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A Canada-wide Collaboration

Working Group Meeting June 16, 2011 Ottawa, Ontario

Guiding Concepts

Community Data Provide facts about social, health, economic, environmental and cultural trends and conditions

• ccurring within sub-provincial boundaries, such as

health regions, municipalities and neighbourhoods. Data Access for Better Decisions Enabling Canadian governments, organizations and individuals to access consistent and credible data to inform their long-term and day-to-day decisions. Canadian Collaboration Achieving community data access will involve collaboration between Canadian governments, organizations and individuals.

Vision

Canadian governments, organizations and individuals enjoy access to administrative and survey data for small-area geographies across Canada and over time, corresponding to sub- provincial boundaries, such as regional health authorities, municipalities, and neighbourhoods.

Strategic Objectives

1 COMMUNICATION: Encourage communication between local/small area data users and providers. 2 DATA INFRASTRUCTURE: Support a common infrastructure that makes community data more accessible. 3 DATA SUPPLY: Expand the amount of data from multiple sources available to answer relevant questions.

Communication Activities: 2009-2011

Activities Date

• 1. Collaborative, multi-stakeholder process launched

Feb/09

• 2. Quarterly Working Group meetings

Since Mar/09

• 3. Outreach to potential leaders and partners in Federal,

provincial, municipal, for profit and nonprofit

• rganizations

Sep 2010- Feb 2011

• 4. Community outreach: Identified 70 communities across

Canada engaged in community data networks Fall 2010

• 5. Web identity created for the collaboration: www.CDC-

DCC.info Jan 2011

• 6. Organized two Community Data Roundtable events,

coordinated with CCDS and FCM. May/10; Mar/11

• 7. Proposed Governance structure and mandate tabled

Mar/11

A Network of Potential Consortia

Infrastructure Activities: 2009-2011

Activities Date

• 1. ASSET COORDINATION: Identified and explored
• pportunities for coordination of existing and

complementary data infrastructure assets. These include CCSD (www.communitydata- donneescommunautaires.ca); FCM (www.municipaldata-donneesmunicipales.ca;) Newfoundland & Labrador Statistics Agency ( http://www.communityaccounts.ca/ ); the Rural Secretariat (http://www.cid-bdc.ca/) Fall/10; Winter/11

• 2. LICENSE AGREEMENT: Initiated exploration of data

sharing agreements, licenses, templates under a common Community Data Canada agreement. Winter/11

The Community Data System: A Collaborative Infrastructure

Data Providers

Federal; Provincial; Municipal; Private

Mapping & Geomatics

CCSD; Rural Sec; UPHN

Indicator Frameworks

Quality of Life; Well-being

Licensing & Data Sharing Web-based Dissemination Training Data Standards

Data Supply Activities: 2009-2011

Activities Date

• 1. Inventory prepared of community data

Jan 2011

• 2. Evidence-based information compiled on how

community data are being used locally Jan 2011

• 3. Progress made on collaboration with Community Data

Coordinators for the Homeless Individuals and Families Information System Fall 2010

• 4. Citizenship & Immigration Canada shared a beta version
• f the Permanent Residents 2000-2009 Rounded Data

Cubes Jan 2011

• 5. Progress made on accessing community data from new

sources: private sector Winter/11

Non-Census Licensed Data

Organization Product Statistics Canada Small Area and Administrative Data, Taxfiler data Labour Force Survey Building Permits Survey Canadian Community Health Survey Vital Statistics, Births and Deaths Database Uniform Crime Reporting Survey General Social Survey Cycles 19, 20 and 21 Canada Mortgage & Housing Corporation Housing in Canada Online Starts and Completions Survey Rental Market Survey

Administrative Data Sources

Organization Product Canadian Real Estate Association Resale Housing Market, by neighbourhood Canadian Urban Libraries Council Canadian Public Library Statistics (cities >100K) Environics Analytics Prizm geodemographics Food Banks Canada HungerCount iNVESTOR ECONOMiCS Household Balance Sheet TransUnion Canada Credit Rating by postal code Municipal Governments Municipal Data Collection Tool

Government Sources

Organization Product Canadian Institute for Health Information Hospital Morbidity Database; Discharge Database Canadian Urban Libraries Council Canadian Public Library Statistics (cities >100K) Citizenship & Immigration Canada Recent Immigrant Data Cube, 2000-2009 Correctional Service Canada Inmate population Environment Canada Municipal Water Use Database National Air Pollution Surveillance System Human Resources & Skills Development Canada Report of the Market Basket Measure Database on Minimum Wages, 1965-2012 Homelessness Partnering Secretariat National Shelter Capacity Database Homeless Individuals & Families Information System Industry Canada Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy, Business & Consumer Bankruptcies by FSA

Two-year Workplan: April 2011-March 2013

COMMUNICATION – CONNECTING PEOPLE

Projects / Deliverables

• 1. Governance Plan formally endorsed by the Working Group
• 2. Two-year Workplan (2011-2013) formally endorsed by the Working Group
• 3. Business Model endorsed with plan for implementation
• 4. Build a Bigger Tent: Partner collaboration broadened to include more federal,

provincial, municipal governments, and non-profit and for-profit organizations

• 5. Community Outreach: Communication formalized with 70 communities

regarding data access opportunities. Offer to extend Community Consortium license agreement with an interim goal of 50 Consortia by Dec 2011.

• 6. Community Data Roundtables: 2012 and 2013 Community Data Roundtables
• 7. Newsletter/Communiqués: Common Messaging on Community Data Issues;

Data Access; New Data sources; Progress on workplan implementation; Produce and disseminate communiqués/showcase community level data uses.

Governance Structure

Member (Data Users)

Sponsor Member (Data Users) Member (Data Users) Member (Data Users) Member (Data Users) Sponsor Sponsor Sponsor Sponsor Working Group

Leaders Chair/Vice-Chairs Coordinator

DATA INFRASTRUCTURE - CONNECTING ASSETS

Deliverables

• 1. Community Data Canada License Agreement: Data Contract and associated

data sharing protocols for use with other data providers.

• 2. Custom Small Area Boundaries: Confirm customized sub-municipal geographic

boundaries, and make these geographies available to data providers.

• 3. Scale up and roll out existing web-based data access tools: Coordinate and/or

replicate existing infrastructure at the federal, provincial and local level to enable access to existing data.

• 4. Municipal Administrative Data Collection: Build on and expand the existing

Municipal Data Collection Tool managed by FCM.

• 5. Indicator Systems: Consolidate and/or replicate use of indicator frameworks for

analysing community data.

• 6. Training & Capacity Building: Build on existing initiatives to strengthen

“community data literacy,” the capacity of data users to access, work with and add value to data tables.

• 7. Mapping / GIS: Coordinate and/or replicate existing infrastructure supporting

mapping and geo-spatial analysis, including Geoclip licensed tools.

DATA SUPPLY – CONNECTING DATA

Deliverables

• 1. Update and Expand the Community Data Inventory
• 2. Acquire data identified in inventory using data sharing protocols
• 3. Build on and broaden existing data acquisition of Working Group members, including

CIC rounded data cube

• 4. Update Data User needs assessment: Articulate policy and program needs / data

applications for all community data partner members.

• 5. Support Statistics Canada National Household Survey
• 6. New Survey Data: Identify Opportunities for new or expanded surveys

administered by Federal government departments

• 7. New Administrative Data: Identify opportunities to standardize existing

administrative data and identify opportunities to replicate the CIC rounded data cube model

• 8. Qualitative Data: Deliver collaborative survey on public opinion on quality of

life issues

• 9. Reporting on Data: Develop terms of reference for a collaborative report on

community data, building on existing reporting systems.