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Building permits, values by activity sector

Building permits, values by activity sector. Statistics Canada table 34-10-0003-01.

Source: Government of Canada Open Data203,836 rowsUpdated: 9/20/2026License: OGL-Canada-2.0
constructionpermitsstatcangovernment-of-canada

Quality

97.7

Attribution

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada

Schema

ColumnTypeDescription
ref_datestringReference date — the time period the observation refers to (Statistics Canada table field REF_DATE).
geostringGeography the observation covers (Statistics Canada table field GEO).
dguidstringDissemination geography unique identifier (Statistics Canada table field DGUID).
activity_sectorstring
uomstringUnit of measure for the estimate (Statistics Canada table field UOM).
uom_idintegerUnit of measure identifier (Statistics Canada table field UOM_ID).
scalar_factorstringScalar factor applied to the value, e.g. units, thousands or millions (Statistics Canada table field SCALAR_FACTOR).
scalar_idintegerScalar factor identifier (Statistics Canada table field SCALAR_ID).
vectorstringVector number — Statistics Canada's unique identifier for the time series (table field VECTOR).
coordinatefloatTable coordinate locating the estimate within the source table (Statistics Canada table field COORDINATE).
valuefloatEstimate value as published in the Statistics Canada table.
statusstringStatus flags for the estimate (Statistics Canada table field STATUS).
decimalsintegerNumber of decimals published for the estimate (Statistics Canada table field DECIMALS).

Sample rows

ref_dategeodguidactivity_sectoruomuom_idscalar_factorscalar_idvectorcoordinatevaluestatusdecimals
1948-01Canada2016A000011124Total residential and non-residentialDollars81thousands3v54061.1174790
1948-01Prince Edward Island2016A000211Total residential and non-residentialDollars81thousands3v54393.1610
1948-01Nova Scotia2016A000212Total residential and non-residentialDollars81thousands3v54464.11510
1948-01New Brunswick2016A000213Total residential and non-residentialDollars81thousands3v54535.11170
1948-01Quebec2016A000224Total residential and non-residentialDollars81thousands3v54606.132340

Use with an LLM

Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).

cURL

curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/ckan_canada/building_permits_sector" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

Python

import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/ckan_canada/building_permits_sector").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/ckan_canada/building_permits_sector

Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.