Canadian Armed Forces Regular Force Recruits by Officers and NCMs, 1997-2025

Military Personnel Command (MPC) provides this dataset on recruits joining the Canadian Armed Forces Regular Force. It covers Officers and Non-Commissioned Members from 1997 to 2025. The data is released under the principles of Open Government and carries an OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze long-term recruitment trends for the Canadian Armed Forces based on the 1997-2025 time range mentioned in the description
• Compare recruitment volumes between Officers and Non-Commissioned Members (NCMs) based on the two personnel categories described
• Model annual fluctuations in military personnel intake based on the time-series nature of the data
• Assess the accuracy and consistency of official military statistics based on the description's note about potential representation differences across reports

Strengths

• Covers a 28-year time range from 1997 to 2025
• Explicitly distinguishes between two key personnel categories: Officers and Non-Commissioned Members (NCMs)
• Released by an authoritative source, Military Personnel Command (MPC), under Open Government principles

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 | Défense nationale

Collection Method

Likely administrative records from military recruitment processes.

Time Range

1997 to 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-01 18:12:23.144434; freshness should be verified

Geography

Canada