AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Custom Census Reports for 2021, 2016, 2011, 2006 (supports HNR Method – Components A and C)

2021 Data Now Available in Beyond 20/20. 

Please note that there is data discrepancies between Community Profile and this data set - please read the word document.

Beyond 20/20 can be downloaded here: https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/public/beyond20-20

This dataset contains custom Census information from Statistics Canada for the past 4 Census reports (2021, 2016, 2011, 2006), including data about population, household income, economic sectors (labour force), housing units, and core housing needs in three files for each of the Census year:

<strong>Population Data:</strong> This file includes population and labour force data for every municipality, regional district electoral area, and IR in B.C. This data can be used to support <strong>HNR Method – Component C: Suppressed Household Formation</strong> as it includes  the data required to calculate headship rates. <p> 
<strong>Private Households Data:</strong> This file includes data about household characteristics, household income, and private dwellings for every municipality, regional district electoral area, and IR in B.C. <p>
<strong>Core Housing Needs Data:</strong> This file includes data about Core Housing and Extreme Core Housing Need for every municipality, regional district electoral area, and IR in B.C. This data supports <strong>HNR Method – Component A: Extreme Core Housing Need</strong>.  For extreme core housing need data for owners with a mortgage, please click <a href="https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/download/6279885F00C945838765836D14773CE5">here</a>.
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Note: to find a specific local government in Beyond 20/20, choose "geography' in the drop-down window at the top or highlight the top left  cell on the table showing Geography, then (1) use the adjacent arrows to scroll through the data; or (2) click on the magnifying glass icon, choose "English Desc" and enter the name of the municipality or electoral area. 



Tags: Demographics, Housing, Housing Needs Reports, Labour Force, Local Governments, POPULATION, core housing, household income, housing units
Organization: Planning and Land Use Management
Sea to Sky District Forest Service Road Structures VIEW

Sea to Sky District Forest Service Road Structures including the structure ID, crossing name, last inspection date and structure type. This is a static layer downloaded from the Corporate Bridge Registry and may not reflect current conditions. Please see the Sea to Sky Natural Resource District Bridge Inspection Reports for more information.  Please be advised that road users must inspect and ascertain for themselves the condition of the structure prior to use.

Tags: AGO, AGOL, ArcGIS Online, Bridges
Organization: Regional Operations - South Coast
Current Census Subdivision Boundaries

A census subdivision is an administrative area, which is a component of the Standard Geographical Classification. Census subdivision is the general term for municipalities, as determined by provincial legislation, or areas treated as municipal equivalents for statistical purposes, for example, Indian reserves, Indian settlements and unorganized territories.

Source: Statistics Canada, Census subdivisions, 2021. Reproduced and distributed on an "as is" basis with the permission of Statistics Canada.

Tags: BC, Boundaries, Demographics, Statistics Canada, census, division, profiles, statistics, subdivision
Organization: BC Stats
Omineca Watershed Hazard Assessment - Data - BC Cumulative Effects Framework - 2019 Assessment

NOTE: This dataset is the result of an analysis of many input layers and as such the accuracy, currency, and completeness of the dataset cannot be relied upon for operational use.

This geodatabase contains the outputs to support the published [Current Condition Report for GIS-Based Watershed Hazard in the Omineca Region](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/environment/natural-resource-stewardship/cumulative-effects/omineca-region/cef-ominecawatershedhazardassessment-ccr-2024.pdf), also known as the Omineca Watershed Hazard Assessment. The feature class is CCR_WATERSHED_ASSESSMENT_2023_NB. Also included in the zip file is a data dictionary. 

This report presents a GIS indicator-based watershed risk assessment procedure applicable for broadscale assessment of cumulative watershed effects in the snowmelt-dominated hydrologic regime of the Omineca Natural Resource Region of British Columbia.

The protocols for the Omineca Assessment largely follows those laid out for the Thompson-Okanagan Region [ A GIS Indicator-Based Watershed Assessment Procedure for Assessing Cumulative Watershed Effects – 2016](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/environment/natural-resource-stewardship/cumulative-effects/watershed_assessment_procedure_final.pdf). The specific differences can be seen in the data dictionary.

Please refer to the Aquatics Ecosystem Value website for related project information, as well as additional Cumulative Effects Framework (CEF) documents such as protocols, reports and online tools. 

Tags: Aquatic Ecosystems, Aquatic Ecosystems - Watershed Condition, Assessment, CE, CEF, Cumulative Effects, Cumulative Effects Framework, Current Condition, Hazard Assessment, Indicator, Omineca Region, Watershed
Organization: Forest Improvement and Research Management Branch
BC Electoral District Explorer (BCEDE) - 2013 GE

The BC Electoral District Explorer is a web mapping application.  The electoral districts displayed in the application were created by the 2008 British Columbia Electoral Boundaries Commission. The electoral district voting areas displayed in the application were gazetted on December 23rd, 2015. Discrepancies between electoral boundaries and base data may be present on these maps. For definitive boundary identification please consult the pre-produced map products on Elections BC’s website.

Tags: Electoral Districts, IMF, Voting Areas, bc, elections, provincial
Organization: Elections BC
BC Electoral District Explorer (BCEDE)

The BC Electoral District Explorer is a web mapping application.  The electoral districts displayed on the map were created by the 2015 British Columbia Electoral Boundaries Commission. The electoral district voting areas were gazetted on February 23rd, 2017. Discrepancies between electoral boundaries and base data may be present on these maps. For definitive boundary identification please consult the pre-produced map products on Elections BC’s website.

Tags: Electoral Districts, IMF, PED, Redistribution, Voting Areas, provincial electoral district
Organization: Elections BC
HNR Method - Component F: The “Demand Factor”

<strong>For the HNR Method - Component F: The “Demand Factor”  </strong><p>

When completing the HNR Method, Component F uses a demand factor, based on a ratio of housing price to housing density for each applicable municipality within a region. This calculates the number of housing units that reflect additional demand for housing, beyond the minimum units required to adequately house current and anticipated residents. <p>The demand factor is available here: <a href="https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/download/3D921D96D12D45D0897222089D1FAE12" target="_blank">https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/download/3D921D96D12D45D0897222089D1FAE12</a>.



Tags: Housing, Housing Needs Reports
Organization: Planning and Land Use Management
HNR Method - Component A: Extreme Core Housing Need (Number of Owner Households with a Mortgage)

<strong>For the HNR Method - Component A: Extreme Core Housing Need (number of owner households with a mortgage in ECHN)</strong>
<p>
When completing the HNR Method, Component A aims to use Census data for the applicable municipality or electoral area from the four most recent census reports. However, currently only the 2021 census report includes this specific data for the number of households with a mortgage in extreme core housing need (i.e. the data is not currently available prior to 2021). Please use the 2021 data, which has been extracted from the census data and is available at this link:
<p>
<a href="https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/download/6279885F00C945838765836D14773CE5" target="_blank">https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/download/6279885F00C945838765836D14773CE5</a>


Tags: Housing Needs Reports, core housing
Organization: Planning and Land Use Management
2023-24 Second Quarterly Report

A tabular summary of British Columbia's 2023-24 Second Quarterly Report - Fiscal Plan Update 2023/24 - 2025/26, Economic Outlook & Six Month Financial Results April - September 2023

Tags: Agency, Balance, Budget, Capital, Credit, Debt, Deficit, Earning, Employment, Estimate, Expenditure, Expense, Export, Financial, GDP, Income, Indicator, Industry, Labor, Labour, Liabilities, Liability, Ministry, Price, Program, Quarterly, Report, Revenue, Second, Second Quarterly Report, Spending, Statement, Statistics, Surplus, Table, Tax, Ten-year, Value
Organization: Treasury Board Staff
2023-24 First Quarterly Report

A tabular summary of British Columbia's 2023-24 First Quarterly Report - 2023/24 Economic Outlook and Financial Forecast & Three Month Results April - June 2023.

Tags: AGOL, Agency, Balances, Budget, Capital, Credit, Debt, Deficit, Earning, Employment, Estimate, Expenditure, Expense, Export, Financial, GDP, Income, Indicator, Industry, Labor, Liabilities, Liability, Price, Program, Revenue, Spending, Statement, Statistics, Surplus, Table, Tax, Ten-year, Value, labour, ministry
Organization: Treasury Board Staff
HNR Method - Component D: Anticipated Household Growth

<strong>For the HNR Method - Component D: Anticipated Household Growth </strong><p>When completing the HNR Method, Component D uses BC Stats data for household projections over 5 and 20 years (for the applicable municipality or regional district). 

Data is available at: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/data/statistics/people-population-community/population/household-projections

This dataset contains population and household projections to 2046, including: overall population, gender distribution, age distribution, median age, average age, population growth rates, number of households, average number of people per household. 

Tags: HNR Method, Housing, Housing Needs Reports, Local Governments, household projections, population projections
Organization: Planning and Land Use Management
HNR Method - Component B: Housing Units and Homelessness

**For the HNR Method - Component B: Housing Units and Homelessness:**

When completing the HNR Method, Component B uses regional homelessness data from the Province's Integrated Data Project (IDP): https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content?id=287DDB2AAD6E413892DF4E8442568418
<p>To align with the 2021 census data, use the 2021 IDP report, available here: 
<a href="https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/housing-and-tenancy/social-housing/supportive-housing/2021_idp_cohort_report_homeless_population_in_bc_final.pdf" target="_blank">https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/housing-and-tenancy/social-housing/supportive-housing/2021_idp_cohort_report_homeless_population_in_bc_final.pdf 
</a>


Tags: HNR Method, Housing, Housing Needs Reports, Local Governments
Organization: Planning and Land Use Management
HNR Method - Component E: Housing Units and Rental Vacancy Rate

**For the HNR Method - Component E:  Housing Units and Rental Vacancy Rate:**
<p>
When completing the HNR Method, Component E uses the primary rental market vacancy rate from CMHC’s Housing Market Information Portal. 
<p> To align with 2021 census data, use the October 2021 rental vacancy rate.<p>If Primary Rental Market Vacancy Rate data from CMHC is not available for the applicable municipality or EA (i.e., census subdivision), use the provincial vacancy rate, also provided by CMHC.

<a href="https://www03.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/hmip-pimh/en#Profile/1/1/Canada" target="_blank">https://www03.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/hmip-pimh/en#Profile/1/1/Canada
</a>


Tags: HNR Method, Housing, Housing Needs Reports, Local Government
Organization: Planning and Land Use Management
BC Web Map Library

The Data and Resources links below provide web service application program interfaces (API) that return georeferenced map images and services per the [Open Geospatial Consortium Web Mapping Service (WMS) Protocol](http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms) based on a variety of geographic data sources.

See this [web page](http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content?id=95D78D544B244F34B89223EF069DF74E) for more information on B.C. Map Services and how they can be used.


Tags: KML, WMS, google earth, map
Organization: Data Systems and Services (DataBC)
Old Growth - Forest Cover - Data - South Coast SBOT

This layer is a component of the Old Growth Forest Stewardship Baseline Objectives Tool (SBOT) for the South Coast Region (https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/d6309f84-d1e0-45ea-afff-6a3293825ce2).

Tags: AGO, AGOL, Arc GIs Online, British Columbia, Northern Goshawk, Old Growth, SBOT, Stewardship Baseline Objective Tool
Organization: Regional Operations - South Coast
Peaceful Enjoyment Disturbance (PED) for Skeena Region


This data describes a high-level assessment of human industrial disturbance of the land base. For our purposes, peaceful enjoyment is assumed to decrease proportionally with the proximity to roads and is expected to be heavily impacted when a mine is present. The delineation of peaceful enjoyment disturbance categories is based on a simplified framework of the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum (ROS) of Harshaw and Sheppard (2013).  The primary drivers of the assessment results are the presence of roads and the presence of mines.

Peaceful enjoyment is a coarse filter, landscape level assessment using the BC Freshwater Atlas 1:20,000 Watershed Assessment Unit (AU) boundaries as the base geographic unit for analysis.

In increasing order of disturbance, the categories in the assessment are Primitive (P), Semi-Primitive Non-Motorized (SPNM), Semi-Primitive Motorized (SPM), Roaded Natural (RN), Roaded Modified (RM), and Rural (R).


Tags: Cumulative Effects, Human Disturbance, Peaceful Enjoyment, Roads
Organization: Skeena Stikine District
British Columbia Drought Information Portal

Welcome to the British Columbia Drought Information Portal. 

https://droughtportal.gov.bc.ca

Drought is a recurrent feature of climate involving a deficiency of precipitation over an extended period of time, resulting in a water shortage. The British Columbia Drought Information Portal was created as a single source geographic drought level information system for British Columbians. The application uses multiple embedded apps to provide information on provincial drought levels, angling closures, historical drought time-lapse maps and other drought related information. Provincial drought levels are updated by the Water Management Branch, Ministry of Forests on an as needed basis. 

Visit the BC Drought Information Portal or https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/environment/air-land-water/water/drought-flooding-dikes-dams/drought-information for the latest BC drought information.

For historical drought data see https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/bc-historical-drought-levels

A GeoBC Production.

Tags: AGO, AGOL, ArcGIS Online, BC, British Columbia, Canada, Drought, GeoBC, Living Water Smart, Water
Organization: GeoBC Branch
LiDAR

__LiDAR__ (__Li__ght __D__etection __A__nd __R__anging) is a modern survey method that produces three-dimensional spatial information in the form of a data point cloud.

LiDAR is an active remote sensing system; it produces its own energy to acquire information, versus passive systems, like cameras, that only receive energy. 

LiDAR systems are made up of a scanner, which is a laser transmitter and receiver; a GNSS (GPS) receiver; and an inertial navigation system (INS). These instruments are mounted to an aircraft. The laser scanner transmits near-infrared light to the ground. The light reflects off the ground and returns to the scanner. The scanner measures the time interval and intensity of the reflected signals. This information is integrated with the positional information provided by the GNSS and INS to create a three-dimensional point cloud representing the surface.

A LiDAR system can record millions of points per second, resulting in high spatial resolution, which allows for differentiation of many fine terrain features. 

Point clouds collected with LiDAR can be used to create three-dimensional representations of the Earth’s surface, such as Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) and Digital Surface Models (DSMs). DEMs model the elevation of the ground without objects on the surface, and DSMs model ground elevations as well as surface objects such as trees and buildings.

LidarBC's **Open LiDAR Data Portal** (see link under Resources) is an initiative to provide **open** public access to LiDAR and associated datasets collected by the Government of British Columbia.  

The data in the portal is released as Open Data under the [**Open Government Licence – British Columbia**](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/data/open-data/open-government-licence-bc)  (OGL-BC).

Four Government of British Columbia business areas and one department of the Government of Canada make LiDAR data available through the portal:

* [**GeoBC**](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/data/about-data-management/geobc)

* [**Emergency Management and Climate Readiness**](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/safety/emergency-management) (EMCR)

* [**BC Timber Sales**](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/industry/forestry/bc-timber-sales) (BCTS)

* [**Forest Analysis and Inventory Branch**](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/industry/forestry/managing-our-forest-resources/forest-inventory) (FAIB)

* [**Natural Resources Canada**](https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/home) (NRCan)

GeoBC is the provincial branch that oversees and manages LidarBC’s Open LiDAR Data Portal, including storage, distribution, maintenance, and updates. 

Please direct questions to **LiDAR@gov.bc.ca**.

Tags: DEM, DSM, LiDAR, data, download, lidar, open, point cloud, portal, remote sensing, web map, webmap
Organization: GeoBC Branch
LidarBC - Open LiDAR Data Portal

LidarBC's **Open LiDAR Data Portal** is an initiative to provide **open** public access to LiDAR and associated datasets collected by the Government of British Columbia.  

The data in the portal is released as Open Data under the [**Open Government Licence – British Columbia**](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/data/open-data/open-government-licence-bc)  (OGL-BC).

Four Government of British Columbia business areas and one department of the Government of Canada make LiDAR data available through the portal:

* [**GeoBC**](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/data/about-data-management/geobc)

* [**Emergency Management and Climate Readiness**](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/safety/emergency-management) (EMCR)

* [**BC Timber Sales**](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/industry/forestry/bc-timber-sales) (BCTS)

* [**Forest Analysis and Inventory Branch**](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/industry/forestry/managing-our-forest-resources/forest-inventory) (FAIB)

* [**Natural Resources Canada**](https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/home) (NRCan)

GeoBC is the provincial branch that oversees and manages LidarBC’s Open LiDAR Data Portal, including storage, distribution, maintenance, and updates. 

Please direct questions to **LiDAR@gov.bc.ca**.

Tags: DEM, DSM, LiDAR, data, download, lidar, open, point cloud, portal, remote sensing, web map, webmap
Organization: GeoBC Branch
Species Distribution Modeling and Wildlife Habitat Ratings Project Boundaries

Species Distribution Modeling (SDM) and Wildlife Habitat Ratings (WHR) project boundaries contains (study areas) and attributes describing each project (project level metadata), plus links to the locations of other data associated with the project (e.g. reports, WHR polygon datasets, plotfiles). SDM predicts the suitability of different environments for occupation by particular species, and the likelihood that those suitable habitats are occupied. WHR are also known as wildlife habitat interpretations and most commonly use TEM data as a means to identify specific habitats. This layer is derived from the STE_TEI_PROJECT_BOUNDARIES_SP layer by filtering on the PROJECT_TYPE attribute. Project types include: WHR, SDM, PEMWHR, PEMSDM, TEMWHR, TEMSDM, TEMPRW, NEMPRW, TEMSEW, BEIWHR, BEISDM, SEIWHR, SDM, and SOILSW.

Current version:

v11 (published on 2024-10-03)

Previous versions:

v10 (published on 2023-11-14), v9 (published on 2023-03-01), v8 (published on 2016-09-01)

Tags: BGC, Canada, DTEIF, Drainage, PEM, SEI, STE, STEWI, TEIS, TEM, TER, TSM, WHR, biogeoclimatic, bioterrain, bioterrain mapping, describing terrestrial ecosystems, ecology, ecosystem, ecosystem mapping, ecosystem modelling, landslide, predictive ecosystem mapping, sedimentation, sensitive ecosystem, sensitive ecosystems inventory, slope stability, soil, species distribution modeling, terrain, terrain and ecosystems, terrain mapping, terrain stability, terrain stability mapping, terrestrial ecosystem mapping, wildlife habitat rating, wildlife inventory, wildlife modeling
Organization: Knowledge Management
BC Primary Agriculture Establishments and Food and Beverage Manufacturing Establishments by Region

The dataset includes the number of primary agricultural establishments and food and beverage manufacturing establishments in British Columbia by product category and Regional District for 2022. Category classification is based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). To learn more about NAICS, visit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Canada 2022. The Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) is Statistic’s Canada’s official classification for geographic areas in Canada. The Census Divisions in SGC align with BC’s provincially legislated Regional Districts.

Tags: beverage, economic, establishments, food, manufacturing, primary agriculture, processing
Organization: Corporate Policy and Priorities
PreparedBC Hazard Map

An EMCR Public Education and Communications team map that shows were hazards are in the province. The map is for the PreparedBC sit, in addition, Master of Disaster is one of the Public Education Program it will be used for. The first step to getting prepared is knowing which hazards could happen where you live. Use this map to see some of the top hazards in your region. Click on a hazard icon to learn more. 

Tags: AGO, AGOL, ArcGIS Online, BC Regional District, Earthquake, Emergency, Flood, Hazard, Hazardous spills, Landslide, Power Outages, Regional District, Severe Weather, Tsunami, Wildfire, avalanche, emergency management, emergency planning
Organization: GeoBC Branch
Bark Beetle Susceptibility Rating

Periodically, the MOF Forest Health program creates bark beetle susceptibility rating polygons to spruce beetle, mountain pine beetle and Douglas-fir beetle from the most current Vegetation Resource Inventory.  The current dataset was created for MOF's Resource Practices Branch in Victoria, by the Geospatial Services group in Kamloops in March 2014.  The process for creating the hazard rating model was based upon version 10 of the Shore/Safranyik susceptibility and risk rating system.  The rating system describes several major susceptibility factors used to create the final hazard rating.   Sources of data:  Vegetation: VRI exported from the BCGW in December of 2013; Basal Area: Present in the VRI attribute table; and TRIM DEM: GIS Warehouse.  

Tags: Douglas-fir beetle, bark beetle, forest health, hazard rating, mountain pine beetle, spruce beetle
Organization: Forest Science, Planning and Practices Branch
BC Parks Map

Welcome to the BC Parks Map. This app is overseen by BC Parks and serves as a general reference for current park conditions. The BC Parks Map includes geographic layers that indicate which BC provincial parks have been issued a closure notification. In addition, current closure conditions for recreation sites, ecological reserves, and interpretive forests are displayed. For more information, please visit http://bcparks.ca/.

A GeoBC production in association with BC Parks.

Tags: AGO, AGOL, ArcGIS Online, B C Parks, BC Parks, British Columbia Parks, Parks, Provincial Parks
Organization: BC Parks