Canadian Armed Forces Regular Force Promotions, 1998 to 2025

From 1998 to 2025, this dataset tracks promotions for Officers and Non-Commissioned Members in the Canadian Armed Forces Regular Force. It is published by the Military Personnel Command of National Defence under Open Government principles. The data is provided in CSV format under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing promotion rates and timelines based on the described career categories of Officers and NCMs.
• Modeling career progression patterns within the Canadian Armed Forces based on the 27-year time series.
• Studying workforce stability and retention trends based on the longitudinal promotion data.
• Benchmarking public sector human resource practices based on the official military personnel data.

Strengths

• Covers a 27-year time range from 1998 to 2025.
• Published by an official government source, Military Personnel Command (MPC).
• Released under an open license (OGL-CA-2.0) for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description notes that data may appear differently in other reports, indicating potential inconsistencies.

Provenance

Source

Military Personnel Command (MPC), National Defence

Collection Method

Administrative records from the Canadian Armed Forces.

Time Range

1998 to 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-01 17:52:29.996248; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Canada