User Survey Feedback Analysis: Period of April 2025 to June 2025

Three responses were received between April 2025 and June 2025. Considering cumulative responses to date:

• Forty three percent of respondents were from the public sector (slight decrease), followed by 21% from academia/researchers (same) and 15% from private sector users (same), 13% from private citizens (same), 7% from ENGOs (same) and 1% from Indigenous communities (same).
• Forty six percent of respondents reside in Ontario (slight decrease), 12% from B.C. (slight decrease), followed by 12% Alberta (slight increase), 6% from Quebec (same), 5% from Manitoba (same), 5% from Nova Scotia (same), 3% from Prince Edward Island (same), 3% from Newfoundland and Labrador, 3% from New Brunswick (same) and 2% from Saskatchewan. The balance of responses is distributed among other jurisdictions.
• Reason for using the Open Science and Data Platform:
  • 27% to “understand and/or better manage cumulative effects” (slight decrease),
  • 26% “for background or insight on projects related to my work/research” (slight decrease),
  • 13% “for background or insight on information relevant to studies” (slight increase),
  • 11% to “facilitate participation in impact assessments and/or regulatory processes” (slight increase),
  • 8% stated “for background or insight on information for the purpose of social causes and spreading awareness of cumulative effects-related issues” (same), and
  • 17% stated “for other reasons” (same).
• Users were ‘very satisfied’ or ‘satisfied’ with the following features of the Open Science and Data Platform in the following proportions:
  • Learn about Development Activities section (73%, same),
  • Search Function (71%, same),
  • Filter Classification (71%, net increase),
  • Learn about Cumulative Effects (68%, same), and
  • Map Creation function (61%, same).
• Eighty percent were either ‘very satisfied’ or ‘satisfied’ with the “Relevancy of the content” (same). Seventy eight percent were either ‘very satisfied’ or ‘satisfied’ with the “Quality of the content” (same). Seventy eight percent were either ‘very satisfied’ or ‘satisfied’ with the “Accessibility of the content” (same).