Annual portraits of the workforce and consultant usage within Québec public bodies' information resources departments. Public bodies report their numbers annually on the first Monday in November, with compiled data published in the second quarter of the following year. The dataset is produced by the Government of Québec under the Act on the Governance and Management of Information Resources.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in government IT workforce size based on annual snapshots.
- Study the reliance on external consultants for information resource management.
- Benchmark staffing levels across different public bodies in Québec.
Strengths
- Data is produced annually, enabling time-series analysis.
- Coverage includes all public bodies subject to the specific Québec governance act.
- Data is published in multiple formats (PDF, CSV, XLSX).
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 geographic bias inherent to its Québec-only scope.
Provenance
- Source
- Government and Municipalities of Québec
- Collection Method
- Mandatory annual reporting by public bodies on the first Monday in November.
- Time Range
- Annual snapshots; a 2025 portrait is referenced.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-20; produced annually with a publication lag.
- Geography
- Québec, Canada