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Trampoline 6 of 12: Publishers - Government sources

Published April 18, 2018 by Mark Bodnar

Government agencies at all levels – from cities & provinces all the way up to countries and intergovernmental organizations such as the UN or the World Health Organization – are concerned with the economic and physical wellbeing of citizens in their jurisdictions.

That means that if you need information on anything from the leisure habits of Albertans to the number of people with physical disabilities in Canada, a government agency is likely to have both collected and published the data… and there’s a good chance that they’ve published it for free!

chart showing the major publisher types for market research: governments, associations, companies, private researchers, academics, and news

I’ll list below a few examples of the sorts of information found via governmental agencies.

I'm focusing here on resources that seem likely to be relevant to an "access to nature" theme in hopes that they will be useful for the Trampoline 2018 participants.

Federal level

Statistics Canada

Factsheets on Canadians and Nature: Outdoor activities & on Parks and green spaces
Infographic: Canadians and the Outdoors
Report: Outdoor time, physical activity, sedentary time, and health indicators at ages 7 to 14: 2012/2013 Canadian Health Measures Survey
Data and reports on Physical activity during Leisure time
Raw data from the Households and the environment survey
Census data (2016): Census Profiles (of cities, provinces, etc.) and Your Community in Stats

Public Health Agency of Canada: Healthy Living

Also: the Canadian government often commissions private research firms (Environics, Ekos, Decima, NRG, etc.) to conduct public opinion research on their behalf. The results are generally published via this portal: Public Opinion Research Reports (PORR)