Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs Canada (FJA)

Detailed information for 2022

Data from the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs Canada will be used to create an indicator for the Gender Results Framework. The purpose is to present the gender distribution of federally appointed judges in federal, provincial and territorial courts.

Data release - January 10, 2023

• Description
• Data sources and methodology
• Data accuracy

Description

The Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs Canada (FJA) data will be used to support an indicator from the Gender Results Framework (GRF). Introduced in Budget 2018, the GRF represents the Government of Canada's vision for gender equality. The GRF contains 43 indicators designed to track how Canada is currently performing; define what is needed to achieve greater equality and determine how progress will be measured going forward. Specifically, FJA data will provide the gender distribution of federally appointed judges in federal, provincial and territorial courts. These statistics can also be used to track changes over time.

The data can be used to support evidence-based policy development and decision making at all levels of government as well as broader applications of GBA Plus by academics, researchers, and other analysts.

Subjects

• Civil courts and family law
• Correctional services
• Crime and justice
• Crimes and offences
• Criminal courts
• Society and community
• Women and gender

Data sources and methodology

Target population

The observed population is all federally appointed judges.

Instrument design

Not applicable.

Sampling

This survey is a census with a cross-sectional design.

Not applicable.

Data sources

Data collection for this reference period: 2022-10-13

Data are collected from other Statistics Canada surveys and/or other sources.

The data are provided by the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs Canada. These data are freely shared on the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs Canada website and contain counts of all federally appointed judges in federal, provincial and territorial courts as of October 1, 2021. The data tables contain information on total number of judges in office, supernumeraries, grand total of judges, total number of women judges, and number of current vacancies by court.

Data collected from the FJA are covered by the provisions of the Copyright Act. (https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-42/)

Error detection

Not applicable.

Imputation

Not applicable.

Estimation

Not applicable.

Quality evaluation

Not applicable.

Disclosure control

As part of reforms to increase transparency and rigour to the superior courts judicial appointments process, the Office of the Commissioner for Judicial Affairs collects and publishes statistics and demographic information on judicial appointees. Statistics are based on voluntary disclosure by candidates through self-identification. No disclosure methods have been applied to the published information by Federal Judicial Affairs Canada.

Additionally, as these are data available to the public, no disclosure methods were applied by Statistics Canada.

Revisions and seasonal adjustment

Not applicable.

Data accuracy

Not applicable.