User Survey Feedback Analysis: Period of October 2024 to December 2024

One response was received between Octobre 2024 and December 2024. Considering cumulative responses to date:

• Forty three percent of respondents were from the public sector (slight decrease), followed by 22% from academia/researchers (same) and 14% from private sector users (same), 13% from private citizens (same), 7% from ENGOs (slight increase) and 1% from Indigenous communities (same).
• Forty six percent of respondents reside in Ontario (slight decrease),12% from B.C. (same), followed by 11% Alberta (same), 6% from Quebec (slight increase), 5% from Manitoba (same), 3% from Prince Edward Island (same), 3% from Nova Scotia (same), and 3% from New Brunswick (same). The balance of responses is distributed among other jurisdictions.
• Reason for using the Open Science and Data Platform:
  • 27% “for background or insight on projects related to my work/research” (same),
  • 27% to “understand and/or better manage cumulative effects” (same),
  • 11% “for background or insight on information relevant to studies” (increase),
  • 10% to “facilitate participation in impact assessments and/or regulatory processes” (same),
  • 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” (slight decrease).
• 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 (72%, slight increase),
  • Filter Classification (70%, same),
  • Learn about Cumulative Effects (69%, same), and
  • Map Creation function (62%, same).
• Eighty one percent were either ‘very satisfied’ or ‘satisfied’ with the “Relevancy of the content” (slight increase). Seventy eight percent were either ‘very satisfied’ or ‘satisfied’ with the “Quality of the content” (same). Seventy nine percent were either ‘very satisfied’ or ‘satisfied’ with the “Accessibility of the content” (same).