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- Articles and reports: 85-561-M2008015Geography: CanadaDescription:
This paper summarizes the major trends in the series on the spatial analysis of crime conducted by the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics (CCJS) using geographic information system technology in Canadian cities. The main purpose of this analytical series was to explore the relationships between the distribution of crime and the demographic, socio economic and functional characteristics of neighbourhoods. Questions addressed include: How are police reported criminal incidents distributed across city neighbourhoods? Is the crime rate in a neighbourhood associated with factors that are specific to that neighbourhood, such as its demographic, socio-economic, housing and land use characteristics? Is the crime rate in a neighbourhood influenced by nearby neighbourhoods? These questions were explored using data from the 2001 Census of Population, the Incident-Based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (UCR2), and land use data provided by the various cities.
Release date: 2008-10-07 - 2. Assessing the bias associated with alternative contact strategies in telephone time-use surveys ArchivedArticles and reports: 12-001-X20020026429Description:
In most telephone time-use surveys, respondents are called on one day and asked to report on their activities during the previous day. Given that most respondents are not available on their initial calling day, this feature of telephone time-use surveys introduces the possibility that the probability of interviewing the respondent about a given reference day is correlated with the activities on that reference day. Furthermore, non-contact bias is a more important consideration for time-use surveys than for other surveys, because time-use surveys cannot accept proxy responses. Therefore, it is essential that telephone time-use surveys have a strategy for making subsequent attempts to contact respondents. A contact strategy specifies the contact schedule and the field period. Previous literature has identified two schedules for making subsequent attempts: a convenient-day schedule and a designated-day schedule. Most of these articles recommend the designated-day schedule, but there is little evidence to support this viewpoint. In this paper, we use computer simulations to examine the bias associated with the convenient-day schedule and three variations of the designated-day schedule. The results support using a designated-day schedule, and validate the recommendations of the previous literature. The convenient-day schedule introduces systematic bias: time spent in activities done away from home tends to be overestimated. More importantly, estimates generated using the convenient-day schedule are sensitive to the variance of the contact probability. In contrast, a designated-day-with-postponement schedule generates very little bias, and is robust to a wide range of assumptions about the pattern of activities across days of the week.
Release date: 2003-01-29 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20010016250Description:
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.
This paper describes the Korea National Statistics Office's (KNSO) experiences in data quality assessment and introduces the strategies of institutionalizing the assessment procedure. This paper starts by briefly describing the definition of quality assessment, quality dimensions and indicators at the national level. It introduces the current situation of the quality assessment process in KNSO and lists the six dimensions of quality that have been identified: relevance, accuracy, timeliness, accessibility, comparability and efficiency. Based on the lessons learned from these experiences, this paper points out three essential elements required in an advanced system of data quality assessment: an objective and independent planning system, a set of appropriate indicators and competent personnel specialized in data quality assessment.
Release date: 2002-09-12 - 4. Adult criminal court statistics, 2000-2001 ArchivedArticles and reports: 85-002-X20020028400Geography: CanadaDescription:
This series of reports provides detailed statistics and analysis on a variety of topics and issues concerning Canada's justice system. The annual Juristat, Adult criminal court statistics, 2000/01, summarizes trends from provincial/territorial adult criminal courts across Canada, which provided data to the Adult Criminal Court Survey (ACCS) for the 2000/01 fiscal year. In this Juristat, information is presented on the characteristics of cases and accused persons, the number of appearances, conviction rates, sentencing trends and related issues. As well, statistics are presented for a five-year period (1996/97 through 2000/01).
Release date: 2002-03-14 - Journals and periodicals: 89-574-XGeography: CanadaDescription:
The International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) was a 22-country study conducted between 1994 and 1998. In every country nationally representative samples of adults aged 16-65 were interviewed and assessed at home. The goals of the survey were to create comparable literacy profiles across national, linguistic and cultural boundaries and to study the factors that influence literacy proficiency. One factor in particular was singled out for attention, namely the role of adult education and training in improving literacy skills and wider labor market outcomes. The monograph series includes studies by literacy scholars and experts drawing on the IALS database. This particular monograph was funded by the United States Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, Division of Adult Education and Literacy. Other studies in the series were funded primarily by Human Resources Development Canada and Statistics Canada.
Today the capacity of labor 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 is therefore an issue of considerable strategic importance.
This monograph presents 15 international indicators that allow readers to compare the volume of adult education participation in North America with that of other advanced industrialized nations. The data offer a comparative snapshot of the total adult education effort as well as the social distribution of adult education opportunities in the mid to late 1990s. The findings generally suggest that both Canada and the United States have mature adult education and training markets. However, the findings also indicate that there are major differences among countries in who gets trained, and how much. On most measures North America finds itself in an average position, ahead of emerging economies but behind the Nordic countries.
Release date: 2001-09-07 - 6. Trends in adult learning ArchivedArticles and reports: 81-586-X19980015874Description:
The purpose of this chapter is to present, for the first time, an overview of major trends in Canadian adult education and training. Data from a series of national adult education and training surveys have been brought together for analytical purposes for the first time.
Release date: 2001-05-10 - 7. Overview of main findings and discussion ArchivedArticles and reports: 81-586-X19980015875Description:
An analysis of the demand and supply of adult education and training in Canada was presented in Chapter 1, using data derived from the 1998 Adult Education and Training Survey (AETS). Chapter 2 examined major trends in adult education and training incidence and volume, drawing on national survey data collected over 15 years. This concluding chapter is an overview and discussion of the main findings. It also indicated some potential direction for future research.
Release date: 2001-05-10 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 11-522-X19990015692Description:
Electricity rates that vary by time-of-day have the potential to significantly increase economic efficiency in the energy market. A number of utilities have undertaken economic studies of time-of-use rates schemes for their residential customers. This paper uses meta-analysis to examine the impact of time-of-use rates on electricity demand pooling the results of thirty-eight separate programs. There are four key findings. First, very large peak to off-peak price ratios are needed to significantly affect peak demand. Second, summer peak rates are relatively effective compared to winter peak rates. Third, permanent time-or-use rates are relatively effective compared to experimental ones. Fourth, demand charges rival ordinary time-of-use rates in terms of impact.
Release date: 2000-03-02 - 9. Managing data quality in a statistical agency ArchivedArticles and reports: 12-001-X19990024877Description:
In 1999 Statistics Sweden outlined a proposal for improved quality within the European Statistical System (ESS). The ESS comprises Eurostat and National Statistical Institutes (NSIs) associated with Eurostat. ... Basically Statistics Sweden proposed the creation of a LEG [Leadership Expert Group] on Quality].
Release date: 2000-03-01 - 10. Civil Justice Project: The Use of Time Limits and Formal Notification in Civil Case Management ArchivedJournals and periodicals: 85-547-XGeography: Province or territoryDescription:
This document is an examination of the present use of two case management tools in the Canadian civil courts: time limits and formal notification requirements. Time limits refer to the established time periods outlined for the conclusion of critical steps in the litigation process. These address individual case movement in the court system. Formal notification requirements relate to an obligation by the parties to notify the court when an action has terminated. These requirements serve to inform overall case disposition irrespective of any target disposition dates that may be in effect.
The current study examines the situation in Canadian provinces and territories with respect to the existence and observance of time limits and formal notification requirements. This examination is timely because a number of jurisdictions are presently engaged in building or modifying automated case management systems. As well, many jurisdictions are re-examining case management in an attempt to increase the speed of case processing and lessen backlog in the courts.
Release date: 1999-08-20
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- 1. Building Permits, Annual Summary ArchivedTable: 64-203-XDescription:
This annual publication includes detailed analysis and charts depicting construction activity over the last decade. The tables are comparable to those in the monthly publication 64-001-XPB Building permits. In addition, the annual publication includes revised monthly data, on a seasonally adjusted basis, for the previous three years.
Release date: 1998-03-30
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- Articles and reports: 85-561-M2008015Geography: CanadaDescription:
This paper summarizes the major trends in the series on the spatial analysis of crime conducted by the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics (CCJS) using geographic information system technology in Canadian cities. The main purpose of this analytical series was to explore the relationships between the distribution of crime and the demographic, socio economic and functional characteristics of neighbourhoods. Questions addressed include: How are police reported criminal incidents distributed across city neighbourhoods? Is the crime rate in a neighbourhood associated with factors that are specific to that neighbourhood, such as its demographic, socio-economic, housing and land use characteristics? Is the crime rate in a neighbourhood influenced by nearby neighbourhoods? These questions were explored using data from the 2001 Census of Population, the Incident-Based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (UCR2), and land use data provided by the various cities.
Release date: 2008-10-07 - 2. Assessing the bias associated with alternative contact strategies in telephone time-use surveys ArchivedArticles and reports: 12-001-X20020026429Description:
In most telephone time-use surveys, respondents are called on one day and asked to report on their activities during the previous day. Given that most respondents are not available on their initial calling day, this feature of telephone time-use surveys introduces the possibility that the probability of interviewing the respondent about a given reference day is correlated with the activities on that reference day. Furthermore, non-contact bias is a more important consideration for time-use surveys than for other surveys, because time-use surveys cannot accept proxy responses. Therefore, it is essential that telephone time-use surveys have a strategy for making subsequent attempts to contact respondents. A contact strategy specifies the contact schedule and the field period. Previous literature has identified two schedules for making subsequent attempts: a convenient-day schedule and a designated-day schedule. Most of these articles recommend the designated-day schedule, but there is little evidence to support this viewpoint. In this paper, we use computer simulations to examine the bias associated with the convenient-day schedule and three variations of the designated-day schedule. The results support using a designated-day schedule, and validate the recommendations of the previous literature. The convenient-day schedule introduces systematic bias: time spent in activities done away from home tends to be overestimated. More importantly, estimates generated using the convenient-day schedule are sensitive to the variance of the contact probability. In contrast, a designated-day-with-postponement schedule generates very little bias, and is robust to a wide range of assumptions about the pattern of activities across days of the week.
Release date: 2003-01-29 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20010016250Description:
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.
This paper describes the Korea National Statistics Office's (KNSO) experiences in data quality assessment and introduces the strategies of institutionalizing the assessment procedure. This paper starts by briefly describing the definition of quality assessment, quality dimensions and indicators at the national level. It introduces the current situation of the quality assessment process in KNSO and lists the six dimensions of quality that have been identified: relevance, accuracy, timeliness, accessibility, comparability and efficiency. Based on the lessons learned from these experiences, this paper points out three essential elements required in an advanced system of data quality assessment: an objective and independent planning system, a set of appropriate indicators and competent personnel specialized in data quality assessment.
Release date: 2002-09-12 - 4. Adult criminal court statistics, 2000-2001 ArchivedArticles and reports: 85-002-X20020028400Geography: CanadaDescription:
This series of reports provides detailed statistics and analysis on a variety of topics and issues concerning Canada's justice system. The annual Juristat, Adult criminal court statistics, 2000/01, summarizes trends from provincial/territorial adult criminal courts across Canada, which provided data to the Adult Criminal Court Survey (ACCS) for the 2000/01 fiscal year. In this Juristat, information is presented on the characteristics of cases and accused persons, the number of appearances, conviction rates, sentencing trends and related issues. As well, statistics are presented for a five-year period (1996/97 through 2000/01).
Release date: 2002-03-14 - Journals and periodicals: 89-574-XGeography: CanadaDescription:
The International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) was a 22-country study conducted between 1994 and 1998. In every country nationally representative samples of adults aged 16-65 were interviewed and assessed at home. The goals of the survey were to create comparable literacy profiles across national, linguistic and cultural boundaries and to study the factors that influence literacy proficiency. One factor in particular was singled out for attention, namely the role of adult education and training in improving literacy skills and wider labor market outcomes. The monograph series includes studies by literacy scholars and experts drawing on the IALS database. This particular monograph was funded by the United States Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, Division of Adult Education and Literacy. Other studies in the series were funded primarily by Human Resources Development Canada and Statistics Canada.
Today the capacity of labor 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 is therefore an issue of considerable strategic importance.
This monograph presents 15 international indicators that allow readers to compare the volume of adult education participation in North America with that of other advanced industrialized nations. The data offer a comparative snapshot of the total adult education effort as well as the social distribution of adult education opportunities in the mid to late 1990s. The findings generally suggest that both Canada and the United States have mature adult education and training markets. However, the findings also indicate that there are major differences among countries in who gets trained, and how much. On most measures North America finds itself in an average position, ahead of emerging economies but behind the Nordic countries.
Release date: 2001-09-07 - 6. Trends in adult learning ArchivedArticles and reports: 81-586-X19980015874Description:
The purpose of this chapter is to present, for the first time, an overview of major trends in Canadian adult education and training. Data from a series of national adult education and training surveys have been brought together for analytical purposes for the first time.
Release date: 2001-05-10 - 7. Overview of main findings and discussion ArchivedArticles and reports: 81-586-X19980015875Description:
An analysis of the demand and supply of adult education and training in Canada was presented in Chapter 1, using data derived from the 1998 Adult Education and Training Survey (AETS). Chapter 2 examined major trends in adult education and training incidence and volume, drawing on national survey data collected over 15 years. This concluding chapter is an overview and discussion of the main findings. It also indicated some potential direction for future research.
Release date: 2001-05-10 - 8. Managing data quality in a statistical agency ArchivedArticles and reports: 12-001-X19990024877Description:
In 1999 Statistics Sweden outlined a proposal for improved quality within the European Statistical System (ESS). The ESS comprises Eurostat and National Statistical Institutes (NSIs) associated with Eurostat. ... Basically Statistics Sweden proposed the creation of a LEG [Leadership Expert Group] on Quality].
Release date: 2000-03-01 - 9. Civil Justice Project: The Use of Time Limits and Formal Notification in Civil Case Management ArchivedJournals and periodicals: 85-547-XGeography: Province or territoryDescription:
This document is an examination of the present use of two case management tools in the Canadian civil courts: time limits and formal notification requirements. Time limits refer to the established time periods outlined for the conclusion of critical steps in the litigation process. These address individual case movement in the court system. Formal notification requirements relate to an obligation by the parties to notify the court when an action has terminated. These requirements serve to inform overall case disposition irrespective of any target disposition dates that may be in effect.
The current study examines the situation in Canadian provinces and territories with respect to the existence and observance of time limits and formal notification requirements. This examination is timely because a number of jurisdictions are presently engaged in building or modifying automated case management systems. As well, many jurisdictions are re-examining case management in an attempt to increase the speed of case processing and lessen backlog in the courts.
Release date: 1999-08-20 - 10. Staying put: Job tenure among paid workers ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X199200436Geography: CanadaDescription:
The author analyzes changes in the average tenure of paid workers between 1977 and 1991, and examines overall trends in various job categories, by sex and industry.
Release date: 1992-12-01
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- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 11-522-X19990015692Description:
Electricity rates that vary by time-of-day have the potential to significantly increase economic efficiency in the energy market. A number of utilities have undertaken economic studies of time-of-use rates schemes for their residential customers. This paper uses meta-analysis to examine the impact of time-of-use rates on electricity demand pooling the results of thirty-eight separate programs. There are four key findings. First, very large peak to off-peak price ratios are needed to significantly affect peak demand. Second, summer peak rates are relatively effective compared to winter peak rates. Third, permanent time-or-use rates are relatively effective compared to experimental ones. Fourth, demand charges rival ordinary time-of-use rates in terms of impact.
Release date: 2000-03-02
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