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2006
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Heritage Institutions: Data Tables
These tables provide financial information on non-profit and for-profit heritage institutions in Canada. These institutions include museums (except art museums and galleries), art museums and galleries, historic sites, exhibition centres, planetariums, observatories, aquariums, zoos, botanical gardens, arboretums and conservatories.
Data for 2006 should not be compared with previously published data on this industry with the exception of 2005 and 2004 data. This is because significant changes to the Heritage Institutions survey were made prior to the 2004 survey year.
The new Survey of Heritage Institutions collects data on for-profit as well as not-for-profit heritage institutions in Canada. The data are now collected using a sample.
Sample selection is from the Business Register, a central Statistics Canada database of businesses that have been classified using the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). This industry-based classification is a departure from the activity-based classification used previously by the Culture Statistics Program. Some heritage institution activity which was previously included in the survey is now excluded if this represents secondary activity within a non-heritage organization. An example might be an art gallery that is part of a university.
For further information on all survey changes and collection and processing methodologies, see “The new culture of the Culture Statistics Program” at 87-004-X.
