Posted in Business Performance and Ownership on Jan 31st, 2007
Question Financial Performance Indicators is described as containing up-to-date, reliable and comprehensive data on Canadian businesses. I am having trouble accepting that the sample is truly comprehensive. Does it really include every company in a given sector, or is the sample size just really big? Answer It is a Census of all incorporated businesses in [...]
Posted in Reference on Jan 31st, 2007
Question Does anyone know if there is a Mac version of the Beyond 20/20 browser? Answer Beyond 20/20 was never made for Macs, but there is an alternative available: a) Using a newer MAC, you can install Bootcamp software which will allow you to install a version of Windows, which in turn will allow you [...]
Posted in Crime and Justice on Jan 30th, 2007
Question I have a feeling that this is not possible to get, but I have a student who wants to research women as murder victims and get data on who they were killed by ? the attacker?s gender and relationship to the victim. On DLI and IDLS there are some beyond 20/20 tables from the [...]
Posted in Information and Communications Technology, Labour on Jan 29th, 2007
Question Is there any prospect of more recent data from the Survey of Information Technology Occupations in the future? Its frequency is listed as “occasional”; the most recent release was in 2004, of 2002 data. Answer When this survey was conceived, the intention was to repeat it periodically. However, in part because of lower than [...]
Posted in Business Performance and Ownership on Jan 29th, 2007
Question A student here needs data on Ontario industries by 6-digit NAICS – most recent possible (at the provincial or CD level). We can get revenues at 5-digit NAICS (which would suffice) for 2003 for the retail sector (through SARTRE) – but this does not include the industries in which he is interested. Where can [...]
Posted in Statistical Methods on Jan 25th, 2007
Question Is there a list anywhere of surveys that have bootstrap weights available or is this something I can find out from the files available (documentation etc)? Answer I have a list of files with bootstrap, jackknife and BRR weights at: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/major/bootstrap.htm
Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey – February to June 2006 The CTUMS, conducted since 1999 by Statistics Canada on behalf of Health Canada, provides timely, reliable and continuous data on tobacco use and related issues. Its objective is to track changes in smoking status and amount smoked, especially among young people aged 15 to 24, [...]
Posted in Government on Jan 23rd, 2007
Question A student here wants to do research on how governments restrict personal freedoms (a la all the access to information restrictions in 2001/2002) after events like 9/11 and Pearl Harbour. He’s required to show some data on this topic for his project as well. It doesn’t strike me as impossible that a survey has [...]
Posted in Aboriginal Peoples, Society and Community on Jan 19th, 2007
Question A professor teaching a class on Religion in Canada is searching for information about religion of Aboriginal people in Canada. We have identified the Detailed Tables of Projections of Population with Aboriginal Ancestry, Canada, Provinces/Regions and Territories, 1991-2016 from the Statistics Canada page (91C0026). It appears that this is a custom tabulation that has [...]
Posted in Education, Training and Learning, Updates on Jan 12th, 2007
International Adult Literacy Skills Survey (Canada) This product, offered on CD-ROM, contains the Canadian public microdata for the International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey (IALSS). IALSS is the Canadian component of the Adult Literacy and Skills Survey (ALL). The Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALL) is a large-scale co-operative effort undertaken in 2003 by [...]