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1. Determinants of science and technology skills: overview of the study Archived
Articles and reports: 81-003-X20010016030
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article, the first of three, gives an overview of this study of the determinants of elementary and high school mathematics and science performance, the economic returns of adult literacy, and the diffusion of science and technology (S&T) graduates into the work force.
Release date: 2001-12-19
2. Science and technology skills: participation and performance in elementary and secondary school Archived
Articles and reports: 81-003-X20010016031
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article, the second of three, describes elementary and secondary school participation and performance in science and technology (S&T) courses.
Release date: 2001-12-19
3. Science and technology skills: participation and performance in university and beyond Archived
Articles and reports: 81-003-X20010016032
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article, the third and last of a series, examines science and technology (S&T) graduates, their postsecondary studies and their early careers.
Release date: 2001-12-19
4. Radio listening maintains its audience, fall 2000 Archived
Articles and reports: 87-004-X20010026041
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article focusses on trends in radio listening, with an emphasis on fall 2000.
Release date: 2001-12-19
5. International trade in culture commodities: A semi-annual review, 2001 Archived
Articles and reports: 87-004-X20010026042
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article analyses the economic effects of exporting Canadian culture products and importing foreign products. It uses data based on culture commodity trade figures for the first six months of 2001.
Release date: 2001-12-19
6. The Internet: Who's connected, who's shopping? Archived
Articles and reports: 87-004-X20010026043
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article is a synopsis of an article published previously by the Science, Innovation, and Electronic Information Division, Statistics Canada. It highlights the sections that we believe are of most interest to readers from the culture sector drawing data from the 1999 Household Internet Use Survey (HIUS).
Release date: 2001-12-19
7. Crime comparisons between Canada and the United States Archived
Articles and reports: 85-002-X20010118397
Geography: Canada
Description:
This Juristat examines how Canadian crime rates compare to those in the United States. Using police-reported crime data, the analysis focuses on seven comparable offences: homicide, aggravated assault, robbery, break and enter, motor vehicle theft, theft, and arson. As well, three comparable offences were compared using charge/arrest data, including drug violations, impaired driving, and prostitution. Crime rate comparisons are presented at the national, regional, and metropolitan levels. This is a special topic Juristat of great interest to those working in the criminal justice system, as well as researchers, policy makers, and anyone who is interested in cross-national crime comparisons.
Release date: 2001-12-18
8. The male-female wage gap Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X20010126036
Geography: Canada
Description:
The issue of male-female wage inequality is complex, and requires analysis from a number of different perspectives. This article demonstrates the importance of measurement, decomposition techniques and differences in the gap along the wage scale.
Release date: 2001-12-17
9. Private pension savings, 1999 Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X20010126037
Geography: Canada
Description:
This report focuses on employer pension plan assets, together with other private pension assets such as registered retirement savings plans. It also presents estimates of net worth, including the value of employer pension plan benefits.
Release date: 2001-12-17
10. The Assets and Debts of Canadians: Focus on Private Pension Savings Archived
Journals and periodicals: 13-596-X
Geography: Canada
Description:
For the first time in a Canadian asset and debt survey, the 1999 Survey of Financial Security (SFS) includes an estimate of the value of benefits accrued in employer (i.e.registered) pension plans (RPPs). Although not an asset in the sense that it can be sold and used for another purpose, employer pension plan benefits are nonetheless an important part of the net worth of Canadians, as they provide many with at least a portion of their income in retirement. For many families, it is likely to be one of the largest assets.
The 1999 SFS provides the most comprehensive picture of the net worth of Canadians yet available. Information was collected on the value of all major financial and non-financial assets, and on the money owing on mortgages, vehicles, credit cards, student loans and other debts. The value of these assets, less the debts, is referred to as net worth. Data collection took place from May to July 1999, in all provinces. Although this is the seventh time that an asset and debt survey has been conducted by Statistics Canada, over 15 years have passed since the last survey was done, in 1984. Many changes have taken place since that time, in both the economy and the structure of families. Survey findings are available in the report The assets and debts of Canadians: an overview of the results of the Survey of Financial Security (catalogue no. 13-595-XIE).
Release date: 2001-12-14

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21. Connected to the Internet, still connected to life? Archived
Articles and reports: 11-008-X20010036005
Geography: Canada
Description:
The article investigates whether Internet users spend less time with other people or on other activities.
Release date: 2001-12-11
22. Volunteering and giving: A regional perspective Archived
Articles and reports: 11-008-X20010036006
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article looks at whether there are regional differences in giving and volunteering.
Release date: 2001-12-11
23. The time of our lives ... Archived
Articles and reports: 11-008-X20010036007
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article examines the time use patterns of Canadians over the past decade, using data from the 1986, 1992 and 1998 General Social Surveys.
Release date: 2001-12-11
24. Employment in Rural and Small Town Canada: An Update to 2000 Archived
Articles and reports: 21-006-X2001004
Geography: Canada
Description:
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) represent both a "problem" and an "opportunity" for rural Canadians. On the one hand, rural employment levels are diminished as more services are supplied to rural Canadians by ICTs - the ubiquitous ATMs (automatic teller machines) are one example. On the other hand, ICTs, and particularly the Internet, provide easier access for rural Canadians to target urban markets and provide urban consumers with easier access to rural goods and services of human capital. In addition, characteristics of migrating youth are discussed as youth can be seen as an indicator of the state of rural areas and are a key factor in rural development. The understanding of the patterns of migration may give rise to solutions for the retention of human capital in rural and small town areas and the promotion of rural development.
Release date: 2001-12-10
25. Patterns of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT) Use in Canadian Manufacturing: 1998 AMT Survey Results Archived
Articles and reports: 88F0017M2001012
Geography: Canada
Description:
This report covers the use and planned use of 26 advanced manufacturing technologies (AMTs) at the establishment level. Additional information on skill requirements, technology development and implementation practices, results of technology adoption, barriers to adoption and firms' research and development activities was obtained from the 1998 Survey of Advanced Technologies in Canadian Manufacturing.
Release date: 2001-11-29
26. Science, Innovation and Electronic Information Division Research Papers Archived
Journals and periodicals: 88F0017M
Geography: Canada
Description:
Statistics Canada is engaged in an Information System for Science and Technology Project which purpose is to develop useful indicators of activity and a framework to tie them together into a coherent picture of science and technology in Canada. This series publishes analytical work relating to science and technology issues. These documents relate to specific questions or complex analyses derived from survey results conducted at Statistics Canada. More speculative studies related to science and technology issues are also published.
Release date: 2001-11-29
27. Housing Depreciation in the Canadian CPI Archived
Articles and reports: 62F0014M2001015
Geography: Canada
Description:
The Canadian Consumer Price Index (CPI) applies a version of the user cost approach to measure the cost of home ownership. Because this approach specifically estimates the costs of using owned accommodation and not those faced by tenants, the measure includes a "replacement cost" (or depreciation) component. Depreciation is the only component in the CPI that is not an out-of-pocket expense. Consequently, economists face a unique set of methodological challenges when measuring depreciation.
Between 1949 and 1997, the annual housing depreciation rate used in the CPI was 2%. Statistics Canada adopted the rate from a study that analysed U.S. Federal Housing Administration field appraisal data from 1939.
This study argues that there is evidence that the 2% depreciation rate is too high to continue to use in the future. Consider that: 1) other Canadian studies show an upper bound of 1.7%, with a median estimate of 1.5%; 2) other statistical agencies use lower rates; and 3) every academic study over the past 40 years has arrived at a lower rate. As a consequence of this study and the existing supporting evidence, the depreciation rate in the Canadian CPI was lowered to 1.5% effective January 1998.
Release date: 2001-11-28
28. Dynamics of the Canadian Manufacturing Sector in Metropolitan and Rural Regions Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2001169
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper documents the changing geography of the Canadian manufacturing sector over a twenty-two year period (1976-1997). It does so by looking at the shifts in employment, as well as other measures of industrial change, across different levels of the rural/urban hierarchy - central cities, adjacent suburbs, medium and small cities, and rural areas.
The analysis demonstrates that the most dramatic shifts in manufacturing employment were from the central cities of large metropolitan regions to their suburbs. Paralleling trends in the United States, rural regions of Canada have increased their share of manufacturing employment. Rising rural employment shares were due to declining employment shares of small cities and, to lesser degree, large urban regions. Increasing rural employment was particularly prominent in Quebec, where employment shifted away from the Montreal region. By way of contrast, Ontario's rural regions only maintained their share of employment and the Toronto region increased its share of provincial employment over the period. The changing fortunes of rural and urban areas was not the result of across-the-board shifts in manufacturing employment, but was the net outcome of differing locational patterns across industries.
Change across the rural/urban hierarchy is also measured in terms of wage and productivity levels, diversity, and volatility. In contrast to the United States, wages and productivity in Canada do not consistently decline moving down the rural/urban hierarchy from the largest cities to the most rural parts of the country. Only after controlling for the types of manufacturing industries found in rural and urban regions is it apparent that wages and productivity decline with the size of place. The analysis also demonstrates that over time most rural and urban regions are diversifying across a wider variety of manufacturing industries and that shifts in employment shares across industries - a measure of economic instability - has for some rural/urban classifications increased modestly.
Release date: 2001-11-23
29. School Performance of the Children of Immigrants in Canada, 1994-98 Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2001178
Geography: Canada
Description:
The school performance of the children of immigrants in the Canadian school system is analyzed using data from the first three waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY). School performance is measured in terms of ability at reading, writing, mathematics and overall aptitude. The parents' and teachers' assessments of the children's performances are used, as are the results of formal testing. On average, children of immigrants generally do at least as well as the children of the Canadian-born along each dimension of school performance. The children of immigrant parents whose first language is either English or French have especially high outcomes. The children of other immigrant parents have lower performance in reading, writing and composition but their performance in mathematics is comparable to that of the children of Canadian-born parents. It is also found that with more years in the Canadian education system, the performance of these children in reading, writing and mathematics improves and is equal to or greater than the performance of the children of Canadian-born parents by age thirteen in virtually all areas of performance.
Release date: 2001-11-14
30. The Quest for Workers: A New Portrait of Job Vacancies in Canada Archived
Articles and reports: 71-584-M2001002
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper examines the job vacancy rate in Canada in order to estimate companies' hiring intentions and the future direction of labour demand. It uses data from the new Workplace and Employee Survey (WES).
Release date: 2001-11-01

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1. Definitions of Rural Archived
Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 21-006-X2001003
Geography: Canada
Description:
The purpose of this bulletin is to review various responses to "Why are you asking about rural populations?"; to summarize and compare alternative definitions that have been used to delineate the "rural" population within the databases at Statistics Canada; and to offer alternative definitions of "rural" that would be appropriate to each reason for asking about the rural population.
Release date: 2001-11-19
2. Working together: An update on the National Advisory Committe on Culture Statistics Archived
Notices and consultations: 87-004-X20000035566
Geography: Canada
Description:
As with many other areas in Statistics Canada, the Culture Statistics Program (CSP) benefits from the informed advice of an external advisory committee. The National Advisory Committee on Culture Statistics (NACCS) was created in 1984 with a mandate to provide advice for the development of statistical activities related to all aspects of art and culture in Canada.
Release date: 2001-03-16
3. Meeting of users and provincial providers of science and technology statistics Archived
Notices and consultations: 88-003-X20010015591
Geography: Canada
Description:
The Quebec Institute of Statistics hosted a forum for Statistics Canada and provincial government experts dealing with the subject of science and technology statistics.
Release date: 2001-03-13
4. Getting ready for the 2001 Census Archived
Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 11-008-X20000045556
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article provides information about the census and how the data gathered are used.
Release date: 2001-03-12

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