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September 21, 2022
Over multiple decades, census data have revealed that the Indigenous population has grown quickly—at a pace far surpassing that of the non-Indigenous population. The 2021 Census counted more than 1.8 million Indigenous people, accounting for 5.0% of the total population in Canada, up from 4.9% in 2016.
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September 21, 2022
Canadians were less likely to own their home in 2021 (66.5%) than they were a decade earlier, when a record high (69.0%) were homeowners. At the same time, temporary pandemic-related income support helped lower the share of households spending more than 30% of their income on housing from 24.1% in 2016 to 20.9% in 2021.
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September 20, 2022
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 7.0% on a year-over-year basis in August, down from a 7.6% gain in July. On a seasonally adjusted monthly basis, the CPI rose 0.1% in August.
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September 20, 2022
Employers across all sectors in Canada were actively seeking to fill nearly one million (997,000) vacant positions in the second quarter, the highest quarterly number on record.
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The fourth release of findings from the 2021 Census are now available! Discover census data on linguistic diversity and the use of English and French in Canada.
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