Monthly average counts of social assistance recipients in Ontario from fiscal years 2019-20 to 2022-23. The data includes recipients of Ontario Works and ODSP programs, segmented by subgroups such as youth, Indigenous, and francophone populations, as well as by consecutive months of assistance and employment earnings. It is provided by the Government of Ontario and was last updated in May 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in social assistance caseloads based on monthly averages over four fiscal years.
- Compare program participation between Ontario Works and ODSP based on recipient subgroups.
- Study the duration of welfare dependency based on consecutive months of assistance data.
- Examine employment outcomes among social assistance recipients based on reported earnings data.
- Map service delivery patterns based on CMSM/DSSAB and ODSP catchment area groupings.
Strengths
- Covers four consecutive fiscal years (2019-20 to 2022-23), allowing for trend analysis.
- Includes segmentation by multiple recipient subgroups (youth, Indigenous, francophone) and program types (Ontario Works, ODSP).
- Data is aggregated by local administrative regions (CMSM/DSSAB) and ODSP catchment areas, providing geographic detail.
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 and temporal bias inherent to the source.
Provenance
- Source
- Government of Ontario
- Time Range
- 2019-20 to 2022-23
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-13 12:01:25.200924; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Ontario, Canada