RDC News: January 2026

Welcome to 2026! We hope everybody had a fun and relaxing holiday season.

Saturday Hours – On Demand

We will be offering Saturday hours this month, Saturday, January 17th – 12pm to 4pm. We will be open on an ‘appointment’ basis, only if requested. Please sign up via the online booking system.

Congrats!

Congratulations to McMaster RDC Analyst Peter Kitchen, who along with Mac RDC researcher Lisa Kaida have a new paper published in SN Business & Economics. Their work explored the characteristics of Canada Pension Plan (CPP) recipients, using data from the Longitudinal Administrative Databank (LAD).

The full citation is:

• Kitchen, P., Chowhan, J., & Kaida, L. (2025). Canada pension plan (CPP) and maximum benefit recipients in retirement: a profile of an exclusive group and gender differences. SN Business & Economics, 5(12), 219.

New data sets at the RDC:

 Survey on Social Connections – Well-being in Canada (SSC-WC)

The Survey on Social Connections – Well-being in Canada (SSC-WC) is a new survey, started in 2025. This project is collected as part of the Disaggregated Data Action Plan (DDAP) with the objective of producing detailed statistical information highlighting the lived experiences of specific population groups, as well as increased analytical insights on diverse groups of people.

Questionnaire content covers a variety of social topics. The frame of the survey is constructed using the 2021 Census Edit & Imputation database combined with a sample of recent immigrants from the Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB) file and recent files received from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). The SSC-WC was designed to provide estimates within racialized groups and immigration status categories.

More information on this dataset can be found at: https://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p2SV.pl?Function=getSurvey&SDDS=5418

If you would like more information on how to submit a proposal for access to this data see https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/microdata/data-centres/access.

For more information about the RDC program please contact your local RDC analyst.

For a list of all the most recent data releases, see https://crdcn.ca/publications-data/data/.