vector.

(The screen changes to the Search by vector page. The mouse clicks on the box to the right of the Enter your vector number and pastes in v2461224 and types in v9.)

Under Search by Vector, you can go and enter one vector or a combination. By entering in the combination stream here, I remember a second vector that I'm looking for as well which is v9.

(The mouse clicks on the box to the right of number of most recent reference periods and types in 3. Then the mouse hovers over the from and to boxes to the right of Date range of reference periods. The mouse clicks on the search button.)

The system gives you 2 options, in order to pull up information with regards to these vectors. The first one is the amount of reference periods that you are looking for, or the 2nd option is the date range, of the reference period you are looking for. You can indicate to the system, which months and which years you are looking for. Let's say that we're going to take the first one into account, which is the number of reference periods. We are telling the system for these two separate vectors. We want the last 3 reporting periods or the most recent 3 that are most currently available. Let's click on the Search button.

(The screen changes and the mouse scrolls down to see the results from the search. The mouse highlights the details under the title and description columns.)

When we click on the Search button here, we find once again data with regards to the table where we access the information and a description of what is included within the vector. So once again, Canada, unemployment rate, both sexes, 15 years and over. It will provide us the most recent results.

(The mouse highlights v9 and hovers over Population estimates, on a quarterly bases for Nova Scotia and is expressed in the amount of persons.)

The 2nd vector I'd pulled up was population estimates, on a quarterly basis, for Nova Scotia and is expressed in the amount of persons. So that's how we would access information with regards to the Data tab.

(The mouse scrolls up to the blue banner and clicks on the Analysis tab. Then hovers over data tab to the left and then scrolls down to the keyword search box.)

Moving on, let's go ahead and see the Analysis tab. Analysis tab is exactly as it sounds. It essentially provides an analytical component to data, provides information in a raw table. Analysis provides essential information in a more digestible format. So there is a story behind the number. Think about it that way. Similar to what we saw in Subject and Data, we can go ahead and search using Keyword or Subject. Two new criteria have been added.

(The mouse scrolls down below subjects on the left and hovers over year of publication and authors. The mouse then scrolls up to the right and hovers over the all tabs, the stats is brief tab, Articles and reports tab and then the last tab Journals and periodicals.)

The first one is year of publication, and the second one is author. To the right of that we'll be seeing the various products that are available in terms of analysis. So we have Stats in Brief, which are short articles, such as The Daily or fact sheets. To the right of that, we're going to be seeing Articles and Reports, which tend to be longer in length and, to the right of that we'll see Journals, which are essentially collections in which the articles and reports are written. So for example as many articles are written about crime and justice, that would all fall under the Juristat journal or periodical.

(The mouse clicks on the Journals and Periodicals tab and the screen changes to show a list of results.)

So for example, if you were to click on here we are going to see the various journals and periodicals that are available. That's how we find information with regards to the Analysis tab.

(The mouse then moves up to the blue banner and clicks on the Reference tab and the screen changes to the Reference page. The mouse moves and clicks on the Classification tab and a list of results appear below. The mouse hovers over the occupation and industry results.)

With regards to Reference tab, this is where we are going to be finding information with regards to various classifications used by Statistics Canada. So here we see the overall classifications, with regards to occupation, to products, to industry.

(The mouse moves to the right of this tab and hovers over Surveys and Statistical programs- Documentation tab, Geographic tab and Notices and consultation tab.)

to the right of that we'll be seeing documentation that's available in terms of various surveys and statistical programs. To the right geographic files. To the right of that notices and consultations. So if ever we were interested in finding a specific industry code, which is a question we often asked. We can click North American Industry Classification system,

(The mouse moves to the list of results to the left and clicks on North American Industry Classification system [NAISC]link. The screen changes to the North American Industry Classification system [NAISC] page where the mouse hovers over the date September 21, 2018 and then clicks on the link to North American Industry Classification system [NAISC] Canada 2017 version 3.)

and the system would provide us the various iterations of this classification with the most recent one being released Sept. 21, 2018. If we were to go ahead and click on it, the system would ask if we want the information in HTML or CSV format.

(The mouse moves below the HTML format title to the link below classification structure and a new page appears with the North American Industry Classification system [NAISC] Canada 2017 version 3 classification structure.)

If we were to click on HTML and see the classification structure appear. So that is how we access information with regard to the Reference tab.

(The mouse moves to the top of the blue banner and clicks on the Geography tab. A new page appears with the words Geography-Find information by region or area. The mouse moves to the box above the map that reads place name or postal code.)

To the right of that we're going to be seeing Geography, which is actually one of my favourite tabs. So it's been developed to help users access information on a specific region or geography. The new mapping tool provides the results of all Statistics Canada's surveys, including the Census and the National Household Survey. So here we're going to see a map. All the way at the top, we'll see place name or postal code.

(The mouse scrolls down and highlights the title Results for Canada. Then the mouse hovers over the data tab below and above, the analysis tab below and above and the reference tab below and above on the blue banner.)

So if we were to scroll a little lower, we would see that information is currently available at a national level, and at the right the results for Canada. Once again, the various products are available. So the system will ask you, Are you looking for data tables? which are available under Data. Are you looking for analysis? which is under Analysis. Or are you looking for reference material with regards to obviously a specific geography?

(The mouse moves to the place name or postal code box above the map and starts to type in Vanc and a list of 6 suggestions drop down below. The mouse continues to finish the word Vancouver and a list of three suggestions appear. The mouse then highlights each: the City of Vancouver, the Census Metropolitan area or the Population centre.)

So let's say we are interested in finding information. All the information Statistics Canada has available with regards to Vancouver. And we will go ahead and start typing in Vancouver. And the system will provide us essentially suggestions that include VANC going ahead and completing the word Vancouver. It will provide us 3 options: the City of Vancouver, the Census Metropolitan Area or the Population Centre.

(The mouse clicks on the first suggestion the City of Vancouver and the screen changes to a different map and the mouse hovers over the area of Vancouver. The mouse moves to the left and hovers over various geographies.)

Let's say that we are interested in information with regards to the city. The first thing we'll be able to see on a graph, essentially on a map. The City of Vancouver is outlined. To the left of that we see various related geographies, whether they be higher or lower in terms of geographical hierarchy.

(The mouse clicks on the map, it zooms in and then clicks again, and a small dialogue box appears in the map with information on a dissemination area.)

Underneath that we see that there are 108 products available for the City of Vancouver. If ever we are curious with regards to what level of geography is available, in terms of the smallest area, we can go ahead and zoom in on the map, and simply click it, and it will tell us the information is available for a dissemination area. As you can imagine, the smaller the geography that we go to, the more likely that the only Statistics Canada sample that will have that information at the granular level will be information derived from the census.

(The mouse clicks on the all tab below the map to show that there are a list below of 14 products related to this dissemination area.)

So here we see there are a total of 14 products available for this specific dissemination area. So this is a very useful tool, and if ever you are curious about it, please feel free and go ahead and try to use it.

(The mouse moves up to the blue banner at the top and clicks on the Census program tab. The screen changes to the Census program page.)

So next, we are going to be clicking on census programs. The census program is very, very large in scope and unfortunately we won't have a chance to look at it in great detail in today's 45 minute presentation. But I do think it is something noteworthy so we'll go ahead, something that is very, very noteworthy, so as such we'll do a quick overview of the census program, Should you ever require more in-depth training with regards to this tab, as obviously it combines some of our most powerful information. Please feel free to let us know, and we'll go ahead and offer another webinar focusing specifically on the census program.

(The mouse moves to the left to Find Data title, then moves to the right to Key indicators and hovers over a graph and then clicks on the indicator box and a list of suggestions dropdown. The mouse clicks on total private dwellings and the graph changes and the mouse hovers around the red line line indicating a total of Canada.)

So the first thing we are going to be able to see is that we can access the information with regards to a specific geography. To the right of that, we're going to be seeing key indicators. and the key indicators will appear in a graphical format underneath. So let's say we are interested in seeing the total number, amount of private dwellings broken up by province. The graph will update with an overall line indicating a total of Canada.

(The mouse scrolls down to Services and Information section on the left. The mouse then hovers over the title Access the data, Analytical products, the Reference resources, the Geographic tools, the Visualization tools and the Census of Agriculture.)

Underneath this, we are going to be seeing the various services and information available as a result of the census. So how can one go ahead and access the data that is created as a result of the census? The analytical products, the reference resources, the geographic tools, the visualization tools as well as information available with regards to the Census of Agriculture.

(The mouse scrolls down and hovers over various topics of interest.)

with regards to the Census of Agriculture. Information can be accessed based on a specific topic of interest. So here we have the various, all the different topics that are collected within the census. And towards the bottom of the page, we are going to be seeing information is available with regards to previous censuses. So you can actually access previous census information going back to 1996.

(The mouse scrolls down and hovers over the link to Accessing my census information.)

You can also go ahead and see what the procedure is in order to access your own census information, which is confidential. So there is a process and procedure in place in order to be able to access this type of information.

(The mouse scrolls up to the place name search box under Find data and types in Toronto. A list of suggestions appear below and then the mouse clicks on the Search button and the Census Profile, 2016 – Search results screen appears.)

So let's quickly go ahead and look at one census profile. So in order to access a census profile, we would simply enter in the name of a geography all the way at the top. So let's say we are looking at information about Toronto, the system will provide some commonly search suggestions with the word Toronto in it. We'll go ahead and just click the search button, and the system will provide all the geographies, that are available that include word Toronto. Let's say we are not sure what geography boundaries essentially establish the city in comparison to the census metropolitan area.

(The mouse clicks on the word map next to Toronto city and a map appears indicating the boundaries. The mouse zooms then moves to the right hand corner and clicks on the x to close the map.)

You can always go ahead and click on the map, in order to see what the boundaries of that geography are. So I went ahead and clicked on the City of Toronto, so that the map can essentially zoom into what the City of Toronto looks like. And it does look like it's the information I am looking for.

(The Census Profile, 2016 – Search results screen appears. The mouse clicks on the word Toronto and the screen changes to Census Profile, 2016 Census Toronto, City[Census subdivision] Ontario, Census Division [ Census Division] Ontario. The mouse scrolls down from the top to show a table with a long list of information.)

So I'll go ahead and click on the word Toronto itself. And here is where I will access information with regards to the census profile. It takes a few seconds to open up, as you'll be able to see at the top right hand corner, the table is quite long. It has information with regards to population, households, income, marital status, languages. The table is quite long. So if you are looking for a specific topic, within a specific geography in a census profile,

(The mouse scrolls up to the top to a Select a view box and clicks on the down arrow of the dropdown menu. The list of suggestions appears and the mouse highlights the last suggestion visible minority and clicks the submit button to the right. Then the table is updated to show information on visible minority.)

you can simply click on Select a view, and a drop-down menu will become available. So let's say you are looking for information with regards to visible minority. You simply click on Visible Minority and click on the Submit button. And as you see, the table has the available data is significantly decreased. If you want to go ahead and compare this geography with another, you can go ahead. It can be done using the last 3 columns. Currently the next highest geography is defaulted in the system. so in this case the Census Division of Toronto.

(The mouse clicks on the Change geography button at the top right hand side of the page. The screen changes to a page with an alternate geography.)

So if ever we were interested in changing it, we can click on the Geography tab. Enter in an alternate geography, and the system will allow us to pull up that alternate geography for comparative purposes. So it is quite powerful. So that is how we would access information with regards to a census profile.

(The mouse scrolls up to the top of the page and clicks on the Census program link which brings up the Census program home page. The mouse scroll down to the Services and Information section and clicks on the Access our data link. Then the Data products, 2016 Census home page appears and the mouse scrolls down and hovers over Census profile and Highlight tables.)

We'll also go ahead and see what other products are available. In order to do that, we are simply going to click on Access Data. Once we went ahead and clicked Access Data, we're going to see the various products available. So one we have already currently seen is Census profiles. Underneath that, we are going to be seeing highlight tables which provide information on a specific topic using Key indicator and various levels of geography. So let's say we are interested in having one list of the amount of individuals that are 65 years and over for all of the cities in Canada. You would be able to go ahead and access that information in a highlight table.

(The mouse moves down the list and hovers over Focus on Geography Series, Data tables and Census Program Data Viewer.)

Underneath that we're going to see Focus on Geography, which is essentially a short analytical article for each geography. Underneath that we're going to see Focus on Geography. So it essentially takes information from the census profile and then puts it in a story format. It provides graphs as well, so it is very, very useful. I would recommend consulting it. Data tables provide very detailed information by census theme using various combinations of variables. We will be seeing that in the next few seconds. Underneath that we are going to be seeing the Census Program Data Viewer, which is a new web based visualisation tool that makes information available using a statistical graphic dashboard. So essentially you're able to map various topics on a map so very very useful.

(The mouse scrolls up and clicks on the Data table link. The Data tables, 2016 Census page appears and the mouse hovers over the various topics. The mouse clicks on Labour link and a page appears with the mouse hovering over the title 87 results. The mouse then hovers over the description of the first result and highlights population, aged 15 years and over in private households.)

So clicking on a data table, we'll go ahead and see that a myriad of census topics is available. Let's say that we're interested in data with regard to labour. We go ahead and click on labour, and the system will tell us that there are 87 tables available. In the title it will indicate essentially what population is included in this table, so this specific table is focusing on a universe of population, aged 15 years and over in private households. And it is telling you the multiple variables and amount of elements included in each.

(The mouse hovers over Aboriginal Identity [9] and Employment Income statistics [7].)

So here, there are 9 iterations of Aboriginal Identities, 7 breakdowns of employment income statistics and so on and so forth.

(The mouse scrolls down to hover over the Catalogue number and Geography related to this first result. The mouse then moves to the right to hover over the formats HTML and Beyond 20/20.)

Underneath that, we're going to be seeing the catalogue number, what geographies are available, and that the information can be accessed in 2 separate formats. The first one being on your internet browser so HTML format. The second one is using Beyond 20/20 which is external software that allows you to customize the appearance and possibility of the table's variables as per your needs. So let's say that we are interested in seeing what one of these tables looks like. I'm going to go to one of the tables that I tend to use most often.

(The mouse scrolls down to result 36 hovers over the description – industry, employment income statistics, class of workers, work activities, age group and sex and then clicks on the HTML link which opens up this Data Table page.)

We will go ahead and scroll down to table #36, which is information broken up by industry and employment income statistics, as well as class of workers, work activities age group and sex.

(The mouse scrolls down to show the employment income statistics, broken up by industry figures. The mouse then scrolls up to the Select data categories for this table and hovers over Geography, class of worker, work activities, age and sex.)

So I want to open up an Internet brower. Click on HTML and what we'll be able to go and see here are essentially employment income statistics, broken up by industry. There are various breakdowns available. The first being geography, class of worker, work activities, age and sex. So let's say we're interested in customizing this table. And let's say we're looking for information with regards to the Province of Quebec.

(The mouse clicks on the down arrow in the geography box and highlights Quebec. Then it moves to the right and on the down arrow in the class of worker box and highlights self-employed. The mouse moves to the Work activity during the reference year box and clicks the down arrow and highlights worked a full year. The mouse then clicks on the down arrow of the age box and highlights – 15 to 24 years. The mouse moves to the box indicating sex and clicks on the down arrow to highlight female.)

Individuals that are self-employed, who worked a full year, who were aged between 15 – 24 and who were female.

(The mouse clicks on submit button. When the new table appears with these criteria the mouse moves up to the top to click on the Surveys and Statistical program tab.)

So we are asking the system to update the below table based on these criteria. And we click on submit. And what we are going to see is that the table has been updated. So these tables are very, very powerful, and combine a lot of information that will definitely be of use to you whether it be professionally or personally. Please feel free to go ahead and consult it.

(The Surveys and statistical programs main page appears and the mouse hovers over the link to the Information for survey participants.)

Moving on to the Surveys and Statistical programs. To the left, we're able to go ahead and see information that is available to households or businesses that have been selected to partake in surveys.

(The mouse moves to the right and clicks on the link to Results and documentation of surveys and statistical programs. The screen changes to the Results and documentation of surveys and statistical programs page. The mouse moves to the lower left hand side of the page to Survey status and hovers over the links to Active and inactive.)

And to the right of that, we are going to be seeing results and documentation of surveys and statistical programs. So essentially in this section, we are going to be seeing that we have almost 400 current active surveys, and almost 400 currently inactive surveys. So let's say that you're looking for all the data that's available from one specific survey. You can go ahead and access it by using this specific portal. So let's say that you're interested in finding information with regards to Labour Force Survey.

(The mouse moves up to the top right and hovers over letters of the alphabet and clicks on the letter L. The screen changes to a list of survey beginning with the letter L and the mouse clicks on the second one in the list - Labour Force Survey. The Labour Force Survey page appears and the mouse hovers over Data, Analysis, Reference tabs.)

You would simply click on the letter L, and click Labour Force Survey. What we'll be able to see here is that information is broken up by Data, Analysis, Reference.

(The mouse moves to the top of the page and hovers over the subject tab, then the data tab, then the Analysis tab, then the Reference tab, and shows the same tabs in the middle of the page.)

Once again we can access the information based on topics using Subject. We can always access the same information under the DATA tab. The analysis under the Analysis tab, and reference under the Reference tab. But we've created one portal which essentially summarizes all the information with regards to one specific survey in this section.

(The mouse moves to the left hand side of the page and clicks on the link to Labour Force Survey. The Labour Force Survey page appears and the mouse scrolls down the page to show links to detailed information on questionnaire; sample size; the accuracy of the numbers.)

If ever you are interested in learning what kind of additional information about the survey, You can click detailed information about the survey, and it will provide you with information with regards to questionnaire, sample size and the accuracy of the numbers that are provided on our website.

(The mouse moves to the top of the and hovers over About StatCan and then moves to the right and hovers over Canada.ca.)

To the right of that we can see About StatCan, which provides information about the ministry. To the right of that we are going to be seeing information on Canada.ca, which is, essentially provides, redirects you to the main Government of Canada website.

(The mouse moves above the tabs and clicks on the words Statistics Canada and the screen changes to the Statistics Canada home page. The mouse moves down to the bottom middle of the page and clicks on the link to Register to our workshops, training and conferences.)

Going back to the home page, there is one particular section which I haven't shown you, which was the Register to our workshops, training and conferences. So in order to increase and promote statistical literacy, we have 3 separate options that are available.

(The mouse scrolls down the page and hovers over webinars and then clicks on webinars and the screen changes to the Webinars home page with a list of current topics. The mouse scrolls up to the left hand corner and clicks on the back arrow to go back to the home page.)

The first one is essentially webinars, which are free 45 minute sessions such as the one you are currently participating in.

And if you are interested in seeing which topics we'll be covering in the next little while, you can always click on webinar and it will provide you the list as well as the dates available and the registration information. We also provide Cost Recovery workshops and training program. The full information can be accessed in this section.

Today's webinar was presented on behalf of the Data Service Centres. Some of our services include helping data users with data requests and offering workshops and webinars.

Again, if you have any questions about this webinar, please feel free to call or email us. Our contact information is on the screen.

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