Statistics Canada Improves Planners' Access to Data

A new initiative between Statistics Canada and the Canadian Council on Social Development will make neighbourhood-level statistical data easily and affordably available to both municipal planning departments and various community-based groups.

" 'Fundamental changes are happening, and to look at program demands, we need better information,' said Doug Norris, Statistics Canada's director general of census and demography statistics, at the launch of the community social data strategy and urban poverty project".