User Survey Feedback Analysis: Period of July 2025 to September 2025

Three responses were received between July 2025 and September 2025. Considering cumulative responses to date:

• Forty three percent of respondents were from the public sector (same), followed by 20% from academia/researchers (slight decrease) and 16% from private sector users (slight increase), 13% from private citizens (same), 7% from ENGOs (same) and 1% from Indigenous communities (same).
• Forty six percent of respondents reside in Ontario (same), followed by 13% from Alberta (slight increase), 12% from B.C. (same), 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” (same),
  • 25% “for background or insight on projects related to my work/research” (slight decrease),
  • 13% “for background or insight on information relevant to studies” (same),
  • 11% to “facilitate participation in impact assessments and/or regulatory processes” (slight increase),
  • 7% 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),
  • Filter Classification (72%, slight increase),
  • Search Function (71%, same),
  • 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).