Upcoming Webinars

All webinars take place at 1:30 pm Eastern Time.

June 25, 2026: Consumer Debt Dashboard Webinar
2026 (TBD - POSTPONED): Food Insecurity in Canada: Insights from the Canadian Community Health Survey
2026 (TBD - late Aug.- early Sept.): T1 Family File - Statistics Canada
2026 (TBD - early Sept.): 2026 Census - Statistics Canada
2026 (TBD): TransUnion Data Presentation

Webinar Series

The Community Data Program webinar series fall under one of the following three themes. Webinars range from 60 to 90 minutes and can host up to 100 participants!

Program Orientations

Learn how to use the CDP catalogue and Beyond 20/20 software.

Past webinars:

June 16, 2026: Community Data Analysis Webinar
April 7, 2026: 2026 Community Data Program Orientation
March 3, 2026 Community Data Program Member Survey
April 8, 2025 Orientation to the Community Data Program
February 4, 2025: Refresher on the Community Data Program’s Tableau Infographics and Dashboards
April 23, 2024: Spring 2024 Community Data Program Orientation
February 27, 2024: Orientation to the Community Data Program’s Tableau Infographics and Dashboards
December 5, 2023: Beyond 20/20 Orientation with Q&A
October 25, 2023: Orientation to the Community Data Program, the Catalogue and More
July 27, 2023: Immigration Data Portal: Orientation to ICARE, IMDB and 2021 Census Data Tables, Dashboards and Infographics
July 4, 2023: Introduction to the Community Data Program
February 8, 2023: Community Data Program Open Forum
November 29, 2022: Introduction to the Community Data Program
June 14, 2022: Introduction to the Community Data Program
March 9, 2022: National LIP Secretariat Webinar on Community Data Program, Data Access and Visualization
June 8, 2021: Orientation to the Community Data Program and the Catalogue
May 26, 2020: Orientation to the Community Data Program and the Catalogue
October 1, 2019: Treasure Hunt - Tips on searching the CDP Catalogue and finding data to solve problems
September 17, 2019: Orientation to the Community Data Program and the Catalogue
May 15, 2019: CDP 101 - Orientation given by Jasmine Ing at the 2019 Annual Meeting in Calgary
October 23, 2018: Using the CDP catalogue and Beyond 20/20
Feb 8, 2018: LIP - CDP Orientation

CDP Product Profiles

Get insight into CDP data products, including product methodology, examples of use, and limitations and challenges.

Past webinars:

February 24, 2026: The Power of Data in Collaborative Economic Development: CEDEC’s Analytics and Strategic Integration
January 27, 2026: 2026 Census Questionnaire - Statistics Canada
September 9, 2025 The proposed 2023-base Market Basket Measures methodology - Statistics Canada
July 15, 2025 Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform - Statistics Canada
July 10, 2025 Community Rental Housing Affordability Dashboard Review
April 1, 2025 Canadian Business Counts
January 14, 2025: Modelled Market Basket Measure Poverty Rates
December 5, 2024: IMDB, Housing, Permanent and Temporary Resident Data for Local Immigration Partnerships (LIPs)
November 26, 2024: Demystifying the T1 Family File - Statistics Canada
June 26, 2024: The Ottawa Neighbourhood Study: Developing an Interactive Housing Profile using ArcGIS Story Maps
May 14, 2024: Statistics Canada's work on machine learning over satellite imagery and open Municipal-Provincial Data
March 26, 2024: Conceptualizing Canada’s care economy: A framework from Statistics Canada
December 15, 2023: Local Immigration Partnerships Immigration Data Needs for the IRCC Call for Proposal
December 12, 2023: Disaggregated Data Action Plan. Why it matters to you
June 27, 2023: Toward a municipal and local government data strategy
May 2, 2023: Working with the Postal Code Conversion File (PCCF)
January 24, 2023: Early Learning and Child Care: Data and Findings for Use of Child Care for Children aged 0 to 12
January 17, 2023: Canadian Institute for Health Information's (CIHI) Community Level Data Offerings
September 27, 2022: What can I do with the Longitudinal Immigration Database [IMDB]?
September 20, 2022: Labour Force Survey: Recent Changes
September 28th, 2021: Statistics Canada work towards linked databases using building footprints and property parcels
June 22, 2021: From Survey Design to Statistical Analysis: Making use of the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS)
May 25, 2021: What's new with the 2021 Census
Jan 19, 2021: Living Room Conversation on Housing Data
Dec 8, 2020: Monitoring Community Vulnerability with CDP Data
November 10, 2020: Exploring Canadian Business Counts
June 25, 2020: Resources for the Local Immigration Partnership Portal
November 12, 2019: Energy Poverty: What is energy poverty and how is it measured?
May 15, 2019: Panel Discussion: The National Poverty Strategy and the Market Basket Measure - 2019 Annual Meeting, Calgary
Feb 12, 2019: Understanding Canada's New Poverty Line: The Market Basket Measure
Nov 6, 2018: Target Group Profiles - Excel Workshop
May 8, 2018: Statistics Canada on Taxfiler Data
Nov 6, 2017: CDP Data Party on the latest Census release
Feb 1, 2017: Taxfiler (T1FF) Data
Sept 20, 2016: Indigenous populations in Calgary and Alberta: data sources and resources
May 3, 2016: Community Data Roundtable 2016: Updates to the 2016 Census

Transforming Data into Intelligence

Make use of analytical tools, data visualization, and infographics.

Past webinars:

March 24, 2026 Canadian Business Counts dashboard
December 9, 2025 Data Visualization with QGIS and Esri ArcGIS Using NRCan and CDP Datasets
September 10, 2024: Introduction to the Community Transformations Project
July 10, 2024: Introducing Measuring Main Streets Platform
April 30, 2024: Statistics Canada’s Public Use Microdata Files (PUMFs): A Demo Using the CCHS PUMF
May 12, 2023: Web Scraping Panel Discussion
May 10, 2023: Estimating the Effect of Pandemic-Related Relief Benefits on Income and Other Key Well-Being Indicators
February 21, 2023: Data for Rural Communities: Building innovative approaches for rural data in Canada
February 14, 2023: Using the 2021 Canadian Census Data Quality Indicators for Statistical Inference
October 11, 2022: The Journey to Peel’s Census Information Hub + Live Demo of using CDP Data in QGIS
June 7, 2022: COVID-19 in Canada: Year-end Update on Social and Economic Impacts
May 24, 2022: The Importance of Data Quality
May 10, 2022: Gender, Diversity, and Inclusion Statistics (GDIS): Interactive Hub Tour
April 26, 2022: Adapting the Community Recovery Dashboard to serve local priorities: Lessons learned from the Social Planning Council of Ottawa
March 29, 2022: ECOH Webinar: Community Data for Housing Solutions
March 9, 2022: National LIP Secretariat: Access and Visualize Data Using Data Tools – Beyond 20/20 and Tableau
March 1, 2022: Data visualization workshop - From the CDP catalogue to creating Tableau dashboards
June 1, 2021: CDP Members Monitoring COVID-19
Feb 23, 2021: CMHC's Prototype Core Need Finder
Nov 24, 2020: Doing More with Tableau
Oct 20, 2020: Introduction to Tableau
March 3, 2020: Amplifying the Voice and Stories of Data
November 26, 2019: Roundtable for Not-for-Profits
May 15, 2019: Too Many Infographics, Too Little Time: Save Time by Linking Excel and PowerPoint - 2019 Annual Meeting, Calgary
April 30, 2019: Data analysis tools for small places, Big Data for Small Places (BD4SP) and Data Analytics for Rural Transformation (DART)
March 26, 2019: A Tracking-progress tool for Community Indicator Systems and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Jan 22, 2019: Designing 3D Excel Maps - Social Planning Council of Ottawa
Jan 15, 2019: Dashboarding community economic development data - Townfolio
Dec 18, 2018: The Canadian Housing Statistics Program (CHSP)
Apr 10, 2018: Manitoba Collaborative Data Portal (MbCDP)
Oct 5, 2017: Using Social Data in Community Evaluation
Jun 26, 2017: GIS in a Small-Medium Sized Public Health Agency
Mar 7, 2017: Data Visualization - Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health