A Canada-wide Collaboration

Community Data FestivalMarch 8-10, 2011Toronto, Ontario

Guiding ConceptsCommunity Data

Provide facts about social, health, economic, environmental and cultural trends and conditions occurring 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.

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Community Data CanadaCollaboration Model

Community Data Infrastructure

Leaders Working Group &

Partners Roundtable• Voluntary: CCSD• Municipal: FCM• Prov/Ter: NF

• Fed: STC, HRSDC, CIC, PHAC, AAFC

• Private/Non-Profit: CIHI• Private/For-Profit

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Putting together the pieces of the Community Data Canada puzzleType Description

1. Data •Administrative or Survey data

2. Data infrastructure & services

•Web-based data dissemination•Data-sharing licenses•Mapping tools

3. Data Analysis •Conceptual Frameworks•Analytical Reports/Publications

4. Staff time •Dedicated staff resources

5. Project Sponsorship

•Project funding

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: 2009-2011Activities Date 1. Collaborative, multi-stakeholder process launched Feb/092. Quarterly Working Group meetings Since

Mar/09 3. Outreach to potential leaders and partners in Federal,

provincial, municipal, for profit and nonprofit organizations

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: 2009-2011Activities Date 1. ASSET COORDINATION: Identified and explored

opportunities 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 ProvidersFederal; Provincial; Municipal; Private

Mapping & Geomatics

CCSD; Rural Sec; UPHN

Indicator FrameworksQuality of Life; Well-being

Licensing & Data Sharing

Web-based Dissemination

Training

Data Standards

Data Supply Activities: 2009-2011Activities 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 of 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 DataOrganization 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

Private Data SourcesOrganization Product

Canadian Real Estate Association Resale Housing Market, by neighbourhood

Canadian Urban Libraries CouncilCanadian Public Library Statistics (cities >100K)

Environics Analytics Prizm geodemographics

Food Banks CanadaHungerCount

iNVESTOR ECONOMiCS Household Balance Sheet

TransUnion Canada Credit Rating by postal code

Government SourcesOrganization 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, 2000-2009Correctional Service Canada Inmate populationEnvironment Canada

Municipal Water Use DatabaseNational Air Pollution Surveillance System

Human Resources & Skills Development Canada

Report of the Market Basket MeasureDatabase on Minimum Wages, 1965-2012Homelessness Partnering Secretariat National Shelter Capacity DatabaseHomeless Individuals & Families Information System

Industry CanadaOffice 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.

DATA INFRASTRUCTURE - CONNECTING ASSETS

Deliverables

1. Community Data Canada License Agreement: A more universal license agreement 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: Within the framework of the Community Data Canada initiative, 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. Mapping / GIS: Coordinate and/or replicate existing infrastructure supporting mapping and geo-spatial analysis, including Geoclip licensed tools.

6. Indicator Systems: Consolidate and/or replicate use of indicator frameworks for analysing community data.

DATA SUPPLY – CONNECTING DATA

Deliverables

1. Update and Expand the Community Data Inventory 2. Acquire data identified in inventory using license agreement/data sharing

protocol3. Support Statistics Canada National Household Survey: Work with STC to

validate and strengthen National Household Survey results at smaller geographies

4. New Survey Data: Identify Opportunities for new or expanded surveys administered by Federal government departments

5. New Administrative Data: Identify opportunities to standardize existing administrative data and identify opportunities to replicate the CIC rounded data cube model

6. Qualitative Data: Deliver collaborative survey on public opinion on quality of life issues

7. Reporting on Data: Develop terms of reference for a collaborative report on community data, building on existing reporting systems.

COMMUNITY DATA CANADA Opening a world of data for Canadians

Governance Structure

Roundtable of Partners

Members: Local Networks

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Workplan alignment QOLRS and CCSD ConsortiumBuilding on its strengths, the CCSD-Consortium program would

focus on:• Consortium-based data purchases, focused on licensed data for CSD

and sub-municipal geographies. Future data purchases could include the small area data requirements of other organizations affiliated with Community Data Canada, including FCM.

• Standardizing custom sub-municipal geographies. Integral to data purchases is the need to address the unique administrative and political boundaries at the local level. For example, 10 of the 17 existing CCSD consortia ordered data at special locally recognized neighbourhoods.

• Data dissemination infrastructure for custom tables. The communitydata-donneescommunautaires.ca web infrastructure has been designed as a large-scale data warehouse for customized community data tables. This infrastructure could accommodate additional community data tables from other organizations requiring a storage and retrieval system.

• Linkage to voluntary sector networks. Through the Consortium program and its own membership, CCSD is connected to thousands of voluntary sector organizations. The Consortium program works to strengthen the capacity of this network to understand and use community data.

Workplan alignment QOLRS and CCSD ConsortiumBuilding on its strengths, the FCM-QOLRS program would focus:• Accessing unlicensed data (non-STC/non-CMHC). Using additional

non-QOLRS budget resources, this function could be expanded for a wider number of geographies beyond the immediate QOLRS membership.

• Accessing municipal data via the Municipal Data Collection Tool (MDCT). The critical value-added of the MDCT is that it offers access to date unavailable from any other sources. Using additional non-QOLRS budget resources, this function could be expanded for a wider number of geographies beyond the immediate QOLRS membership.

• Indicator-based data analysis, within a quality of life framework. There is also potential for working with municipal partners to expand the Ontario Municipal Benchmarking Initiative (OMBI) towards a Pan-Canadian benchmarking system.

• Data visualization & Thematic Reporting. Future theme reports would benefit from a combination of data collected by the QOLRS project, and data collected by the CCSD consortium.

• Link to municipal networks. FCM possesses strong institutional credibility in the eyes of municipal governments, and is an effective gateway to municipal governments.

• Communication and advocacy. FCM QoLRS. FCM has established a strong capacity to reach a range of stakeholders via its members, the media and directly with elected officials.