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- Articles and reports: 12-002-X20050018031Description:
This article presents revisions to a Stata "bswreg" ado file that calculates variance estimates using bootstrap weights. This revision adds new output and analytic features. The main feature added to the program enables researchers to apply mean bootstrap weights while accounting for the number of weights used to generate the average bootstrap weight. The Workplace and Employee Survey dataset will be used to illustrate the usefulness of this program. This revised version of the "bswreg" command is still an easy to use flexible tool, which is compatible with a wide variety of regression analytical techniques and datasets. The bswreg command and design-based bootstrap weights should only be used for inference when it is theoretically valid.
Release date: 2005-06-23 - Articles and reports: 11-622-M2005006Geography: CanadaDescription:
The growth in micro-technologies and their widespread diffusion across economic sectors have given rise to what is often described as a New Economy - an economy in which competitive prospects are closely aligned with the firm's innovation and technology practices, and its use of skilled workers. Training is one strategy that many firms undertake in order to improve the quality of their workforce.
This study contributes to the expanding body of research in the area of information and communication technologies (ICT). Using data on business sector workplaces from the 1999 Workplace and Employee Survey (WES), we investigate factors related to the incidence and intensity of training. The study focuses on whether training incidence and training intensity are more closely associated with the technological competencies of specific workplaces than with membership in ICT and science-based industry environments. The study finds that training incidence depends more on the technological competencies exhibited by individual workplaces. Among workplaces that decide to train, these technological competencies are also important determinants of the intensity of training.
Workplaces which score highly on our index of technological competency are over three times more likely to train than those that rank zero on the competency index. The size of the workplace is also a factor. Large and medium-sized workplaces are 3 and 2.3 times more likely to train than small workplaces, respectively. And workplaces with higher-skilled workforces are more likely to train than workplaces with lower-skilled workforces.
For workplaces that choose to train, their technological competency is the main determinant of training intensity. The size of the workplace, the average cost of training, and the skill level of the workforce are also influential factors'but to a lesser extent. Other factors, such as sector, outside sources of funding, and unionization status, are not influential factors in determining the intensity of training. Workplaces that have a higher average cost of training train fewer employees as a proportion of their workforce. However, the skill level of their employees moderates this effect, because as payroll-per-employee increases (a proxy for worker skills), plants train more.
Release date: 2005-01-25 - Articles and reports: 12-002-X20040027034Description:
The use of command files in Stat/Transfer can expedite the transfer of several data sets in an efficient replicable manner. This note outlines a simple step-by-step method for creating command files and provides sample code.
Release date: 2004-10-05 - Articles and reports: 62F0014M2004017Geography: CanadaDescription:
This paper documents the approach used to construct the shelter element of the current spatial index program. The intercity indexes of the retail price differentials program of Prices Division had, until recently, excluded any reference to shelter because of conceptual issues. A rental equivalence approach is used for measuring spatial variations in the costs of shelter services among cities. To control for quality variations across areas, a semi-log separate hedonic regression methodology is used to construct the Laspeyres, Paasche, and Fisher Törnqvist interarea indices.
Release date: 2004-04-16 - 5. Bootstrapping made easy: A STATA ADO File ArchivedArticles and reports: 12-002-X20040016890Description:
This note introduces a STATA command that calculates variance estimates using bootstrap weights.
Release date: 2004-04-15 - Articles and reports: 11-010-X20030086616Geography: CanadaDescription:
This paper examines the influence of the expansion of the unincorporated self-employed on growth in labour productivity in the business sector and compares Canadian and U.S. experiences over the 1987 to 1998 reference period.
Release date: 2003-08-28 - 7. The Impact of Self-employment on Labour-productivity Growth: A Canada and United States Comparison ArchivedArticles and reports: 11F0027M2003016Geography: CanadaDescription:
This paper examines the influence of the dramatic expansion of self-employment on the Canadian business sector's growth in labour productivity. It compares Canadian and American experiences in this area from 1987 to 1998.
Release date: 2003-08-28
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- Articles and reports: 12-002-X20050018031Description:
This article presents revisions to a Stata "bswreg" ado file that calculates variance estimates using bootstrap weights. This revision adds new output and analytic features. The main feature added to the program enables researchers to apply mean bootstrap weights while accounting for the number of weights used to generate the average bootstrap weight. The Workplace and Employee Survey dataset will be used to illustrate the usefulness of this program. This revised version of the "bswreg" command is still an easy to use flexible tool, which is compatible with a wide variety of regression analytical techniques and datasets. The bswreg command and design-based bootstrap weights should only be used for inference when it is theoretically valid.
Release date: 2005-06-23 - Articles and reports: 11-622-M2005006Geography: CanadaDescription:
The growth in micro-technologies and their widespread diffusion across economic sectors have given rise to what is often described as a New Economy - an economy in which competitive prospects are closely aligned with the firm's innovation and technology practices, and its use of skilled workers. Training is one strategy that many firms undertake in order to improve the quality of their workforce.
This study contributes to the expanding body of research in the area of information and communication technologies (ICT). Using data on business sector workplaces from the 1999 Workplace and Employee Survey (WES), we investigate factors related to the incidence and intensity of training. The study focuses on whether training incidence and training intensity are more closely associated with the technological competencies of specific workplaces than with membership in ICT and science-based industry environments. The study finds that training incidence depends more on the technological competencies exhibited by individual workplaces. Among workplaces that decide to train, these technological competencies are also important determinants of the intensity of training.
Workplaces which score highly on our index of technological competency are over three times more likely to train than those that rank zero on the competency index. The size of the workplace is also a factor. Large and medium-sized workplaces are 3 and 2.3 times more likely to train than small workplaces, respectively. And workplaces with higher-skilled workforces are more likely to train than workplaces with lower-skilled workforces.
For workplaces that choose to train, their technological competency is the main determinant of training intensity. The size of the workplace, the average cost of training, and the skill level of the workforce are also influential factors'but to a lesser extent. Other factors, such as sector, outside sources of funding, and unionization status, are not influential factors in determining the intensity of training. Workplaces that have a higher average cost of training train fewer employees as a proportion of their workforce. However, the skill level of their employees moderates this effect, because as payroll-per-employee increases (a proxy for worker skills), plants train more.
Release date: 2005-01-25 - Articles and reports: 12-002-X20040027034Description:
The use of command files in Stat/Transfer can expedite the transfer of several data sets in an efficient replicable manner. This note outlines a simple step-by-step method for creating command files and provides sample code.
Release date: 2004-10-05 - Articles and reports: 62F0014M2004017Geography: CanadaDescription:
This paper documents the approach used to construct the shelter element of the current spatial index program. The intercity indexes of the retail price differentials program of Prices Division had, until recently, excluded any reference to shelter because of conceptual issues. A rental equivalence approach is used for measuring spatial variations in the costs of shelter services among cities. To control for quality variations across areas, a semi-log separate hedonic regression methodology is used to construct the Laspeyres, Paasche, and Fisher Törnqvist interarea indices.
Release date: 2004-04-16 - 5. Bootstrapping made easy: A STATA ADO File ArchivedArticles and reports: 12-002-X20040016890Description:
This note introduces a STATA command that calculates variance estimates using bootstrap weights.
Release date: 2004-04-15 - Articles and reports: 11-010-X20030086616Geography: CanadaDescription:
This paper examines the influence of the expansion of the unincorporated self-employed on growth in labour productivity in the business sector and compares Canadian and U.S. experiences over the 1987 to 1998 reference period.
Release date: 2003-08-28 - 7. The Impact of Self-employment on Labour-productivity Growth: A Canada and United States Comparison ArchivedArticles and reports: 11F0027M2003016Geography: CanadaDescription:
This paper examines the influence of the dramatic expansion of self-employment on the Canadian business sector's growth in labour productivity. It compares Canadian and American experiences in this area from 1987 to 1998.
Release date: 2003-08-28
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