About the Office of Statistics and Information

Key facts

Quarterly Population Estimates

Table 1. Quarterly population estimates

Consumer Price Index (CPI)

All-items (Unadjusted 2002=100)

Table 2. Consumer Price Index (CPI)

Unemployment Rate (unadjusted)

Table 3. Unemployment Rate (unadjusted)

Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by Expenditure

Table 4. Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by Expenditure

Updates from OSI

Items are removed from this list after 12 months and listed on relevant web pages in this section.

* Open data licensed under Alberta’s Open Government Licence
** Not open – see PDF for metadata risk considerations, data source and contact information

• Preliminary Total Housing Starts, Alberta’s Major Urban Centres – January 11, 2023*
• Average Weekly Earnings (including overtime), Alberta – January 11, 2023*
• Consumer Price Index, Year-Over-Year Percentage Change, Canada/Alberta – January 11, 2023*
• Heavy Crude Oil Reference Prices, Monthly (PDF, 516 KB), or CSV format (CSV, 14 KB) – January 11, 2023**
• Third Quarter 2022 Alberta Population Estimates (July 1, 2022 to September 30, 2022) – December 21, 2022*
• Successful Wells Drilled, Alberta (PDF, 303 KB) or CSV format (CSV, 80 KB) – December 14, 2022**
• Real Gross Domestic Product at Market Prices, Annual Percent Change, Canada and Alberta – December 14, 2022
• A profile of inter-jurisdictional employees (IJE) in Alberta – 2018 update – October 7, 2022
• Second Quarter 2022 Alberta Population Estimates (April 1, 2022 to June 30, 2022) – September 28, 2022*
• Light Crude Oil Reference Prices, Monthly (PDF, 360 KB), or CSV format (CSV, 6 KB) – July 18, 2022**
• Alberta Population Projections for 2022 to 2046 – July 5, 2022*
• First Quarter 2022 Alberta Population Estimates (January 1, 2022 to March 31, 2022) – June 22, 2022*
• Economic impact analysis – Economic Multipliers 2017 – added April 29, 2022
• 2020-21 Annual Population Report and data for the Second Quarter of 2021 – September 29, 2021

About the OSI

The OSI is Alberta's statistical agency and a Statistical Focal Point for Statistics Canada. Our mandate is to plan, promote, consolidate and develop social and economic statistics relating to Alberta. We develop and analyze:

• social, demographic and economic statistics
• geospatial statistics on social and economic issues

We also provide:

• analytical and data support to government ministries
• information to the public

Governing legislation and privacy

The Office of Statistics and Information Act (the Act) and its associated regulation affirms the OSI as the Government of Alberta’s official statistics agency. The OSI is authorized to collect personal information, either on its own or jointly with another party by conducting surveys and censuses.

Collection of personal information

The Act has provisions for protecting personal information and penalties for offences.

Most personal information used by the OSI will be an indirect collection from:

• other Government of Alberta ministries and agencies
• government departments and statistical agencies in other jurisdictions

The Act authorizes the OSI to enter into agreements to collect and disclose information, so the OSI may disclose information to these same parties.

Information and privacy

The OSI’s privacy practices comply with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIP) Act.

The OSI’s practices are also affected by other provincial and federal privacy legislation concerning the public sector and private sector.

Provincial statistical focal point

The OSI represents Alberta to the Statistics Canada Federal-Provincial-Territorial Consultative Council on Statistical Policy.

The OSI:

• identifies Government of Alberta (GoA) statistical needs
• communicates as one government with one voice to the Consultative Council
• coordinates GoA representation on the Consultative Council's subcommittees through the GoA Statistics Council

See the Statistics links and resources page for links to other Provincial and Territorial Statistical Focal Points.

About Alberta statistics

Alberta statistics are generally produced by a government body and are:

• publicly available facts
• summarized data about a subject, or
• other information

Some Alberta statistics are deemed ‘Official Statistics’ where:

• there are multiple data sources
• there is a lack of consensus or understanding about which source should be used
• one data source is deemed ‘official’ and this is the data source that should be used in most cases
• potential users are informed about which data source to use for specific purposes

The OSI publishes both Alberta Statistics and Official Statistics. The majority of the Official Statistics are stored in the Open Government Portal. There are no technical or legal restrictions for using open data.

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Contact

General OSI enquiries

Hours: 8:15 am to 4:30 pm (open Monday to Friday, closed statutory holidays)
Phone: 780-427-2071
Toll free: 310-0000 before the phone number (in Alberta)
Fax: 780-426-3951
Email: [email protected]

Media enquiries

Contact the Treasury Board and Finance Spokesperson.