Posted in Aboriginal Peoples, Reference on Aug 30th, 2006
Question I have a student looking for 1981 population data for two Indian reserves in BC. I have the data for her, but I just want to check one detail. Why is there a number in the name of the Indian reserve in the Standard Geographical Classification. For example, there is a “1″ after Skidegate [...]
Posted in Travel and Tourism, Updates on Aug 29th, 2006
International Travel Survey 2005 Q4 Records relate to the activities of Canadians travelling outside the country and visitors to Canada; port of entry; Canadian residents; travellers; non-residents; country of residence; expenditures; length of stay; type of transportation; purpose of trip; accommodation used; places visited; expenditure by categories; age groups. International travel data are collected in [...]
Posted in Children and Youth, Crime and Justice, Health on Aug 23rd, 2006
Question Is it possible, please, to get an updated version of the Recidivism data table from the Youth court survey? As far as I can tell, the latest we have is the table with data ending 1999/2000, which was distributed in 2001. That filename was YCSrecid.ivt. Answer The recidivism tables have been terminated and there [...]
Posted in Population and Demography on Aug 23rd, 2006
Question I’m trying to find median age (or data that can be used to calculate median age) by census division for Newfoundland, for the 1991 & 1996 censuses. Any suggestions? Answer I could not find a simple answer for you and therefore I asked the division for help. Following is their response: There are no [...]
Posted in Information and Communications Technology on Aug 16th, 2006
Question Is there a proposed release date for the release of a pumf from the Canadian Internet use survey listed in yesterday’s Daily? I don’t see it on: http://www.statcan.ca/english/Dli/pumfdates.htm. Answer I just spoke with someone in Science, Innovation and Electronic Information Division and she said that the proposed release date for a pumf is January/February [...]
Posted in Labour on Aug 16th, 2006
Question An economics graduate student would like to find monthly Labour Force data, specifically Average Hours worked, and number of people employed, dating back to 1964. He has found the LFS data via CANSIM dating back to 1976, and earlier data appears only to be available annually. Is anyone aware of another source? Answers 1. [...]
Posted in Income, Pensions, Spending and Wealth on Aug 10th, 2006
Question I’ve been trying to access Income trends in Canada 2004 at the Depository site, but there seem to be no links–to any of the years. Am I missing something? Any chance of these being made available to DLI to put on the FTP site? Answers 1. This title is a DSP item but on [...]
Posted in Families, Households and Housing on Aug 10th, 2006
Question I have a student who wants to know how many dwellings there are, in Canada and in the US, that are part of multi-unit buildings. The types of dwellings include condos, apartments, dorms and retirement homes. For Canadian numbers, I looked in the census through E-Stat and the closest I came to what she [...]
Posted in Crime and Justice on Aug 8th, 2006
Question Is there any chance of more up-to-date tables from the CCJS, especially the Common offences, municipal police forces tables? The latest we seem to have are for 2000. Answer It appears that the table you are referring to is Municipal Police Forces, 1977-2000. This table is part of a terminated series of tables – [...]
Posted in Retail and Wholesale, Travel and Tourism, Updates on Aug 8th, 2006
Small Area Retail Trade Estimates (SARTRE) – 2002 and 2003 data Small area retail trade estimates (SARTRE) is a system of developing user-defined tabulations of retail sales and number of locations as low as five-digit North American Industrial Classification (NAICS), for incorporated retailers with forward sortation area (FSA) levels of geographical detail. These data are [...]