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A note on anticipating employment trends in manufacturing

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Educators are concerned that student employment may be associated with an increased likelihood of dropping out of high school before a certificate or diploma is earned. This article analyses the effects of work during the school year on the risk of dropping out.

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This study examines how Canadian productivity is measured and what factors affect it. In addition, trends in productivity over the last 30 years are discussed.

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An up-to-date look at RRSP contributions and benefits.

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A look at some of the basic retirement planning done by working Canadians aged 45 to 64 and at the financial resources that will enable them to enjoy retirement.

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This article outlines trends since the mid-1970s in the labour market activity of female lone parents. Comparisons are made with wives in two-parent families.

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This article assesses the occurrence of non-standard work schedules by selected characteristics of shift work schedules by selected characteristics of shift workers and their main reasons for working shift.

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This study analyses growth in the number of women teaching full time at Canada's universities, from 1960 onwards.

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By the end of 1992, a recovery appeared to be increasing its hold on the Canadian economy. A firming of employment and a pick-up in real wages helped to fuel higher household spending in the second half of the year. However, these positive developments were not enough to prevent the annual average unemployment rate from rising to a nine-year high of 11.3%

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The characteristics of people who moved in 1987 to look for work, start a new job or take a transfer are profiled.

Description: This table contains 29 series, with data starting from 1953 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 item: Canada), Assets and liabilities (29 items: Total assets; Total, Government of Canada, direct and guaranteed securities; Government of Canada, Treasury Bills; Total, Government of Canada, bonds; ...).

Description: Historical (real-time) releases of merchandise imports and exports with data for years 1988 - current.

Description: Industrial chemical and synthetic resins annual production, in tonnes.

Description: Chemicals and synthetic resins products annual production, data in tonnes.

Description: Canadian passenger bus and urban transit industries, total revenue and total passenger trips by Urban transit agency, selected Canadian Urban transit agencies, monthly.

Description: The investment in residential and non-residential building construction represents the spending value of building construction by households, enterprises and governments for buildings.

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Monthly credit aggregates for the household sector, by category.

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Monthly credit aggregates for the private non-financial corporations sector, by category.

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Monthly credit aggregates for the assets of the financial corporation sector, by category.

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Selected credit estimates including loans and debt securities and other financial instruments by creditor (lender) and debtor (borrower) sectors, seasonally adjusted and non-seasonally adjusted.

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Are winter vacations from work becoming more popular? Do vacation patterns differ by age, sex industry or job tenure? These are among the questions addressed in this study. Trends since the 1950s are also briefly reviewed.

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The Help-wanted Index measures job ads as an indicator of labour demand. The index is considered a leading indicator of labour market conditions and of general economic activity. This study looks at the performance of the index during the last three business cycles.

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"Discouraged workers" are persons who want a job but are not seeking one because they believe no suitable work is available. This not summarizes findings on discouraged workers from the Survey of Job Opportunities conducted in March 1989.

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A comparison of youth labour market conditions in 1977 and 1987 shows several important changes. Demographic shifts and rising school attendance rates are among the influences examined. The diverse experiences of students and out-of-school youths, of teenagers and young adults, are highlighted.

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From 1985 to 1988, the national unemployment rate declined sharply but regional patterns varied considerably. The unemployment rate and other labour market measures for 40 sub-provincial areas are used in this study of the increase in regional unemployment disparities observed in recent years.

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The fertility rate continues to decline but interest in maternity leave is growing as more women of child bearing age join the labour force. This article looks at maternity absences among working women by age, education and province. It also explores the links between the fertility rate and maternity absences and between compensation and length of absence.

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How does the temporary help worker differ from the 'average worker'? This profile covers characteristics such as age, sex, material status, education, occupation and earnings, with some surprising results. The role played by temporary help agencies as employers and workers adjust to changes in the business cycle is also examined.

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This report focusses on new studies that analyse information and communications technology industries, science-based industries, high-technology industries and firms, the knowledge-based economy, and knowledge workers.

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Statistics Canada's annual Economic Conference provides a forum for the exchange of empirical research among business, government, research and labour communities. The conference is also a means to promote economic and socio-economic analyses while subjecting existing data to critical assessment as part of an ongoing process of statistical development and review. This year's theme was Innovation in an Evolving Economy. At the May 6-7, 2002 conference there were 12 presentations, based directly on the analysis of Science, Innovation and Electronic Information Division (SIEID) data. These presentations were given by SIEID analysts, by Statistics Canada analysts in other groups, by facilitated access researchers and by analysts using published or commissioned estimates.

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This report contains both inventory of and guide to sources of publicly available data on the nonprofit sector in Canada and a discussion of the characteristics and limitations of these data.

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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.

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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.

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The Quebec Institute of Statistics hosted a forum for Statistics Canada and provincial government experts dealing with the subject of science and technology statistics.

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This article provides information about the census and how the data gathered are used.

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This report provides an overview of an inventory of publicly available data on the nonprofit sector.

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The Unified Enterprise Survey (UES) incorporates several annual business surveys into an integrated survey framework. It aims to ensure Statistics Canada receives consistent and integrated data from many types and sizes of businesses, with enough detail to produce accurate provincial statistics. This year, 17 industry surveys are included in the UES, as well as two cross-industry surveys of large enterprises.

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The Geography Divisions of Statistics Canada and the U.S. Bureau of the Census have commenced a cooperative research program in order to foster an improved and expanded perspective on geographic areas and their relevance. One of the major objectives is to determine a common geographic area to form a geostatistical basis for cross-border research, analysis and mapping.

This report, which represents the first stage of the research, provides a list of comparable pairs of Canadian and U.S. standard geographic areas based on current definitions. Statistics Canada and the U.S. Bureau of the Census have two basic types of standard geographic entities: legislative/administrative areas (called "legal" entities in the U.S.) and statistical areas.

The preliminary pairing of geographic areas are based on face-value definitions only. The definitions are based on the June 4, 1991 Census of Population and Housing for Canada and the April 1, 1990 Census of Population and Housing for the U.S.A. The important aspect is the overall conceptual comparability, not the precise numerical thresholds used for delineating the areas.

Data users should use this report as a general guide to compare the census geographic areas of Canada and the United States, and should be aware that differences in settlement patterns and population levels preclude a precise one-to-one relationship between conceptually similar areas. The geographic areas compared in this report provide a framework for further empirical research and analysis.