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- Articles and reports: 11-633-X2020004Description:
Recent advances in artificial intelligence have rekindled ancient fears that robots will replace humans in the economy. Previous waves of automation changed but did not reduce labour’s role, but robots’ human-like flexibility could make this time different. Whether or not it will is an empirical question that has lacked suitable data to answer. This paper describes the creation of a dataset to fill the evidence gap in Canada. Robots! is firm-level panel data on robot adoption created using Canadian import data. The data identify a substantial amount of the robot investment in the Canadian economy from 1996 to 2017. Although many robots are imported by robotics wholesalers or programmers for resale, the majority of them can be attributed to their final (direct) adopting firm. The data can be used to study the impact of robot adoption at the economic region, industry or firm-level.
Release date: 2020-11-02 - Articles and reports: 12-001-X19970023614Description:
In 1993, Statistics Canada implemented Computer-assisted Interviewing (CAI) for conducting interviews for some household surveys that were conducted in a decentralised environment. The technology has been successfully used for a number of years, and most household surveys have now been converted to this collection mode. This paper is a summary of the experience and the lessons that have been learned since the research started. It described some of the tests that led to the implementation of the technology, and some of the new opportunities that have arisen with its implementation. It also discusses some challenges that were faced when CAI was implemented (some are on-going issues), and ends with a brief overview of where this may lead us in the future.
Release date: 1998-03-12 - Articles and reports: 61-532-X19970013496Description:
Society is changing, its information needs are multiplying, and as a result, the National Systems of Information take advantage of the technology available and adjust their mechanisms and ways of generating statistical and geographical data so as to provide new products and services to effectively to meet these new requirements.
Release date: 1998-02-02 - Articles and reports: 11F0019M1995067Geography: CanadaDescription:
The role of technical innovation in economic growth is both a current matter of keen public policy interest, and active exploration in economic theory. However, formal economic theorizing is often constrained by considerations of mathematical tractability. Evolutionary economic theories which are realized as computerized microsimulation models offer significant promise both for transcending mathematical constraints and addressing fundamental questions in a more realistic and flexible manner. This paper sketches XEcon, a microsimulation model of economic growth in the evolutionary tradition.
Release date: 1995-06-30
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- Articles and reports: 11-633-X2020004Description:
Recent advances in artificial intelligence have rekindled ancient fears that robots will replace humans in the economy. Previous waves of automation changed but did not reduce labour’s role, but robots’ human-like flexibility could make this time different. Whether or not it will is an empirical question that has lacked suitable data to answer. This paper describes the creation of a dataset to fill the evidence gap in Canada. Robots! is firm-level panel data on robot adoption created using Canadian import data. The data identify a substantial amount of the robot investment in the Canadian economy from 1996 to 2017. Although many robots are imported by robotics wholesalers or programmers for resale, the majority of them can be attributed to their final (direct) adopting firm. The data can be used to study the impact of robot adoption at the economic region, industry or firm-level.
Release date: 2020-11-02 - Articles and reports: 12-001-X19970023614Description:
In 1993, Statistics Canada implemented Computer-assisted Interviewing (CAI) for conducting interviews for some household surveys that were conducted in a decentralised environment. The technology has been successfully used for a number of years, and most household surveys have now been converted to this collection mode. This paper is a summary of the experience and the lessons that have been learned since the research started. It described some of the tests that led to the implementation of the technology, and some of the new opportunities that have arisen with its implementation. It also discusses some challenges that were faced when CAI was implemented (some are on-going issues), and ends with a brief overview of where this may lead us in the future.
Release date: 1998-03-12 - Articles and reports: 61-532-X19970013496Description:
Society is changing, its information needs are multiplying, and as a result, the National Systems of Information take advantage of the technology available and adjust their mechanisms and ways of generating statistical and geographical data so as to provide new products and services to effectively to meet these new requirements.
Release date: 1998-02-02 - Articles and reports: 11F0019M1995067Geography: CanadaDescription:
The role of technical innovation in economic growth is both a current matter of keen public policy interest, and active exploration in economic theory. However, formal economic theorizing is often constrained by considerations of mathematical tractability. Evolutionary economic theories which are realized as computerized microsimulation models offer significant promise both for transcending mathematical constraints and addressing fundamental questions in a more realistic and flexible manner. This paper sketches XEcon, a microsimulation model of economic growth in the evolutionary tradition.
Release date: 1995-06-30
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