CANCEA Canadian Centre for Economic Analysis

20+ Years of Experience

Socio-economic Intelligence

Grow your awareness and relevance with the insights from Canada’s largest socio-economics platform

Trusted Insights

The Canadian Centre for Economic Analysis is Canada’s foremost independent socio-economic analytics and advisory firm. We empower knowledgeable and responsible decision-making through Canada’s largest and most integrated socio-economic simulation platform. In doing so, we provide timely, data-driven social, economic, and business insights and solutions that our client’s trust.

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Unlock the power of our socio-economic experts

Our multidisciplinary team of socio-economic experts help you make better decisions, set strategies, improve resiliency, establish policy, discover new opportunities, optimize operations, and plan for growth. Find out how we can help you.

More than 400

Leading companies and government institutions

Trust our services for policy and business-critical forward-looking analysis. ASK US HOW

Latest Reports

Explore our latest ground-breaking social and economic research that our socio-economic and thought leadership experts have delivered for our clients. See All Reports

Our Services

CANCEA is a leader in Canadian demographic, social, and economic forecasting. Our rigorous, hyper-detailed forecasts are powered by Canada’s largest, fully-integrated socio-economic simulation platform. Our experts and analysts help our clients to track and analyze trends at the level of individuals, households, industry, and regions to support their decision-making.

Strategic Advice and Insights Generation

Strategic Advice and Insights Generation

We have over 20 years of experience providing critical thinking to a range of social, economic, and strategic issues in Canada and abroad.

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Influence via our Specialized Reports

Influence via our Specialized Reports

Often our clients seek to advocate and influence policy that can affect people, communities, and industries.

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Forecasting, Scenarios, and Sensitivities

Forecasting, Scenarios, and Sensitivities

CANCEA is home to Canada’s largest and most detailed socio-economic platform that is used to produce a wide variety.

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Business Cases, Impact Evaluations, and Appraisals

Business Cases, Impact Evaluations, and Appraisals

We develop business cases and undertake evaluations for different industries and projects of all scales, complexities, and stages of development.

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Industry Socio-Economic Analysis

Industry Socio-Economic Analysis

We have the expertise of integrating industry knowledge with hyper-detailed socio-economic analysis so that your organization has the support necessary to plan and execute with confidence.

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Economic Development and Situational Analysis

Economic Development and Situational Analysis

We have economic situational analysis reports for the 3,573 municipalities in Canada. These reports examine the characteristics of a region relative to its surrounding region and other comparable regions.

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Why CANCEA?

We are trusted. More than 400 leading organizations in Canada and the UK, including governments, associations, and businesses trust our services and data products. With over 20 years of critical thinking and analysis across a range of socio-economic and strategic issues, we have a deep knowledge of regional and local communities, their resources, and the challenges they face.

Get In Touch A systems approach All of our socio-economic analysis, across 800 topics and over 56,000 local regions, are modelled as one system in one simulation platform ensuring the quality and consistency of insights generated across all locations and topics. Hyper-local insights Our systems approach allows for best-of-class data generation and forecasting from hyper detailed trend and causation analysis. Realistic and rich analysis Regional information that extends beyond traditional data sources to ensure that the best information on local area populations and economies can be utilized. Purely data-driven insights

Hyper-detailed information accompanies our insights, predictions, and forecasts. Hyper-detailed trend and causation analysis is determined by data with little reliance upon assumptions.

Answer more questions

The sheer richness of our data and simulation capabilities, both in terms of who, what, when, where, and the relationships between them, drive an ability to answer many more questions.

Independent and verifiable

As a strictly data-driven firm, we are necessarily apolitical. The consistency of our hyper-detailed local data can be summed and independently verified against official projections by government statistical agencies, central banks, and the OECD.

Data-driven transparency

Our dedication to a one-model systems approach with hyper-trend and causal analysis keeps assumptions to a minimum. Any assumptions are shared openly so you and others can use our results with confidence.

Unparalleled cost-effectiveness

With modern technology, methods, and access to data, high-quality socio-economic analysis and data should not cost as much as it does. We’ve made the investments and are keen to disrupt the industry with highly cost-effective services that matter to you.

Additional Specializations

Our team has extensive project and modelling experience across these specializations

Social value, assets & organizations

Housing stock & land use

Contagion risk & insurance

Health economics

Population health

Infrastructure use & value

Labour force demand/supply

Transportation modelling

Industry logistics & networks

Trusted By

Organizations that have trusted CANCEA to provide key insights and analysis include:
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Govt Canada
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