COATS Members: Canadian Cadet Organization Personnel Counts, 2003-2025

National Defence | Défense nationale provides counts of Cadet Organizations Administration and Training Service (COATS) members for fiscal years 2003 to 2025. The dataset is published on the open_canada platform under the OGL-CA-2.0 license. It was last updated on April 29, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze long-term trends in Canadian cadet program staffing based on the annual counts from 2003 to 2025.
• Model seasonal or fiscal year fluctuations in auxiliary military personnel numbers.
• Benchmark the size and potential growth of the Cadet Organizations Administration and Training Service over a 22-year period.

Strengths

• Covers a 22-year time series from fiscal year 2003 to 2025.
• Published by the authoritative source National Defence | Défense nationale.
• Released under the permissive OGL-CA-2.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the open_canada source.

Provenance

Source

National Defence | Défense nationale

Time Range

Fiscal years 2003 to 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-29 14:11:50.894135; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Canada