Selected analysis

How current the data is

This site holds 4,979,076 publicly visible observations. That number says nothing about whether they describe the present. This page asks the second question: of what each jurisdiction publishes, how much of it is from the last 5 years.

Yukon is the most current, at 80.0% of its dated observations falling in 2021 or later. Newfoundland and Labrador is the least, at 5.5%. Both are counted the same way, against the same window.

By jurisdiction

Share of each jurisdiction's dated visible observations falling in 2021 or later
Jurisdiction Visible observations Since 2021 Share Mean year Forward dated
Yukon 105,796 84,673 80.0% 2020.3
Northwest Territories 65,555 45,066 68.7% 2019.8
Nunavut 65,484 44,528 68.0% 2019.9
Ontario 246,204 155,298 63.1% 2017.9
Quebec 202,734 123,287 61.7% 2017.2 3,020
Canada 158,263 92,550 58.5% 2015.8
Saskatchewan 152,618 84,706 55.5% 2015.5
Alberta 164,631 88,110 53.5% 2015.7
Manitoba 141,130 71,920 51.0% 2014.8
New Brunswick 128,434 63,184 49.2% 2014.2
Prince Edward Island 106,348 48,291 45.4% 2012.7
British Columbia 1,375,820 300,707 40.6% 2017.6 634,800
Nova Scotia 828,927 165,514 20.0% 2005.1
Newfoundland and Labrador 1,084,246 59,446 5.5% 2010.2

What a big number can hide

A jurisdiction can hold a great many observations and still publish little about the present, because one long federal series reaching back decades counts for more rows than a provincial series covering the last three years. The mean year column is there for exactly that reason: it moves when the weight of a jurisdiction's data sits in the past, and the observation count does not.

Sources whose data ends earliest

These are the visible sources whose newest readable period is oldest. A source ending years ago is not a fault in the publisher; a great deal of it is discontinued reporting. It is a fact about what can be said today.

Visible sources ordered by their newest readable period
SourceNewest yearObservations
statcan:13100448 2005 36,288
statcan:13100484 2013 1,904
on:cpri-organizational-dataset 2015 16
statcan:13100368 2017 6,804
statcan:13100404 2017 6,792
pei:physician-hospital-nursing-home-statistics-2009 2018 84
pei:acute-care-hospital-expenditures-2010 2018 40
pei:seniors-housing-program-activity 2018 56
nb:diabetes-by-age 2019 15
nl:hospital-morbidity:1995-2018 2019 961,168
statcan:43100060 2021 26,165
statcan:15100037 2021 1,460