Profiles Metrics

This page provides a complete list of metrics available in the Canada Profiles API and their definitions. Metrics help you understand the characteristics and distribution of profiles returned by your filters.

Related: To learn how to apply filters when querying profiles, see the Filtering section of the Canada Profiles API .

For performance reasons, some metrics may be approximations.

Metrics

Metric	Definition
`profiles`	Number of profiles that match your filters.
`unique_companies`	Number of unique companies represented in the filtered set of profiles.
`significance`	Relative concentration of each ranked/faceted item based on your filters compared to all available profiles. Positive scores mean the items occur more frequently in your filtered profiles.