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Statistical Infrastructure

Program code
AQR00 (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 2013-14 – 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 2013-14. 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).

2013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Statistical Infrastructure 2013-14: $136MStatistical Infrastructure 2014-15: $116MStatistical Infrastructure 2015-16: $87.5MStatistical Infrastructure 2016-17: $86.6MStatistical Infrastructure 2017-18: $158MStatistical Infrastructure
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
Statistical InfrastructureThis program2013-14 – 2017-18$584M

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
2017-18Employees (FTEs) 929, against 765 in 2016-17 (+21%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)
2017-18Spending $158M, against $86.6M in 2016-17 (+82%).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: $136M2013-142014-15: $116M2014-152015-16: $87.5M2015-162016-17: $86.6M2016-172017-18: $158M2017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-14—$136M
2014-15—$116M
2015-16—$87.5M
2016-17—$86.6M
2017-18—$158M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 1,2012013-14: 1,0692013-142014-15: 8972014-15: 1,1172014-152015-16: 1,1232015-16: 9542015-162016-17: 9892016-17: 7652016-172017-18: 8882017-18: 9292017-18
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
2013-141,2011,069
2014-158971,117
2015-161,123954
2016-17989765
2017-18888929

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.