The Daily Monday, December 10, 2018
Press Release
Income and mobility of immigrants, 2016
The immigrants admitted to Canada in 2015 earned the highest entry wages of any cohort admitted since 1981. The median entry wages of immigrant tax filers admitted in 2015 was $25,400 in 2016.
Building permits, October 2018
Canadian municipalities issued $8.1 billion worth of building permits in October, edging down 0.2% from September. The decrease was mainly attributable to lower construction intentions for industrial and institutional buildings.
Canada’s Core Public Infrastructure Survey: Asset management, 2016
In 2016, just under 40% of core public infrastructure owners in Canada had a documented asset management plan to monitor their infrastructure over the long term. These plans are used to help operate and sustain the public infrastructure.
Study: Assessing Job Quality in Canada: A Multidimensional Approach
Over the past decade, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the United Nations have implemented important initiatives aimed at developing statistical indicators to measure individual and societal well-being. Some of these efforts have been devoted to better understand job quality. While good jobs were traditionally viewed as those providing relatively high wages and better benefits (for example, a workplace pension plan), it is now acknowledged that job quality includes other dimensions such as autonomy, work intensity and prospects for career advancement.
Ecosystem accounting: Renewable freshwater for selected geographic areas, 1971 to 2014
Freshwater is generated unevenly across Canada’s landscape. Water yield—the volume of freshwater generated—is highest on the West Coast, while much smaller volumes are generated on the Prairies. The Georgia Depression and the Southern Coastal Mountains ecoprovinces of the Pacific Maritime ecozone had an average annual water yield of 399.5 km3 from 1971 to 2014—nearly 80 times greater than the 5 km3 water yield of the Central Grassland ecoprovince on the Prairies.
Entrepreneurship indicators of Canadian enterprises, 2016
The entrepreneurship indicators for the reference year 2016 are now available upon request.
Freight rail service and performance indicators
Statistics Canada and Transport Canada are working together to provide Canadians a more detailed picture of the country’s transportation system and its operation.
New products
Analytical Studies: Methods and References: “Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB) Technical Report, 2016”
Catalogue number Catalogue number11-633-X2018019, (HTML | PDF)
Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series: “Assessing Job Quality in Canada: A Multidimensional Approach”
Catalogue number Catalogue number11F0019M2018412, (HTML | PDF)
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