Filter results by
Search HelpKeyword(s)
Year of publication
Author(s)
Survey or statistical program
Results
All (89)
All (89) (10 to 20 of 89 results)
- 11. One Hundred Years and Counting ArchivedStats in brief: 11-001-X201807518543Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2018-03-16
- 12. One Hundred Years and Counting ArchivedStats in brief: 11-629-X2018002Description:
Celebrate Statistics Canada’s centennial by looking back on our journey with Canada.
Release date: 2018-03-16 - Articles and reports: 12-001-X201700254888Description:
We discuss developments in sample survey theory and methods covering the past 100 years. Neyman’s 1934 landmark paper laid the theoretical foundations for the probability sampling approach to inference from survey samples. Classical sampling books by Cochran, Deming, Hansen, Hurwitz and Madow, Sukhatme, and Yates, which appeared in the early 1950s, expanded and elaborated the theory of probability sampling, emphasizing unbiasedness, model free features, and designs that minimize variance for a fixed cost. During the period 1960-1970, theoretical foundations of inference from survey data received attention, with the model-dependent approach generating considerable discussion. Introduction of general purpose statistical software led to the use of such software with survey data, which led to the design of methods specifically for complex survey data. At the same time, weighting methods, such as regression estimation and calibration, became practical and design consistency replaced unbiasedness as the requirement for standard estimators. A bit later, computer-intensive resampling methods also became practical for large scale survey samples. Improved computer power led to more sophisticated imputation for missing data, use of more auxiliary data, some treatment of measurement errors in estimation, and more complex estimation procedures. A notable use of models was in the expanded use of small area estimation. Future directions in research and methods will be influenced by budgets, response rates, timeliness, improved data collection devices, and availability of auxiliary data, some of which will come from “Big Data”. Survey taking will be impacted by changing cultural behavior and by a changing physical-technical environment.
Release date: 2017-12-21 - Articles and reports: 12-001-X201700254894Description:
This note by Danny Pfeffermann presents a discussion of the paper “Sample survey theory and methods: Past, present, and future directions” where J.N.K. Rao and Wayne A. Fuller share their views regarding the developments in sample survey theory and methods covering the past 100 years.
Release date: 2017-12-21 - Articles and reports: 12-001-X201700254895Description:
This note by Graham Kalton presents a discussion of the paper “Sample survey theory and methods: Past, present, and future directions” where J.N.K. Rao and Wayne A. Fuller share their views regarding the developments in sample survey theory and methods covering the past 100 years.
Release date: 2017-12-21 - Articles and reports: 12-001-X201700254896Description:
This note by Sharon L. Lohr presents a discussion of the paper “Sample survey theory and methods: Past, present, and future directions” where J.N.K. Rao and Wayne A. Fuller share their views regarding the developments in sample survey theory and methods covering the past 100 years.
Release date: 2017-12-21 - Articles and reports: 12-001-X201700254897Description:
This note by Chris Skinner presents a discussion of the paper “Sample survey theory and methods: Past, present, and future directions” where J.N.K. Rao and Wayne A. Fuller share their views regarding the developments in sample survey theory and methods covering the past 100 years.
Release date: 2017-12-21 - Stats in brief: 11-001-X201728417401Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2017-10-11
- Articles and reports: 11F0019M2017399Description:
Canada is a trading nation that produces significant quantities of resource outputs. Consequently, the behaviour of resource prices that are important for Canada is germane to understanding the progress of real income growth and the prosperity of the country and the provinces. Demand and supply shocks or changes in monetary policy in international markets may exert significant influence on resource prices, and their fluctuations constitute an important avenue for the transmission of external shocks into the domestic economy. This paper develops historical estimates of the Bank of Canada commodity price index (BCPI) and links them to modern estimates. Using a collection of historical data sources, it estimates weights and prices sufficiently consistently to merit the construction of long-run estimates that may be linked to the modern Fisher BCPI.
Release date: 2017-10-11 - Articles and reports: 12-001-X201700114836Description:
Web-push survey data collection that uses mail contact to request responses over the Internet, while withholding alternative answering modes until later in the implementation process, has developed rapidly over the past decade. This paper describes the reasons this innovative mixing of survey contact and response modes was needed, the primary ones being the declining effectiveness of voice telephone and slower than expected development of email/web only data collection methods. Historical and institutional barriers to mixing survey modes in this manner are also discussed. Essential research on the use of U.S. Postal address lists and the effects of aural and visual communication on survey measurement are then described followed by discussion of experimental efforts to create a viable web-push methodology as an alternative to voice telephone and mail response surveys. Multiple examples of current and anticipated web-push data collection uses are provided. This paper ends with a discussion of both the great promise and significant challenge presented by greater reliance on web-push survey methods.
Release date: 2017-06-22
- Previous Go to previous page of All results
- 1 Go to page 1 of All results
- 2 (current) Go to page 2 of All results
- 3 Go to page 3 of All results
- 4 Go to page 4 of All results
- 5 Go to page 5 of All results
- 6 Go to page 6 of All results
- 7 Go to page 7 of All results
- 8 Go to page 8 of All results
- 9 Go to page 9 of All results
- Next Go to next page of All results
Stats in brief (9)
Stats in brief (9) ((9 results))
- 1. One Hundred Years and Counting ArchivedStats in brief: 11-001-X201807518543Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2018-03-16
- 2. One Hundred Years and Counting ArchivedStats in brief: 11-629-X2018002Description:
Celebrate Statistics Canada’s centennial by looking back on our journey with Canada.
Release date: 2018-03-16 - Stats in brief: 11-001-X201728417401Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2017-10-11
- Stats in brief: 13-604-M2010064Description:
This paper provides the latest annual results for the U.S./Canada purchasing power parities (PPPs) and real expenditure indexes in the U.S. compared with Canada for the period 2002 to 2009. Revisions to previously published data and an update using the most recent US and Canada expenditure data from the National Accounts and in-depth price comparisons for 2005 are incorporated. The paper provides a primer on purchasing power parities and related measures and why they are important in international comparisons of economic performance. It also describes a new projection methodology for total economy measures that are now based on Gross Domestic Income and shows the impact of this change on the data.
Release date: 2011-01-28 - Stats in brief: 13-604-M2007056Description:
This paper highlights the newly constructed Research and Development Satellite Account (RDSA) developed by Statistics Canada. The RDSA provides an analysis for the capitalization of research and development (R&D) as proposed by international guidelines for the System of National Accounts. The account calculates several methods to measure the impact on Gross Domestic Product of R&D expenditures. This paper presents the results of the RDSA for the years 1997 to 2004.
Release date: 2008-05-30 - Stats in brief: 89-628-X2007001Geography: CanadaDescription:
The Participation and Activity Limitation Survey (PALS) is Canada's national survey that gathers information about adults and children whose daily activities are limited by a physical, mental, or other health-related condition or problem.
This report presents some basic information about the survey and an overview of the methodological and content changes between the 2001 and 2006 PALS. The major difference involves a change in coverage resulting from the inclusion of a number of aboriginal communities, the addition of the three territories, and the modification to the definition of collective dwellings.
Release date: 2007-12-03 - Stats in brief: 13-604-M2007053Description:
The latest annual results for the US/Canada purchasing power parities (PPPs) and real expenditure indexes in the US compared with Canada are published in this paper for the period 1992 to 2005. Revisions to previously published data and an update using the latest US and Canada expenditure data from the National Accounts and in-depth price comparisons for 2002 are incorporated, and a new type-of-product presentation is included. The paper provides a primer on purchasing power parities and related measures and why they are important in international comparisons of economic performance.
Release date: 2007-02-12 - 8. Purchasing Power Parities and Real Expenditures: United States/Canada - Updates, 1992-2001 ArchivedStats in brief: 13-604-M2002039Description:
The latest annual results for the US/Canada purchasing power parities (PPPs) and real expenditures per head in the US compared with Canada are published in this paper. The data were developed for the period 1992 to 2001, using the latest US and Canada expenditure data from the National Accounts and price comparisons for 1999. The paper contains summaries of differences between the results of the multilateral (OECD) study and the Statistics Canada bilateral study. Some differences in classifications have been incorporated, as well as normal national Accounts revisions. Ten tables are presented in an Appendix for 21 categories of expenditure for the GDP.
Release date: 2002-06-28 - 9. Purchasing Power Parities and Real Expenditures, United States and Canada - An Update to 1998 ArchivedStats in brief: 13-604-M1999036Description:
Recent economic trends, including expanding globalization of trade (as evidenced by new trade agreements), volatility in market exchange rates, and greater interest in international comparisons of real income and productivity are generating increased interest in intercountry comparisons. These comparisons are made in real terms derived from purchasing power parities (PPPs). In Canada, a particularly important relationship with the United States focusses attention on US/Canada comparative price and volume measures. This article includes updated annual bilateral volume indexes of real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and its components for the United States, compared with Canada, and the associated PPPs.
Release date: 1999-11-30
Articles and reports (79)
Articles and reports (79) (20 to 30 of 79 results)
- 21. Modelling of complex survey data: Why model? Why is it a problem? How can we approach it? ArchivedArticles and reports: 12-001-X201100211602Description:
This article attempts to answer the three questions appearing in the title. It starts by discussing unique features of complex survey data not shared by other data sets, which require special attention but suggest a large variety of diverse inference procedures. Next a large number of different approaches proposed in the literature for handling these features are reviewed with discussion on their merits and limitations. The approaches differ in the conditions underlying their use, additional data required for their application, goodness of fit testing, the inference objectives that they accommodate, statistical efficiency, computational demands, and the skills required from analysts fitting the model. The last part of the paper presents simulation results, which compare the approaches when estimating linear regression coefficients from a stratified sample in terms of bias, variance, and coverage rates. It concludes with a short discussion of pending issues.
Release date: 2011-12-21 - 22. Low-income Dynamics and Determinants Under Different Thresholds: New Findings for Canada in 2000 and Beyond ArchivedArticles and reports: 75F0002M2011003Description:
Existing studies on Canadian poverty (or low-income) dynamics are mainly based on 1990s data from the Longitudinal Administrative Database or the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID). These studies typically rely on a single low-income threshold.
Our work extends the existing studies beyond 1999 by using SLID data from Panel 3 (1999 to 2004) and Panel 4 (2002 to 2007). We consider all three low-income thresholds established by federal departments: Statistics Canada's low-income cut-off (LICO) and low-income measure (LIM), and the market basket measure (MBM) of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada.
Release date: 2011-10-21 - 23. Low Income Lines, 2009-2010 ArchivedArticles and reports: 75F0002M2011002Description:
In order to provide a holographic or complete picture of low income, Statistics Canada uses three complementary low income lines: the Low Income Cut-offs (LICOs), the Low Income Measures (LIMs) and the Market Basket Measure (MBM). While the first two lines were developed by Statistics Canada, the MBM is based on concepts developed by Human Resources and Skill Development Canada. Though these measures differ from one another, they give a generally consistent picture of low income status over time. None of these measures is the best. Each contributes its own perspective and its own strengths to the study of low income, so that cumulatively, the three provide a better understanding of the phenomenon of low income as a whole. These measures are not measures of poverty, but strictly measures of low income.
Release date: 2011-06-15 - 24. The organisation of statistical methodology and methodological research in national statistical offices ArchivedArticles and reports: 12-001-X201000211375Description:
The paper explores and assesses the approaches used by statistical offices to ensure effective methodological input into their statistical practice. The tension between independence and relevance is a common theme: generally, methodologists have to work closely with the rest of the statistical organisation for their work to be relevant; but they also need to have a degree of independence to question the use of existing methods and to lead the introduction of new ones where needed. And, of course, there is a need for an effective research program which, on the one hand, has a degree of independence needed by any research program, but which, on the other hand, is sufficiently connected so that its work is both motivated by and feeds back into the daily work of the statistical office. The paper explores alternative modalities of organisation; leadership; planning and funding; the role of project teams; career development; external advisory committees; interaction with the academic community; and research.
Release date: 2010-12-21 - 25. Low Income Lines, 2008-2009 ArchivedArticles and reports: 75F0002M2010005Description:
In order to provide a holographic or complete picture of low income, Statistics Canada uses three complementary low income lines: the Low Income Cut-offs (LICOs), the Low Income Measures (LIMs) and the Market Basket Measure (MBM). While the first two lines were developed by Statistics Canada, the MBM is based on concepts developed by Human Resources and Skill Development Canada. Though these measures differ from one another, they give a generally consistent picture of low income status over time. None of these measures is the best. Each contributes its own perspective and its own strengths to the study of low income, so that cumulatively, the three provide a better understanding of the phenomenon of low income as a whole. These measures are not measures of poverty, but strictly measures of low income.
Release date: 2010-06-17 - Articles and reports: 75F0002M2010003Description:
This study assesses the existing LICO, LIM, and MBM lines, together with a fixed LIM, by using several distribution sensitive indexes. We found that the low income lines tracked each other well in the long-run. But, in the short-run, they often behaved differently. The same was observed when examining different indexes under the same line. In the long-run, the low income rate, gap, and severity indexes all moved in the same direction. However in the short-run, they sometimes varied in opposite directions, or in the same direction with different magnitudes, suggesting that a single line or index can be misleading in some circumstances.
Release date: 2010-05-26 - Articles and reports: 11-536-X200900110815Description:
Regression estimation has only been used extensively by statistical organizations in recent years. The sample mean and the classical ratio estimator are particular cases of this estimator. Both have a long history that can be traced back to the ancient Greeks or earlier. For instance, the ratio estimator was used by the Egyptians and Babylonians to compute the circumference of a circle given its radius, given a constant approximating the famous pi value. Multiple examples that use the ratio estimator as a means to indirectly compute a measure of interest can be found in physics, and engineering. The ratio estimator was also used to estimate population census estimates in the past when exact counts were beyond the capabilities of the existing administrations (for example John Graunt 1662, and Laplace late eighteenth century).
In this talk, we will trace the evolution of the regression estimation in survey sampling from the 1930's to the present time. We will outline its advantages and disadvantages in using it in survey sampling. Corresponding software development will also be presented
Release date: 2009-08-11 - Articles and reports: 11-536-XDescription:
On October 31 and November 1, 2007, Statistics Canada held a special methodology conference in honour of Professor Carl-Erik Särndal entitled Workshop on Calibration and Estimation in Surveys (WCES). The workshop focused on diverse aspects of Professor Särndal's career - his work, teachings and writings having had a profound affect on the way methodologists carry out their daily duties, both here and abroad. He was a consultant to Statistics Canada for many years and is a member of the Advisory Committee on Statistical Methods. Professor Särndal's deep and lasting influence in this field earned him the 2007 Waksberg Award, one of the most prestigious honours a statistician can receive in recognition of his or her work in survey sampling statistics.
Release date: 2009-08-11 - 29. The U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: what forty years of experience has taught us ArchivedArticles and reports: 11-522-X200600110413Description:
The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) has been conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics for over forty years. The survey collects information on the health and nutritional status of the United States population using in-person interviews and standardized physical examinations conducted in mobile examination centers. During the course of these forty years, numerous lessons have been learned about the conduct of a survey using direct physical measures. Examples of these "lessons learned" are described and provide a guide for other organizations and countries as they plan similar surveys.
Release date: 2008-03-17 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20050019443Description:
A large part of sample survey theory has been directly motivated by practical problems encountered in the design and analysis of sample surveys. On the other hand, sample survey theory has influenced practice, often leading to significant improvements. This paper will examine this interplay over the past 60 years or so.
Release date: 2007-03-02
- Previous Go to previous page of Articles and reports results
- 1 Go to page 1 of Articles and reports results
- 2 Go to page 2 of Articles and reports results
- 3 (current) Go to page 3 of Articles and reports results
- 4 Go to page 4 of Articles and reports results
- 5 Go to page 5 of Articles and reports results
- 6 Go to page 6 of Articles and reports results
- 7 Go to page 7 of Articles and reports results
- 8 Go to page 8 of Articles and reports results
- Next Go to next page of Articles and reports results
Journals and periodicals (1)
Journals and periodicals (1) ((1 result))
- Journals and periodicals: 89-20-0001Description:
Historical works allow readers to peer into the past, not only to satisfy our curiosity about “the way things were,” but also to see how far we’ve come, and to learn from the past. For Statistics Canada, such works are also opportunities to commemorate the agency’s contributions to Canada and its people, and serve as a reminder that an institution such as this continues to evolve each and every day.
On the occasion of Statistics Canada’s 100th anniversary in 2018, Standing on the shoulders of giants: History of Statistics Canada: 1970 to 2008, builds on the work of two significant publications on the history of the agency, picking up the story in 1970 and carrying it through the next 36 years, until 2008. To that end, when enough time has passed to allow for sufficient objectivity, it will again be time to document the agency’s next chapter as it continues to tell Canada’s story in numbers.
Release date: 2018-12-03
- Date modified: