Posted in Business Performance and Ownership on Dec 20th, 2005
Question The asset range on the Financial Performance Indicators CD ROM is given as A, B, C and D. I cannot find the dollar equivalent for these ranges on the StatCan Web site. Can anyone tell me what the ranges for each letter are please? Answer I did some digging in a related publication (Quarterly [...]
Posted in Information and Communications Technology on Dec 12th, 2005
Question Can someone please tell me if I am missing something? A researcher here at UNBC is looking for the numbers of people in Northern BC with access to computers. My first reaction to this was that anyone in Northern British Columbia with access to a public library will have access to a computer and/or [...]
Question I have a researcher who would like to find our more about LifePaths which I gather is some kind of simulation model. I have found some general information about it on the Statistics Canada site, but this does not seem to be enough. Can someone point me in the right direction? Answer I found [...]
Posted in Reference on Dec 7th, 2005
Question I can’t find a map of the 2003 R.O. federal electoral boundaries on the Stats Can web site. 1996 R.O. is there, at: http://geodepot.statcan.ca/Diss/Maps/ReferenceMaps/retrieve_fede.cfm Is the 2003 R.O. map coming soon? Answer As you are well aware, the link to the map you included below was from Elections Canada and not STC’s Geography Division. [...]
Posted in Culture and Leisure, Health on Dec 5th, 2005
Question We have a student here looking for occupational health statistics related to visual arts workers (painters, photographers, sculptors). Where can we find statistical data on that subject? Answer Try contacting the CSST: they may be cooperative. We were able to get some good data for Ontario from their Worker’s Compensation Board.
Posted in Agriculture on Dec 5th, 2005
Question A power-point presentation on organic food from an Agri-Food Canada, AC Neilson survey is circulating around Macdonald College, and we are being asked if the data is “available”. As it was not done through Statistics Canada, am I right to assume that it is highly unlikely to be made available for academic research? The [...]
Posted in Population and Demography on Dec 5th, 2005
Question A researcher at Concordia is looking for CSD-level data on religion in the 1991 Census. He is not too keen on the PUMF as it is only a small sample (3%) of the population enumerated. It seems like this BST would be ideal: Population by Religion (29), Showing Age Groups (13b) (file name: r9101dat1.zip) [...]
Posted in Health, Population and Demography on Dec 1st, 2005
Question A student is looking for population quarterly data for the last 10 years in UK. Where can I find it? Answer Experimental quarterly population estimates, follow the links from: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=13523&More=n Population Trends – Online from Winter 1997, it can be seen at: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=6303 . (For the years prior to that, our users can use [...]