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Socio-Economic Statistics

Program code
AQN00 (SC)
Core responsibility
Canadians have access to timely, relevant and quality statistical information on Canada's changing economy and society for informed debate, research and decision making on social and economic issues.
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).

2010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Socio-Economic Statistics 2010-11: $132MSocio-Economic Statistics 2011-12: $125MSocio-Economic Statistics 2012-13: $156MSocio-Economic Statistics 2013-14: $104MSocio-Economic Statistics 2014-15: $100MSocio-Economic Statistics 2015-16: $102MSocio-Economic Statistics 2016-17: $99.3MSocio-Economic Statistics 2017-18: $102MSocio-Economic Statistics
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
Socio-Economic StatisticsThis program2010-11 – 2017-18$920M

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
2013-14Employees (FTEs) 695, against 1,204 in 2012-13 (−42%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)
2013-14Spending $104M, against $156M in 2012-13 (−34%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2015-16Employees (FTEs) 1,136, against 706 in 2014-15 (+61%).FTEs (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: $104M2013-142014-15: $100M2014-152015-16: $102M2015-162016-17: $99.3M2016-172017-18: $102M2017-18
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—$104M
2014-15—$100M
2015-16—$102M
2016-17—$99.3M
2017-18—$102M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 6492013-14: 6952013-142014-15: 6062014-15: 7062014-152015-16: 6442015-16: 1,1362015-162016-17: 1,1472016-17: 1,1412016-172017-18: 1,0962017-18: 1,1072017-18
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
2013-14649695
2014-15606706
2015-166441,136
2016-171,1471,141
2017-181,0961,107

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.