Household characteristics data - CMHC

Giving housing professionals and researchers key household characteristics from across Canada. Find data on home equity, income, housing types, tenure, core housing need and demographics.

These tables give housing professionals, researchers and stakeholders an in-depth look at the key characteristics of households across Canada. This includes data and analysis on home equity, household incomes, housing types and tenure, household demographics and core housing need.

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Last Updated April 18, 2024, 17:03 (UTC)
Created April 4, 2023, 02:35 (UTC)
Domain / Topic
Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
Housing
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc)
File format of the dataset.
.xla, .xlb, .xlc, .xlm, .xls, .xlt, .xlw - application/vnd.ms-excel
Dataset Size
Dataset size in megabytes.
Metadata Identifier
Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
Published Date
Published date of the dataset.
2022-04-20
Time Period Data Span (start date)
Start date of the data in the dataset.
Time Period Data Span (end date)
End date of time data in the dataset.
GeoSpatial Area Data Span
A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.
Canada
fair_rda_a1_02d
fair_rda_a1_03d
fair_rda_a1_04d
fair_rda_a1_05d
fair_rda_a1_1_01d
fair_rda_a1_2_01d
fair_rda_i1_01d Yes
fair_rda_i1_02d Yes
fair_rda_i2_01d Yes
fair_rda_i3_01d
fair_rda_r1_3_01d Yes
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Access category
Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).
Limits on use
Limits on use of data.
Location
Location of the dataset.
https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/professionals/housing-markets-data-and-research/housing-data/data-tables/household-characteristics
Data Service
Data service for accessing a dataset.
Owner
Owner of the dataset.
Contact Point
Who to contact regarding access?
CMHC
Publisher
Publisher of the dataset.
Publisher Email
Email of the publisher.
Author
Author of the dataset.
CMHC
Author Email
Email of the author.
contactcentre@cmhc.ca
Accessed At
Date the data and metadata was accessed.
2023-04-03
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Identifier
Unique identifier for the dataset.
Language
Language(s) of the dataset
English
Link to dataset description
A URL to an external document describing the dataset.
https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/professionals/housing-markets-data-and-research/housing-data/data-tables/household-characteristics
Persistent Identifier
Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
N/A
Globally Unique Identifier
Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
N/A
Contains data about individuals
Does the data hold data about individuals?
No
Contains data about identifiable individuals
Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
No
Contains Indigenous Data
Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
N/A
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Source
Source of the dataset.
https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/professionals/housing-markets-data-and-research/housing-data/data-tables/household-characteristics
Version notes
Version notes about the dataset.
Is version of another dataset
Link to dataset that it is a version of.
Other versions
Link to datasets that are versions of it.
Provenance Text
Provenance Text of the data.
Provenance URL
Provenance URL of the data.
Temporal resolution
Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
GeoSpatial resolution in meters
Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
GeoSpatial resolution (in regions)
Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.
Province
Field Value
Indigenous Community Permission
Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
Community Permission
Community permission (who gave permission).
The Indigenous communities the dataset is about
Indigenous communities from which data is derived.
Field Value
Number of data rows
If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
Number of data columns
If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
Number of data cells
If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
Number of data relations
If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
Number of entities
If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
Number of data properties
If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
Data quality
Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
Metric for data quality
A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.

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