2024 submissions

Purpose: The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) has developed a research plan to understand characteristics of persons and households living in social and affordable housing. The statistics produced will help inform the evaluation and further the implementation of the National Housing Strategy. 

As part of this plan, a linkage between the National Social and Affordable Housing Database (NSAHD) to multiple data sources held by Statistics Canada will be performed. Combining information from several sources (tax, employment, immigration, housing and the Census) will contribute income and sociodemographic information, as well as housing indicators to the linked database for those living in NSAHD units. Analytical work in this domain is expected to help researchers, the general public and government to understand and to improve housing policies or programs.

Output: The analytical file, once personal identifiers are removed, along with anonymized linkage keys will be placed in the Research Data Centre (RDC) for access by CMHC as Statistics Canada deemed employees for the first four months. After this period, the files will be made available in the RDC network and access will be granted following the standard RDC approval process. Only non-confidential aggregated statistics and analyses conforming to the confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act and any applicable requirements of the Privacy Act, will be released outside of Statistics Canada.

Purpose: This data linkage is being carried out on a cost-recovery basis by Statistics Canada for British Columbia Ministry of Children and Family Development (BC MCFD). 

The purpose of the data-linking initiative is to analyze the socio-economic outcomes of a cohort of individuals who have received BC MCFD services, by linking BC MCFD data with Statistics Canada data for the same cohort of individuals that BC MCFD would otherwise not have access to. The inclusion of a vast array of BC MCFD data gathered through service delivery, linked with Statistics Canada economic data will allow BC MCFD analysts to explore connections and variables that could not be gleaned from BC MCFD data alone.

The outputs will allow BC MCFD to evaluate the efficacy of the services provided by BC MCFD and strengthen the assessment of services provided by BC MCFD and support future policy development.

Output: Statistical tables will be prepared at the aggregate level while meeting the confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act. Only non-confidential aggregate statistics such as counts, percentages and sums will be provided to the client and only after appropriate suppression has been applied. A total of ten tables will be provided to the client, one for two variables of interest, giving information for data that will be used by the BC MCFD analysts. A short report on the methodology and results will also be delivered to the client. An analytical file will be made available for the exclusive access of the BC MCFD analysts as deemed employees via a Statistics Canada secure access point follow the standard approval process.

Purpose: The Student Work Placement Project (SWPP) project will provide Employment and Social Development Canada with policy-relevant information that will allow them to evaluate the success of the SWPP. The project builds upon the information currently available to ESDC by including data pertaining to education and labour market integration and outcomes of postsecondary graduates who had a work-integrated learning placement through the SWPP, such as earnings and employment. The project will also allow disaggregation by sociodemographic characteristics with a focus on underrepresented groups, where possible. 

Output: Statistics Canada will provide aggregate, non-confidential custom tables to Employment and Social Development Canada. Only non-confidential aggregate statistics and analysis conforming to the confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act will be released outside of Statistics Canada. If the client later wishes to access the linked source microdata files in the Research Data Centres to perform their own analysis, the source files used in the linkage with no direct identifiers will be made available to the client as Statistics Canada deemed employees through the Research Data Centre (RDC) program using the normal RDC project approval procedures.

Purpose: The purpose of the project is to link the Canadian Employer-Employee Dynamics Database to select variables from the Census of population, the National Household Survey, and the Canadian Community Health Survey to analyze Indigenous owned businesses. This data linkage will help Statistics Canada, and other Canadian government departments analyze data related to Indigenous-owned businesses in Canada to assist in policy making decisions.

Output: The resulting analytical file will be used to update CODR tables 33-10-0631-01: Private enterprises by sex and Indigenous identity of ownership, province or region and enterprise size, 33-10-0632-01: Private enterprises by sex and Indigenous identity of ownership, age group of primary owner and enterprise size on the Statistics Canada Website. The data linkage will also allow Economic Analysis Division to address several requests from other government departments related to Indigenous-owned businesses in Canada. Only non-confidential aggregate statistical outputs and analyses that conform to the confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act will be released outside of Statistics Canada.