Description

Last Updated: October 30, 2026

The CJRD was created to allow multivariate analyses on the demographic and socioeconomic factors associated with (repeated) criminal justice system involvement in Canada. It consists of anonymized, integrated criminal justice data, as well as other integrated social data sources (e.g., economic, health, and education data). Integrated files refer to microdata files that are equipped with unique anonymous identifiers that allow the merging of variables at the person level between files. 

New CJRD data linked to hospitalization, education, census, tax data, CVSD and IMDB is now available in Research Data Centres across Canada.

  • The CJRD has produced new cohort and concordance files and updated cohort and concordance files:
  • Cohort files: 
    • ICCS  2023/2024
    • CCSS 2023/2024
    • UCR 2024
  • Concordance files : 
    • CJRD linked to hospitalization data: ICCS 2023/2024, CCSS 2023/2024 and UCR 2024 – DAD 2024, NACRS 2024, OMHRS 2023/2024
    • CJRD linked to education data:ICCS 2023/2024, CCSS 2023/2024 and UCR 2024 – PSIS, RAIS 2024
    • CJRD linked to Census data: ICCS 2023/2024, 2023/2024 and UCR 2024 - Census - 2006, 2016, 2021 NHS – 2011
    • CJRD linked to tax data: ICCS 2023/2024, 2023/2024 and UCR 2024 - T1FF 2023
    • CJRD linked to CVSD: ICCS 2023/2024, 2023/2024 and UCR 2024 – CVSD 2024 – 2025
    • CJRD linked to IMDB: ICCS 2022/2023, CCSS 2022/2023 and UCR 2024 – IMDB 2024
  • The Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (UCR) data is now available as a core dataset: 
    • Accused (Charged/Suspect-Chargeable) data includes integration keys from 2010 to 2024 
    • Victim data includes integration keys from 2014 to 2024
  • The ICCS supplementary datasets have been expanded to include additional years:
    • T1 Family File (T1FF): 2023 
    • National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS): 2024 
    • Discharge Abstract Database (DAD): 2024
    • Ontario Mental Health Reporting System (OMHRS): 2023/2024
    • Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB): 2024
    • Vital Statistics Death Database (CVSD): 2024 and 2025
    • Registered Apprenticeship Information System (RAIS): 2024

[1] To use these concordance files, researchers are to request access to (1) Cohort files (e.g. ICCS Allyears), (2) concordance file (e.g. CJRD-Education) and (3) Additional corresponding data source(s) (e.g. PSIS Allyears).

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    To use these concordance files, researchers are to request access to (1) Cohort files (e.g. ICCS Allyears), (2) concordance file (e.g. CJRD-Education) and (3) Additional corresponding data source(s) (e.g. PSIS Allyears).