New Data Available

The 2023 Survey of Household Spending (SHS) suite of files is now available in the Research Data Centres (RDCs).

• The SHS 2023 suite of files includes households from Iqaluit. This was not the case for the SHS 2021 suite of files, but it was the case for SHS 2017 and SHS 2019 suites of files.

• In the provinces, as well as in Yellowknife and Whitehorse, the same collection strategy was used for SHS 2023 as for SHS 2021. That is, household spending information was collected mainly using a self-completed electronic questionnaire, also called computer-assisted web interview (CAWI), instead of a questionnaire administered through a personal interview (used for cycles prior to SHS 2021). For Iqaluit, this information was collected using a questionnaire administered through a personal interview. 

• For the SHS 2023 suite of files, the geographic concepts used are those of the 2016 Census and the 2023 SHS survey weights are adjusted according to the population estimates that are derived from 2016 Census data as well as administrative data.

• The SHS 2023 files include two new socio-demographic variables about the reference person: indigenous status (RP_ABST) and visible minority status (RP_VMIN).

The document “Hierarchy of Expenditure Categories” is available for reference year 2023. This document provides a visual representation of the classification of SHS expenditure variables, as well as information on each expenditure category’s source, recall period, and availability in the different microdata files. As the source or recall period for certain expenditures can change between cycles (ex: recreational services), this document should be consulted to confirm whether changes occurred

The Record of Employment (ROE) 2025 is now available for download and can be accessed by researchers with approved projects.

What does the 2025 file contain?

The ROE 2025 file contains all records of employment (ROE) submitted to Service Canada starting January 1987. Researchers should note that data for job separations in the months before the file extraction may not be fully captured due to a delay between the job separation and the filing of the ROE

The ROE data contains person-level information from ROE forms. The ROE form—whether electronic or paper—is the form that employers complete for employees who stop working for various reasons, including retirements, quit, job loss. Employers may not issue a ROE in all cases. But for employees who experience an interruption of earnings and want to claim Employment Insurance (EI), the ROE is a mandatory document. Recently, more ROE forms are completed electronically, either through Secure Automated Transfer, or ROE web application. The remaining forms are completed using paper copies.

The ROE data provides longitudinally linkable information on individuals' job separations over the period from 1987 to the most recent update, for policy analysis, research, and evaluation activities. Such activities foster the development and implementation of federal labour market and income related policies and programs in an effective manner, and consistent with national goals.

The EI program provides temporary income support to unemployed workers while they look for employment or upgrade their skills. It also provides special benefits to workers who take time off from work in relation to specific life events (e.g., illness; pregnancy; and caring for a newborn, newly-adopted or critically-ill or injured child or adult). Workers receive EI benefits only if they have paid premiums in the past year and meet qualifying and entitlement conditions. Self-employed workers may participate in EI and receive special benefits. For more information, please refer to the most recent EI Monitoring and Assessment Report. 

The ROE includes very limited information on EI claims. Please refer to the Employment Insurance Status Vector and the Employment Insurance Beneficiaries data for detailed information on beneficiary records.

The Longitudinal Immigration Statistical Environment (LISE) is a record linkage environment connecting administrative and survey data from multiple subject matter areas to the Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB) and Longitudinal Administrative Databank (LAD). 

We have eased the restrictions on multi-file linkages to a base file (IMDB->DAD+NACRS).

The linkage to the IMDB or the LAD allows for a variety of analytical possibilities. The IMDB provides a longitudinal socio-economic profile of immigrants admitted to Canada since 1952, including information on those receiving non-permanent resident permits since 1980, and tax records since 1982. The LAD, which provides a comparison group of Canadians, is a random, 20% sample of the T1 Family File (T1FF) tax database available since 1982 containing demographics, income, and other taxation data for a subset of Canadians, allowing the creation of a longitudinal profile of each individual.  

The LISE provides a repository of linkage keys for the IMDB and LAD to administrative and survey data from multiple subject matter areas. Potential linkages are:

1. Health administrative databases - Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS), and Ontario Mental Health Reporting System (OMHRS), which allows the exploration of healthcare utilization over time by immigrants and Canadians. Depending on the database used, outcomes could include acute care institution visits from the DAD, ambulatory care visits from the NACRS, mental health institution services used by individuals captured in the OMHRS, among others.
2. Education administrative databases - Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) and Registered Apprenticeship Information System (RAIS), which provides longitudinal outcomes for immigrant or Canadian cohorts in terms of post-secondary enrolment and graduation information from the PSIS, and for registered apprenticeship certifications from the RAIS.
3. Census of Population 2016 and 2021, which can provide sociodemographic information and outcomes for immigrant or Canadian cohorts.

Additionally, migration and mobility analysis of individuals from the IMDB or the LAD is also available using annual information on place of residence. 

Included in this release: 

• Health Outcome Linkages:
  • 2022 LAD (1982-2022) linked to DAD (1994 - 2023), NACRS (2002– 2023), and OMHRS (2006-2023)
  • 2023 IMDB linked to DAD (1994 - 2023), NACRS (2002– 2023), and OMHRS (2006-2023)
• The LISE linkages with education and census data will be released at a later date.

Information for Data Access:

• Requests to access LISE data must be immigration focused.
• The LISE provides access to pair-wise linkages of IMDB or LAD to outcome files (e.g., IMDB to DAD and LAD to DAD).
• RDC users interested in a specific pair need to request access to a minimum of 2 data products to build the analytical dataset: 1) cohort file (IMDB or LAD), 2) outcome file (DAD, NACRS, OMHRS), For example: IMDB All Years and LISE_IMDB_DAD_AllYears.  

Researchers can now request access to more than one linkage at a time. For example: IMDB linked to DAD and IMDB linked to NACRS.

The Survey on the Official Language Minority Population (SOLMP) 2022 is now available for download and can be accessed by researchers with approved projects.

The Survey on the Official Language Minority Population (SOLMP) is a postcensal survey of the English-speaking population in Quebec and the French-speaking population elsewhere in Canada. The data will provide a better understanding of the current situation of official language minorities regarding issues such as education and access to various services in the minority language.

The Survey on the Official Language Minority Population (SOLMP) was conducted by Statistics Canada in 2022 with the cooperation and support of Canadian Heritage. This survey focuses on Canada's minority official languages, English in Quebec and French in Canada outside Quebec, although the languages with official status in some provinces and territories may differ. It is a postcensal survey of the English-language population in Quebec and the French-language population elsewhere in Canada.

The Canadian Health Survey on Children and Youth (CHSCY) 2024 is now available for download and can be accessed by researchers with approved projects.

The 2024 Canadian Health Survey on Children and Youth (CHSCY) is the first cycle of a new annual program providing important insights on the health and well-being of Canadian children and youth. It covers various topics, such as mental health, access to a primary health care provider and care needs, long-term conditions, and substance use. 

The information collected will provide a better understanding of children and youth health care needs and will be used to measure how health care is delivered across Canada. The data collected will also help policy makers and health researchers monitor Canadian children’s health over time.

The Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) AllYears - 2023 addition is now available for download and can be accessed by researchers with approved projects.

Data collected under the Regulations for the Monitoring of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)

(November 1, 2018 – December 31, 2022; January 1, 2023 – December31, 2023)

This is an administrative dataset collected by Health Canada under the Regulations for the Monitoring of Medical Assistance in Dying (the Regulations). 

The Regulations first came into force on November 1, 2018 following the passage of Canada’s initial legislation on MAID (former Bill C-14) in 2016. However, they were amended in response to legislative changes enacted in 2021 through former Bill C-7. The current Regulations came into force on January 1, 2023.

Canada’s initial legislation on MAID (former Bill C-14) limited eligibility for MAID to individuals with a reasonably foreseeable natural death (RFND). Former Bill C-7 removed this eligibility requirement and introduced a two-track approach for MAID assessment and provisions, with different procedural safeguards depending on whether a person’s natural death was reasonably foreseeable (RFND; Track 1), or not reasonably foreseeable (non-RFND; Track 2). The 2023 Regulations expanded data collection to provide a more comprehensive and inclusive picture regarding the characteristics of persons requesting MAID and why they are making these requests. 

The MAID data consists of two sets of files:

• The first data file contains information on written requests received between November 1, 2018 and December 31, 2022.      Though MAID was legalized in circumstances where an individual’s death was not reasonably foreseeable in March 2021, this dataset does not have a variable in the data to make the discernable distinction between these two tracks.
• The second data file contains information on all MAID requests received by Health Canada under the new Regulations, starting from January 2023, which reflect the legislative changes enacted in 2021. These data delineate between requests from individuals assessed as Track 1 and Track 2. The dataset contains new variables, including gender identity, race, Indigenous identity, self-identified disability, place of residence, previous request for MAID and additional details on the person’s health condition. The outcome of each request is recorded in a separate datafile, resulting in four possibilities:

1. those who received MAID, through either physician- or self-administered substance(s);
2. those who applied for MAID and subsequently withdrew their application;
3. those who applied for MAID but were either deemed ineligible or were found eligible but failed to meet a procedural safeguard; or
4. those who applied for MAID but died from another cause.

Due to these changes, the 2023 data are not amalgamated with the previous years of data, thus resulting in two sets of data that are available when “all years” of MAID data are requested through the research data centres.

Updates to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) are now available for download and can be accessed by researchers with approved projects.

Notice to Users

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) Microdata is now divided into three components:

1. cpi_extended_dataset_199802_to_200905:  A historical dataset with limited metadata
2. cpi_microdata_200906_to_201412: A second historical dataset with additional geographic and product labels. The additional metadata can found in prov_city_list_200906_to_201412 and rp_list_2009_to_201412.
3. cpi_microdata_201501_to_202508: A new microdata set, revising earlier periods back to 201501.  This dataset uses modernized product codes for item_id and refines the mapping of basket weights for basic aggregate product classes.  Basket weights at the Canada level are provided in the cda_basic_weight_link_201501_to_202508 file for published classes.  Data in this format will continue to be provided into the future.

Column names in both of the historical datasets has been updated to match those in the modern dataset, except for “ITEM” which has be renamed “old_item_id”. 

To support users transitioning items between the historical datasets and the modern series, an rp_id_concordance key file is provided showing the relationship between old_item_id and item_id. 

Corrections and updates to the Linkage of the Canadian Oral Health Survey (COHS) and Canadian Dental Care Plan (CDCP) enrollment data to sociodemographic and socioeconomic variables and health outcomes (COHS_CDCP_008_2025_Linkage_AllYears) is now available for download and can be accessed by researchers with approved projects.

Summary of corrections - Version Date: October 2025:

Please be advised that there were processing errors found and corrected in the versions of the CDCP and COHS linked data files that were released in June 2025. These errors affected all the linked files for CDCP and only the COHS-Census 2021 files listed below:

• CDCP - APIM
• CDCP - IMDB 1952 – 2023
• CDCP - Census Short Form 2021
• CDCP - Census Long Form 2021
• CDCP - DAD 2000 – 2023
• CDCP - NACRS 2000 – 2023
• CDCP - CCR 1992 – 2022
• COHS - Census Short Form 2021
• COHS - Census Long Form 2021

The errors in the files were due to processing errors in the record linkage:

1. An incorrect design of the concordance table which impacted all linked CDCP outcome files.
2. Data errors due to duplicates in the CDCP-APIM and CDCP-IMDB files.
3. A linkage error in the CDCP-Census Short and Long Form 2021.
4. A linkage error in the COHS-Census Short and Long Form 2021 resulted in a notable reduction in the number of linked records appearing in the outcome files.

Statistics Canada has addressed and corrected all the errors in the files. Data users may now use the updated files. We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused.

The Criminal Justice Relational Database (CJRD) was created to allow multivariate analyses on the demographic and socioeconomic factors associated with (repeated) criminal justice system involvement in Canada. It consists of anonymized, integrated criminal justice data, as well as other integrated social data sources (e.g., economic, health, and education data). Integrated files refer to microdata files that are equipped with unique anonymous identifiers that allow the merging of variables at the person level between files. 

New CJRD data linked to hospitalization, education, census, tax data, CVSD and IMDB is now available in Research Data Centres across Canada.

The CJRD has produced new cohort and concordance files and updated concordance files:

Cohort files: 

• ICCS  2022/2023
• CCSS 2022/2023
• CJRD linked to hospitalization data
  • ICCS 2022/2023 and CCSS 2022/2023 – DAD 2022/2023, NACRS 2022/2023 and 2023/2024, OMHRS 2022/2023
• CJRD linked to education data
  • ICCS 2022/2023 and CCSS 2022/2023 – PSIS, RAIS 2021 - 2023
• CJRD linked to Census data
  • ICCS 2022/2023 and CCSS 2022/2023 - Census - 2006, 2016, 2021 NHS – 2011
• CJRD linked to tax data
  • ICCS 2022/2023 and CCSS 2022/2023 - T1FF 2022
• CJRD linked to CVSD
  • ICCS 2022/2023 and CCSS 2022/2023 – CVSD 2021 – 2023
• CJRD linked to IMDB
  • ICCS 2022/2023 and CCSS 2022/2023 – IMDB 2021

Concordance files^[1] : 

• The datasets have been expanded to include additional years:
  • Integrated Criminal Court Survey (ICCS): 2021/2022 and 2022/2023
  • Canadian Correctional Services Survey (CCSS): 2022/2023
  • T1 Family File (T1FF): 2022
  • National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS): 2022/2023 and 2023/2024
  • Discharge Abstract Database (DAD): 2022/2023
  • Ontario Mental Health Reporting System (OMHRS): 2022/2023
  • Post-secondary Student Information System (PSIS): 2021, 2022 and 2023
  • Registered Apprenticeship Information System (RAIS): 2021, 2022 and 2023
  • Vital Statistics Death Database (CVSD): 2021, 2022 and 2023
• A correction to the CCSS custody dates file was applied. Missing custody events from Saskatchewan were added to the file for fiscal years 2015/2016 and 2016/2017. Custody data from all jurisdictions were also reprocessed which resulted in small changes in the number of records across all years of data in the CCSS custody dates file.
• Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB) and Census 2021 data have been incorporated into the CJRD.
• Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (UCR) information has been added to the user guide, and the corresponding data is expected to be available in winter 2026.
• Reference documents
  • Duplicate Register Group IDs - This document provides guidance on handling duplicate IDs within the CJRD, ensuring accurate and consistent data analysis.
  • Information for researching Indigenous Peoples - This document recommends how to use CJRD data in research related to Indigenous Peoples appropriately.
  • Framework for the Use, Analysis, Interpretation and Dissemination of Police-reported Indigenous and Racialized Identity Data Through the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey

The Canadian Vital Statistics - Birth database (CVSB) 2024 is now available for download and can be accessed by researchers with approved projects.

The CVSB is an administrative survey that collects demographic information annually from all provincial and territorial vital statistics registries on all live births in Canada.

Updates to the Vital Statistics - Stillbirth Database (CVSS) are now available for download and can be accessed by researchers with approved projects.

New Files:

• Historical data for 2000 - 2016 are now available.

An updated Canadian Coroner and Medical Examiner Database (CCMED) is now available for download and can be accessed by researchers with approved projects.

The CCMED is a database developed at Statistics Canada in collaboration with the provincial and territorial Chief Coroners and Chief Medical Examiners and the Public Health Agency of Canada. Currently, the CCMED combines information from 12 provincial and territorial databases to provide national level information on deaths reported to and investigated by coroners and medical examiners.

Data Contents: 

The CCMED contains the following datasets:

• CASES 2006-JUNE2025
• SAFD 2006- JUNE2025
• CIRC 2006- JUNE2025