About the OSI, key facts and news

Key facts

Quarterly Population Estimates

Table 1. Quarterly population estimates

Location	Population Estimates as of July 1, 2020
Alberta	4,421,876
Canada	38,005,238

Source: Statistics Canada data subject to revision)

Consumer Price Index (CPI)

All-items (Unadjusted 2002=100)

Table 2. Consumer Price Index (CPI)

Location	% change, September 2020 to October 2020	% change, October 2019 to October 2020
Alberta	0.1%	1.1%
- Edmonton	0.1%	0.8%
- Calgary	0.3%	1.2%
Canada	0.4%	0.7%

Source: Statistics Canada (data subject to revision)

Unemployment Rate (unadjusted)

Table 3. Unemployment Rate (unadjusted)

Location	September 2020	October 2020
Alberta	12.8%	9.9%
Canada	8.4%	8.1%

Source: Statistics Canada (data subject to revision)

Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by Expenditure

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

Location	GDP in 2019 (Millions of chained 2012 Canadian Dollars)	% Change (2018 to 2019)
Alberta	347,102	0.1%
Canada	2,102,304	1.9%

Source: Statistics Canada (data subject to revision)

News

Items are removed from this list after 6 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

Consumer Price Index, Year-Over-Year Percentage Change, Canada/Alberta (November 24, 2020) *
Preliminary Total Housing Starts, Alberta’s Major Urban Centres (November 19, 2020) *
Successful Wells Drilled, Alberta (PDF, 115 KB) or CSV format (65 KB) (November 17, 2020) **
Real Gross Domestic Product at Market Prices, Annual Percent Change, Canada and Alberta (November 16, 2020)
Average Weekly Earnings (including overtime), Alberta (November 10, 2020) *
Heavy Crude Oil Reference Prices, Monthly (PDF, 120 KB), or CSV format (11 KB) (November 10, 2020) **
Light Crude Oil Reference Prices, Monthly (PDF, 307 KB), or CSV format (4 KB) (November 10, 2020) **
2019-20 Annual Population Report and data for the Second Quarter of 2020 (September 29, 2020)
Alberta Population Projections for 2020 to 2046 (August 28, 2020) *
Population estimates and components of growth (components of growth updated June 18, 2020)
Income Support Caseload, Alberta (April 15, 2020) *
Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH) Caseload, Alberta (April 15, 2020) *

About the OSI

The Office of Statistics and Information (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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Chief Statistician/Director

Ryan Mazan, Chief Statistician/Director
Office of Statistics and Information
Phone: 780-643-1074
Toll free: 310-0000 before the phone number (in Alberta)
Email: [email protected]

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]