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Using the NHS at the scale of cities and communities: slide deck and Q&A recording now available

The November 21 webinar "Using the NHS at the scale of cities and communities" was a great success, with 215 registrations, and 158 attendees.

In particular, it helped us understand some of the ways to assess the quality of the National Household Survey in addition to the global non-response rate, while driving home a commonly mentioned point: use the NHS to report on socioeconomic variables at the neighbourhood and municipal scale, but make sure to do so with caution.

City of Guelph and Canadian Index of Wellbeing: 2013 winners of the Community Indicators Consortium Impact Award

Congratulations to the City of Guelph and the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW) for receiving the Community Indicators Consortium Impact Award for 2013 for their work on the Guelph Community Wellbeing Initiative. The Community Indicators Consortium is an active, open learning network and global community of practice among persons interested or engaged in the field of indicators development and application.

Integration 2013: The 7th Annual Environics Analytics User Conference (Toronto – November 6th)

All members of the CDP have access to the Envision tool from Environics Analytics, this tool allows you to easily create a map/report with the 2006 Census and 2011 Census/NHS data.

This conference will give you the opportunity to meet the technical team of Environics Analytics and learn more about the power of data!