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1. Reconciliation of the Canadian - U.S. Current Account, 2002 and 2003 Archived
Articles and reports: 67F0001M2004022
Geography: Canada
Description:
Canada's balance of payments with the United States should be, in principle, the mirror image of the U.S. balance of payments with Canada. In practice, however, the two countries' statistics have conceptual, methodological and data differences.
Each year, the two countries' balance of payments current accounts are reconciled to reflect how the estimates would appear if both countries used common definitions, methodologies and data sources. Such reconciliation is important because of the extensive economic links between the two countries and the need to explain differences in their published official bilateral estimates.
Release date: 2004-12-22
2. Wealth inequality by province Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X200410913127
Geography: Canada, Province or territory
Description:
The article, published in Perspectives on Labour and Income, highlights aspects of wealth distribution that are relatively consistent across the country and others that are more specific to certain provinces and families.
Wealth inequality relates to different income patterns across the country, but it also reflects patterns in the components of wealth, such as high residential property values in British Columbia and high levels of farm assets on the Prairies. This article uses data from the Survey of Financial Security.
Release date: 2004-12-20
3. Are Investment Expectations Rational? Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2004208
Geography: Canada
Description:
There is much debate over whether agents form rational expectations of variables or whether they suffer from systematic errors in judgment. This paper estimates models for plant-level survey data in order to test rationality for those manufacturing plants that report expectations of capital expenditures. An advantage of using such data is that rationality is tested in markets where agents may not have knowledge of each others' expectations so strategic motives behind purposefully irrational forecasts are minimized. Statistical estimates and test results suggest that expectations may indeed be rational depending on size. That is to say that the larger a plant is, the more resources it can expend on forecasting its future needs. Thus, the statistical results in this paper validate, for the first time, a class of assumptions in the macroeconomic literature.
Release date: 2004-12-17
4. National versus domestic output: A measure of economic maturity? Archived
Articles and reports: 11-010-X20040127744
Geography: Canada
Description:
Recent media reports suggest that the ratio of gross national income (formerly gross national product) to gross domestic product reflects a nation's 'economic maturity'. Nations at a higher stage of economic development generally have a GNI larger than GDP because of their past investments abroad. Less developed countries that depend on large inflows of foreign investment to finance their growth have a smaller GNI than GDP. This article analyzes how relevant these suggestions are for the Canadian economy. Since 1998, our ratio of GNI to GNP has risen 96% to 98%. In dollar terms, Canadians would have received $16.4 billion less income if GNI had grown only as fast as GDP, equivalent to $512 for every Canadian. Based on recent trends, Canada's GNI could outstrip its GDP for the first time on record before the end of the current decade.
Release date: 2004-12-16
5. Languages in Canada: 2001 Census Archived
Journals and periodicals: 96-326-X
Geography: Canada
Description:
This work is an updated version of a study published under the same title following the population censuses of 1991 and 1996. The text and tables have been adapted to reflect the more complete data from the 2001 Census, in which the usual questions on knowledge of languages, mother tongue, and language spoken 'most often' at home are supplemented by a question on languages spoken 'regularly' at home , and a two-part question on language use at work, that is, the language used 'most often,' and other languages used 'regularly,' in the workplace. This enrichment of the content has allowed us to expand our analysis while remaining true to the initial goal of presenting in a straightfoward manner basic statistics on the country's demolinguistic reality.
Release date: 2004-12-13
6. Off-reserve Aboriginal Internet users Archived
Articles and reports: 11-008-X20040037732
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article draws a basic profile of Internet use among Canadians of Aboriginal ancestry living off-reserve, using the 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey. Then, with the 2000 General Social Survey on technology use, it asks whether a second digital divide exists between these users.
Release date: 2004-12-07
7. Low-paid workers: How many live in low-income families? Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X200411013128
Geography: Canada
Description:
Who were the low-wage earners in 2000, what proportion lived in low-income families, and how did the situation change between 1980 and 2000? Low wages need not mean economic hardship: for example young people living with their parents or spouses who are secondary earners may not be at risk. However, groups such as recent immigrants, lone mothers, and unattached individuals may well be at risk.
Release date: 2004-10-26
8. Use of hospital emergency rooms Archived
Articles and reports: 82-003-X20040017039
Geography: Canada
Description:
This Health Reports article uses data from the 2003 Canadian Community Health Survey to estimate how many Canadians reported that their most recent contact with the health care system took place in a hospital emergency room (ER).
Sex, age and other characteristics of those who had visited a hospital ER are reported as well as level of satisfaction, including characteristics of those who were dissatisfied with their hospital emergency room care.
Release date: 2004-10-19
9. Stat/Transfer's command files and the efficient transfer of data files Archived
Articles and reports: 12-002-X20040027034
Description:
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
10. Housing costs of elderly families Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X200410713124
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article examines housing costs within the context of income and assets, focusing on elderly homeowners but including younger families and renters for comparison. The low-income dimension is also explored.
Release date: 2004-09-21

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Articles and reports (42)

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1. Reconciliation of the Canadian - U.S. Current Account, 2002 and 2003 Archived
Articles and reports: 67F0001M2004022
Geography: Canada
Description:
Canada's balance of payments with the United States should be, in principle, the mirror image of the U.S. balance of payments with Canada. In practice, however, the two countries' statistics have conceptual, methodological and data differences.
Each year, the two countries' balance of payments current accounts are reconciled to reflect how the estimates would appear if both countries used common definitions, methodologies and data sources. Such reconciliation is important because of the extensive economic links between the two countries and the need to explain differences in their published official bilateral estimates.
Release date: 2004-12-22
2. Wealth inequality by province Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X200410913127
Geography: Canada, Province or territory
Description:
The article, published in Perspectives on Labour and Income, highlights aspects of wealth distribution that are relatively consistent across the country and others that are more specific to certain provinces and families.
Wealth inequality relates to different income patterns across the country, but it also reflects patterns in the components of wealth, such as high residential property values in British Columbia and high levels of farm assets on the Prairies. This article uses data from the Survey of Financial Security.
Release date: 2004-12-20
3. Are Investment Expectations Rational? Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2004208
Geography: Canada
Description:
There is much debate over whether agents form rational expectations of variables or whether they suffer from systematic errors in judgment. This paper estimates models for plant-level survey data in order to test rationality for those manufacturing plants that report expectations of capital expenditures. An advantage of using such data is that rationality is tested in markets where agents may not have knowledge of each others' expectations so strategic motives behind purposefully irrational forecasts are minimized. Statistical estimates and test results suggest that expectations may indeed be rational depending on size. That is to say that the larger a plant is, the more resources it can expend on forecasting its future needs. Thus, the statistical results in this paper validate, for the first time, a class of assumptions in the macroeconomic literature.
Release date: 2004-12-17
4. National versus domestic output: A measure of economic maturity? Archived
Articles and reports: 11-010-X20040127744
Geography: Canada
Description:
Recent media reports suggest that the ratio of gross national income (formerly gross national product) to gross domestic product reflects a nation's 'economic maturity'. Nations at a higher stage of economic development generally have a GNI larger than GDP because of their past investments abroad. Less developed countries that depend on large inflows of foreign investment to finance their growth have a smaller GNI than GDP. This article analyzes how relevant these suggestions are for the Canadian economy. Since 1998, our ratio of GNI to GNP has risen 96% to 98%. In dollar terms, Canadians would have received $16.4 billion less income if GNI had grown only as fast as GDP, equivalent to $512 for every Canadian. Based on recent trends, Canada's GNI could outstrip its GDP for the first time on record before the end of the current decade.
Release date: 2004-12-16
5. Off-reserve Aboriginal Internet users Archived
Articles and reports: 11-008-X20040037732
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article draws a basic profile of Internet use among Canadians of Aboriginal ancestry living off-reserve, using the 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey. Then, with the 2000 General Social Survey on technology use, it asks whether a second digital divide exists between these users.
Release date: 2004-12-07
6. Low-paid workers: How many live in low-income families? Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X200411013128
Geography: Canada
Description:
Who were the low-wage earners in 2000, what proportion lived in low-income families, and how did the situation change between 1980 and 2000? Low wages need not mean economic hardship: for example young people living with their parents or spouses who are secondary earners may not be at risk. However, groups such as recent immigrants, lone mothers, and unattached individuals may well be at risk.
Release date: 2004-10-26
7. Use of hospital emergency rooms Archived
Articles and reports: 82-003-X20040017039
Geography: Canada
Description:
This Health Reports article uses data from the 2003 Canadian Community Health Survey to estimate how many Canadians reported that their most recent contact with the health care system took place in a hospital emergency room (ER).
Sex, age and other characteristics of those who had visited a hospital ER are reported as well as level of satisfaction, including characteristics of those who were dissatisfied with their hospital emergency room care.
Release date: 2004-10-19
8. Stat/Transfer's command files and the efficient transfer of data files Archived
Articles and reports: 12-002-X20040027034
Description:
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
9. Housing costs of elderly families Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X200410713124
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article examines housing costs within the context of income and assets, focusing on elderly homeowners but including younger families and renters for comparison. The low-income dimension is also explored.
Release date: 2004-09-21
10. Looking after seniors: Who does what for whom? Archived
Articles and reports: 11-008-X20040027002
Geography: Canada
Description:
Who provides care to our aging population, and how can we best support them? This article examines caregivers aged 45 to 64 and those 65 and over, and the particular issues for each group.
Release date: 2004-09-14

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1. Languages in Canada: 2001 Census Archived
Journals and periodicals: 96-326-X
Geography: Canada
Description:
This work is an updated version of a study published under the same title following the population censuses of 1991 and 1996. The text and tables have been adapted to reflect the more complete data from the 2001 Census, in which the usual questions on knowledge of languages, mother tongue, and language spoken 'most often' at home are supplemented by a question on languages spoken 'regularly' at home , and a two-part question on language use at work, that is, the language used 'most often,' and other languages used 'regularly,' in the workplace. This enrichment of the content has allowed us to expand our analysis while remaining true to the initial goal of presenting in a straightfoward manner basic statistics on the country's demolinguistic reality.
Release date: 2004-12-13

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