Government of Alberta

This Statistic describes the proportion of Grade 9 students in Alberta who achieved the acceptable standards in language arts and mathematics. Grade 9 Provincial Achievement Tests (PAT) in language arts and mathematics are used as proxy measures of literacy and numeracy because adult literacy...

This Alberta Official Statistic summarizes annual results of calculations of air quality index values as calculated by quality-assured and quality-controlled hourly ambient air quality data. It reports the number of hours of Poor and Very Poor air quality. It also includes an overview of the...

This Alberta Official Statistic compares the unemployment rates of Canada and the ten provinces from 1976 to 2014. The unemployment rate is a measure of the proportion of people in the labour force who are unemployed. The labour force includes individuals 15 years and over who are employed or...

This Alberta Official Statistic compares the infant mortality rate across all five Alberta Health Services Continuum Zones for the combined years 2011 to 2014. The infant mortality rates are broken down by neonatal mortality (deaths occurring prior to 28 days) and post-neonatal mortality (deaths...

This Alberta Official Statistic shows the person-visits and tourism expenditures in Alberta from 2012 to 2013. Visitor statistics are based on Statistics Canada’s Travel Survey of Residents of Canada and International Travel Survey

This Alberta Official Statistic describes the volunteer rates of adult Albertans with organizations for the period 2009‑2010 to 2014‑2015. The results are based on an annual province‑wide telephone survey of 1,000 adult Albertans who were asked whether they did any volunteer work in a variety of...

This Alberta Official Statistic uses a 5-year extended Facility Condition Index (FCI) value to report the physical condition of government owned or supported facilities. The FCI was adopted as a common measure to enhance reporting by enabling the Ministry of Infrastructure to compare condition...

This Alberta Official Statistic describes the Program Completion values in relation to instances where students complete an approved credential program (Certificates, Diplomas and Degrees) within Alberta's Publicly Funded Post-Secondary Education System. This dataset provides the breakdowns of...

This Alberta Official Statistic describes the Crime Severity Index for Canada and Provinces, 1998 to 2014. Crime Severity Index is a measure of the seriousness of police-reported crime. It covers all Criminal Code violations including traffic, as well as drug violations and violations of all...

This Alberta Official Statistic presents food manufacturing sales and employed labour force in food manufacturing industries for Alberta. Preliminary estimates for 2014 indicate that Alberta food processing industries generated a record $12.7 billion in sales, an increase of 10.1% over the...

This Alberta Official Statistic describes the Unique Student measure in relation to the number of students attending an approved program at a publicly funded post-secondary institution. The values in each row are related to the unique students at that level, and adding multiple values may lead to...

These long-term population projections by single year of age and sex have been developed by applying the component cohort survival model to assumptions about future trends in fertility, mortality and migration, under three different sets of assumptions (i.e. low, medium and high scenarios).

This Alberta Official Statistic compares the life expectancy of Alberta and Alberta Health Services Continuum Zones (South, Calgary, Central, Edmonton, North) by sex for 2014. Life expectancy is the number of years a person would be expected to live if the age- and sex- specific mortality rates...

This annual dataset provides planned fish stocking information on waterbodies within Alberta during the spring and fall stocking seasons. Please note that fish species, number stocked, and dates may change without notice. Actual fish stocking numbers are reported in the Fish Stocking Report,...

This Alberta Official Statistic compares the Real Gross Domestic Product per hour worked (Chained 2007 dollars) in the business sector for Canada and all provinces for the years 2007 to 2014. It presents current information on labour productivity in Alberta and compares it with that of other...

This Alberta Official Statistic describes the total government research expenditure towards scientific activities from 2006-2007 to 2013-2014. It includes both research and experimental development (R&D) and activities closely related to R&D, referred to as related scientific activities...

This Alberta Official Statistic indicates the status of Alberta’s timber stocks by comparing the actual annual timber harvest with the long-term annual allowable cut (AAC). The gap between harvest and annual allowable cut (AAC) is a measure reflecting the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry’s...

This Alberta Official Statistic summarizes annual results of calculations of air quality index values as calculated by quality-assured and quality-controlled hourly ambient air quality data. It reports on the percentage of the time the air quality index was rated as Good. It also provides an...

This Alberta Official Statistic describes a general indicator of participation in recreation and sport activities in the province by adult Albertans for the period 2003-2004 to 2014-2015. The Alberta Culture and Tourism Survey of Albertans is a province-wide telephone survey of 1,000 adult...

This Alberta Official Statistic describes trends in Alberta's farm cash receipts, farm operating expenses, net cash income and realized net income, from 2001 to 2013. Farm cash receipts measure the gross revenue of farms from the sale of products (livestock and crops), and from direct program...