The City of Winnipeg licenses 15 business activities through the Doing Business in Winnipeg By-law (https://winnipeg.ca/CLKDMIS/DocExt/ViewDoc.asp?DocumentTypeId=1&DocId=4222&DocType=C). Each activity requires one or more permits or approvals from other City of Winnipeg departments. Licensing provides protection and support within the community by regulating and controlling various activities where there is a risk or danger to the public’s health or safety. Licensing also assists in crime prevention.

Service requests by type from December 2012

Total incoming calls. Records begin January, 2013.

Annual number of housing permits issued, inspections performed, and defects recorded

Six hundred Winnipeg residents were randomly surveyed by telephone by an external research company. Adjusted quota sampling methodology is used to improve representation by gender and age, and an additional quota of 27% inner city residents is applied to ensure geographic representation of this group.
The survey results are provided with a margin of error of +/-4.1% to a 95% confidence level (19 times
out of 20). Data is based on results from citizens who answered each survey question.
Open-ended responses are reviewed to ensure no personal information is included.

Geographic Census Values used in conjunction with the Census Boundaries. Census values are broken down by topic, subject and description. https://data.winnipeg.ca/dataset/Census-Boundary/re9d-6c9j/data