Female Officer and NCM Outflow from Canadian Armed Forces, 1997-2025

Outflow data for Female Officers and Non-Commissioned Members leaving the Canadian Armed Forces Regular Force. The dataset covers the period from 1997 to 2025 and is provided by Military Personnel Command under the Open Government principles. It is released by National Defence under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing long-term trends in female personnel attrition based on the 1997-2025 time range
• Modeling workforce outflow patterns for Officers and Non-Commissioned Members (NCMs) based on the described personnel categories
• Investigating gender-specific retention challenges within the Canadian Armed Forces Regular Force

Strengths

• Explicit temporal coverage from 1997 to 2025
• Data is provided by the authoritative Military Personnel Command (MPC) of National Defence
• Released under the permissive OGL-CA-2.0 license for reuse

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Military Personnel Command (MPC), National Defence

Collection Method

Administrative records of personnel outflow, likely compiled for internal reporting.

Time Range

1997 to 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-01 17:42:27.147462; freshness should be verified

Geography

Canada (Canadian Armed Forces Regular Force)