Posted in Reference on May 25th, 2005
Question We have a faculty member who would like population statistics at the census subdivision level by NOCS classification. I can find these values down to the NOCS major category (2 NOCS characters), but he requires the statistics right down to the unit group level (4 NOCS characters). Does anyone know if this is available [...]
Posted in Income, Pensions, Spending and Wealth on May 25th, 2005
Question I have a researcher looking for data on television ownership in Canadian households going back to 1950 if possible. Percentages would be fine. I have tried several sources, but I only seem to find “hours viewed” and Broadcaster ownership data. Any ideas? Answers 1. The recent data is found at this web page: http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/famil09c.htm?sdi=television [...]
Posted in Culture and Leisure on May 24th, 2005
Question Does anyone have any leads on book publishing industry – specifically sales and wages at the city or county level? I have looked at the tables in the Book publishers and exclusive agents: data tables, but they only are for provinces and regions. Canadian Business Patterns has already answered one part of this – [...]
Posted in Economic Accounts on May 18th, 2005
Question I have a faculty member looking for GDP for Vancouver and Winnipeg. I think this would be available from the Conference Board of Canada and a substantial cost, but is it lurking somewhere beyond my reach in a CANSIM table? Answer Stats Can does not compute any GDP for cities or sub-provincial regions. As [...]
Posted in Health on May 16th, 2005
Question We have a researcher who has been digging into the CTUMS 2003 Person files. Now as I understand it, and from what I’ve read – the annual file is simply a complete file with Cycle1 and Cycle2 data put together. So in theory all the variables that were contained in the Cycle2 Person file [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Reference on May 12th, 2005
Question A graduate student in community psychology is looking for Stats Canada Agricultural Census data. There is data for the 2001, 1996, 1991, 1986, and 1981 Canadian Agricultural Profile. Is there any older data 1960 onward? Can you direct me to a source for such data? The need for such data has to do with [...]
Posted in Children and Youth, Health, Reference on May 11th, 2005
Question One of our faculty members has called to see if he can give a school which was part of the Youth Smoking Survey access to the PUMF under our DLI licence. I am pretty sure the answer is no, but wanted to be sure. Should I just direct him to the Special Surveys Division [...]
Posted in Information and Communications Technology on May 4th, 2005
Question I have received a faculty request for information regarding the “status and future of the IT sector in Canada and North America”. Information and Communications Technologies in Canada was released in 1999, and I can’t find an update. Is there any data available through the DLI that would give me updated information? Or even [...]