A Canada-wide Collaboration Working Group Meeting June 16, 2011 Ottawa, Ontario
Guiding Concepts Community Provide facts about social, health, economic, Data environmental and cultural trends and conditions occurring within sub-provincial boundaries, such as health regions, municipalities and neighbourhoods. Data Access Enabling Canadian governments, organizations and for Better individuals to access consistent and credible data to Decisions inform their long-term and day-to-day decisions. Achieving community data access will Canadian Collaboration 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 Date Activities Feb/09 1. Collaborative, multi-stakeholder process launched Since 2. Quarterly Working Group meetings Mar/09 Sep 2010- 3. Outreach to potential leaders and partners in Federal, Feb 2011 provincial, municipal, for profit and nonprofit organizations 4. Community outreach: Identified 70 communities across Fall 2010 Canada engaged in community data networks Jan 2011 5. Web identity created for the collaboration: www.CDC- DCC.info May/10; 6. Organized two Community Data Roundtable events, Mar/11 coordinated with CCDS and FCM. Mar/11 7. Proposed Governance structure and mandate tabled
A Network of Potential Consortia
Infrastructure Activities: 2009-2011 Date Activities Fall/10; 1. ASSET COORDINATION: Identified and explored Winter/11 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/) Winter/11 2. LICENSE AGREEMENT: Initiated exploration of data sharing agreements, licenses, templates under a common Community Data Canada agreement.
The Community Data System: A Collaborative Infrastructure Mapping & Indicator Frameworks Geomatics Quality of Life; Well-being CCSD; Rural Sec; UPHN Web-based Dissemination Data Standards Licensing & Data Sharing Data Providers Training Federal; Provincial; Municipal; Private
Data Supply Activities: 2009-2011 Date Activities 1. Inventory prepared of community data Jan 2011 Jan 2011 2. Evidence-based information compiled on how community data are being used locally Fall 2010 3. Progress made on collaboration with Community Data Coordinators for the Homeless Individuals and Families Information System Jan 2011 4. Citizenship & Immigration Canada shared a beta version of the Permanent Residents 2000-2009 Rounded Data Cubes Winter/11 5. Progress made on accessing community data from new sources: private sector
Non-Census Licensed Data Organization Product Small Area and Administrative Data, Taxfiler data Labour Force Survey Building Permits Survey Statistics Canada Canadian Community Health Survey Vital Statistics, Births and Deaths Database Uniform Crime Reporting Survey General Social Survey Cycles 19, 20 and 21 Housing in Canada Online Canada Mortgage & Housing Starts and Completions Survey Corporation 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 Hospital Morbidity Database; Discharge Information 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 Report of the Market Basket Measure Human Resources & Skills Database on Minimum Wages, 1965-2012 Development Canada Homelessness Partnering Secretariat National Shelter Capacity Database Homeless Individuals & Families Information System Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy, Industry Canada 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 Sponsor Sponsor (Data Users) Member Member (Data (Data Users) Users) Working Group Leaders Chair/Vice-Chairs Coordinator Sponsor Sponsor Member Member (Data (Data Users) Users) Sponsor
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.
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