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41. New Economy: Using National Accounting Architecture to Estimate the Size of the High-technology Economy Archived
Articles and reports: 11-622-M2007015
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper illustrates how the statistical architecture of Canada's System of National Accounts can be utilized to study the size and composition of a specific economic sector. For illustrative purposes, the analysis focuses on the information and communications technology (ICT) sector, and hence, on the set of technology-producing industries and technology outputs most commonly associated with what is often termed the high-technology economy. Using supply and use tables from the input-output accounts, we develop integrated ICT industry and commodity classifications that link domestic technology producers to their principal commodity outputs. We then use these classifications to generate a series of descriptive statistics that examine the size of Canada's high-technology economy along with its underlying composition. In our view, these integrated ICT classifications can be used to develop a richer profile of the high-technology economy than one obtains from examining its industry or commodity dimensions in isolation.
Release date: 2007-12-21
42. Long-term Productivity Growth in Manufacturing in Canada and the United States, 1961 to 2003 Archived
Articles and reports: 15-206-X2007015
Geography: Canada
Description:
In this paper, we provide an international comparison of the growth in Canadian and U.S. manufacturing industries over the 1961-to-2003 period. We find that average annual growth rates of labour productivity growth were almost identical in the Canadian and U.S. manufacturing sectors during this period. But the sources of labour productivity growth differed in the two countries. Intermediate input deepening was a more important source of labour productivity growth in Canada than in the United States, while investment in capital and multifactor productivity (MFP) growth were more important in the United States than in Canada. After 1996, labour productivity growth in Canada was lower than in the United States. The post-1996 slower labour productivity growth in Canada relative to the United States was due to slower growth in MFP and slower growth in capital intensity. The slower MFP growth in Canada accounted for 60% of Canada - United States labour productivity growth difference, and slower growth in capital intensity accounted for 30%. The slower MFP growth in the Canadian manufacturing sector relative to that of the United States after 1996 was due to lower MFP growth in the computer and electronic products industry. The slower growth in capital'labour ratio in the Canadian manufacturing compared with the United States after 1996 is related to the changes in relative prices of capital and labour inputs in the two countries.
Release date: 2007-12-18
43. Federal government expenditures on scientific activities, 2007/2008 (intentions) Archived
Stats in brief: 88-001-X200700710386
Description:
This publication presents recent information on the performance and funding of Federal government expenditures on scientific activities, 2007/2008. The statistics presented are derived from the survey of science and technology (S&T) activities of federal departments and agencies. The data in this release are consistent with expenditures of departments and agencies as reported in the Main Estimates 2007/2008, but do not reflect changes to 2007/2008 spending plans which may result from supplementary estimates or other departmental planning decisions.
Release date: 2007-12-11
44. Innovation Capabilities: Technology Use, Productivity Growth and Business Performance: Evidence from Canadian Technology Surveys Archived
Articles and reports: 11-622-M2007016
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper summarizes the results of several research studies conducted by the Micro-economic Analysis Division of Statistics Canada that investigate the impact of advanced technology use on business performance. These studies combine establishment-level survey data on advanced technology practices with longitudinal data that measure changes in relative performance. Together, these studies provide strong evidence that technology strategies have considerable bearing on competitive outcomes after other correlates of plant performance are taken into account. Advanced communications technologies warrant special emphasis, as the use of these technologies has been shown to be closely associated with changes in relative productivity.
Release date: 2007-12-05
45. Scientific and Technological (S&T) Activities of Provincial Governments and Provincial Research Organizations, 2001/2002 to 2005/2006 Archived
Stats in brief: 88-001-X200700510377
Description:
The information in this document is intended primarily to be used by scientific and technological (S&T) policy makers, both federal and provincial, largely as a basis for inter-provincial and inter-sectoral comparisons. The statistics are aggregates of the provincial government and provincial research organization science surveys conducted by Statistics Canada under contract with the provinces, and cover the period 2001/2002 to 2005/2006.
Release date: 2007-10-25
46. The Scientific Research and Development Services industry: Profile of a young and dynamic industry Archived
Articles and reports: 88-003-X200700210329
Geography: Canada
Description:
The scientific research and development services industry is arousing growing interest among analysts and researchers. The interest aroused by this industry is due in part to its major contribution to total industrial expenditures on research and development (R&D) in Canada.
Release date: 2007-10-09
47. How do innovative manufacturing establishments acquire knowledge and technology: Findings from the 2005 Survey of Innovation Archived
Articles and reports: 88-003-X20070019619
Geography: Canada
Description:
The 2005 Survey of Innovation asked innovative manufacturing establishments questions related to how they acquired knowledge and technology for innovation and from whom. This article analyzes the two thirds of manufacturing establishments that were innovative that is they introduced a new or significantly improved product or process during the three reference years, 2002 to 2004 and sheds light on their purchase of knowledge and technology, the importance of information sources, and their collaborative partners.
Release date: 2007-05-10
48. Innovativeness and Export Orientation Among Establishments in Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) Archived
Articles and reports: 88F0006X2007001
Description:
This study examines the factors that explain export orientation among Canadian Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) firms, particularly innovativeness, while controlling for foreign control, size of establishment, training level of workforce, use of intellectual property protection and industry type. The data are based on the 2003 Survey of Innovation.
Release date: 2007-04-03
49. Factors Driving Canada's Rural Economy Archived
Articles and reports: 21-601-M2007083
Description:
This working paper outlines the results of a new study that notes that technology, prices and demography are key forces driving the economy in the nation's rural areas.
Release date: 2007-02-13
50. Provincial Distribution of Federal Expenditures and Personnel on Science and Technology, Archived
Articles and reports: 88F0006X2006012
Description:
This document presents the geographical distribution of federal government expenditures and staff for the fiscal year 2004/2005.
Release date: 2006-12-22

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1. Land use, land tenure and management practices Archived
Thematic map: 95-634-X201700154903
Description:
This second set of thematic maps, based on the 2016 Census of Agriculture data, present the following theme: land use, land tenure and management practices. It includes maps about land use, land tenure, agricultural practices, land inputs, technologies used on the operation and renewable energy production on the operation.

Release date: 2018-01-25
2. PUMF 2012 - Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) Archived
Public use microdata: 89-555-X2013002
Description:
The public use microdata file (PUMF) from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) provides data on three skills that are essential to processing information: literacy, numeracy, and problem-solving in technology-rich environments (referred to as PS-TRE). Data are based on interviews with approximately 27,000 respondents, which allows for reliable estimation at the national, provincial and territorial level.
The file provides information about the literacy, numeracy and PS-TRE skills for the Canadian population aged 16 to 65. It provides results for Canada as a whole, as well as for all the provinces and territories. In addition, it provides skills proficiency information and a range of socio-demographic characteristics (e.g., age, gender, level of education) across the entire Canadian population. It also provides information on the literacy, numeracy and PS-TRE skills of Aboriginal populations, immigrants, and official-language minority communities.
Release date: 2013-10-18
3. Participation and Activity Limitation Survey 2006: Tables (Part II) Archived
Table: 89-628-X2008006
Description:
The Participation and Activity Limitation Survey (PALS) is Canada's national survey that gathers information about adults and children whose daily activities are limited by a physical, mental, or other health-related condition or problem. This report presents a series of tables on the use and need for assistive technology for people with disabilities as well as sources of payment and reasons for not having this technology.
Release date: 2008-06-03
4. Business Dynamics in Canada Archived
Table: 61-534-X
Description:
This publication describes the evolution of the Canadian business environment in light of economic changes in Canada from 1991 to 2001. The publication shows business and employment dynamics in Canada during this period. It provides (1) statistics that show the direct impact of these changes on business creation (firm births) and business destruction (firm deaths); (2) the relative share and distribution of businesses and employment across various categories of firms (Size - small, medium and large size firms, Industry - low-knowledge, medium-knowledge and high-knowledge industries, as well as goods and services industries and by Geography-Province); and (3) it examines survival rates of newly created businesses (lifespan of new businesses).
Release date: 2006-03-10
5. Energy in Canada Archived
Table: 16-201-X20040007444
Description: Canadians live in a vast country with an abundance of energy resources. This natural resource wealth has played an important role in our economy, enabling us to meet our own energy needs and at the same time become one of the world's leading exporters of energy.
Canadians are concerned about the supply of energy and available alternatives the impacts of energy use on the environment government action to address energy-related issues.

This article creates a statistical portrait of Canada's energy resources to examine these concerns.
Release date: 2004-10-27
6. International Trade in Environmental Goods and Services: A Canada - U.S. Comparison Archived
Table: 16F0009X
Description:
Often identified as an emerging sector, the environment industry continues to evolve into a complex industry that offers a wide range of technologies and services aimed at protecting the environment and improving environmental quality. This paper analyses Canada's trade in environmental goods and services and compares it with the trade profile of the world's largest environmental market, the United States. What is Canada's trade balance among the different segments of the environment industry? What are the market drivers for environmental goods and services? The relevance of this research is magnified by the current focus on environmental technologies and their key sub-sectors such as climate change technologies, water and wastewater systems and hazardous waste management. The government recently identified these sectors as targeted growth areas for Canada.
Release date: 2000-07-14

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141. Biotechnology Use and Development - 1999 Archived
Articles and reports: 88F0006X2001007
Description:
This paper provides estimates for firms actively involved in the development of new products and processes using biotechnologies. The survey examines the use of biotechnology and the development of biotechnologies in Canada's industrial sector for the 1999 fiscal year. The Biotechnology Use and Development Survey - 1999 was conducted as part of a project to develop biotechnology statistics and was funded under the Canadian Biotechnology Strategy. Several departments and agencies provided important inputs at various stages of the survey. They are Industry Canada, the Canadian Biotechnology Secretariat, Agriculture Canada, the National Research Council, the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Natural Resources Canada, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Health Canada, and Environment Canada.
Release date: 2001-03-30
142. Changing Our Ways: Why and How Canadians Use the Internet Archived
Journals and periodicals: 56F0006X
Geography: Canada
Description:
Using the 2000 General Social Survey data on individual Internet use, this paper explores the use of the Internet, and its social impact on Canadians. During the year 2000, an estimated 13 million, or 53% of Canadians over 15 years of age, said they used the Internet at home, work or somewhere else in the last 12 months. Most non-users say cost and access are their greatest barriers to the Internet. The majority of Canadians feel everyone should have access to the Internet, but they are divided about who should remove the barriers
Release date: 2001-03-26
143. Innovation partners of Canadian manufacturing firms Archived
Articles and reports: 88-003-X20010015584
Geography: Canada
Description:
According to the findings of the 1999 Survey of Innovation, one third of innovative manufacturing firms in Canada develop new products and processes in collaboration with partners. The three most important reasons for this collaboration are 1. accessing critical expertise, 2. accessing R&D, and 3. prototype development. Eighty-eight percent (88%) of collaborating firms have partners in Canada and two thirds have partners in the United States.
Release date: 2001-03-13
144. Learning on your own Archived
Articles and reports: 11-008-X20000045560
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article looks at informal or self-directed learning.
Release date: 2001-03-12
145. Internationally Comparable Indicators on Biotechnology: A Stocktaking, a Proposal for Work and Supporting Material Archived
Articles and reports: 88F0017M2001009
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper examines the call for an international effort to co-ordinate the measuring of biotechnology so that the ensuing statistics and indicators maintain some level of international comparability.
Release date: 2001-02-15
146. Productivity growth in the Canadian manufacturing sector: A departure from the standard framework Archived
Articles and reports: 15-204-X19990005498
Description:
This chapter measures the effect of modifying the standard productivity growth framework to remove the effects of economies of scale.
Release date: 2001-02-14
147. Benchmarking Adult Literacy in North America: An International Comparative Study Archived
Journals and periodicals: 89-572-X
Description:
The International Adult Literacy Survey was a 22-country initiative conducted between 1994 and 1998. In every country nationally representative samples of adults aged 16-65 were interviewed and tested at home, using the same literacy test. The main purpose of the survey was to find out how well adults use information to function in society. Another aim was to investigate the factors that influence literacy proficiency and to compare these between countries.
This monograph presents 10 international indicators that allow readers to compare the literacy proficiency of Americans with that of other populations. The findings confirm that low literacy is an important issue in all regions and countries surveyed.
Release date: 2001-02-08
148. 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
149. Survey sampling theory over the twentieth century and its relation to computing technology Archived
Articles and reports: 12-001-X20000015174
Description:
Computation is an integral part of statistical analysis in general and survey sampling in particular. What kinds of analyses can be carried out will depend upon what kind of computational power is available. The general development of sampling theory is traced in connection with technological developments in computation.
Release date: 2000-08-30
150. Explaining Rapid Growth in Canadian Biotechnology Firms Archived
Articles and reports: 88F0017M2000008
Geography: Canada
Description:
This report examines the factors contributing to the rapid growth of a small number of biotechnology firms in Canada.
Release date: 2000-08-28

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1. Dairy Farming Goes High Tech Archived
Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 96-328-M2004029
Description:
This activity looks at changes in technology and how they affect the dairy industry.
Release date: 2005-01-28
2. The Rise and Fall of Fall Rye Archived
Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 96-328-M2004014
Geography: Geographical region of Canada
Description:
This activity looks at declining demand for fall rye and the resultant decline in the amount grown on the Prairies. Using rye as a case study, we see how changes in agricultural practices and changes in the population affect what farmers grow.
Release date: 2004-08-30
3. Data collection methods for the 2001 Census of Agriculture Archived
Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 11-522-X20010016234
Description:
This paper discusses in detail issues dealing with the technical aspects of designing and conducting surveys. It is intended for an audience of survey methodologists.
With the goal of obtaining a complete enumeration of the Canadian agricultural sector, the 2001 Census of Agriculture has been conducted using several collection methods. Challenges to the traditional drop-off and mail-back of paper questionnaires in a household-based enumeration have led to the adoption of supplemental methods using newer technologies to maintain the coverage and content of the census. Overall, this mixed-mode data collection process responds to the critical needs of the census programme at various points. This paper examines these data collection methods, several quality assessments, and the future challenges of obtaining a co-ordinated view of the methods' individual approaches to achieving data quality.
Release date: 2002-09-12
4. Youth in Transition Survey - Project Overview Archived
Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 81-588-X
Description:
The Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) is a longitudinal survey designed to provide policy-relevant information about school-work transitions and factors influencing pathways. YITS will provide vehicle for future research and analysis of major transitions in young people's lives, particularly those between education, training and work. Information obtained from, and research based on, the survey will help clarify the nature and causes of short and long-term challenges young people face in school-work transitions and support policy planning and decision making to help prevent or remedy these problems.
Objectives of the Youth in Transition Survey were developed after an extensive consultation with stakeholders with an interest in youth and school-work transitions. Content includes measurement of major transitions in young people's lives including virtually all formal educational experiences and most labour-market experiences. Factors influencing transitions are also included family background, school experiences, achievement, aspirations and expectations, and employment experiences.
The implementation plan encompasses a longitudinal survey for each of two age cohorts, to be surveyed every two years. Data from a cohort entering at age 15 will permit analysis of long-term school-work transition patterns. Data from a cohort entering at ages18-20 will provide more immediate, policy-relevant information on young adults in the labour market.
Cycle one for the cohort aged 15 will include information collected from youth, their parents, and school principals. The sample design is a school-based frame that allows the selection of schools, and then individuals within schools. This design will permit analysis of school effects, a research domain not currently addressed by other Statistics Canada surveys. Methods of data collection include a self-completed questionnaire for youth and school principals, a telephone interview with parents, and assessment of youth competency in reading, science and mathematics as using self-completed test booklets provided under the integration of YITS with the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). A pilot survey was conducted in April 1999 and the main survey took place in April-May 2000. Interviews were conducted with 30,000 students aged 15 from 1,000 schools in Canada. A telephone interview with parents of selected students took place in June 2000.
The sample design for the cohort aged 18-20 is similar to that of the Labour-Force survey. The method of data collection is computer-assisted telephone interviewing. The pilot survey was conducted in January 1999. In January-February 2000, 23, 000 youth participated in the main survey data collection.
Data from both cohorts is expected to be available in 2001. Following release of the first international report by the OECD/PISA project and the first national report, data will be publically available, permitting detailed exploration of content themes.
Release date: 2001-04-11
5. Statistical processing in the next millennium Archived
Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 11-522-X19990015640
Description:
This paper states how SN is preparing for a new era in the making of statistics, as it is triggered by technological and methodological developments. An essential feature of the turn to the new era is the farewell to the stovepipe way of data processing. The paper discusses how new technological and methodological tools will affect processes and their organization. Special emphasis is put on one of the major chances and challenges the new tools offer: establishing coherence in the content of statistics and in the presentation to users.
Release date: 2000-03-02
6. Utilization of Document Imaging Technology by the 1996 Canadian Census of Agriculture Archived
Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 21-601-M1998034
Description:
This paper describes the experiences, the issues and the expectations of the many different players involved in the implementation of document imaging for the Canadian Census of Agriculture.
Release date: 2000-01-13
7. Electronic Publications Pilot 1996 - 1997: Final Report Archived
Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 11-534-X
Description:
This report describes the Electronic Publications Pilot (EPP) which was conducted to gather knowledge on how library staff and their clients are adjusting to the Internet. The pilot was conducted from September 1996 to September 1997 as a joint initiative of Statistics Canada and the Depository Services Program (DSP), in partnership with the depository library community. The objective of the pilot was to assess the impact of replacing print publications with electronic equivalents via the Internet in DSP libraries. This objective was based on an assumption that the electronic medium will complement print rather than replace it entirely and that departments will continue to produce some print publications in the future. The major conclusions of the pilot cover resources and training, web site feedback, selection of publications for conversion to electronic format, web site access and security, publication functionality and access and archiving.
Release date: 1999-01-28

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