Methodology of the Canadian Labour Force Survey
Appendix A.2
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AR
Address Register
CA
Census agglomeration
CANSIM
Statistics Canada’s key socioeconomic database
CAPI
Computer assisted personal interviewing
CATI
Computer assisted telephone interviewing
CAWI
Computer assisted web interviewing
CCHS
Canadian Community Health Survey
CIS
Canadian Income Survey
CMA
Census metropolitan area
CPI
Consumer Price Index
CSD
Census subdivision
CV
Coefficient of variation
DA
Dissemination area (census)
DCE
Disaster/Catastrophe Effects module
DUF
Dwelling Universe File
EICS
Employment Insurance Coverage Survey
EIER
Employment insurance economic region
EQ
Electronic questionnaire
ER
Economic Region
ESDC
Employment and Social Development Canada
FTO
Fast Track Option module
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
GMS
Generalized Mapping System
HDIS
Hot-Deck Imputation System
HOPS
Head Office Processing System
ISD
Interviewer Selected Dwellings
ISR
Inverse sampling ratio
LFS
Labour Force Survey
NAICS
North American Industry Classification System
NGD
National Geographic Database
NOC
National Occupational Classification
NOC-S
National Occupational Classification - Statistics
PPS
Probability proportional to size
PPSWR
Probability proportional to size with replacement
PPSWOR
Probability proportional to size without replacement
PSU
Primary sampling unit
RHC
Rao-Hartley-Cochran (random group method)
RTF
Residential Telephone File
SE
Standard Error
SHS
Survey of Household Spending
SRS
Simple Random Sampling
SSU
Secondary sampling unit
TFC
Telephone First Contact
TSRC
Travel Survey of Residents of Canada


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Acknowledgement

Sincere thanks are due to the many people who contributed in various ways to this document.

Our gratitude goes first to the primary authors of the various chapters: Lihua An, Justin Francis, Guy Laflamme, Yves Lafortune, Scott Meyer, Elisabeth Neusy, Steven Thomas and Sylvia White. These people worked on different aspects of the 2015 redesign of the methodology of the Labour Force Survey, and thus were the best people to write about it.

Besides these, numerous people in Household Survey Methods Division, Labour Statistics Division, and elsewhere in Statistics Canada, were also involved in the planning, reviewing, verification, revision, translation and production of this document. Sincere thanks are due to all of them.

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Table of contents

Abstract - Main page
Chapter 1 Introduction and overview
Chapter 2 Sample design
Chapter 3 Sampling frame creation and maintenance
Chapter 4 Collection
Chapter 5 Processing and imputation
Chapter 6 Weighting and estimation
Chapter 7 Variance estimation
Chapter 8 Data quality
Chapter 9 LFS frame for other surveys
Appendices
References

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