CANSIM
Recently we added a cross-tabulation of Structural type by Document type to CensusMapper for mapping and API use, including in our {cancensus} R package. Today we added another datasets to this.
Taxfiler data at the census tract level for tax years 2000 through 2017 Both of these datasets come through a project we are currently doing with CMHC, and we are excited to be able to turn these into open data, free for anyone to use.
(Joint with Nathan Lauster and cross-posted at HomeFreeSociology)
Unfortunately, more and more people are dying due to COVID-19. We won’t know the full toll from COVID-19 for quite some time. But we can at least start to get a sense of its impact. One useful way of assessing the impact, of course, is just to plot deaths attributed to COVID-19. This highlights the real loss of human lives associated with outbreaks.
(Joint with Nathan Lauster and cross-posted at HomeFreeSociology)
More results from the new Canadian Housing Survey dropped earlier this week! And they provide new insights into why Canadians move.
Last time we only got provincial results. Now we can break down reasons for the last move by metro area and current tenure, but this time around we looking at the last move no matter when it happend, as opposed to only considering moves in the past five years as in the previous data release.
Finally the new 2019 CMHC Rms data is out. As expected, the high-level numbers are pretty bleak. For Metro Vancouver the vacancy rate inched up a tiny bit from 1.0% in October 2018 to 1.1% in October 2019. In the City of Vancouver the vacancy rate similarly crept from 0.8% in October 2018 to 1.0% in October 2019.
With the slight uptick in vacancy rate, both areas saw somewhat lower rents increases, with the (nominal) fixed-sample rent increase in the year before October 2019 clocking in at 4.
The long awaited first batch of data from the Canadian Housing Survey came out yesterday. The Canadian Housing Survey (CHS) is a new survey that aims give a better idea of well housing needs of Canadians are met.
Right now there are four tables publicly available, and we will give a quick tour of what’s out there, with a focus on Metro Vancouver, Toronto, Montréal and Calgary.
This post is meant as a quick overview of what’s available right now, the code is available on GitHub for anyone that wants to explore this further.
