User Survey Feedback Analysis: Period of October 2025 to December 2025

Three responses were received between October 2025 and December 2025. Considering cumulative responses to date:

• Forty three percent of respondents were from the public sector (same), followed by 19% from academia/researchers (slight decrease) and 16% from private sector users (same), 13% from private citizens (same), 7% from ENGOs (same) and 2% from Indigenous communities (slight increase).
• Forty six percent of respondents reside in Ontario (same), followed by 13% from Alberta (same), 11% from B.C. (slight decrease), 8% from Quebec (slight increase), 6% from Manitoba (slight increase), 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.
• Reason for using the Open Science and Data Platform:
  • 28% to “understand and/or better manage cumulative effects” (slight increase),
  • 26% “for background or insight on projects related to my work/research” (slight increase),
  • 13% “for background or insight on information relevant to studies” (same),
  • 11% to “facilitate participation in impact assessments and/or regulatory processes” (same),
  • 7% stated “for background or insight on information for the purpose of social causes and spreading awareness of cumulative effects-related issues” (same), and
  • 15% stated “for other reasons” (decrease).
• Users were ‘very satisfied’ or ‘satisfied’ with the following features of the Open Science and Data Platform in the following proportions:
  • Search Function (72%, slight increase),
  • Learn about Development Activities section (71%, decrease),
  • Filter Classification (70%, decrease),
  • Learn about Cumulative Effects (67%, slight decrease), and
  • Map Creation function (62%, slight increase).
• Eighty percent were either ‘very satisfied’ or ‘satisfied’ with the “Relevancy of the content” (same). Seventy nine percent were either ‘very satisfied’ or ‘satisfied’ with the “Accessibility of the content” (slight increase). Seventy eight percent were either ‘very satisfied’ or ‘satisfied’ with the “Quality of the content” (same).