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In order to reduce response burden for northern households, the Survey of Household Spending is conducted in the north only for odd-numbered reference years, starting with 1999.
As to the proportion of households, the coverage in Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut is respectively 92%, 93% and 92% of households.
A detailed description of the Labour Force Survey sampling frame can be found in Methodology of the Canadian Labour Force Survey, Statistics Canada, Catalogue no. 71-526-X.
For more information, please see the User guide of Survey of Household Spending 2008, catalogue 62F0026MWE.
Traditionally, the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) had been the source of Statistics Canada's annual income estimates. Starting with data for the 1998 reference year, the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) became the major source of annual cross-sectional income estimates, in addition to producing longitudinal income data.
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