Posted in International Trade on Mar 30th, 2009
Question The files in the subdirectory: trade/international-merchandise-trade-data-by-commodity-classification/ 2007–YYYY-codes-have-changed/2007-yyyy-codes-change.zip are very useful. I have not, however, been able to find any concordances (without paying the WCO for them) to between previous versions of the HS. If I am not mistaken, they are now on about their 5th round of revisions. Could we get comparable concordances between [...]
Posted in Business, Consumer and Property Services on Mar 30th, 2009
Question A professor is looking for yields of government of Canada bonds for different maturities as of 1923. Does anyone know of a source for this data? Answer CANSIM Table 176-0043 does include yields of government of Canada bonds for different maturities. However, the bonds data does not go right back to 1934, so you [...]
Posted in Business Performance and Ownership on Mar 30th, 2009
*Note: Translated from the original French. Question A student is researching to see if a list of businesses with 250 or more employees in Canada. Is there a Statistics Canada resource that would allow you to find this information? Answer This information is available under the product “Canadian Business Patterns.”
Posted in Business Performance and Ownership on Mar 27th, 2009
Question As you probably recall, this CD title is received through both DSP and DLI. Specifically, only the 4th (quarterly) issue is available from the DSP and can be used by the general public as well. Does this pose problems in turns of location (do you keep the first 3 CDs in one area and [...]
Posted in Reference on Mar 27th, 2009
Question We have a faculty member who wants to include a map of some CT boundaries of Toronto in a chapter of book – does she need to obtain permission? Answer This request was raised at the licensing committee and it is seen as a reasonable use of information so the professor can go ahead [...]
Posted in Information and Communications Technology on Mar 27th, 2009
Question We’ve had a rather interesting question. One of our students is trying to determine how many Canadians are involved with Web 2.0 applications. This would include (according to wikipedia) social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies. The STC figures we found are from 2005 and thus as out of date. Any ideas? There [...]
Posted in Reference on Mar 27th, 2009
Question I am trying to get my hands on the questionnaires (long and short forms) for the 1986 and 1991 censuses but cannot locate them on the FTP server. Have they been posted there and if so in what folder and under what name? I found the 1981 questionnaires easily but just could not locate [...]
Posted in Reference on Mar 27th, 2009
Question I received what seems to be a pretty ambitious request from a sociology faculty. He would like to obtain complete cumulative profiles at the CSD level for all census years from 1986 to 2006. Now here is the catch. Ideally he would want the data for every census to be recomputed in terms of [...]
Posted in Families, Households and Housing on Mar 27th, 2009
Question A researcher needs the Survey of Household Energy Use. It was done by StatsCan for NRCan. Was there a PUMF? If so, can we get it through DLI? Could it be seen/used at a Research Data Centre? Could the data be obtained by household? If not, at what level would it be provided? The [...]
Posted in Travel and Tourism on Mar 23rd, 2009
Question I have a researcher who has an article quoting information from the Canadian Tourism Outbound Profile (2005). I have done all the usual things to try and identify where I can get this item but cannot find it. Can anyone give me a hand? Answer I could not find anything within StatCan titled Canadian Tourism Outbound [...]