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  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 11F0019M1995083
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This paper examines the robustness of a measure of the average complete duration of unemployment in Canada to a host of assumptions used in its derivation. In contrast to the average incomplete duration of unemployment, which is a lagging cyclical indicator, this statistic is a coincident indicator of the business cycle. The impact of using a steady state as opposed to a non steady state assumption, as well as the impact of various corrections for response bias are explored. It is concluded that a non steady state estimator would be a valuable compliment to the statistics on unemployment duration that are currently released by many statistical agencies, and particularly Statistics Canada.

    Release date: 1995-12-30

  • Articles and reports: 11F0019M1995084
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    The objective of this paper is to introduce in a new measure of the average duration of unemployment spells using Canadian data. The paper summarizes the work of Corak (1993) and Corak and Heisz (1994) on the average complete duration of unemployment in a non-technical way by focusing on the distinction between it and the average incomplete duration of unemployment, which is regularly released by Statistics Canada. It is pointed out that the latter is a lagging cyclical indicator. The average complete duration of unemployment is a more accurate indicator of prevailing labour market conditions, but some assumptions required in its derivation also imply that it lags actual developments.

    Release date: 1995-12-30

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0002M1993001
    Description:

    This paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of an approach to collecting income data being tested for the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) whereby respondents would be encouraged to refer to their T1 income tax forms.

    Release date: 1995-12-30

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0002M1993002
    Description:

    The paper provides question wording, lays out the possible responses, and maps out the flow of the questions for the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) labour interview questionnaire.

    Release date: 1995-12-30

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0002M1993004
    Description:

    This paper provides a description of the data collection procedures and the question wordings for the income and wealth portion of the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID), as well as some rationale for the chosen direction.

    Release date: 1995-12-30

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0002M1993005
    Description:

    This paper presents general observations from the members of the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics head office project team, a summary of responses by a subset of interviewers in the test who were asked to complete a debriefing questionnaire after completing the test and detailed comments by the observers from Head Office.

    Release date: 1995-12-30

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0002M1993006
    Description:

    This paper presents responses from a sample of interviewers from each Regional Office who were selected to complete a debriefing questionnaire for the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) preliminary interview.

    Release date: 1995-12-30

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0002M1993007
    Description:

    This report presents a summary evaluation of the quality of the data collected during the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) field test of labour market activity data, held in January and February 1993.

    Release date: 1995-12-30

  • Articles and reports: 75F0002M1993008
    Description:

    This paper describes the learning curve associated with breaking away from the traditional method of developing questions for a "paper and pencil" questionnaire to providing specifications for questions and flows for a programmer. It uses the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) as a case study.

    Release date: 1995-12-30

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0002M1993009
    Description:

    This paper presents an analysis of the questions in the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) relating to supervision and management. It uses data collected in January 1993.

    Release date: 1995-12-30
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  • Public use microdata: 82F0001X
    Description:

    The National Population Health Survey (NPHS) uses the Labour Force Survey sampling frame to draw a sample of approximately 22,000 households. The sample is distributed over four quarterly collection periods. In each household, some limited information is collected from all household members and one person, aged 12 years and over, in each household is randomly selected for a more in-depth interview.

    The questionnaire includes content related to health status, use of health services, determinants of health and a range of demographic and economic information. For example, the health status information includes self-perception of health, a health status index, chronic conditions, and activity restrictions. The use of health services is probed through visits to health care providers, both traditional and non-traditional, and the use of drugs and other medications. Health determinants include smoking, alcohol use, physical activity and in the first survey, emphasis has been placed on the collection of selected psycho-social factors that may influence health, such as stress, self-esteem and social support. The demographic and economic information includes age, sex, education, ethnicity, household income and labour force status.

    Release date: 1995-11-21
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  • Articles and reports: 82-003-X19950022508
    Geography: Province or territory
    Description:

    The positive relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and longevity has long been established. Comparable evidence exists for SES and morbidity, but observations of this relationship tend to be limited to specific health indicators. In this article, a comprehensive quantitative measure of health status, the Health Utility Index (HUI), is applied to an analysis of the relationship between SES the health status of people aged 25 and over in Ontario. The HUI, based on a set of questions included in the 1990 Ontario Health Survey (OHS), provides a summary index of the health of each respondent. The OHS data show that lower levels of education, income, and occupation are associated with lower HUI values. Health status differences across SES groups are greater in late middle-age than at younger or older ages, a pattern consistent with the findings of other studies. The development of summary indicators like the HUI is part of a larger effort to construct measures for monitoring the health of Canadians.

    Release date: 1995-11-20

  • Articles and reports: 82-003-X19950022509
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This article examines sex-specific variations in death rates and causes of death at different ages in 1993, and trends in cause-specific death rates since 1950.

    Release date: 1995-11-20

  • Articles and reports: 11F0019M1995082
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Our aim in this paper is to resolve a paradox. Since the 1970s, there has been a downward secular trend in the average real and relative earnings of young adults under the age of 35. Despite the fact that most young children live in households headed by adults under 35, there has been no corresponding secular rise in the incidence of low income among children. Rather child poverty has followed the usual fluctuations of the business cycle.

    We show that the relative stability in child poverty rates in the face of declining labour market earnings is a result of two factors. First, the decline in market income in young households with children has been offset by rising transfers. Since the 1970s, social transfers have replaced earnings as the main source of income among low income families with children.

    Second, changes in the fertility behaviour and labour market characteristics of young adults have sharply reduced the risk of young children growing up in low income households. Today's young parents are better educated, working more hours, having fewer children, and postponing child-birth until later ages when earnings are higher. Although more children do find themselves in single parent families, this change has been swamped by other changes in family patterns and labour market behaviour that have reduced the risk of child poverty.

    Thus, the upward pressure on low income among children stemming from the labour market has been offset by social transfers, on the one hand, and by changes in family formation and the labour market behaviour of young adults, on the other. Except for cyclical variations, the result has been relative stability in the incidence of low income among children over the 1980s and early 1990s. Whether these offsetting patterns will continue in the last half of the 1990s remains to be seen.

    Release date: 1995-09-30

  • Stats in brief: 75-001-X19950031636
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Since the late seventies, 25 to 29 year-olds with only a secondary school education have had more difficulty finding employment, and much more difficulty obtaining well-paid work. A glance at the changes over time in the labour market "success" of 25 to 29 year-old secondary school graduates.

    Release date: 1995-09-05

  • Articles and reports: 75-001-X19950031637
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    In the midst of extensive restructuring and downsizing, women have continued to enter male-dominated occupations, albeit more slowly than before. This study explores women's occupational crossovers from 1986 to 1991 and compares them with earlier developments between 1971 and 1986.

    Release date: 1995-09-05

  • Articles and reports: 75-001-X19950031638
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Does graduation from a university co-op program provide advantages in the job market? A comparison of graduates of university co-op programs with their non co-op counterparts.

    Release date: 1995-09-05

  • Articles and reports: 75-001-X19950031639
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Has the economy lost its capacity to generate enough full-time full-year employment to keep up with the growth in the working-age population? This article examines full-time and full-year employment rates by province from 1983 to 1993.

    Release date: 1995-09-05

  • Articles and reports: 75-001-X19950031640
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Starting in 1991, the participation rate of women has declined and shows no sign of resuming its long-standing upward trend. This note explores the rates of adult women aged 25 to 54 by different characteristics.

    Release date: 1995-09-05

  • Articles and reports: 75-001-X19950031641
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    In 1994, for the first time in four years, employers expanded their workforces significantly. A look at recent changes in paid employment, earnings and hours across detailed industries.

    Release date: 1995-09-05

  • Articles and reports: 11F0019M1995075
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This study examines technology use in Canada's manufacturing sector, and how a set of technology-using manufacturing establishments performed relative to non-users. Data originates from a recent Statistics Canada survey, asking manufacturing firms about their use of 22 advanced manufacturing technologies, and panel data taken from the Census of Manufacturers.

    Results show that the use of advanced manufacturing technology is widespread, especially in large firms, that multiple-technology use is the norm, and that technologies are generally combined within, as opposed to across, production stages. The technology revolution has been felt more in the area of inspection and communications, and less in fabrication and assembly. In terms of performance, technology-using establishments pay higher wages, enjoy higher labour productivity, and are gaining market share at the expense of non-users.

    Release date: 1995-08-30
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  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 11F0019M1995083
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This paper examines the robustness of a measure of the average complete duration of unemployment in Canada to a host of assumptions used in its derivation. In contrast to the average incomplete duration of unemployment, which is a lagging cyclical indicator, this statistic is a coincident indicator of the business cycle. The impact of using a steady state as opposed to a non steady state assumption, as well as the impact of various corrections for response bias are explored. It is concluded that a non steady state estimator would be a valuable compliment to the statistics on unemployment duration that are currently released by many statistical agencies, and particularly Statistics Canada.

    Release date: 1995-12-30

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0002M1993001
    Description:

    This paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of an approach to collecting income data being tested for the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) whereby respondents would be encouraged to refer to their T1 income tax forms.

    Release date: 1995-12-30

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0002M1993002
    Description:

    The paper provides question wording, lays out the possible responses, and maps out the flow of the questions for the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) labour interview questionnaire.

    Release date: 1995-12-30

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0002M1993004
    Description:

    This paper provides a description of the data collection procedures and the question wordings for the income and wealth portion of the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID), as well as some rationale for the chosen direction.

    Release date: 1995-12-30

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0002M1993005
    Description:

    This paper presents general observations from the members of the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics head office project team, a summary of responses by a subset of interviewers in the test who were asked to complete a debriefing questionnaire after completing the test and detailed comments by the observers from Head Office.

    Release date: 1995-12-30

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0002M1993006
    Description:

    This paper presents responses from a sample of interviewers from each Regional Office who were selected to complete a debriefing questionnaire for the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) preliminary interview.

    Release date: 1995-12-30

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0002M1993007
    Description:

    This report presents a summary evaluation of the quality of the data collected during the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) field test of labour market activity data, held in January and February 1993.

    Release date: 1995-12-30

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0002M1993009
    Description:

    This paper presents an analysis of the questions in the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) relating to supervision and management. It uses data collected in January 1993.

    Release date: 1995-12-30

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0002M1993011
    Description:

    This report presents a summary evaluation of the quality of the data collected during the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) field test of income and wealth, held in April and May 1993.

    Release date: 1995-12-30

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0002M1993012
    Description:

    This paper presents observations of the field test of the income and wealth content proposed for the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID), as reported by members of the SLID head office project team and a summary of responses by a subset of interviewers who were asked to complete a debriefing questionnaire.

    Release date: 1995-12-30
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