Posted in Agriculture on Aug 30th, 2007
Question The 2001 Agricultural Community Profiles state: “The profiles include agricultural statistics on population and farm operators, land use and land practices, farm finances, crops and horticulture, and livestock for most communities at the geographic level of the census division (CD) and census agricultural region (CAR). ” I would like the data for the CARs [...]
Posted in Aboriginal Peoples, Agriculture on Aug 29th, 2007
Question A student is interested in knowing farm and farm operator statistics (latest, if possible) for Canada and looking specifically for number of farms owned by aboriginal people; total agricultural land owned by aboriginal farmers (individually or by bands both on- and off- reserve); and the type of crops (most often) grown by aboriginal farmers. [...]
Posted in Population and Demography on Aug 27th, 2007
Question Does Demography Division ever provide researchers with data estimates prior to the official publication date? A research group here completed their project in March 2007 and would like to complete the analysis [and publish, of course] ASAP. They need estimates of deaths by age and sex [only interested in those over 80 years old] [...]
Posted in Economic Accounts on Aug 24th, 2007
Question A graduate student here is looking for economic output figures (something that would be equivalent to the GDP) for five communities in the Victoria area (Colwood, Esquimalt, Langford, Oak Bay, and Central Saanich). Anyone have any ideas on how she can approach this? Answer According to the Industry Accounts Division, the lowest level of [...]
Posted in Income, Pensions, Spending and Wealth, Labour on Aug 23rd, 2007
Question A faculty member has inquired as to whether the Annual Estimates of Employment, Earnings and Hours based on NAICS 1991-2006 survey will ever be available for finer geographic levels specifically at the CD or CSD level? Or if it might be available as a custom tabulation request. Answer The author division has confirmed that [...]
Posted in Education, Training and Learning on Aug 21st, 2007
Question A researcher is looking at the demographic profile of teaching professionals and I came across University and College Academic Staff System (UCASS) with release date “August 2, 2007 (preliminary)”. On the statcan page, it does not really tell from where this data is available – dli or custom made tabulations for fee or if [...]
Posted in Families, Households and Housing on Aug 17th, 2007
Question I would like to request availability and contact information please for annual provincial / territorial statistics from 1960 to the most current, for total religious and civil / non-religious marriages. Answer You may want to look at CANSIM table 101-1013. It seems to have data for # of marriages by province by type of [...]
Posted in Transportation on Aug 15th, 2007
Question A student here is looking for data on the % paved roads, automobile density and mean miles driven annually for: Quebec City, 1989 City of Edmonton, 1989 Two years ago, Joel Rivard described how to use DMTI data in ArcView to get the road lengths for Ontario; what the student wants is paved roads, [...]
Posted in Health on Aug 2nd, 2007
Question A student is looking for “MOST FREQUENT REASONS FOR VISITS TO THE OFFICES OF PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS”. He has data from the US, but is looking for data from Canada. I dug around a bit, and found the Health Services Access Survey (HSAS) (Survey number 5002). CANSIM Table 105-3041 makes use of this survey, [...]