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1. Research and development (r&d ) expenditures of private non-profit (pnp) organizations, 1995 Archived
Stats in brief: 88-001-X19960137978
Description:
This release provides data on the research and development activities of the private non-profit sector. Although the contribution of this sector to the national R&D effort is small in dollar terms, its impact, particularly in the university sector, is significant.
Release date: 1996-12-23
2. The Population in Collective Dwellings: Canada, 1971-1991 Archived
Articles and reports: 91F0015M1996002
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper attempts to rescue a small but nonetheless important segment of the Canadian population from neglect, those classified by the census as long-term residents in collective dwellings. In 1991, 440,000 Canadians belonged to this population, living in nursing homes, correctional institutions, rooming houses and the like. The changing age-sex structure of the Canadian population caused their number to increase between 1971 and 1991, despite the fact that Canadian men and women were less likely at most ages to live in collective dwellings in the latter year.
Non-census data on several segments of this population are reviewed, especially for people in health-related institutions and in correctional facilities, and reveal that long-term residents are in each case a small fraction of a much larger population with a relatively brief contact with the institution on average. This review concludes that non-census data can provide a useful context for the study of the population in collective dwellings, but that the census is at present the only data source providing a comprehensive overview, despite the limited data collected and the even more limited data published.
Special tabulations from the 1971, 1981 and 1991 censuses are used to explore its changing size and age-sex structure with particular attention to three of its components, people in health-related institutions, in service collective dwellings and in religious institutions. A significant difference between people in collective dwellings and those in private dwellings is that the former have, whether willingly or unwillingly, left the family circle. Hence, marital status is a key variable, and is used to show the close relationship between the changing marital status of the population, in particular the declining numbers of the never married and the growing numbers of separated, widowed or divorced older women, and structural changes.
Release date: 1996-12-20
3. National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth - Microdata User's Guide Archived
Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 89M0015G
Description:
The National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) is a long-term research program (started in 1994) that will track a large sample of children over many years, enabling researchers to monitor children's well-being and development.
Not all the information collected for the first cycle of the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth are included in this first microdata file. The second release will be in 1997.
Release date: 1996-12-18
4. Criminal harassment, 1995 Archived
Articles and reports: 85-002-X19960128165
Geography: Canada
Description:
The intent of this Juristat is to present police and court data on criminal harassment that are currently available from Statistics Canada's Revised Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey and Adult Criminal Court Survey (ACCS). As the legislation is relatively new, this report is a first attempt at producing a detailed analysis of criminal harassment data. The statistics in this report provide only a partial picture of criminal harassment in Canada and are not nationally representative. As such, the analysis will focus on the nature of incidents rather than the extent. Please refer to the Methodology section for more details on the data sources.
Release date: 1996-12-17
5. Biotechnology research and development (R&D) in Canadian industry 1989 and 1993 Archived
Articles and reports: 88-001-X19960127977
Description:
The analysis presented in this report is a joint project of the Chemicals and Bio-Industries Branch of Industry Canada and the Science and Technology Redesign Project of Statistics Canada.
Release date: 1996-12-03
6. Another measure of employment Archived
Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75-001-X19960042907
Geography: Canada
Description:
The employment/population ratio is a good barometer of the state of the economy and an important though little-used labour market indicator. This article takes a look at the ratio's strengths and limitations, as well as its variation since 1946. Provincial and international comparisons are included.
Release date: 1996-12-03
7. RRSP withdrawals revisited [Perspectives on Labour and Income] Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X19960042921
Geography: Canada
Description:
Despite improved economic conditions in recent years, Canadians have continued to cash in their RRSPs. This article looks at RRSP withdrawals during the 1990s, including those made through the Home Buyers' Plan. Who made these withdrawals, and for what reasons, and how will such behaviour affect immediate tax obligations and future retirement savings?
Release date: 1996-12-03
8. RRSP rollovers Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X19960042922
Geography: Canada
Description:
From 1990 to 1994, rolloves of retiring allowances and pension benefits represented about 20% of all RRSP deposits. This article shows how great these rollover contributions were, who benefited and who will be most affected by recent legislative changes.
Release date: 1996-12-03
9. The diversity of managers Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X19960042923
Geography: Canada
Description:
Do all managers command high salaries and work long hours? According to Statistics Canada's Standard Occupational Classifications of 1980 and 1991, which this article describes, wide variations exist within "managerial" occupations.
Release date: 1996-12-03
10. Changes in job tenure Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X19960042924
Geography: Canada
Description:
While average job tenure has changed little since 1981, there has been an increased polarization between short- and long-term jobs throughout the economy. This study estimates the average length of a new job between 1981 and 1994, as well as the probability that new jobs of a certain length will continue. Analysis is by sex, age, region, educational attainment and industry. (Adapted from an article in Canadian Economic Observer, January 1996.)
Release date: 1996-12-03

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41. Disability among Canada's Aboriginal peoples in 1991 Archived
Articles and reports: 82-003-X19960012823
Geography: Canada
Description:
Statistics Canada's 1991 Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) was used to examine the prevalence and severity of disability and the degree of dependence in the Aboriginal population. Where possible, these results are compared with data for the total Canadian household population from the 1991 Health and Activity Limitation Survey (HALS).
Release date: 1996-07-31
42. Tuberculosis, 1994 Archived
Articles and reports: 82-003-X19960012824
Geography: Canada
Description:
In 1994, a total of 2,074 people in Canada were diagnosed with tuberculosis, a rate of 7.1 cases per 100,000 population. The same year, tuberculosis and its late effects caused 150 deaths - just over one in every 1,400 deaths.
Release date: 1996-07-31
43. Health-adjusted life expectancy Archived
Articles and reports: 82-003-X19960012825
Geography: Canada
Description:
In 1991, the National Task Force on Health Information recommended that in order to assess the health of Canadians, the health information system should include an aggregate index of population health. This article presents such an index - Health-Ajusted Life Expectancy (HALE) - as one possibility in a range of indicators.
Release date: 1996-07-31
44. Homicide in Canada, 1995 Archived
Articles and reports: 85-002-X19960118283
Geography: Province or territory, Census metropolitan area
Description:
Police-reported violent crime in Canada increased steadily from the early 1970s through to the early 1990s. Homicides, in particular, tend to be widely covered in the media, especially those of a brutal nature or those targeting the more vulnerable members of society. The 1993 General Social Survey indicated a growing concern among Canadians about threats of attack or violence. Yet the homicide rate has gradually been declining since the mid 1970s.
Release date: 1996-07-30
45. A view on statistical disclosure control for microdata Archived
Articles and reports: 12-001-X199600114381
Description:
Problems arising from statistical disclosure control, which aims to prevent that information about individual respondents is disclosed by users of data, have come to the fore rapidly in recent years. The main reason for this is the growing demand for detailed data provided by statistical offices caused by the still increasing use of computers. In former days tables with relatively little information were published. Nowadays the users of data demand much more detailed tables and, moreover, microdata to analyze by themselves. Because of this increase in information content statistical disclosure control has become much more difficult. In this paper the authors give their view on the problems which one encounters when trying to protect microdata against disclosure. This view is based on their experience with statistical disclosure control acquired at Statistics Netherlands.
Release date: 1996-06-14
46. A moving stratification algorithm Archived
Articles and reports: 12-001-X199600114382
Description:
A general algorithm with equal probabilities is presented. The author provides the second order inclusion probabilities that correspond to the algorithm, which generalizes the selection-rejection method, so that a sample may be drawn using simple random sampling without replacement. Another particular case of the algorithm, called moving stratification algorithm, is discussed. A smooth stratification effect can be obtained by using, as a stratification variable, the serial number of the observation units. The author provides approximations of first and second order inclusion probabilities. These approximations lead to a population mean estimator and to an estimator of the variance of this mean estimator. The algorithm is then compared to a classical stratified plan with proportional allocation.
Release date: 1996-06-14
47. A new method to reduce unwanted ripples and revisions in trend-cycle estimates from X-11-ARIMA Archived
Articles and reports: 12-001-X199600114383
Description:
The estimation of the trend-cycle with the X-11-ARIMA method is often done using the 13-term Henderson filter applied to seasonally adjusted data modified by extreme values. This filter however, produces a large number of unwanted ripples in the final or “historical” trend-cycle curve which are interpreted as false turning points. The use of a longer Henderson filter such as the 23-term is not an alternative for this filter is sluggish to detect turning points and consequently is not useful for current economic and business analysis. This paper proposes a new method that enables the use of the 13-term Henderson filter with the advantages of: (i) reducing the number of unwanted ripples; (ii) reducing the size of the revisions to preliminary values and (iii) no increase in the time lag to detect turning points. The results are illustrated with nine leading indicator series of the Canadian Composite Leading Index.
Release date: 1996-06-14
48. Applying the Lavallée and Hidiroglou method to obtain stratification boundaries for the Census Bureau’s Annual Capital Expenditures Survey Archived
Articles and reports: 12-001-X199600114384
Description:
The Lavallée-Hidiroglou (L-H) method of finding stratification boundaries has been used in the Census Bureau’s Annual Capital Expenditures Survey (ACES) to stratify part of its universe in the pilot study and the subsequent preliminary survey. This iterative method minimizes the sample size while fixing the desired reliability level by constructing appropriate boundary points. However, we encountered two problems in our application. One problem was that different starting boundaries resulted in different ending boundaries. The other problem was that the convergence to locally-optimal boundaries was slow, i.e., the number of iterations was large and convergence was not guaranteed. This paper addresses our difficulties with the L-H method and shows how they were resolved so that this procedure would work well for the ACES. In particular, we describe how contour plots were constructed and used to help illustrate how insignificant these problems were once the L-H method was applied. This paper describes revisions made to the L-H method; revisions that made it a practical method of finding stratification boundaries for ACES.
Release date: 1996-06-14
49. Multiple sample estimation of population and census undercount in the presence of matching errors Archived
Articles and reports: 12-001-X199600114385
Description:
The multiple capture-recapture census is reconsidered by relaxing the traditional perfect matching assumption. We propose matching error models to characterize error-prone matching mechanisms. The observed data take the form of an incomplete 2^k contingency table with one missing cell and follow a multinomial distribution. We develop a procedure for the estimation of the population size. Our approach applies to both standard log-linear models for contingency tables and log-linear models for heterogeneity of catchability. We illustrate the method and estimation using a 1988 dress rehearsal study for the 1990 census conducted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
Release date: 1996-06-14
50. A comparison of some weighting adjustment methods for panel nonresponse Archived
Articles and reports: 12-001-X199600114386
Description:
In some surveys, many auxiliary variables are available for respondents and nonrespondents for use in nonresponse adjustment. One decision that arises is how to select which of the auxiliary variables should be used for this purpose and another decision involves how the selected variables should be used. Several approaches to forming weighting adjustments for nonresponse are considered in this research. The methods include those based on logistic regression models, categorical search algorithms, and generalized raking. These methods are applied to adjust for panel nonresponse in the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). The estimates from the alternative adjustments are assessed by comparing them to one another and to benchmark estimates from other sources.
Release date: 1996-06-14

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1. National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth - Microdata User's Guide Archived
Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 89M0015G
Description:
The National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) is a long-term research program (started in 1994) that will track a large sample of children over many years, enabling researchers to monitor children's well-being and development.
Not all the information collected for the first cycle of the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth are included in this first microdata file. The second release will be in 1997.
Release date: 1996-12-18
2. Another measure of employment Archived
Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75-001-X19960042907
Geography: Canada
Description:
The employment/population ratio is a good barometer of the state of the economy and an important though little-used labour market indicator. This article takes a look at the ratio's strengths and limitations, as well as its variation since 1946. Provincial and international comparisons are included.
Release date: 1996-12-03
3. Backgrounder on the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) Archived
Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 89F0094X
Description:
The Backgrounder on the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) describes the history of the survey and how literacy is measured.
Release date: 1996-09-12
4. The Effect of Rebasing on GDP Archived
Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 13-604-M1996035
Description:
About once every five years, the System of National Accounts (SNA) is rebased to keep up with the evolution of prices in the economy. In other words, its aggregates at constant prices are recalculated in terms of the prices of a more recent time. Also, the System is revamped about once a decade to introduce new accounting conventions, improved methods of estimation and revised statistical classifications. These revisions will change the gross domestic product (GDP) of the past 70 years. Both types of revision are presently underway, with their results scheduled for release next year.
This article takes an advance look at the likely effect of rebasing the SNA on the record of growth since 1992. It presents the results of an approximate rebasing of the expenditure-based GDP of the quarterly National Income and Expenditure Accounts (NIEA).
Release date: 1996-08-30

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