Rural Canada Housing Profiles, values of investments in residential building construction,

Statistics Canada provides a table on the values of investments in residential building construction. The data is categorized by type of residential building and type of work and covers the period from 2018 to 2022. The dataset is listed as inactive on the open_canada platform.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in residential construction investment based on the reported monetary values.
• Compare investment levels across different types of residential buildings mentioned in the description.
• Assess the distribution of investment by type of construction work (e.g., new construction, renovation).
• Model economic activity in the rural Canadian housing sector based on the investment data.

Strengths

• Data is provided by Statistics Canada, a national statistical agency.
• Covers a defined five-year time range from 2018 to 2022.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats (CSV, XML).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is marked as inactive, which may indicate it is no longer being updated.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Statistics Canada

Collection Method

Likely collected through official surveys and reports on building construction.

Time Range

2018 to 2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-09 12:49:48.170965; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Rural Canada