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Over the winter, the Canadian Census Data Discovery Partnership’s (CCDDP) User Needs Working Group continued to consult with the census data producers and users to inform the vision for the CCDDP portal’s infrastructure, and data collection has concluded for the census data community (stakeholder) survey and the end user community survey. Qualitative coding for the stakeholder survey occurred in February, and the analysis of qualitative and quantitative data is ongoing. Responses from the end-user survey were received in April, and those data are currently being prepared for analysis. Read more...

Over the winter, the Canadian Census Data Discovery Partnership’s (CCDDP) working groups have been working together towards our project deliverables. Firstly, the User Needs Working Group has continued to consult with the census data producers and users to inform the vision for the CCDDP portal’s infrastructure. Much of their work now is moving towards synthesizing the research they have been conducting. Secondly, the Inventory Working group is close to completing their work with 119/140 censuses inventoried. Lastly, a developer has been hired to develop a proof of concept for the portal, to be available later in 2023. Read more...

As the project moves into the second year of the SSHRC Partnership Development Grant (PDG), work will continue focusing on completing the Census inventory, as well as beginning to carry out pre-user testing of existing census data portals. This user testing builds on work completed in year one of ranking data discovery and related features of existing Canadian census data discovery tools. The project is also beginning to explore potential platforms and technologies for the envisioned discovery portal. Read more...

The Canadian Census Data Discovery Partnership (CCDDP) is pleased to share its second research project update. In February 2022, the CCDDP User Needs Working Group partnered with the Western University Network on Economic and Social Trends (NEST) to host a consultative workshop event Read more...

The Canadian Census Data Discovery Partnership (CCDDP), a SSHRC funded (2021-2023) pan-Canadian research project to improve Census data discovery and open access for historical data, is proud to share its first project update with the research community and public at-large. Read more...

The Canadian Census Data Discovery Partnership (CCDDP) is pleased to officially announce the commitment of Library and Archives Canada as a Project Partner. Library and Archives Canada becomes the seventh project partner. Project partners have signed MOU’s expressing their commitment to the project, currently funded through a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant. Read more...

The Canadian Census Data Discovery Partnership is pleased to announce that it is the recipient of a SSHRC grant (2021-2023) to drive a pan-Canadian research project which will improve research conditions and open access for Canada’s national historical data. Read more...

The Canadian Census Data Discovery Partnership aims to build a bilingual and openly available discovery platform for census data (print & digital) going back to the earliest Canadian censuses. We’ve recently set up this website which contains more information on the project. Read more...

As some of you may be aware, OCUL’s Historical Census Working Group (part of the OCUL Data Community) is working on scoping a comprehensive bilingual inventory of Canadian census data. Our dream is to eventually build a bilingual and openly available discovery platform for census data & statistical tables (print & digital) going back to the earliest Canadian censuses. Read more...