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151. Plugged into the Internet Archived
Articles and reports: 88-003-X19990025342
Geography: Canada
Description:
Our jobs, communities, leisure activities and patterns of commerce are changing at a dizzying pace - the Internet is literally transforming the way we live, work and play. In 1998, 36% of Canadian households were regular users of computer communication - up sharply from 29% in 1997. And the technology revolution is not over yet!
Release date: 2000-01-17
152. Estimates of federal government expenditures on scientific activities, 1999-2000 Archived
Articles and reports: 88-003-X19990025343
Geography: Canada
Description:
Gross domestic product expenditures on R&D (GERD) for 1999 increased by 3.5% to $14.9 billion over the previous year. Despite this increase, the proportion of GDP devoted to R&D (1.6%) is still among the lowest of the G-7 countries.
Release date: 2000-01-17
153. Business start-ups and closures provide clues to innovation Archived
Articles and reports: 88-003-X19990025344
Geography: Canada
Description:
A Statistics Canada study uses business demographics to learn about innovation and technological change and uncovers interesting patterns. Contrary to expectations, the author uncovered considerable volatility (start-ups and closures) in the service sector. The volatility rate for this sector was 31% compared with 23% for the manufacturing sector. Firms that do not innovate frequently are replaced by new ones that have new or improved products to offer or by those that employ more efficient methods of production and delivery.
Release date: 2000-01-17
154. Biotechnologies adopted in many firms despite obstacles Archived
Articles and reports: 88-003-X19990025345
Geography: Canada
Description:
Some analysts suggest that biotechnology may trigger a revolution equal to the one prompted by information technology. Various sectors of Canadian industry are already actively using biotechnologies for purposes ranging from research and development to pollution control. Many still see obstacles to adopting new biotechnologies including lack of information and government regulation.
Release date: 2000-01-17
155. More skiers and snowboarders are visiting Canadian ski areas Archived
Articles and reports: 87-003-X20000014858
Geography: Canada
Description:
In the first part of this study, we will explore the development of the ski industry in Canada, after taking a short historical detour. In part two we will examine the characteristics of American travellers who visited Canadian ski areas (to ski or snowboard) during an overnight stay in Canada in the winter of 1998-99. Lastly, we will take a quick look at some characteristics of the overseas skier/snowboarder and at their contribution to the Canadian economy.
Release date: 2000-01-14
156. Unemployment and Labour Force Attachment: A Study of Canadian Experience 1997-1999 Archived
Journals and periodicals: 72F0020X
Geography: Canada
Description:
This research paper summarizes the approach, methodology and results of a study of the labour market behaviour of persons in various categories of attachment to the labour market. The analysis focuses on the transition probabilities for various categories of labour market attachment. Specifically, the study will include a discussion of the behavioural differences of the following groups:
a) a comparison of transitions from U (unemployed), M (marginally attached - wants work) and N (not attached - does not want work); b) a further breakdown of the transitions from U by active searchers, passive searchers, those on temporary layoff and short-term future starts; c) a further breakdown of transitions for M by reason for not searching; and d) a further breakdown of transitions from N by long-term future starts and other.
The study will be based on 1997-1999 Labour Force Survey data.
Release date: 2000-01-14

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11. Innovation and Training in New Firms Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2000123
Geography: Canada
Description:
Recent studies have demonstrated the quantitative importance of entry, exit, growth and decline in the industrial population. It is this turnover that rewards innovative activity and contributes to productivity growth.
While the size of the entry population is impressive - especially when cumulated over time - the importance of entry is ultimately due to its impact on innovation in the economy. Experimentation is important in a dynamic, market-based economy. A key part of the experimentation comes from entrants. New entrepreneurs constantly offer consumers new products both in terms of the basic good and the level of service that accompanies it.
This experimentation is associated with significant costs since many entrants fail. Young firms are most at risk of failure; data drawn from a longitudinal file of Canadian entrants in both the goods and service sectors show that over half the new firms that fail do so in the first two years of life. Life is short for the majority of entrants. Only 1 in 5 new firms survive to their tenth birthday.
Since so many entrants fall by the wayside, it is of inherent interest to understand the conditions that are associated with success, the conditions that allow the potential in new entrepreneurs to come to fruition. The success of an entrant is due to its choosing the correct combination of strategies and activities. To understand how these capabilities contribute to growth, it is necessary to study how the performance of entrants relates to differences in strategies and pursued activities.
This paper describes the environment and the characteristics of entrants that manage to survive and grow. In doing so, it focuses on two issues. The first is the innovativeness of entrants and the extent to which their growth depends on their innovativeness. The second is to outline how the stress on worker skills, which is partially related to training, complements innovation and contributes to growth.
Release date: 2000-12-08
12. The Transition to Work for Canadian University Graduates: Time to First Job, 1982-1990 Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2000141
Geography: Canada
Description:
Using three waves (1982, 1986, 1990) of the National Graduate Survey (NGS) we analyze the time it takes graduates of Canadian universities to start a full time job that lasts six months or more. We analyze duration to first job using the Cox proportional hazards model. Our results suggest large differences in the speed of the transition to work both within and between cohorts. They also suggest that the differences in duration to first job across NGS cohorts are not just driven by differences in business cycle conditions at the time of graduation. Over certain segments of duration the patterns of job-starting are similar across cohorts. Within cohorts the differences in the school-to-work transition across certain demographic groups are small, and for some the differences remain stable across cohorts.
Release date: 2000-12-08
13. Overqualified? Recent graduates and the needs of their employers Archived
Articles and reports: 81-003-X20000015409
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article examines whether the education levels of graduates surpass the needs of employers, and to what extent.
Release date: 2000-11-29
14. Holding their own: Employment and earnings of postsecondary graduates Archived
Articles and reports: 81-003-X20000015410
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article provides an analysis of the employment and earnings patterns of recent postsecondary graduates, based on three waves of the National Graduates Surveys.
Release date: 2000-11-29
15. Criminal harassment, 1999 Archived
Articles and reports: 85-002-X20000118384
Geography: Canada
Description:
This Juristat outlines the characteristics of criminal harassment incidents as well as the characteristics of the accused and victim for 1999, and identifies trends over the past five years. (Trend data are only available for the five-year period from 1995 to 1999.) This Juristat updates a similar Juristat written in 1996 using information collected from police forces and adult criminal courts to review the charges laid and sentences imposed for cases involving criminal harassment.
There are many different types of stalkers. However, most victims of criminal harassment know their accused quite well and, in many instances, the stalker and victim were involved in a previous relationship.
Release date: 2000-11-29
16. Part-time by choice Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X20000115608
Geography: Canada
Description:
This study looks at those who voluntarily work part time, as well as their reasons for doing so, their levels of work-related stress, and their job characteristics.
Release date: 2000-11-24
17. A profile of the largest independent film, video and audio-visual producers in Canada, 1988/89 to 1997/98 Archived
Articles and reports: 87-004-X20000025358
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article compares the characteristics of the 10 largest independent film and video producers, as measured by production revenues, with all the others, over a 10-year period starting in 1988/89.
Release date: 2000-11-09
18. Culture jobs increasing: Update on the culture labour force using the Labour Force Survey Archived
Articles and reports: 87-004-X20000025361
Geography: Canada
Description:
The economy was strong in 1999 and while consumers were interested in big-ticket items such as automobiles in the first quarter of the year their attention turned to services later in the year.
Release date: 2000-11-09
19. Sport participation in Canada, 1998 Archived
Articles and reports: 87-004-X20000025362
Geography: Canada
Description:
Canadians exhibited a dramatic shift in their sport participation rate from 1992 to 1998. According to the latest information released from Statistics Canada's General Social Survey (GSS), fewer Canadians aged 15 years and older reported participating in a sport in 1998 than six years earlier (down almost 11 percentage points).
Release date: 2000-11-09
20. An updated look at the computer services industry Archived
Articles and reports: 63-016-X20000025331
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article looks at the fast-growing Computer Services industry in Canada, with a particular focus on software developers, data processing firms, systems consultants, and Internet service providers.
Release date: 2000-10-26

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1. Publicly Available Data Resources on the Non-profit Sector in Canada Archived
Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0033M2000003
Geography: Canada
Description:
This report provides an overview of an inventory of publicly available data on the nonprofit sector.
Release date: 2000-06-12

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