Last updated 2023.04.26
Unless stated otherwise, the following publications come from Statistics Canada.
- Statistics Canada's children and youth statistics portal
Statistic Canada's one-stop shop to find data, tools, and reports on the latest information on children and youth statistics. Their topics include child care arrangements, crime, education, health, immigration, labour, low income, risk behaviours and violence on Canada’s infants, children, teens, adolescents, students, and young adult.
- Canadian Child Welfare Research Portal (McGill University)
Provides access to up-to-date research on Canadian child welfare programs and policies. The Portal is designed to provide ... a single point of access to Canadian child welfare research, i.e. research on abused and neglected children and on the programs and policies developed to support and protect these children and to support their families. The Portal includes a searchable data base of Canadian research publications, a data base of Canadian researchers, and information and statistics about provincial, territorial, aboriginal and national child welfare policies, legislation and programs.
- Children and youth
Information on Canada's infants, children, teens, adolescents, students, and young adults. Topics include child care arrangements, crime, education, health, immigration, labour, low income, risk behaviours and violence.
- Children and Youth Research Paper Series
Studies, research papers, technical papers written by Statistics Canada staff on related topics
- General Social Survey
Only cycles with content related to families are listed here; the others are on the main GSS page:
- Juristat
This publication provides in-depth analysis and detailed statistics on a variety of justice-related topics and issues. Use children or youth as keyword filters to retrieve the relevant citations
- National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth
The National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) is a long-term survey designed to measure child development and well-being. The first cycle of the survey was conducted by Statistics Canada in 1994-1995 on behalf of Human Resources Development Canada. The survey looked at households containing children 0 11 years of age. It will follow these children over time, collecting information on the children and their families, education, health, development, behaviour, friends, activities, etc.
- Public-use microdata file via <odesi>
- Statistical Snapshot of Youth at Risk and Youth Offending in Canada (Public Safety Canada)
- What has changed for young people in Canada?
In recent years, there has been much discussion and a great deal written about the economic and social well-being of young people. This article paints their socioeconomic portrait and looks at where they are in the labour market in terms of unemployment and certain work conditions.
