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Program directory · Canadian Space Agency

Space Data, Information and Services

Program code
ANX00 (CSA)
Core responsibility
Canada's exploration of space, provision of space services and development of its space capacity meet the nation's needs for scientific knowledge, innovation and information.
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2010-11 – 2017-18

What it does

GC InfoBase has no Program Inventory description for this program.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2010-11. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

2010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Space Data, Information and Services 2010-11: $96.4MSpace Data, Information and Services 2011-12: $137MSpace Data, Information and Services 2012-13: $131MSpace Data, Information and Services 2013-14: $208MSpace Data, Information and Services 2014-15: $175MSpace Data, Information and Services 2015-16: $209MSpace Data, Information and Services 2016-17: $171MSpace Data, Information and Services 2017-18: $105MSpace Data, Information and Services
Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
Space Data, Information and ServicesThis program2010-11 – 2017-18$1.23B

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

YearWhat changedSource
2011-12Spending $137M, against $96.4M in 2010-11 (+42%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2013-14Spending $208M, against $131M in 2012-13 (+59%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2017-18Spending $105M, against $171M in 2016-17 (−38%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)

Success criteria

Neither this program nor its core responsibility has results indicators in GC InfoBase (internal services, for example, have none).

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2013-14: $208M2013-142014-15: $175M2014-152015-16: $209M2015-162016-17: $171M2016-172017-18: $105M2017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-14—$208M
2014-15—$175M
2015-16—$209M
2016-17—$171M
2017-18—$105M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 1022013-14: 1042013-142014-15: 1102014-15: 1042014-152015-16: 1082015-16: 1032015-162016-17: 1042016-17: 1052016-172017-18: 1152017-18: 1062017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-14102104
2014-15110104
2015-16108103
2016-17104105
2017-18115106

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Plan
Actual

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.