Marital Status Counts for Canadian Armed Forces Officers, 1997-2025

Marital status counts and percentages for officers and officer cadets in the Canadian Armed Forces from 1997 to 2025. The data originates from the Chief of Military Personnel (CMP) annual report, which is responsible for personnel management. It was last updated on the open_canada platform in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in officer family structures over time based on the 1997-2025 time series.
• Compare marital status distributions between officer ranks and cadets based on the described categories.
• Study correlations between military career progression and personal life events based on demographic data.
• Benchmark personnel demographics for policy planning based on official CMP annual reports.

Strengths

• Covers a 28-year time span from 1997 to 2025.
• Sourced from the official Chief of Military Personnel (CMP) annual report.
• Includes both count and percentage figures for analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Chief of Military Personnel (CMP) annual report, provided by National Defence | Défense nationale.

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official personnel records and annual reporting.

Time Range

1997 to 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-29 14:22:51.313398; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Canada