Canadian Business Patterns – June 2006 The Canadian Business Patterns contains data that reflect counts of business establishments by: 9 employment size ranges, including “indeterminate” (as of December 1997); geography groupings: province/territory, census division, census subdivision, census metropolitan area and census agglomeration; and Standard Industrial Classification which classifies each establishment in Canada into a specific [...]
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Posted in Labour on Sep 29th, 2006
Question In certain Statistics Canada publications, such as 71-001, statistics are given for “economic regions” within provinces and territories. However, there is no map in this publication indicating the boundaries of the economic regions. I know I have encountered them both in print and electronic sources, but I can’t recall where. Could someone please jog [...]
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Posted in Labour on Sep 28th, 2006
Question I’ve had a request for information on pregnant workers in Canada. Specifically, a count or estimate of the number of pregnant workers in any one year, and also whatever demographic information I can find, preferably at the provincial level or better. I’ve found information on number of women taking maternity leave, but I’ve been [...]
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Question A patron is wanting statistical information on the number of same-sex couples in B.C. who have children in school (elementary or secondary). In the Census 2001 Topic-based Tabulations>Marital Status of Canadians, the table # 21 (see below*) allows you to select a view for common law status/with partner of same sex. But the age [...]
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Posted in Crime and Justice, Updates on Sep 25th, 2006
Justice Beyond 20/20 Tables Thank to the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics Division, we believe that the DLI Justice collection is now up to date as of August 2006. Some of the data were updated and some of the tables were completely removed. To help in the identification of terminated tables, replacement tables, etc. , [...]
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Posted in Reference on Sep 21st, 2006
Question Would someone have created the system file for the 1961 PUMF? Answer We do not have access to the PUMF for 1961. I assume that was a reference to the basic cross-tabulations for the 1961 Census – that is all I can find on the FTP. We’ll make sure the FTP clarifies this fact [...]
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Posted in Travel and Tourism on Sep 21st, 2006
Question A patron is asking for the Travel Activities and Motivation Survey (tams). He has asked specifically for the data for a 2006 survey and specifically mentioned June 2006. The DLI FTP site has a /tams/1999/ folder with the date of 8/4/06. I have not found reference to a later survey. Is 1999 the most [...]
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Posted in Society and Community, Updates on Sep 21st, 2006
Question Will the 2004 Survey of Volunteering, Giving and Participation be made available to DLI? Answer It is not out yet, but the PUMF is scheduled to be released in November.
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Posted in Updates on Sep 21st, 2006
GeoSuite 2001 Downloadable Database The downloadable database entitled GeoSuite, 2001 Census (Geography Products: Geographic Data Products) has been released in The Daily. The files have been used to replace the ones on the FTP site. The new version of the database is geosuite-2001-version3.zip .
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Posted in Economic Accounts, Updates on Sep 21st, 2006
Public Economic Accounts This product provides a regional perspective on Canadian economic developments. It includes separate sets of statistical tables, organized in a manner similar to those in the Income and expenditure accounts, for each of the provinces and territories, catalogue no 13-001-PPB. The focus is on each region’s gross domestic product, final domestic demand, [...]
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