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1. Skills, Innovation and Growth: Key Issues for Rural and Territorial Development - A Survey of the Literature Archived
Articles and reports: 21-601-M2005076
Description:
This report reviews the literature related to the spatial variation of skills and human capital and its implication for local innovation capacity and economic development. The report develops around three major themes 1) skills and human capital; 2) innovation and technological change; and 3) growth.
Release date: 2005-11-15
2. Estimating the size of IDU population using needle exchange programs Archived
Articles and reports: 11-522-X20040018733
Description:
A survey on injecting drug users is designed to use the information collected from needle exchange centres and from sampled injecting drug users. A methodology is developed to produce various estimates.
Release date: 2005-10-27
3. Hard to count populations in the 2001 and 2011 UK censuses Archived
Articles and reports: 11-522-X20040018738
Description:
This paper describes the efforts made during the 2001 UK Census to both maximise and measure the response in the hardest to count sectors of the population. It also discusses the research that will be undertaken for the 2011 UK Census.
Release date: 2005-10-27
4. Experiences in testing questionnaires with specialized populations Archived
Articles and reports: 11-522-X20040018745
Description:
The testing of questionnaires with specialized populations such as Aboriginal people, homosexuals, bisexuals, children, victims of abuse brings challenges: identifying respondents, testing methodology, location of testing, respondent rapport and trust.
Release date: 2005-10-27
5. Taking stock: A profile of Canada's aquaculture industry Archived
Articles and reports: 21-004-X20050058671
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article examines aquaculture in Canada during the past few years, as well as its place in world markets, the species that dominate our production and its importance for certain regions. The paper also examines challenges and opportunities within the industry.
Release date: 2005-10-25
6. Intergenerational Earnings Mobility Among the Children of Canadian Immigrants Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2005267
Geography: Canada
Description:
We analyze the intergenerational income mobility of Canadians born to immigrants using the 2001 Census. A detailed portrait of the Canadian population is offered as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of immigrants from 70 countries. The degree of persistence as estimated in regression to the mean models is about the same for immigrants as for the entire population, and there is more generational mobility among immigrants in Canada than in the United States. We also use quantile regressions to distinguish between the role of social capital from other constraints limiting mobility and find that these are present and associated with father's education.
Release date: 2005-10-25
7. Collective bargaining priorities Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X200510813148
Geography: Canada
Description:
Certain provisions such as pay, leave and supplementary medical coverage are common to virtually all collective agreements. Others such as a cost-of-living allowance reflect the socioeconomic climate of the times. From a list of 10 collective bargaining provisions, employers in the Workplace and Employee Survey were asked the ones included in their settlements. The two most common in 2001 dealt with job security and occupational health and safety.
Release date: 2005-09-21
8. Data Quality in the 2002 Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) Archived
Articles and reports: 75F0002M2005011
Description:
The Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) is a longitudinal survey initiated in 1993. The survey was designed to measure changes in the economic well-being of Canadians as well as the factors affecting these changes.
Sample surveys are subject to errors. As with all surveys conducted at Statistics Canada, considerable time and effort is taken to control such errors at every stage of the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics. Nonetheless errors do occur. It is the policy at Statistics Canada to furnish users with measures of data quality so that the user is able to interpret the data properly. This report summarizes a set of quality measures that has been produced in an attempt to describe the overall quality of SLID data. Among the measures included in the report are sample composition and attrition rates, sampling errors, coverage errors in the form of slippage rates, response rates, tax permission and tax linkage rates, and imputation rates.
Release date: 2005-09-15
9. Data Quality in the 2001 Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) Archived
Articles and reports: 75F0002M2005012
Description:
The Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) is a longitudinal survey initiated in 1993. The survey was designed to measure changes in the economic well-being of Canadians as well as the factors affecting these changes.
Sample surveys are subject to errors. As with all surveys conducted at Statistics Canada, considerable time and effort is taken to control such errors at every stage of the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics. Nonetheless errors do occur. It is the policy at Statistics Canada to furnish users with measures of data quality so that the user is able to interpret the data properly. This report summarizes a set of quality measures that has been produced in an attempt to describe the overall quality of SLID data. Among the measures included in the report are sample composition and attrition rates, sampling errors, coverage errors in the form of slippage rates, response rates, tax permission and tax linkage rates, and imputation rates.
Release date: 2005-09-15
10. South Asians in Canada: Unity through diversity Archived
Articles and reports: 11-008-X20050028455
Geography: Canada
Description:
Numbering 917,000 in 2001, South Asians were the second largest visible minority group in Canada, just behind the Chinese at slightly over one million people. The South Asian community is one of the most diverse visible minority groups, consisting of a range of ethnic, religious and linguistic groups whose ancestries, immigration histories and personal experiences are quite varied. Using data from the 2002 Ethnic Diversity Survey (EDS) and the 2001 Census of Population, this article examines the diversity of the South Asian population in Canada, traces their history in this country and looks at how their ethnic and cultural backgrounds are reflected in their everyday lives.
Release date: 2005-09-13

Stats in brief (2)

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1. Television broadcasting, 2004 Archived
Stats in brief: 56-001-X20050028052
Description:
This issue of the Bulletin presents financial and operating statistics for the television broadcasting industry for the 2001 to 2004 period.
Release date: 2005-06-03
2. Telecommunications industries - 2003 Archived
Stats in brief: 56-001-X20050017817
Description:
This issue of the Bulletin presents financial and operating statistics for wireline and wireless telecommunication services industries for the 2000 to 2003 period.
Release date: 2005-03-17

Articles and reports (31)

Articles and reports (31) (20 to 30 of 31 results)

21. Fact-sheet on work absences Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X200410313114
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article examines "absenteeism" employee absences that are avoidable, habitual and unscheduled.
Release date: 2005-04-22
22. Fact-sheet on work absences [2005] Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X200510413139
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article examines "absenteeism" employee absences that are avoidable, habitual and unscheduled.
Release date: 2005-04-22
23. Children and youth as victims of violent crime Archived
Articles and reports: 85-002-X20050018064
Geography: Canada
Description:
This issue of Juristat presents statistical information on the extent and nature of violent victimization of children and youth in Canada in 2003 as reported to a subset of police services. Rates of victimization are presented for each age and sex. Data describes the different types of assaults perpetrated against children and youth, the weapons used to inflict injury, the injuries sustained and the location and time of the assault relative to various age groups. Other topics included in the report are child pornography, sexual exploitation of children, kidnapping and abduction of children. Data used in this report include police statistics from the Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, the Homicide Survey and court data from the Adult Criminal Court Survey.
Release date: 2005-04-20
24. Intergenerational Impact of Immigrants' Selection and Assimilation on Health Outcomes of Children Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2005247
Geography: Canada
Description:
This study undertakes three comparisons using Cycle 2 (1996-97) data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) in Canada. First, the study compares the health outcomes of children of the Native-born Canadian (NBC) group with those of the immigrant group in general. Differences are also investigated within the three immigrant sub-groups: the American immigrant group, the European immigrant group and Asian immigrant group. Second, this study tests the hypothesis that the children of any immigrant group in Canada would have a higher level of health outcomes for the same level of resources. Third, the study examines the association of time of residency of immigrants in different groups and the health outcomes of their children. An immigrant family is defined as one in which at least one of the parents is foreign-born. Health outcomes are measured by the PMK's (person most knowledgeable about the child) assessment of the child's health. Ordered logit models are employed for estimation. The children selected for analysis are 4 to 13 years of age.
The NLSCY data suggest that the health outcomes of children in the immigrant families in general are similar to that in the NBC group. However, the health outcomes of the Asian immigrant group are slightly lower and those of the American immigrant group are markedly better. Except for the American immigrant group, there is evidence that the children of any other immigrant group would have lower health status for the same level of resources. Decomposition results indicate that a higher level of observable and unobservable resources is responsible for markedly better outcomes for the American immigrant group; while a lower level of observable and unobservable resources is responsible for the lower level of outcomes for the Asian immigrant group. On the other hand, health outcomes are higher for the European immigrant group than for the NBC group when variation in resources is considered, while lower when variation in productivity coefficients is examined. Finally, there is statistical evidence that the health status of children of immigrant families would improve with the time of residency of immigrant parents, if it were lower initially. The findings of the study indicate that present health outcomes of children in the immigrant families, on average, are not a great concern. However, those of the Asian immigrant group may be a concern.
Release date: 2005-04-15
25. Self-employment activity of rural Canadians Archived
Articles and reports: 11-008-X20040047777
Geography: Canada
Description:
Self-employment is more common in rural than urban Canada. In 2001, about one in four workers in rural areas, villages and small towns earned at least some of their income from self-employment, compared with only one in six in Canada as a whole. Of course, farming is a key element explaining high self-employment rates in rural and small town Canada. But although farm self-employment remains a key source of income and employment for many, its importance has declined and self-employment activity on the non-farm side has been increasing rapidly.
The forces driving self-employment in smaller labour markets may be complex, but there is no doubt that entrepreneurship is thriving in rural Canada, despite the waning importance of farm self-employment. This article uses data from the Census of Population to describe non-farm self-employment among workers aged 20 to 64 living in Canada's rural areas and small towns.
Release date: 2005-03-08
26. Robust generalized regression estimation Archived
Articles and reports: 12-001-X20040027752
Description:
The Best Linear Unbiased (BLU) estimator (or predictor) of a population total is based on the following two assumptions: i) the estimation model underlying the BLU estimator is correctly specified and ii) the sampling design is ignorable with respect to the estimation model. In this context, an estimator is robust if it stays close to the BLU estimator when both assumptions hold and if it keeps good properties when one or both assumptions are not fully satisfied. Robustness with respect to deviations from assumption (i) is called model robustness while robustness with respect to deviations from assumption (ii) is called design robustness. The Generalized Regression (GREG) estimator is often viewed as being robust since its property of being Asymptotically Design Unbiased (ADU) is not dependent on assumptions (i) and (ii). However, if both assumptions hold, the GREG estimator may be far less efficient than the BLU estimator and, in that sense, it is not robust. The relative inefficiency of the GREG estimator as compared to the BLU estimator is caused by widely dispersed design weights. To obtain a design-robust estimator, we thus propose a compromise between the GREG and the BLU estimators. This compromise also provides some protection against deviations from assumption (i). However, it does not offer any protection against outliers, which can be viewed as a consequence of a model misspecification. To deal with outliers, we use the weighted generalized M-estimation technique to reduce the influence of units with large weighted population residuals. We propose two practical ways of implementing M-estimators for multipurpose surveys; either the weights of influential units are modified and a calibration approach is used to obtain a single set of robust estimation weights or the values of influential units are modified. Some properties of the proposed approach are evaluated in a simulation study using a skewed finite population created from real survey data.
Release date: 2005-02-03
27. The weight share method and the European Survey on Income and Living Conditions Archived
Articles and reports: 11-522-X20030017594
Description:
This article describes the European Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC), which will replace the European Panel beginning in 2004. It also looks at the use of the weight share method in the longitudinal and cross-sectional weightings of the SILC.
Release date: 2005-01-26
28. Evaluation and adjustment for non-response in the Canadian Labour Force Survey Archived
Articles and reports: 11-522-X20030017598
Description:
This paper looks at descriptive statistics to evaluate non-response in the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and also at ways of improving the current methodology of making non-response adjustments.
Release date: 2005-01-26
29. What was the question? Methods for monitoring the quality of interviewing techniques Archived
Articles and reports: 11-522-X20030017605
Description:
This paper reviews various field-based approaches to monitoring field interviewing techniques, including training certification, post-training field observations, reviews of computer-assisted recorded interviews and externally recorded interviews, GPS data, and case verifications.
Release date: 2005-01-26
30. 2006 Census of Canada: Strategic direction and issues Archived
Articles and reports: 11-522-X20030017607
Description:
This paper outlines the changes in collection and processing methodology planned for the 2006 Census in Canada, and focusses on three primary areas: content changes, Internet data collection and outsourcing.
Release date: 2005-01-26

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