COVID-19 - Statistics Canada Data & Articles

The COVID-19 Data was collected using an entirely new collection tool developed by Statistics Canada, known as the Canadian Perspectives Survey Series (CPSS). 

The CPSS is a new data collection methodology that is designed to gather data more rapidly than a traditional Statistics Canada Survey,

• It was conducted online using the Internet; 
• It is designed to produce data at a national level (Territories are excluded from the CPSS);
• The survey population was selected from Canadians who already participate in the Labour Force Survey (LFS), with each respondent participating in several short online surveys over a period of a year - this allowed for the sharing of administrative data such as names, demographic characteristics, etc., between the two surveys, rather having to be recollected by the CPSS;
• Response to the survey is voluntary - the targeted response rate for each survey in the series is 60%; and 
• Each Survey in the series is performed once a month, with data collection lasting approximately a week.