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  • 1. Five-year cancer survival by stage at diagnosis in Canada
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202300100001
    Description: Cancer survival estimates provide insights into the effectiveness of early detection and treatment. The stage of cancer at diagnosis is an important determinant of survival, reflecting the extent and spread at the time of disease detection. The recent extension of the Canadian Cancer Registry death-linked analytic file from 2014 to 2017 now offers an opportunity to provide more up-to-date net survival (NS) figures and to profile, for the first time, five-year NS estimates for Canada (excluding Quebec). This study presents five-year stage-specific cancer and five-year NS estimates for the most commonly diagnosed cancers in Canada.
    Release date: 2023-01-18
  • 2. Comments by Michael R. Elliott on “Statistical inference with non-probability survey samples”
    Articles and reports: 12-001-X202200200004
    Description:

    This discussion attempts to add to Wu’s review of inference from non-probability samples, as well as to highlighting aspects that are likely avenues for useful additional work. It concludes with a call for an organized stable of high-quality probability surveys that will be focused on providing adjustment information for non-probability surveys.

    Release date: 2022-12-15
  • 3. High school graduation rates in Canada, 2016/2017 to 2019/2020
    Articles and reports: 81-599-X2022002
    Description:

    This fact sheet presents the most recent information about on-time and extended-time high school graduation rates in Canada. While this measure will not reflect whether youth ultimately graduate from high school during their lifetime, it does provide policy-makers and researchers with information on how youth progress through their secondary level studies and if they complete them within the expected amount of time.

    Release date: 2022-10-20
  • 4. Education Indicators in Canada: Report of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program, September 2022
    Articles and reports: 81-582-X2022002
    Description:

    The Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP) draws from a wide variety of data sources to provide information on the school-age population, elementary, secondary and postsecondary education, transitions, and labour market outcomes. PCEIP products include tables, fact sheets, reports and a methodological handbook. They present indicators for all of Canada, the provinces, the territories, as well as selected international comparisons and comparisons over time. The Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP) is an ongoing initiative of the Canadian Education Statistics Council, a partnership between Statistics Canada and the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada that provides a set of statistical measures on education systems in Canada.

    Release date: 2022-09-08
  • 5. Traffic volume estimation from traffic camera imagery: Toward real-time traffic data streams
    Articles and reports: 18-001-X2022001
    Description:

    Monitoring traffic in large urban areas remains a challenge for both practical and technical reasons. This paper presents a computer vision-based system to periodically extract vehicle counts from Canadian traffic camera imagery.

    Release date: 2022-09-06
  • 6. The anchoring method: Estimation of interviewer effects in the absence of interpenetrated sample assignment
    Articles and reports: 12-001-X202200100005
    Description:

    Methodological studies of the effects that human interviewers have on the quality of survey data have long been limited by a critical assumption: that interviewers in a given survey are assigned random subsets of the larger overall sample (also known as interpenetrated assignment). Absent this type of study design, estimates of interviewer effects on survey measures of interest may reflect differences between interviewers in the characteristics of their assigned sample members, rather than recruitment or measurement effects specifically introduced by the interviewers. Previous attempts to approximate interpenetrated assignment have typically used regression models to condition on factors that might be related to interviewer assignment. We introduce a new approach for overcoming this lack of interpenetrated assignment when estimating interviewer effects. This approach, which we refer to as the “anchoring” method, leverages correlations between observed variables that are unlikely to be affected by interviewers (“anchors”) and variables that may be prone to interviewer effects to remove components of within-interviewer correlations that lack of interpenetrated assignment may introduce. We consider both frequentist and Bayesian approaches, where the latter can make use of information about interviewer effect variances in previous waves of a study, if available. We evaluate this new methodology empirically using a simulation study, and then illustrate its application using real survey data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), where interviewer IDs are provided on public-use data files. While our proposed method shares some of the limitations of the traditional approach – namely the need for variables associated with the outcome of interest that are also free of measurement error – it avoids the need for conditional inference and thus has improved inferential qualities when the focus is on marginal estimates, and it shows evidence of further reducing overestimation of larger interviewer effects relative to the traditional approach.

    Release date: 2022-06-21
  • 7. Measuring progress in cancer survival across Canadian provinces: Extending the cancer survival index to further evaluate cancer control efforts
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202200600002
    Description:

    An evaluation of progress in cancer survival in Canada for all cancer types combined was recently conducted using the cancer survival index. This study provides a comprehensive evaluation of provincial-level progress in cancer survival for all cancer types combined in Canada.

    Release date: 2022-06-15
  • 8. COVID-19 infection in the Canadian household population
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202200400003
    Description:

    Certain population groups face a disproportionate burden of exposure to COVID-19. This study examined characteristics of Canadians living in private households in fall 2020 and winter 2021 who had been infected with COVID-19.

    Release date: 2022-04-20
  • 9. Why are babies in Canada getting smaller?
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202200100001
    Description:

    Recent evidence from the United States and Canada suggests an unexplained increase in small-for-gestational-age births (<10th percentile). This study aimed to identify reasons for the recent increase in small-for-gestational-age births in Canada.

    Release date: 2022-01-19
  • 10. Assessing the coverage of confidence intervals under nonresponse. A case study on income mean and quantiles in some municipalities from the 2015 Mexican Intercensal Survey
    Articles and reports: 12-001-X202100200004
    Description:

    This note presents a comparative study of three methods for constructing confidence intervals for the mean and quantiles based on survey data with nonresponse. These methods, empirical likelihood, linearization, and that of Woodruff’s (1952), were applied to data on income obtained from the 2015 Mexican Intercensal Survey, and to simulated data. A response propensity model was used for adjusting the sampling weights, and the empirical performance of the methods was assessed in terms of the coverage of the confidence intervals through simulation studies. The empirical likelihood and linearization methods had a good performance for the mean, except when the variable of interest had some extreme values. For quantiles, the linearization method had a poor performance, while the empirical likelihood and Woodruff methods had a better one, though without reaching the nominal coverage when the variable of interest had values with high frequency near the quantile of interest.

    Release date: 2022-01-06
Stats in brief (14)

Stats in brief (14) (0 to 10 of 14 results)

  • 1. Stats are on the menu! Canada’s restaurant industry
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2021025
    Description:

    This infographic highlights a selection of statistics on restaurants, bars and caterers in Canada.

    Release date: 2021-03-25
  • 2. Mental Health Status of Canadian Immigrants During the COVID-19 Pandemic Archived
    Stats in brief: 45-28-0001202000100050
    Description:

    This analytical article describes results from the crowdsourced survey "Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians: Your mental health" with a focus on the mental health of immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic. More specifically, this article explores the effects of social distancing on mental health, how the pandemic affects the symptoms of anxiety, and how perceived job and financial security affects mental health. This article also discuss the mental health differences between recent immigrants, established immigrants and Canadian born.

    Release date: 2020-07-14
  • 3. Inorganic-related arsenic concentrations in Canadians, 2014 and 2015 Archived
    Stats in brief: 82-625-X201800154918
    Description:

    Cycle 4 (2014 and 2015) of the Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS), measured the concentrations of the inorganic-related arsenic species (arsenate, arsenite, DMA and MMA) in the urine of approximately 2500 Canadians aged 3 to 79. Results were reported in micrograms of arsenic per litre (µg As/L).

    Release date: 2018-02-22
  • 4. Paraben concentrations in Canadians, 2014 and 2015 Archived
    Stats in brief: 82-625-X201800154919
    Description:

    In 2014 and 2015, the Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS) measured the concentrations of parabens (including methyl paraben, ethyl paraben, propyl paraben, and butyl paraben) in the urine of approximately 2500 Canadians aged 3 to 79. Results were reported in micrograms per litre (µg/L).

    Release date: 2018-02-22
  • 5. Age-specific patterns in the incidence of, and survival from, pancreatic cancer in Canada Archived
    Stats in brief: 82-624-X201700114799
    Description:

    This article examines age-specific patterns in the national rates of newly diagnosed cases of pancreatic cancer. Age-specific measures of survival from pancreatic cancer are also examined.

    Release date: 2017-04-26
  • 6. Updating the standard population and its effect on cancer incidence and mortality rates Archived
    Stats in brief: 82-624-X201600114667
    Description:

    This article describes the impact on age-standardized cancer incidence and mortality rates of an update to the standard population used to derive them. The impact is assessed by cancer type and by province for 2012, and on trends in cancer rates from 1992 to 2012. Data are from the Canadian Cancer Registry and the Canadian Vital Statistics – Death Database.

    Release date: 2016-10-20
  • 7. Scientific and Technological Activities of Provincial Governments and Provincial Research Organizations, 2003/2004 to 2007/2008 Archived
    Stats in brief: 88-001-X200900711026
    Description:

    The information in this document is intended primarily to be used by scientific and technological (S&T) policy makers, both federal and provincial, largely as a basis for inter-provincial and inter-sectoral comparisons. The statistics are aggregates of the provincial government and provincial research organization science surveys conducted by Statistics Canada under contract with the provinces, and cover the period 2002/2003 to 2006/2007.

    Release date: 2009-11-20
  • 8. Industrial research and development, 2004 to 2008 Archived
    Stats in brief: 88-001-X200800510678
    Description:

    This service bulletin contains historical and current data on research and development (R&D) expenditures and personnel in Canada, by industry. In Canada, the industrial or business enterprise sector is the largest R&D performer.

    Release date: 2008-09-05
  • 9. Estimates of research and development expenditures in the higher education, 2006/2007 Archived
    Stats in brief: 88-001-X200800410668
    Description:

    The higher education sector is composed of all universities, colleges of technology and other institutes of postsecondary education, whatever their source of finance or legal status. It also includes all research institutes, experimental stations and clinics operating under the direct control of, or administered by, or associated with higher education establishments.

    Release date: 2008-08-14
  • 10. Research and development (R&D) personnel in Canada, 1996 to 2005 Archived
    Stats in brief: 88-001-X200800110603
    Description:

    Canada's economic competitiveness depends on scientific and technological development and also on the people responsible for this development, especially those engaged in R&D. In an earlier Science statistics bulletin, we published the gross domestic expenditures on R&D in Canada (GERD). This issue presents a supplementary measure to the GERD, the number of personnel who perform Canada's R&D activities.

    Release date: 2008-05-06
Articles and reports (168)

Articles and reports (168) (0 to 10 of 168 results)

  • 1. Five-year cancer survival by stage at diagnosis in Canada
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202300100001
    Description: Cancer survival estimates provide insights into the effectiveness of early detection and treatment. The stage of cancer at diagnosis is an important determinant of survival, reflecting the extent and spread at the time of disease detection. The recent extension of the Canadian Cancer Registry death-linked analytic file from 2014 to 2017 now offers an opportunity to provide more up-to-date net survival (NS) figures and to profile, for the first time, five-year NS estimates for Canada (excluding Quebec). This study presents five-year stage-specific cancer and five-year NS estimates for the most commonly diagnosed cancers in Canada.
    Release date: 2023-01-18
  • 2. Comments by Michael R. Elliott on “Statistical inference with non-probability survey samples”
    Articles and reports: 12-001-X202200200004
    Description:

    This discussion attempts to add to Wu’s review of inference from non-probability samples, as well as to highlighting aspects that are likely avenues for useful additional work. It concludes with a call for an organized stable of high-quality probability surveys that will be focused on providing adjustment information for non-probability surveys.

    Release date: 2022-12-15
  • 3. High school graduation rates in Canada, 2016/2017 to 2019/2020
    Articles and reports: 81-599-X2022002
    Description:

    This fact sheet presents the most recent information about on-time and extended-time high school graduation rates in Canada. While this measure will not reflect whether youth ultimately graduate from high school during their lifetime, it does provide policy-makers and researchers with information on how youth progress through their secondary level studies and if they complete them within the expected amount of time.

    Release date: 2022-10-20
  • 4. Education Indicators in Canada: Report of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program, September 2022
    Articles and reports: 81-582-X2022002
    Description:

    The Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP) draws from a wide variety of data sources to provide information on the school-age population, elementary, secondary and postsecondary education, transitions, and labour market outcomes. PCEIP products include tables, fact sheets, reports and a methodological handbook. They present indicators for all of Canada, the provinces, the territories, as well as selected international comparisons and comparisons over time. The Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP) is an ongoing initiative of the Canadian Education Statistics Council, a partnership between Statistics Canada and the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada that provides a set of statistical measures on education systems in Canada.

    Release date: 2022-09-08
  • 5. Traffic volume estimation from traffic camera imagery: Toward real-time traffic data streams
    Articles and reports: 18-001-X2022001
    Description:

    Monitoring traffic in large urban areas remains a challenge for both practical and technical reasons. This paper presents a computer vision-based system to periodically extract vehicle counts from Canadian traffic camera imagery.

    Release date: 2022-09-06
  • 6. The anchoring method: Estimation of interviewer effects in the absence of interpenetrated sample assignment
    Articles and reports: 12-001-X202200100005
    Description:

    Methodological studies of the effects that human interviewers have on the quality of survey data have long been limited by a critical assumption: that interviewers in a given survey are assigned random subsets of the larger overall sample (also known as interpenetrated assignment). Absent this type of study design, estimates of interviewer effects on survey measures of interest may reflect differences between interviewers in the characteristics of their assigned sample members, rather than recruitment or measurement effects specifically introduced by the interviewers. Previous attempts to approximate interpenetrated assignment have typically used regression models to condition on factors that might be related to interviewer assignment. We introduce a new approach for overcoming this lack of interpenetrated assignment when estimating interviewer effects. This approach, which we refer to as the “anchoring” method, leverages correlations between observed variables that are unlikely to be affected by interviewers (“anchors”) and variables that may be prone to interviewer effects to remove components of within-interviewer correlations that lack of interpenetrated assignment may introduce. We consider both frequentist and Bayesian approaches, where the latter can make use of information about interviewer effect variances in previous waves of a study, if available. We evaluate this new methodology empirically using a simulation study, and then illustrate its application using real survey data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), where interviewer IDs are provided on public-use data files. While our proposed method shares some of the limitations of the traditional approach – namely the need for variables associated with the outcome of interest that are also free of measurement error – it avoids the need for conditional inference and thus has improved inferential qualities when the focus is on marginal estimates, and it shows evidence of further reducing overestimation of larger interviewer effects relative to the traditional approach.

    Release date: 2022-06-21
  • 7. Measuring progress in cancer survival across Canadian provinces: Extending the cancer survival index to further evaluate cancer control efforts
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202200600002
    Description:

    An evaluation of progress in cancer survival in Canada for all cancer types combined was recently conducted using the cancer survival index. This study provides a comprehensive evaluation of provincial-level progress in cancer survival for all cancer types combined in Canada.

    Release date: 2022-06-15
  • 8. COVID-19 infection in the Canadian household population
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202200400003
    Description:

    Certain population groups face a disproportionate burden of exposure to COVID-19. This study examined characteristics of Canadians living in private households in fall 2020 and winter 2021 who had been infected with COVID-19.

    Release date: 2022-04-20
  • 9. Why are babies in Canada getting smaller?
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202200100001
    Description:

    Recent evidence from the United States and Canada suggests an unexplained increase in small-for-gestational-age births (<10th percentile). This study aimed to identify reasons for the recent increase in small-for-gestational-age births in Canada.

    Release date: 2022-01-19
  • 10. Assessing the coverage of confidence intervals under nonresponse. A case study on income mean and quantiles in some municipalities from the 2015 Mexican Intercensal Survey
    Articles and reports: 12-001-X202100200004
    Description:

    This note presents a comparative study of three methods for constructing confidence intervals for the mean and quantiles based on survey data with nonresponse. These methods, empirical likelihood, linearization, and that of Woodruff’s (1952), were applied to data on income obtained from the 2015 Mexican Intercensal Survey, and to simulated data. A response propensity model was used for adjusting the sampling weights, and the empirical performance of the methods was assessed in terms of the coverage of the confidence intervals through simulation studies. The empirical likelihood and linearization methods had a good performance for the mean, except when the variable of interest had some extreme values. For quantiles, the linearization method had a poor performance, while the empirical likelihood and Woodruff methods had a better one, though without reaching the nominal coverage when the variable of interest had values with high frequency near the quantile of interest.

    Release date: 2022-01-06
Journals and periodicals (3)

Journals and periodicals (3) ((3 results))

  • 1. Cornerstones of Community: Highlights from the National Survey of Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations Archived
    Journals and periodicals: 61-533-X
    Description:

    This publication provides the first national portrait of the many thousands of nonprofit and voluntary organizations found in every Canadian community. The data, from the National Survey of Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations, reveal a set of organizations that are widely diverse in nature, touching virtually every aspect of Canadians' lives.

    Release date: 2005-06-30
  • 2. Summary of the Findings of the National Survey of Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations Archived
    Journals and periodicals: 61-533-S
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This booklet summarizes the key results of the first National Survey of Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations. These organizations have a significant economic presence and serve as vehicles for citizen engagement. However, many report significant challenges to their capacity to fulfill their missions.

    Release date: 2005-03-11
  • 3. Beyond the Information Highway Networked Canada (Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Compendium) Archived
    Journals and periodicals: 56-504-X
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Networked Canada is the first comprehensive compendium to be published by Statistics Canada on the information and communications technologies (ICT) sector. The compendium has been designed as a profile of the information society, focusing on current trends, as well as an historical overview of the growth and development of the Canadian ICT sector industries. The publication contains two main parts. The first provides a statistical overview of the ICT sector on the basis of key economic variables, including production, employment, international trade, revenue and R&D expenditure. A summary of international ICT sector comparisons for selected variables, using recent data published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is also included here. The ever widening use of, and access to ICTs in the home, at work, in schools and by governments is examined in the second part.

    Many different data sources have been used throughout the project, and while all efforts have been made to maximize the amount of data available, it has not been possible in all instances to consistently report for all ICT industries and all relevant variables. The conversion to the new North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) has largely contributed to these difficulties, and it is expected that a greater range of data will be available once all of the survey programs begin reporting on the basis of this new industry classification.

    Release date: 2001-04-27
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