[Courtesy of Environics Analytics]

ENVISION 2.7 will be available LIVE on Monday, March 17, 2014. The data release will, for the most part, follow our usual annual update schedule and format. However, some variables will be delayed until May because some aspects of the update have posed significant challenges as a result of the government’s decision to replace the mandatory long-form census with the voluntary National Household Survey (NHS). As was anticipated, this change in methodology resulted in reduced quality in some variables at the lower levels of geography in the data. The additional work to address this quality issue means that some of those variables in CensusPlus and DemoStats that are based on the NHS will not be available until May.

Two Stages of Data Release for CensusPlus and DemoStats – Part 1 on Monday, March 17, 2014; Part 2 in early May.

Prior to May, our data files along with ENVISION’s demographic reports will consist of a combination of 2013 and 2014 DemoStats data due to the ongoing work to adjust the 2011 NHS data. As a result, users should be aware of potential inconsistencies with certain themes, especially when looking at the counts of households or populations (less so with the percentages and distributions). Because some data have been adjusted to the 2011 Census and some are still reliant on the 2006 Census, our customers should be aware of the themes that are affected and the possible differences in counts. In May, these themes will be replaced with the new estimates.

For those ready to use ENVISION 2.7 on March 17, follow this link: 

http://www.environicsanalytics.ca/ENVISION

For those of you who want to continue using ENVISION 2.6 (2013), this data will be available for 90 days to allow users to finish any projects and download any data or results prior to migrating to ENVISION 2.7.

http://www.environicsanalytics.ca/ENVISION26

ENVISION will be offline Sunday, March 16, 3:00 PM EDT, to Monday, March 17, 6:00 AM EDT.

Webinar

For more information on the 2014 data updates, Environics Analytics will host a webinar on Thursday, March 20, 2014, at 2:00 PM EDT. Please register here for the free webinar.