Introduction

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This compendium summarizes results from the Workplace and Employee Survey conducted by Statistics Canada from 1999 to 2005. The data provide a dynamic view of evolving workplaces and their employees through examples showing the use of the data in cross-sectional, longitudinal and linked analyses. The analyses presented are descriptive in nature and are meant to show the potential use of the WES data in a more complex analytical context.

This issue, the third and final in the Workplace and Employee Survey Compendium series, is organized in four sections covering labour market dynamics, market environments, workplace performance, and compensation practices. This structure is based on the notion that workplaces act upon and respond to their micro- and macro-environments using a wide array of business strategies, such as compensation strategies and innovative work practices. These interactions between workers, workplaces and environments give rise to labour dynamics as workplaces strive to achieve a desirable level of performance and productivity.

The 2005 data are used in all cross-sectional tables. A few longitudinal tables are included to provide comparisons between 1999 and 2005 for the workplace portion of the survey and comparisons involving the three employee panels—1999 to 2000, 2001 to 2002, and 2003 to 2004—for the employee portion of the survey. The linked tables provide employee data that incorporate workplace characteristics.

The sample sizes and estimated populations by industry, workplace size and region, as well as their corresponding distributions, are provided in Table A.1 in Appendix A.

In all tables, data with a coefficient of variation (CV) ranging from 25.0% to 33.0% are identified by a superscript E and should be interpreted with caution. Data with a CV greater than 33.0% are suppressed because of very high variability; their cells are identified by an F.