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51. Canadian Biotechnology Industrial Activities: Features from the 1997 Biotechnology Survey Archived
Articles and reports: 88F0006X2001012
Description:
As of 1997, Canadian biotech industry was made of 282 core firms. Of these, 214 were small firms with less than 50 employees, 37 were medium firms with 51 to 150 employees, and 31 were large firms with over 150 employees. They earned $813 million from biotech products sales, $311 million of which were from exports. They employed 9,000 people in biotech related activities and had 8,924 products at all stages of development. Private placements, venture capital and labour sponsored funds were these firms main sources of financing capital. Access to capital was the most serious obstacle faced by the biotech firms in 1997. Marketing and distribution were their major reasons for entertaining strategic alliances, while universities were their most preferred R&D partners.
Release date: 2001-09-25
52. Employer and Employee Perspectives on Human Resource Practices Archived
Articles and reports: 71-584-M2001001
Geography: Canada
Description:
This report examines the results of the 1999 round of the Workplace and Employee Survey on the role that human resource practices play in facilitating workplace change. It focusses on practices such as workplace training, variable pay and employee involvement (job rotation, cross-training and teamwork), their association with change and whom they impact.
Release date: 2001-09-06
53. Practices and Activities of Canadian Biotechnology Firms: Results from the Biotechnology Use and Development Survey - 1999 Archived
Articles and reports: 88F0006X2001011
Description:
This paper provides a summary of the strategies and business practices of biotechnology firms, and information on the business environment faced by these firms. These issues, considered in conjunction with information on revenue, research and development, import and export, product pipeline and human resources characteristics of biotechnology firms, contribute to a more comprehensive portrait of the biotechnology sector in Canada.
Release date: 2001-08-28
54. Innovation in Canadian Manufacturing: National Estimates Archived
Articles and reports: 88F0006X2001010
Description:
The Survey of Innovation 1999 was conducted in the fall of 1999. It surveyed manufacturing and was the first innovation survey of selected natural resource industries. This is the first in a series of working papers that will examine the results from the Survey of Innovation 1999. This first paper examines innovative manufacturing firms. It includes descriptive statistics and statistical tables for selected questions from the survey. Subsequent papers will include an examination of innovation in manufacturing at the provincial level, and innovation in selected natural resource industries at the national level and at the provincial level.
Release date: 2001-06-27
55. Innovation, Advanced Technologies and Practices in the Construction and Related Industries: National Estimates Archived
Articles and reports: 88F0006X2001004
Description:
The Survey of Innovation, Advanced Technologies and Practices in the Construction and Related Industries was conducted by Statistics Canada during the spring and summer of 1999. This working paper presents descriptive statistics on business environment, success factors, use and planned use of advanced technologies, use and planned use of advanced practices, source of information, obstacles and impact.
Release date: 2001-06-08
56. Biotechnology scientific activities in selected federal government departments and agencies, 1999-2000 Archived
Articles and reports: 88-001-X20010037919
Description:
Data on science and technology (S&T) expenditures and person-years allocated to biotechnology for the year 1999-2000 were collected from selected federal departments and agencies. The criterion for selection was significant activity in this field. Survey results contribute to the work of the Canadian Biotechnology Strategy.
Release date: 2001-05-18
57. Setting the report in context Archived
Articles and reports: 81-586-X19980015872
Description:
The purpose of this report is to describe the extent to which Canadians engage in various formal and organised adult education and training activites, and how participation differs both over time and across provinces.
Release date: 2001-05-10
58. A Report on Adult Education and Training in Canada: Learning a Living Archived
Journals and periodicals: 81-586-X
Description:
In today's emerging knowledge societies, the capacity of labour markets, firms and individuals to adjust to change, improve productivity and capitalize on technological innovation depends in large measure on the skills of the adult population. Improving the stock of skills available to the economy through investment in adult education and workplace learning has therefore become an issue of considerable strategic importance. But how are the Canadian markets for adult education and training evolving?
This report presents, for the first time, evidence on the development of adult education and training in Canada during the last decade. Examined are not only broad trends in the demand and supply of adult education, but also the factors contributing to observed developments. Survey data collected in 1998 allow readers to gauge the current situation and make comparisons over time and across Canadian provinces. The findings indicate, first, that growth in adult education participation has slowed in recent years, and second, that there are major differences between the provinces in who gets trained, and how much.
Release date: 2001-05-10
59. Training as a Human Resource Strategy: The Response to Staff Shortages and Technological Change Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2001154
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper examines the ways that innovation status as opposed to technology use affects the training activities of manufacturing plants. It examines training that is introduced as a response to specific skill shortages versus training that is implemented in response to the introduction of advanced equipment.
Advanced technology users are more likely to have workers in highly skilled occupations, to face greater shortages for these workers, and they are more likely to train workers in response to these shortages than are plants that do not use advanced technologies.
The introduction of new techniques is also accompanied by differences in the incidence of training, with advanced technology users being more likely to introduce training programs than non-users. Here, innovation status within the group of technology users also affects the training decision. In particular, innovating and non-innovating technology users diverge with regards to the extent and nature of training that is undertaken in response to the introduction of new advanced equipment. Innovators are more likely to provide training for this purpose and to prefer on-the-job training to other forms. Non-innovators are less likely to offer training under these circumstances and when they do, it is more likely to be done in a classroom, either off-site or at the firm.
These findings emphasize that training occurs for more than one reason. Shortages related to insufficient supply provide one rational. But it is not here that innovative firms stand out. Rather they appear to respond differentially to the introduction of new equipment by extensively implementing training that is highly firm-specific. This suggests that innovation requires new skills that are not so much occupation specific (though that is no doubt present) but general cognitive skills that come from operating in an innovative environment that involves improving the problem-solving capabilities of many in the workforce. These problem-solving capabilities occur in a learning-by-doing setting with hands on experience.
Release date: 2001-04-04
60. 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

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1. Education Indicators in Canada: Report of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program
Table: 81-582-X
Description: The Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP) draws from a wide variety of data sources to provide information on the school-age population, elementary, secondary and postsecondary education, transitions, and labour market outcomes.

PCEIP products include tables, fact sheets, reports and a methodological handbook. They present indicators for all of Canada, the provinces, the territories, as well as selected international comparisons and comparisons over time.

The Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP) is an ongoing initiative of the Canadian Education Statistics Council, a partnership between Statistics Canada and the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada that provides a set of statistical measures on education systems in Canada.
Release date: 2024-03-28
2. Annual Non-Profit Institutions Human Resource Module: Interactive tool
Data Visualization: 71-607-X2022010
Description: The annual human resources module on non-profit institutions provides a breakdown of key statistics by characteristic category, or by demographic, with data on the number of jobs and average annual wages and salaries of non-profit employees. This interactive tool facilitates easy access to the numerous data sets in the human resources module. The tool highlights the latest results with a time-series overview of non-profit institutions by demographic and sector for earnings, type of employment and the number of jobs.
Release date: 2023-09-18
3. Employment Characteristics for Selected Energy Industries
Table: 25-26-0003
Description: The energy sector is an important part of the Canadian economic landscape. The following table provides the most recent data available from the Natural Resource Satellite Account-Human Resource Module (HRM). The Natural Resources Satellite Account (NRSA) provides some information on the number of jobs generated by the sector at the national level. The HRM complements and enhances the analytical capacity provided by allowing for a broader insight into the role of natural resources in the economy by providing more detailed human resource information.
Release date: 2021-09-07
4. Workplace and Employee Survey Compendium Archived
Table: 71-585-X
Description:
This compendium provides data from the new Workplace and Employee Survey (WES) conducted by Statistics Canada with the support of Human Resources Development Canada. The survey consists of two components: (1) a workplace survey on the adoption of technologies, organizational change, training and other human resource practices, business strategies, and labour turnover in workplaces; and (2) a survey of employees within these same workplaces covering wages, hours of work, job type, human capital, use of technologies and training. The result is a rich new source of linked information on workplaces and their employees.

Release date: 2008-09-24
5. The Canadian passenger bus and urban transit industries, 2001 Archived
Table: 50-002-X20040026892
Description:
To provide data users with a more complete picture of passengers bus and urban transit activities.
Release date: 2004-04-30
6. Survey of Innovation 1999, Statistical Tables, Manufacturing Industries, Canada Archived
Table: 88F0006X2002016
Description:
The Survey of Innovation 1999 was conducted in the fall of 1999. It surveyed the manufacturing field and was the first innovation survey of selected natural resource industries.
This is part of a series of working papers based on the Survey of Innovation 1999. Previous working papers include an examination of national estimates of innovation in manufacturing and statistical tables of provincial estimates of innovation in manufacturing.
This document includes a description of survey methodology, as well as statistical tables for manufacturing industries at the national level for all non write-in questions from the Survey of Innovation 1999 questionnaire.
Tables present survey results on the following subjects: competitive environment; firm success factors; percentage of innovative firms; unsuccessful or not yet completed innovation projects; activities linked to innovation; sources of information; objectives; problems and obstacles; impact; cooperative and collaborative arrangements; most important innovation; building and construction products; natural resource products; research and development; intellectual property; human resources; andgovernment support programs.
Release date: 2003-01-13
7. Compensation Sector Survey Archived
Public use microdata: 75M0011X
Description:
This microdata file provides data from the Compensation Sector Survey. The purpose of the survey is to obtain a profile of members of the compensation community in the Human Resources community of the federal public service. The results will allow the Human Resources Community Secretariat to renew recruiting, training and development programs for this community in such a manner that these programs would take into account current data.
Release date: 2002-03-11
8. The effects of debt reduction on intergenerational equity and growth Archived
Table: 68-513-X19970013568
Description:
Many governments have adopted policies aimed at reducing public debt. Although the long-run fiscal dividends of such policies largely depend on the size of the debt-to-GDP cut, the short and medium run effects are more dependent on the type and speed of measures taken.
Release date: 1998-02-04

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21. Personal contacts, hiring and job outcomes (II-D) Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0024M20040007451
Description:
Our social contacts and networks influence many aspects of our lives. Both workers and employers use "social networks" in various ways. Information from personal and professional contacts may lead to a better "match" between a worker and a job than do hirings through purely formal means without access to information from personal contacts. This improved match may also lead to better job outcomes. Social networks could also been seen to be limiting or exclusive of some workers. This presentation discusses findings from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics on the use of personal and professional networks in obtaining work. Who uses social networks to find work? What types of work are obtained? Is there a relationship between the use of personal or professional contacts and job outcomes? These are questions of interest for workers, employers and professionals in human resources and employment services.
Release date: 2004-11-25
22. The Effect of Organizational Innovation and Information Technology on Firm Performance Archived
Articles and reports: 11-622-M2004007
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper examines the issue of whether investment in information and communication technologies, combined with organizational changes and worker skills, contribute to better performance in Canadian firms.
Release date: 2004-11-12
23. Trends in Canadian Biotechnology Activity: 1997 to 2001 Archived
Articles and reports: 88F0006X2004017
Description:
Using data from the 1997 Biotechnology Firm Survey and the 1999 and 2001 cycles of the Biotechnology Use and Development Survey, this article portrays the evolution of key indicators of Canadian biotechnology companies from 1997 to 2001.
Release date: 2004-10-22
24. Importance of research and development in the business services sector Archived
Articles and reports: 88-003-X20040026931
Geography: Canada
Description:
Research and development (R&D) has assumed an increasingly important place in Canada's services sector, where the business services are the ones performing the majority of the R&D. This paper highlights the importance of the effort dedicated to R&D in this sector.
Release date: 2004-06-30
25. Empowering Employees: A Route to Innovation Archived
Articles and reports: 71-584-M2003008
Geography: Canada
Description:
This study investigates the relation between human resource management (HRM) practices, such as using financial (compensation pay) as well as non-financial benefits (employee involvement practices and training) to provide a more stimulating environment for its workers, and the novelty of innovation by Canadian establishments.
Release date: 2003-09-04
26. Innovative Work Practices and Labour Turnover in Canada Archived
Articles and reports: 71-584-M2003007
Geography: Canada
Description:
This study examines whether innovative work practices (such as teamwork, job rotation and profit-sharing) reduce employee turnover in both the manufacturing and services sectors.
Release date: 2003-08-27
27. Features of Canadian Biotech Innovative Firms: Results from the Biotechnology Use and Development Survey - 2001 Archived
Articles and reports: 88F0006X2003005
Description:
The main indicators of biotechnology activities in Canada are presented in this article. The data are from the 2001 Biotechnology Use and Development Survey. Within the last few years, except for the amount of financing capital raised, an increase in all the indicators was noticed. For example, the number of innovative firms involved in biotechnology activities rose from 358 in 1999 to 375 in 2001. The Human Health sector outpaces all the other sectors in terms of the number of firms, human resources, biotechnology revenues, biotechnology research and development expenditures, amount of financing capital raised, and the number of products in the pipeline. Contrary to medium-sized and large firms where the personnel is more homogenous, small firms employ mostly highly-qualified workers. The 2001 data show a maturing trend in small firms. Most firms could not hire enough people to fill all their vacancies (estimated at 953 positions in Canada) for the 2001 year.
Release date: 2003-03-28
28. Alternative Work Practices and Quit Rates: Methodological Issues and Empirical Evidence for Canada Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2003199
Geography: Canada
Description:
Using a nationally representative sample of establishments, we have examined whether selected alternative work practices (AWPs) tend to reduce quit rates. Overall, our analysis provides strong evidence of a negative association between these AWPs and quit rates among establishments of more than 10 employees operating in high-skill services. We also found some evidence of a negative association in low-skill services. However, the magnitude of this negative association was reduced substantially when we added an indicator of whether the workplace has a formal policy of information sharing. There was very little evidence of a negative association in manufacturing. While establishments with self-directed workgroups have lower quit rates than others, none of the bundles of work practices considered yielded a negative and statistically significant effect. We surmise that key AWPs might be more successful in reducing labour turnover in technologically complex environments than in low-skill ones.
Release date: 2003-03-17
29. Characteristics and evolution of human resources in Canadian biotechnology firms Archived
Articles and reports: 88-003-X20030016475
Geography: Canada
Description:
Data from the 2001 Biotechnology Use and Development Survey show that human resources in biotechnology increased substantially between 1999 and 2001. In this article, we attempt to answer two questions: What are the characteristics of the human resources engaged in the biotechnology field in Canada? Moreover, what are the main factors that contributed to the growth of these human resources in 2001?
Release date: 2003-02-18
30. Biotechnology scientific activities in selected federal government departments and agencies, 2001-2002 Archived
Articles and reports: 88-001-X20030017885
Description:
Data on science and technology (S&T) expenditures and person-years allocated to biotechnology for the year 2001-2002 were collected from selected federal departments and agencies. The criterion for selection was significant activity in this field. Survey results contribute to the work of the Canadian Biotechnology Strategy.
Release date: 2003-02-07

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1. Multi-year Analytical Plan: 2008/2009 to 2010/2011 Archived
Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 82-622-X2008003
Description:
Since 2007/2008, Statistics Canada has centred analysis of data holdings related to health as well as our program of dissemination of health research within the new Health Information and Research Division (HIRD).
The new division has launched a comprehensive approach to analytical planning including environmental scanning and consultation; establishment of strategic multi-year priorities for health research at Statistics Canada; a process of project selection and review that ensures that analytical effort addresses our priorities; metrics to measure our adherence to priorities and the impact of our analytical effort; and communication and dissemination of analytical plans.
This multi-year analytical plan identifies the key high-level priority areas for Statistics Canada's investment in health research for 2008/2009 to 2010/2011, and serves as a blueprint for subsequent operational research planning.
Release date: 2009-01-30
2. Guide to Statistics Canada Information and Data Sources on Adult Education and Training Archived
Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 81-580-X
Description:
The adult education and training sector is as complex as it is dynamic. In order to describe all its facets, Statistics Canada surveys many different populations. Given the number of data sources and their conceptual and methodological differences, it is sometimes very difficult for researchers and decision makers to obtain required information or data. This guide is a tool that has been developed to assist them. It provides a summary description of all Statistics Canada surveys related to adult education and training. From a selected variable, it allows the identification of surveys that can provide information. It also indicates relevant publications and how to obtain additional information.
Release date: 1997-03-12

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