Methodology of the Canadian Labour Force Survey
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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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