There's plenty of new data in the catalogue, including 2011 Taxfiler data, and our first semi-custom Census topic-based tabulations. No, unfortunately that doesn't mean custom geographies (yet). Just Census tables at smaller geographies than are available on the Statistics Canada website.
We've begun organising a webinar on NHS and Taxfiler data with a focus on income. It will be an opportunity to discuss emerging good practice with respect to measuring poverty, assessing NHS quality, working with small-area income data, and using Taxfiler tables. Date: Thursday, April 10, 2014. Stay tuned for updates.
In Part 2 of this Product Profile, we explain some of the issues associated with the voluntary nature of the NHS, and how to address them. We also show what some consortia have begun to do about NHS data quality, especially with respect to mapping the global non-response rate. (More about global non-response rates in a moment.)
In addition, you may want to check out some other resources on the NHS:
The 2013-2014 Ontario Works Service Plan prepared by the District of Nipissing Social Services Administration Board uses Canadian Business Patterns data from the Community Data Program. Check out the report and data below.
January 13, 2014 – Peggy Taillon, President and CEO of the Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD), is pleased to announce a new partnership with Professor Ann Dale, Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Community Development, Royal Roads University.
The Regional Municipality of York has released a publication on the 2011 Census and National Household Survey including both issues and demographic highlights.
Edit 2014-02-03: Family data, Seniors and NID tables now have CMA, CA, and CD-level data.
From the Taxfiler dataset, the Family data tables 1-18 now include additional Census geographic scales:
There's quite a bit of new data in the catalogue. Here are links to the tables that we've recently added:
CCSD has been working on an official position on the NHS over the past several weeks.
In addition, the CDP team will provide assistance on using it, as well as validating findings with the help of other datasets available to the program. We're also aiming to host at least one additional webinar in the spring of 2014 that helps members understand how to use income data from both the NHS and Taxfiler tables.
Here is the official CCSD position on the 2011 NHS (download):
The November 21 webinar "Using the NHS at the scale of cities and communities" was a great success, with 215 registrations, and 158 attendees.
In particular, it helped us understand some of the ways to assess the quality of the National Household Survey in addition to the global non-response rate, while driving home a commonly mentioned point: use the NHS to report on socioeconomic variables at the neighbourhood and municipal scale, but make sure to do so with caution.