A Canada-wide Collaboration Community Data Festival March 8-10, 2011 Toronto, Ontario

Guiding Concepts Community 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.

4 Community Data Canada Collaboration 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 Data Users Data Providers Web-based Dissemination Licensing / Sharing 4 Indicator Frameworks GIS & Mapping Geo & Data Standards Training

Putting together the pieces of the Community Data Canada puzzle TypeDescription 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: 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 organizations Sep Feb Community outreach: Identified 70 communities across Canada engaged in community data networks Fall Web identity created for the collaboration: DCC.infowww.CDC- DCC.info Jan 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: Activities Date 1.ASSET COORDINATION: Identified and explored opportunities for coordination of existing and complementary data infrastructure assets. These include CCSD ( donneescommunautaires.ca); FCM ( Newfoundland & Labrador Statistics Agency ( ); the Rural Secretariat ( donneescommunautaires.cawww.municipaldata-donneesmunicipales.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: Activities Date 1.Inventory prepared of community data Jan Evidence-based information compiled on how community data are being used locally Jan Progress made on collaboration with Community Data Coordinators for the Homeless Individuals and Families Information System Fall Citizenship & Immigration Canada shared a beta version of the Permanent Residents Rounded Data Cubes Jan Progress made on accessing community data from new sources: private sector Winter/11

Non-Census Licensed Data OrganizationProduct 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 Sources OrganizationProduct 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 ECONOMiCSHousehold Balance Sheet TransUnion CanadaCredit Rating by postal code

Government Sources OrganizationProduct Canadian Institute for Health Information Hospital Morbidity Database; Discharge Database Canadian Urban Libraries CouncilCanadian Public Library Statistics (cities >100K) Citizenship & Immigration CanadaRecent Immigrant Data Cube, Correctional Service CanadaInmate 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, 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 ( ) 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 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 protocol 3. 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 Sponsor Working Group Leaders Chair/Vice-Chairs Coordinator

Workplan alignment QOLRS and CCSD Consortium Building 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 Consortium Building 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.