Agency Operations
Description: Records relating to the overall functions of the Agency.
Document Types: Policies, plans and programs.
Record Number: STC OCS 005

Aboriginal Statistics

1991 Aboriginal Peoples Survey
Description: Records related to a post-censal survey following the 1991 Census of Population that collected data on the lifestyles and living conditions of Aboriginal people in Canada.
Document Types: Adults (identity, language and tradition, disability, health, lifestyle and social issues, mobility, schooling, work and related activities, expenditures and sources of income, housing); children (identity, language and tradition, health and disability, mobility, schooling, housing).
Record Number: STC HFS 122

2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey
Description: Records related to a post-censal survey following the 2001 Census of Population to collect data on the lifestyles and living conditions of Aboriginal people in Canada.
Document Types: Adult (education, language, labour activity, income, health, communication technology, mobility, housing); children and youth (general health, health care utilization, activities of daily living and medical conditions, physical injuries, dental care, nutrition, education, social activities and relationships, language, child care arrangements, household data); Métis supplement (family background, household information, cultural background, health); Arctic supplement (household and harvesting activities, personal wellness, community wellness and social participation).
Record Number: STC HFS 028

2006 Aboriginal Peoples Survey
Description: Records related to a post-censal survey following the 2006 Census of Population which collected data on the living conditions of Aboriginal people in Canada.
Document Types: Adult aged 15 and over (education, language, labour activity, income, health, communication technology, mobility, housing); children and youth aged 6 to 14 (general health, health care utilization, activities of daily living and medical conditions, physical injuries, dental care, nutrition, education, social activities and relationships, language, child care arrangements, household data); Métis supplement (family background, child welfare, social interaction, health); Arctic supplement (household and harvesting activities, personal wellness, community wellness and social participation).
Record Number: STC HFS 716

2006 Aboriginal Children Survey
Description: Records related to a post-censal survey following the 2006 Census of Population which collected data on the development and well-being of Aboriginal children in Canada.
Document Types: Children under the age of 6 (family and community, nurturing, child care arrangements, parent's perception of community, early learning, developmental milestones, learning and activities, strengths and challenges, healthy living, health status, access to health care, food and nutrition, sleep, healthy environment, languages spoken and understood).
Record Number: STC SAS 724

2006 Survey of Northern Children
Description: Records related to a post-censal survey following the 2006 Census of Population which collected data on the development and well-being of children.
Document Types: Children under the age of 6 (family and community, nurturing, child care arrangements, parent's perception of community, early learning, developmental milestones, learning and activities, strengths and challenges, healthy living, health status, access to health care, food and nutrition, sleep, healthy environment, languages spoken and understood).
Record Number: STC SAS 725

Agriculture, Technology and Transportation Statistics

Agriculture Statistics

Crop Condition Assessment Program
Description: Records related to the Crop Condition Assessment Program, a Web-based application providing weekly cropland and pasture monitoring throughout the growing season for the entire agriculture regions of Canada and the northern half of the United States.
Document Types: Crop development, pasture development, comparison of crop conditions, normalized difference vegetation index, climatic conditions.
Record Number: STC AGR 451

Crops
Description: Records related to current grain marketing data and analysis on the major Canadian grains and their products; seeding intentions, seeded and harvested area, yield, production and stocks for the principal field and special crops in Canada; anda variety of data on greenhouse, sod and nursery industries, fruits, vegetables, mushrooms, honey and maple production.
Document Types: Field and special crops, grain marketing, vegetables, fruits, greenhouse and nursery products, mushrooms, honey and maple products, and supply-disposition analyses of the major field crops.
Record Number: STC AGR 450

Farm Environmental Management Survey
Description: Records related tofarm management of manure, commercial fertilizers, commercial pesticides and environmental planning.
Document Types: Manure management, commercial fertilizer management, pesticide application practices, land area, livestock inventory, farm type, gross farm receipts, land and water practices and whole farm environmental management.
Record Number: STC AGR 457

Farm Income and Prices
Description: Records related to farm income, prices and farm finances.
Document Types: Farm cash receipts, farm expenses and depreciation, net farm income, government program payments paid to agricultural producers, value of inventory change, income in kind, farm debt, value of farm capital, value per acre of farm land and buildings, farm product price index, farm business cash flow, value added account, and balance sheet of the agricultural sector.
Record Number: STC AGR 455

Farm Register
Description: Records related to the Farm Register, a repository of all agricultural operations in Canada and of the main operators or contacts for each of these agricultural operations. It is used for maintenance of the survey frames for agricultural surveys and provides a complete historical record of these agricultural operations' survey activities.
Document Types: Surveys, addresses.
Record Number: STC AGR 464

Livestock, Animal Products and Food
Description: Records related to livestock inventories, production of meat and animal products, wool production, fur production, egg production, dairy statistics, stocks of meat and poultry in cold storage, aquaculture production, and food and nutrient statistics.
Document Types: Inventories of classes of cattle, pigs, sheep and poultry; stocks in cold storage; dairy products; fur; eggs; wool; per capita food consumption; nutrient information.
Record Number: STC AGR 460

Whole Farm Database
Description: Records related to descriptive, physical and financial data at the whole farm level on an annual basis that are obtained from the Taxation Data Program, the Farm Financial Survey and crop and livestock surveys.
Document Types: Area of land and usage, livestock inventories, income and expense statements, assets and liabilities, off‑farm income of the farm operators and farm families, investment data, number of farms, farm type and degree of specialization, farm operators' age, sex and marital status
Record Number: STC AGR 452

Science, Innovation and Electronic Information Statistics

Broadcasting, Program Distribution and Telecommunications
Description: Records related to the radio, television, cable and telecommunications industries.
Document Types: Telecommunications carriers and resellers, radio and television stations and networks, cable and satellite program distribution systems; revenues and expenses by type for broadcasting and telecommunications; capital expenditures by type of assets for broadcasting and telecommunications; international trade in broadcasting and telecommunications services; number of residential and business telecommunications connections by type; volume of telecommunications traffic; number of subscribers to cable, Internet access by cable and mobile telecommunications services; penetration of telecommunications, cable and wireless program distribution services.
Record Number: STC SAT 430

Electronic Commerce and Information Technology Use
Description: Records related to the use of different types of information and communication technologies by Canadian businesses and institutions, the value of Internet transactions and the barriers to, and benefits of, electronic commerce.
Document Types: Penetration and diffusion of Internet, e-mail, enterprise networks, mobile communications and e-commerce in the private and public sectors; Web presence in the private and public sectors; Internet connections by type in the private and public sectors; value of business-to-consumer and business-to-business sales over the Internet; value of domestic and foreign Internet sales by Canadian businesses.
Record Number: STC SAT 431

Internet Use in Canada
Description: Records related to Internet activities for non-business use in Canada, including the extent, location and frequency of use and the motivations for using or not using this technology.
Document Types: Use (penetration) of Internet at home, at work, at school and at other locations; modes of Internet connections at home; frequency and purpose of use of the Internet; profile of Internet users and non-users and of Internet shoppers; propensity to engage in Internet shopping and Internet ordering; value and type of Internet purchases; value of orders on the Internet by the origin of the supplier.
Record Number: STC SAT 432

Science and Technology Statistics
Description: Records relating to resources (expenditures and personnel) for science and technology in the public and private sectors in Canada; indicators of activities, linkages, and outcomes of science and technology activities in Canada.
Document Types: Science and technology spending and personnel in the federal and provincial governments, universities and hospitals; research and development spending and personnel in the business enterprise sector and the private non‑profit sector; generation of national and provincial estimates of gross expenditures on R&D (GERD); intellectual property management in universities, teaching hospitals and the federal government; human resources in science and technology; impact of advanced technologies in manufacturing and logging; and tracking the introduction of new products and processes (innovation in manufacturing, selected service industries, selected natural resource industries and transportation industries); tracking the use and development of biotechnology in industry and the federal government and knowledge management in the private sector.
Record Number: STC SAT 465

Small Business Statistics

Small Business and Special Surveys
Description: Records related to the Small Business Statistics Program, including Small Business Profiles that are compiled from taxation records, the Longitudinal Employment Analysis Program (LEAP) file and special surveys on business financing in Canada. Records also relate to the conduct of special surveys, record linkages and data integration projects which respond to information needs of clients concerning business economic and production statistics in Canada.
Document Types: Surveys, record linkages.
Record Number: STC SBS 524

Transportation Statistics

Air Transport
Description: Records related to the movement of aircraft, passengers and cargo by air and to the activities of Canadian air carriers.
Document Types: Canadian air carrier financial and operating statistics; air traffic and volume of cargo at Canadian airports; origin and destination of scheduled air passengers traveling within Canada, between Canada and the United States and internationally; domestic and international air charter statistics; airport activity and traffic flow; fares and fare type statistics.
Record Number: STC TRA 395

Rail Transport
Description: Records relating to rail transportation in Canada and between the United States and Canada.
Document Types: Railway financial and operating statistics; equipment and length of track; fuel consumption and employment statistics; freight and passenger traffic; freight loaded; commodity movement between provinces and to and from the United States.
Record Number: STC TRA 390

Road Transport
Description: Records relating to all road transport in Canada. In addition to surveying carriers and owners of registered motor vehicles, certain programs rely on aggregation of provincial and territorial administrative records.
Document Types: Financial and operating statistics on motor carriers of freight (trucking) and passenger bus and urban transit; commodity origin‑destination statistics of the Canadian domiciled for‑hire trucking industry (domestic and international); motor vehicle usage, motor vehicle registrations and related licenses; gross and net sales of motor fuels; financial statistics for couriers, local messengers and taxis.
Record Number: STC TRA 400

Water Transport
Description: Records relating to water transportation, domestic shipping, international seaborne shipping, and ports of loading and unloading.
Document Types: Financial statistics on water carriers; shipping and port activities; commodities loaded and unloaded; containerized commodities; ports of loading and unloading; number, kind, operating status and registry (flag) of vessels arriving at and leaving Canadian ports; foreign port of origin or destination.
Record Number: STC TRA 405

Analytical Studies

Administrative Data
Description: Records related to aggregated data primarily from the T1 income tax form and a sample (20%) longitudinal file.
Document Types: Income data by source (individual and family); sub‑provincial data (areas as small as postal walks); migration; income and demographic data (individual and family).
Record Number: STC SAD 550

Current Economic Analysis
Description: Records related to the production of Statistics Canada's flagship publication for economic statistics, the Canadian Economic Observer, and the production of the monthly composite leading index.
Document Types: Publication, analysis.
Record Number: STC CEA 704

Integration and Analysis
Description: Records related to analysis and data development in the areas of business/industry and labour market using data derived from Statistics Canada business and labour surveys as well as administrative data.
Document Types: Displaced workers and labour adjustment; wage and income inequality, unemployment and employment insurance; employment creation studies; impact of structural change in the economy on wages and job separations; quits and layoffs in the economy; micro‑simulation model development; employment equity studies; survey development in the area of labour demand and human resource practices in firms.
Record Number: STC BMA 255

Small Area Database
Description: Records related to theSmall Area Database that contains annual socio‑economic and demographic data for sub‑provincial areas. Data come from sources within and external to Statistics Canada. Also includes records related to the Longitudinal Administrative Databank which contains individual and family information on approximately 4.8 million people.
Document Types: Tax data, sub‑provincial areas.
Record Number: STC SAD 555

Deemed Employees
Description: Records related to persons who are temporarily engaged by Statistics Canada to conduct research or to provide another service to a statistical program.
Document Types: Contracts, memoranda of understanding, résumés, research proposals.
Record Number: STC RDC 501

Census of Agriculture

Census of Agriculture and Agriculture-Population Linkage
Description: Records related to the Census of Agriculture conducted every five years and the linkage of Census of Population data with Census of Agriculture data.
Document Types: Number and type of farms, crop, horticulture and land use areas, land management practices, numbers of livestock and poultry, organic farming, computer use, farm machinery and equipment, farm capital, and farm operating expenses and receipts, number of farm operators, age, sex, residence status, farm and non-farm work and farm-related injuries, marital status, mother tongue, highest level of schooling, net farm income as well as farm population counts and income profiles for census farm families and households.
Record Number: STC AGR 445

Census of Population

1940 National Registration Records
Description: Records related to the 1940 National Registration Records which includes information from a compulsory registration of all persons 16 years of age or older in the period 1940‑1946.
Document Types: Name, address, age, date of birth, marital status, dependents, country of birth (persons registered and parents only), year of immigration, nationality, racial origin, languages, education, general health, class of occupation, occupation or craft, employment status, work experience by type, mechanical or other abilities, latent skills, wartime circumstances, previous military service.
Record Number: STC COP 020

Census Operations
Description: Records related to theCensus of Population which is conducted every five years.
Document Types: Population and families ‑ demographic characteristics (age, sex, marital status); ethno‑cultural characteristics (immigration, citizenship, ethnic origin); language variables (home language, mother tongue, official language, knowledge of non official language); schooling variables (educational attainment,major field of study, school attendance); labour force (class of worker, industry, occupation, place of work); family size (family composition); income (census family income, economic family income, income from each source and total income); households (household maintainer, type of household, household size, length of occupancy, mortgage or rent, condominium, household income); dwellings (condition of dwelling, structural type). Variables are available at various levels of geography across Canada. Information collected in the census varies somewhat from one census to the next.
Record Number: STC COP 015

Demography

Demography Program
Description: Records related to research for population estimates and projections and demographic and demolinguistic characteristics.
Document Types: Population estimates, population projections, emigration, immigration, inter-provincial migration, post‑censal estimates, family estimates, components of population growth (births, deaths, migration), demographic characteristics (age, sex, marital status), family characteristics, demo-linguistic characteristics (mother tongue, home language, language of work and knowledge of languages), current demographic analysis on the Canadian population.
Record Number: STC DEM 030

Economy Wide Statistics

Industrial Organization and Finance Statistics

Business Finance and Taxation Data
Description: Records related to financial and taxation data of incorporated enterprises operating in Canada. The Annual Financial and Taxation Statistics (AFTS) program comprises data from survey and administrative sources: non-government, for-profit enterprises from the Quarterly Survey of Financial Statistics for Enterprises (QFS) survey program, a survey of provincial and federal government enterprises, and administrative data from the Canada Revenue Agency. Records also relate to the annual Survey of Suppliers of Business Financing (SSBF) which targets banks, trust companies, credit unions, caisses populaires, finance, portfolio management, insurance and leasing companies. The survey provides a profile of financing provided to businesses in Canada, including small- and medium-sized enterprises and firms in knowledge based industries.
Document Types: The QFS and AFTS statistical programs include aggregate measures of assets, liabilities, shareholder's equity, revenues, expenses, profits and retained earnings and financial ratios. In addition, the AFTS program produces income taxes payable and a reconciliation of profits to taxable income and taxes payable. The SSBF provides loan amounts authorized, outstanding and business client counts by type of financing (debt, factoring and leasing) for several characteristics of business clients. The value of losses is also measured.
Record Number: STC IOF 435

Corporations Returns Act
Description: Records related to financial data, ownership, control (including foreign control) and concentration. Statistics Canada is responsible for the administration of the Corporations Returns Act (CRA). The primary purpose of this Act is to prepare an annual analytical report to Parliament on Canadian and foreign control in the Canadian economy, in terms of assets, operating revenue, and profits. In addition, information is collected on who owns whom in the Canadian corporate economy and is made available in Inter-Corporate Ownership. Central to the CRA program is the annual ownership survey, which must be completed by each corporation with total assets exceeding $10 million or total gross revenue exceeding $15 million. Further, any individual corporation or group of commonly controlled corporations not meeting the above criteria, but with value of equity or debt obligations, owing directly or indirectly, to non-residents of Canada in excess of $200,000, is required to file under the Act.
Document Types: Country of control, assets, operating revenue, corporate concentration; and directory of inter-corporate ownership.
Record Number: STC IOF 440

International Trade Statistics

Custom Data Retrievals: Exports and Imports
Description: Records related to Canadian or world trade data tabulations on a customized basis.
Document Types: Exports and imports according to the Harmonized System and the North American Industry Classification System by quantity and value, commodity, country and weight of merchandise; exports by province of origin; imports by province of clearance; import and export price and volume indexes.
Record Number: STC INT 410

Investment and Capital Stock Statistics

Capital Expenditures
Description: Records related to capital and related expenditures on new construction, machinery and equipment purchase and repair work on structures and machinery.
Document Types: Provincial capital and related expenditures by industry and a breakdown of private and public investment.
Record Number: STC SCT 475

Capital Stock
Description: Records related to the annual estimates of the value of fixed assets and quarterly estimates of capacity utilization rates.
Document Types: Series on fixed capital flows and stocks, and depreciation in current, constant and Chain Fisher dollars by industry and province; series on fixed capital flows and stocks, and depreciation in current, constant and Chain Fisher dollars by selected groups of assets and by industry at the national level; national series on industrial capacity utilization rates.
Record Number: STC SCT 470

Current Investment Indicators
Description: Records related to building permits, residential and non-residential capital building expenditures and fixed assets in housing.
Document Types: Number and value of building permits issued by municipalities; number of new dwelling units by type; value of residential, commercial, governmental and institutional building construction; housing stock; construction activity indicators; provincial and metropolitan in non-residential building expenditures in both current and constant dollars.
Record Number: STC SCT 480

Prices Statistics

Consumer Price Indexes and Other Indexes
Description: Records related to the measurement of consumer price changes and region-to-region price differences, including concepts and procedures.
Document Types: Consumer price indexes, average retail prices for selected commodities, inter-city price comparisons for selected commodity groups, indexes for foreign services posts and Canadian isolated posts, methodology and concepts.
Record Number: STC PRI 415

Industrial Prices
Description: Records related to the measurements of price movements in the production of commodities and services.
Document Types: Industrial price indexes: manufacturers' selling price indexes; contractors' selling price indexes for a limited number of construction activities and services such as wholesale and retail services, freight transportation services, engineering and other professional services, and telephone services; electricity selling price indexes; selected purchase price indexes: special purpose indexes for capital expenditures, machinery and equipment by industry of purchase; raw materials price indexes, including data for imported as well as domestically produced goods; farm input price indexes.
Record Number: STC PRI 420

General Social Characteristics Statistics

2001 Participation and Activity Limitation Survey
Description: Documents related to apost-censal survey that was carried out following the 2001 Census of Population to collect data on the prevalence of disability in Canada and the impact of disability on the life of Canadians with disabilities.
Document Types: Presence,nature and severity of disability; use of technical aids and services; help required and received to perform daily activities; disability-related out-of-pocket expenses; demographic, household, labour force, employment, education, transportation, residential lifestyles and economic characteristics of persons with disabilities.
Record Number: STC HFS 707

2006 Participation and Activity Limitation Survey
Description: Documents related to a post-censal survey that was carried out following the 2006 Census of Population to collect data on the prevalence of disability in Canada and the impact of disability on the life of Canadians with disabilities.
Document Types: Presence,nature and severity of disability; use of technical aids and services; help required and received to perform daily activities; disability-related out-of-pocket expenses; demographic, household, labour force, employment, education, transportation, residential lifestyles and economic characteristics of persons with disabilities.
Record Number: STC HFS 717

Health and Activity Limitation Survey
Description: Records related to post-censal surveys carried out following the 1986 and the 1991 Censuses of Population that were conducted to collect data on the prevalence of disability in Canada and the impact of disability on the lives of Canadians with disabilities.
Document Types: Presence, nature and severity of disability; use of technical aids and services; help required and received to perform daily activities; demographic, household, labour force, employment, education, transportation, residential lifestyles and economic characteristics of persons with disabilities.
Record Number: STC HFS 110

Ethnic Diversity Survey
Description: Records related to theEthnic Diversity Survey which was developed to provide information on the ethnic and cultural backgrounds of people in Canada and how their backgrounds relate to their present lives.
Document Types: Ethnic ancestry and identity, cultural groups, immigrants, place of birth, religion, family cultural backgrounds, official and non-official languages, discrimination, social engagement.
Record Number: STC HFS 029

General Social Survey
Description: Records related to the General Social Survey, an annual household survey with two principal objectives: to monitor temporal changes in Canadian society and to provide information on current policy issues.
Document Types: Cycle 19 (2005) time use; Cycle 20 (2006) family transitions; Cycle 21 (2007) family, social support and retirement; Cycle 22 (2008) social networks; Cycle 23 (2009) criminal victimization.
Record Number: STC HFS 027

Longitudinal Immigration Database
Description: Records related to the Longitudinal Immigration Database, a comprehensive source of data on the economic behaviour of the immigrant (tax filer) population in Canada. It is a source of data that provides a direct link between immigration policy levers and the economic performance of immigrants.
Document Types: Immigrants, tax data.
Record Number: STC HFS 722

Health Statistics

Canadian Community Health Survey
Description: Records related to the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) that collects annually data on the health of Canadians.
Document Types: Health determinants and status; access to, and use of, health services
Record Number: STC HLT 082

Canadian Health Measures Survey
Description: Records related to theCanadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS) that collects information relevant to the health of Canadians by means of direct physical measurements such as blood pressure, height, weight and physical fitness. The survey includes a clinical oral health examination to evaluate the association of oral health with major health concerns such as diabetes and respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. In addition, the survey collects blood and urine samples to test for infectious diseases, nutrition and environmental markers. The CHMS also gathers information related to nutrition, smoking habits, alcohol use, medical history, current health status, sexual behaviour, lifestyle and physical activity, the environment and housing characteristics as well as demographic and socioeconomic variables.
Document Types: Health status, lifestyle, disease.
Record Number: STC PHM 712

Health Analysis and Measurement
Description: Records related to studies on the relationship between socio-economic status and health, the impact of morbidity on population health and the development of health status indicators which are published in various Statistics Canada publications and academic and medical journals.
Document Types: Socio-economic status, health.
Record Number: STC HAM 701

Health Care Program
Description: Records relating to the Health Care Program which includes information on health care institutions and the use of their services. Details are available for hospital inpatient morbidity, mental health hospital inpatient morbidity, and hospital and residential care facilities. Health institution operations records contain data on available beds, patient‑days during the year, patient movement (admissions/ separations), service workload of various departments, personnel and paid hours of work by occupational groups, detailed departmental operating expenditures (salaries and wages) and income by source and balance sheet information from hospitals. Information is available on the number and rate of induced abortions and selected demographic and medical information about women obtaining induced abortions performed in Canada. It also is responsible for maintaining the Health Person-Oriented Information Database. The principal source of information for this database is the Hospital Morbidity Database. Records with valid personal identifiers are identified as linkable records and key variables are verified for consistency across records with the same personal identifier. The database is available for studies linking morbidity information to other administrative or survey data.
Document Types: Institutions, services.
Record Number: STC HLT 080

Health Status and Vital Statistics
Description: Records related to the Health Statistics Program that examines social and risk factors that influence health. The Vital Statistics Program provides information on vital statistics (births, deaths, marriages, divorces, life tables) as well as cancer incidence.
Document Types: Births, deaths, marriages, divorces, cancer.
Record Number: STC HLT 095

Joint Canada/United States Health Survey
Description: Records related to the Joint Canada/United States Health Survey, a one-time collaborative effort between Statistics Canada and the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics for which Statistics Canada collected data for the survey sample of both countries.
Document Types: Health status, limitations, access to and use of health services.
Record Number: STC HLT 083

Occupational and Environmental Health Research
Description: Records related to the Occupational and Environmental Health Research Program which provides statistical and policy-related information in relation to occupational, lifestyle, socio-economic and environmental factors that influence health. Includes the Canadian Birth Database, the Canadian Cancer Registry and the Canadian Mortality Database as well as a number of other data sources used in long‑term medical follow‑up studies.
Document Types: Databases, studies.
Record Number: STC HLT 115

National Population Health Survey
Description: Records related to the National Population Health Survey (NPHS), a longitudinal survey that collects information related to the health of the Canadian population and related socio-demographic information in the ten provinces. The same persons from all ages in 1994-1995 are interviewed every two years over a period of ten cycles.
Document Types: Health behaviours, health care, health problems, health risk factors.
Record Number: STC HLT 081

Industry Statistics

Energy
Description: Records related to the production, transformation, transportation and consumption of coal, crude oil, natural gas, electricity and refined petroleum products.
Document Types: Supply and disposition of solid fuels, liquid fuels, natural gas, electricity and renewable energy forms; consumption of energy by sector and selected industries; financial and operating statistics related to energy industries and pipelines.
Record Number: STC IND 315

Logging
Description: Records related to shipments of roundwood.
Document Types: Saw logs, veneer logs, pulpwood, poles and pilings (untreated), fuel wood, Christmas trees, miscellaneous roundwood.
Record Number: STC IND 385

Manufacturing
Description: Records related to various surveys for the manufacturing sector. Depending on the survey, data covered are shipments, inventories and orders; qualitative assessments of business conditions and employment; operating statistics; materials and supplies used; products shipped.
Document Types: Food, beverage and tobacco products, primary textile, textile products, clothing, leather, wood products, paper, printing and related support, petroleum and coal products, chemicals, plastics and rubber products, non-metallic mineral products, primary metals, fabricated metal products, machinery, computer and electronic products, electrical equipment, appliances and components, transportation equipment, furniture, other manufacturing industries.
Record Number: STC IND 310

Retail Trade
Description: Records related to sales, inventories, commodities and operating data for retail businesses, the number and value and origin of manufacture of new motor vehicles sold in Canada.
Document Types: Automobile dealers; recreational vehicle and parts dealers; furniture stores; home furnishing stores; computer and software stores; home electronics and appliance stores; home centres and hardware stores; specialized building materials and garden stores; supermarkets, convenience and specialty food stores; beer, wine and liquor stores; pharmacies and personal care stores; gasoline stations; clothing stores; shoe, clothing accessories and jewellery stores; sporting goods, hobby, book and music stores; department stores; other general merchandise stores; miscellaneous store retailers; electronic shopping and mail-order houses; vending machine operators; fuel dealers; other direct selling establishments.
Record Number: STC DTD 375

Service Industries
Description: Records related to financial and other operating data.
Document Types: Information and cultural industries covering publishing (except Internet), motion picture and sound recording, Internet service providers, data processing, and archives; real estate, rental and leasing; professional, scientific and technical services covering accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll, architectural, engineering, surveying and mapping, specialized design, computer systems design, management consulting, scientific and technical consulting, and advertising; administrative and support covering employment, travel arrangements and reservations; arts, entertainment and recreation covering performing arts, spectator sports and related activities, heritage institutions, amusement, and recreation; accommodation and food services covering accommodation services, food services and drinking places; other services (except public administration) covering repair and maintenance, personal and laundry services.
Record Number: STC SER 425

Wholesale Trade
Description: Records related to sales, inventories, operating data and commodity origin and destination of wholesale business.
Document Types: Farm products; petroleum products; food products; alcohol and tobacco; apparel, household and personal goods; pharmaceuticals; motor vehicles; motor vehicle parts and accessories; building supplies; metal products; lumber and millwork; machinery and equipment; computers and other electronics; office and professional equipment; other products; agents and brokers.
Record Number: STC DTD 380

Institutions and Social Statistics

Culture, Tourism and Education Statistics

Adult Literacy and Life Skills Program
Description: Records related to the measurement of indicators of literacy and skills of adults in Canada.
Document Types: Prose and document literacy, numeracy, and problem-solving skills, demographics, parental background, labour force participation, participation in adult education and training, literacy practices at work and at home, ICT access, and income.
Record Number: STC ECT 167

Cultural Activities of Canadians
Description: Records related to characteristics of people attending cultural events and participating in culture activities such as reading, going to the movies, visiting a museum, using the services of a library, attending a dance performance, listening to music, watching TV or taking a course in painting.
Document Types: Demographic data, province, education, household income.
Record Number: STC ECT 195

Cultural Labour Force
Description: Records relating to the characteristics of people residing in Canada working in selected occupations and industries within the cultural sector based on a one-time survey in 1994.
Document Types: Demographic data, work patterns, finances, education and training.
Record Number: STC ECT 192

Culture Goods Trade
Description: Records related to the culture goods trade database which provides estimates of exports and imports of Canadian culture goods. Data are based on administrative records filed for customs purposes in both Canada and the United States and includes books, magazines, newspapers, postcards, calendars, films, videos, digital videodiscs (DVDs), sheet music, compact discs (CDs), cassettes, paintings (original and reproductions), photographs, sculptures, ornaments and figurines, architectural plans, designs and drawings, advertising materials, museum exhibits, coin and stamp collections, and antiques.
Document Types: Value of international trade in culture goods by commodity, value of culture goods traded by regions within Canada.
Record Number: STC ECT 168

Culture Services Trade
Description: Records related to the culture services trade database provides estimates of exports and imports of Canadian culture services. Data are derived from Balance of Payments estimates of commercial services. Culture services include copyright royalties, trademark royalties, film production and distribution, broadcasting, sound recording, performing arts, advertising and architecture services.
Document Types: Value of international trade in culture services, by type of service and culture framework category, along with cross-tabulations for trade between Canada and selected countries.
Record Number: STC ECT 169

Culture Studies: Economic Impact Analysis
Description: Records related to studies to measure the value of economic activity associated with culture industries. Measurement indicators consist of estimating the output contributions of culture industries to Canada's gross domestic product (GDP) and estimating the size and characteristics of the culture and non-culture labour force supporting businesses in the culture industries. Records relate to economic activities in the culture sector involving the creation, production, manufacturing and distribution of culture goods and services.
Document Types: GDP by culture sub-sectors, culture labour force by class of worker (paid, self-employed), culture workers by labour force activity (employed, unemployed), rates and trends in culture employment data (unemployment rate, participation rates), employment and GDP by economic activity (production, manufacturing, creation, distribution).
Record Number: STC ECT 171

Domestic Travel
Description: Records related to the Travel Survey of Residents of Canada and analysis and dissemination of its results.
Document Types: Travellers' socio‑demographic information (sex, marital status, age, education, class of worker, industry, occupation, household size); trip information (number of trips, origin, destination, visited area, distance, duration, mode of transportation, purpose, accommodation, activities during the trip, travel expenditures).
Record Number: STC ECT 200

Elementary and Secondary Education
Description: Records related to characteristics of teaching staff, enrolments, school institutions, minority and second language education, number of graduates and graduation rates, revenues and expenditures of governments and school boards.
Document Types: Students, teachers, facilities, public schools, private schools, schools for the visually/hearing impaired, federal schools, overseas schools, enrolments, pre-primary enrolment, graduate, official language programs in education (French and English programs, education in the minority-language and immersion programs), education price index, financial information on school board revenues and expenditures.
Record Number: STC ECT 165

Elementary/Secondary Education Finance
Description: Records related to financial information obtained from provincial departments of education and federal departments providing funding to education (including both public and private schools). The program provides educational policy makers information to do financial and product planning and to provide government organizations with financial information to initiate policies and programs designed to meet social and economic demands.
Document Types: Annual revenues and expenditures of elementary/secondary education by fund, source of revenue and expenditure item.
Record Number: STC ECT 166

Government Expenditures on Culture
Description: Records related to expenditures on culture by federal, provincial and municipal governments.
Document Types: Operating expenditures, capital expenditures, operating capital grants, contributions and transfers in the major cultural areas (libraries, museums, archives, parks, literary arts, performing arts, visual arts and crafts, film and video, broadcasting, sound recording, multiculturalism), employment.
Record Number: STC ECT 205

International Travel
Description: Records related to the International Travel Survey which measures the volume and characteristics of travel by Canadian residents outside the country and by foreign visitors to Canada.
Document Types: Port of entry, Canadian residents, non‑residents, vehicles, country of residence, expenditures, length of stay, mode of transportation, purpose of trip, activities during trip, type of accommodation used, destinations, spending, source of funding, age.
Record Number: STC ECT 250

Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program
Description: Records related to the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program that provides statistical indicators in key areas of education systems in all provinces and territories.
Document Types: Population trends, children living in low-income, educational attainment, educators, enrolment, education finances, use of information and communications technologies in schools, results of pan-Canadian and international achievement and assessment tests, graduation rates, equity, labour market outcomes, transition of recent postsecondary graduates from education to work.
Record Number: STC ECT 177

Postsecondary Education
Description: Records related to enrolments and full‑time teaching staff in community colleges trade/vocational institutions and universities, degrees or diplomas granted, tuition fees and living accommodation costs for university education, foreign student attendance at Canadian schools, private training providers, revenues and expenditures of governments, colleges and universities.
Document Types: University students, community college students, trade/vocational students, apprentices, foreign students, trade school, college and university degrees, diplomas, certificates, university tuition fees and accommodation costs, university teachers, full‑time community college teachers, continuing education, financing; estimated, budgeted, and actual expenditures for educational institutions; student aid; federal government expenditures in support of education and training.
Record Number: STC ECT 170

Postsecondary Education Finance
Description: Records related to financial information obtained from the administrative files of Canadian universities and other postsecondary institutions (e.g., community colleges and CEGEPs). Federal and provincial governments also provide information on expenditures on education and related activities such as student assistance, research and program administration activities. The purpose of the program is to provide to educational institutions information to do financial planning and to provide government organizations with financial information to initiate policies and programs designed to meet social and economic demands.
Document Types: Annual revenues and expenditures of postsecondary educational institutions by fund and source of revenue, item of expenditure, tuition fees by faculty, expenditure on research by educational institutions and other organizations, and student assistance.
Record Number: STC ECT 175

Postsecondary Education Participation Survey
Description: Records related to a survey program that provides basic indicators on access to postsecondary education, persistence in postsecondary education and postsecondary financing in order to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of the Canada Student Loans Program.
Document Types: Level of education, most recent program, financing for postsecondary students, postsecondary intentions, student loan awareness, socio-economic status.
Record Number: STC ECT 718

Programme for International Student Assessment
Description: Records related to the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), an international assessment of the skills and knowledge of 15 year-olds which aims to assess whether students approaching the end of compulsory education have acquired the knowledge and skills that are essential for full participation in society. PISA is developed jointly by member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The survey gathers cross-sectional data, and uses a new sample of 15 year-olds for each cycle of the survey. PISA assessments take place every three years and focus on three domains: reading literacy, mathematical literacy and scientific literacy. While the three domains form the core of each cycle, two-thirds of the assessment time in each cycle will be devoted to a major domain.
Document Types: Student questionnaire: student and family characteristics, student's education, student's school, mathematics classes, information and communications technology; school questionnaire: school characteristics, student body, teachers, pedagogical practices, school resources, administrative structures.
Record Number: STC ECT 719

Survey of Approaches to Educational Planning
Description: Records related to a survey program that examines how Canadians are preparing their children for postsecondary education with an objective to improve the understanding of how parents/ guardians of children aged 0-18 target monetary and non-monetary resources needed for the successful pursuit of postsecondary education.
Document Types: Household income, current value of Registered Education Savings Plans (RESP), total and annual contributions to RESPs, current value of other savings, annual contributions to other savings.
Record Number: STC ECT 720

Training and Continuing Education
Description: Records related to adult participation in education and training, types of training being taken, employer sponsorship of employee training, contribution of private training providers to continuing education.
Document Types: Enrolment, programs, courses, characteristics of persons taking training, types of training providers, employer contribution, barriers to training, training intentions, government assistance.
Record Number: STC ECT 173

Youth in Transition Survey
Description: Records related to the Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) that examines the patterns of, and influences on, major transitions in young people's lives, particularly with respect to education, training and work. Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (now Human Resources and Social Development Canada) and Statistics Canada developed YITS in consultation with provincial and territorial ministries and departments of labour and education.
Document Types: High school status, secondary school courses, secondary school activity, high school engagement, education and training above high school, postsecondary engagement, funding, loans and aspirations, self-esteem/support, employment, training, volunteer activities, skills, demographics, income.
Record Number: STC ECT 721

Justice Statistics

Adult Criminal Courts
Description: Records related to federal statute offences heard in adult criminal courts in Canada.
Document Types: Types of offences, age and sex of accused, court decisions and dispositions at the jurisdictional level.
Record Number: STC CCJ 145

Correctional Services
Description: Records related to custodial and non‑custodial adult and youth correctional services in each of the provincial, territorial and federal jurisdictions.
Document Types: Caseload indicators, offender caseload and characteristics, and personnel and expenditure data for both provincial and federal adult correctional systems.
Record Number: STC CCJ 125

Homicide
Description: Records related tomurder, manslaughter and infanticide.
Document Types: Characteristics of victims and accused, relationship between the accused and victim(s), and methods used to commit the homicide.
Record Number: STC CCJ 135

Legal Aid
Description: Recordsrelated to the delivery of legal aid in provincial and territorial jurisdictions.
Document Types: Revenues, expenditures; personnel resources and caseload counts of each legal aid plan in Canada; information describing the organizational structure, eligibility criteria and coverage of each plan.
Record Number: STC CCJ 160

Maintenance Enforcement
Description: Records related to information on child and spousal support payments. The information is collected from Maintenance Enforcement Programs. These programs, which exist in each province and territory, provide administrative assistance to recipients to help them collect their support payments.
Document Types: Caseload and characteristics of cases registered with maintenance enforcement programs including sex and age of payers and recipients, number and age of children affected, support amounts, compliance rates, and types of actions that programs initiate in order to enforce the cases.
Record Number: STC CCJ 126

Police Administration
Description: Records related to police personnel and expenditures in Canada.
Document Types: Police personnel (police officers, special constables, civilians and other police personnel) and policing expenditures (salary and operations).
Record Number: STC CCJ 162

Transition Homes
Description: Records related to the transition homes program which collects information from approximately 600 facilities across Canada on operations, residents, annual admissions and services to residents, ex‑residents, and non‑residents.
Document Types: Type of facility, areas served, type of services provided, type of abuse suffered by the women and children, number of women and children residents, age, disabilities, number of repeat users, police intervention, relationship to the abuser, physical repairs and improvements for the facilities, and revenues and expenditures.
Record Number: STC CCJ 164

Uniform Crime Reporting
Description: Records related to the program collecting police‑reported crime.
Document Types: Criminal Code offences, other federal statute (e.g., drugs) and traffic offences, police clearance rates, persons charged by adult/youth and by male/female, victims, weapons, location of crime, accused‑victim relationship.
Record Number: STC CCJ 140

Victim Services
Description: Records related to agencies that provide services to primary and secondary victims of crime, the clientele being served, and annual information from criminal injuries compensation/financial benefit programs collected from approximately 550 agencies across Canada.
Document Types: Type of agency, area served by agency, populations targeted for service, type of services provided, number and age of persons assisted, type of victimization, accessibility of agencies, number of victim impact statements, number of employees and volunteers, and revenue and expenditures.
Record Number: STC CCJ 142

Youth Courts
Description: Records related to young persons charged with federal statute offences that are dealt with in the youth courts of Canada.
Document Types: Types of offence, age, sex, court decisions and dispositions on both national and jurisdictional levels.
Record Number: STC CCJ 155

Labour and Household Surveys

Employment and Earnings
Description: Records related to the Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours, a monthly survey covering employers of all sizes and industry with the exception of agriculture, fishing and trapping, private households, religious organizations and defence services. The data are derived from a sample survey sent to employers and from administrative records (PD7) provided by the Canada Revenue Agency.
Document Types: Employment; payrolls, average weekly earnings; average hourly earnings, average weekly hours and overtime. Selected variables are available by employee type: salaried employees (fixed salary), hourly paid employees and other employees (paid by commissions, piece rates).
Record Number: STC LAB 075

Employment Insurance
Description: Records related to employment insurance.
Document Types: Benefits paid, weeks of benefit, average weekly benefits, claims received, claims allowed, disqualifications, and beneficiaries by personal characteristics (age, sex, occupation and insurable earnings).
Record Number: STC LAB 070

Household Spending
Description: Records related to the program (Food Expenditure Survey and Survey of Household Spending) that provides detailed expenditures covering the complete budgets of households in private dwellings.
Document Types: Household expenditures on food, shelter, household operations, household furnishings and equipment, clothing, transportation for specific subgroups of the population (by household income, household size, cities).
Record Number: STC HLD 045

Labour Force Survey
Description: Records related to levels and trends in the composition, activities and characteristics of the Canadian labour force.
Document Types: Actual and seasonally adjusted employment and unemployment data; demographic, industrial and occupational structure of the labour force; participation rate; multiple job holding; reasons for absence from work; wages; and union rates.
Record Number: STC LAB 035

Pensions
Description: Records related to the terms and conditions of registered pension plans (RPPs) and to the assets of trusteed pension funds in Canada.
Document Types: Number of employer pension plans and members, type of plan, contribution and benefit rates, amounts contributed, income, expenditures and assets of all trusteed pension funds.
Record Number: STC HLD 065

Special Surveys
Description: Records relate to the operations of special surveys.
Document Types: Survey topics include children and youth, immigrants to Canada, health promotion, experiences with primary health care, travel, smoking habits, victimization, passenger car fuel consumption, volunteer workers, student finances, child care, adult education and training, literacy, drinking and driving, drugs and alcohol, government employee surveys, household energy use, aging and independence.
Record Number: STC SSD 040

Survey of Financial Security
Description: Records related to data on the assets and debts of families and unattached individuals that gives a complete picture of the net worth of Canadians (described as the amount of money Canadians would be left with if they sold all of their assets and paid off all debts).
Document Types: Information includes the value of all major financial assets (RRSPs, RESPs, RRIFs, DPSPs, deposits, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, other financial assets), non-financial assets (principal residence, other real estate, vehicles, contents of residence, valuables, equity in business) and debts (amount owing on mortgages, vehicles, credit cards, lines of credit, student loans).
Record Number: STC HLD 047

Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics
Description: Records related to alongitudinal survey that provides information on the determinants of change in the economic well‑being of Canadian families and individuals.
Document Types: Annual measures of labour market activity (employment, characteristics of jobs held during the year, unemployment); educational activity and attainment; income by source; demographic characteristics including age, sex, marital status, marital history, educational attainment; demographic events including migration, change in household composition, family formation and dissolution.
Record Number: STC HLD 038

Socio-Economic Analysis

Social Policy Simulation Database/Model
Description: Records relating to the Social Policy Simulation Database/Model, a public use database of family/individual microdata that allows analysts to assess the effects of past or proposed changes to Canada's tax/transfer system.
Document Types: Tax data, transfer payments.
Record Number: STC SES 296

Unpaid Work Analysis
Description: Records relating to technical innovations and empirical analysis, related conceptual innovations and databases pertaining to aspects of unpaid work and retirement.
Document Types: Unpaid work, retirement.
Record Number: STC UWA 705

System of National Accounts

Balance of Payments
Description: Records related to Canada's international transactions (organized into the Current Account and the Capital and Financial Account). The Current Account records transactions in goods, services, investment income and current transfers. Transactions in goods are largely derived from Canada's merchandise trade. Services are made up of travel, transportation, commercial services and government services. Investment income comprises interest, dividends and direct investment profits, the latter broken down between dividends and reinvested earnings, while current transfers cover official and private contributions and withholding taxes. The Capital and Financial Account is composed of capital transfers such as migrants' assets, as well as transactions in assets and liabilities with respect to non‑residents. The latter includes portfolio and direct (inter-company) investment as well as other investment.
Document Types: International transactions.
Record Number: STC IFE 260

International Investment Position
Description: Records related toCanada's international investment position, which is the value and composition of its assets and liabilities with the rest of the world.Data are presented according to six geographical areas with the following details: direct investment (inter-company investment), portfolio investment (bonds, in stocks and in money market instruments) and other assets-liabilities. Direct investment comprises Canadian direct investment abroad and foreign direct investment in Canada, and is broken down by country and by industry. In portfolio investment, Canadian liabilities are broken down by issuing Canadian sectors such as federal government and provincial government.
Document Types: International assets and liabilities, net international investment position.
Record Number: STC IFE 261

Environment Accounts and Statistics

Environment Statistics Program
Description: Records related to environmental accounts that are consistent with the rest of the System of National Accounts. These accounts provide monetary and/or physical estimates of the major components of natural capital stocks, of natural resources used and waste generated by sector and industry, and of expenditure on environmental protection. Also records related to statistics classified as measuring either the pressure placed by human activities on environmental resources, the quality of the environment, or the socio-economic response to environmental conditions. Finally records related to statistics that are geographically referenced for presentation and aggregation in analytically relevant spatial units.
Document Types: Population and environment, impact of economic activity on the environment (contaminants, waste and greenhouse gas emissions), sustainable development, air, water and soil quality, climate, harvesting and extraction of resources.
Record Number: STC ESP 291

Income and Expenditure Accounts

Financial Flows and Balance Sheets
Description: Records related to the production of the national financial flow and balance sheet accounts.
Document Types: Estimates of borrowing, lending, financial transactions, assets and liabilities for sectors of the Canadian economy (persons, businesses, governments, non‑residents) and their principal sub‑sectors; detailed account of assets and liabilities by type of financial instrument (bonds, currency, consumer credit, bank loans and stocks).
Record Number: STC NAD 245

Income and Expenditure Accounts (Gross Domestic Product)
Description: Records related to the production of provincial and national accounts.
Document Types: Estimates of final expenditures by category and types of incomes generated; detailed income and expenditure data for the four sectors of the economy (persons, businesses, government and non‑residents); estimates of personal income, gross domestic product and their components, by province and territory.
Record Number: STC NAD 235

Labour Income
Description: Records related to labour income by province and territory.
Document Types: Wages and salaries, supplementary labour income, special payments, and work stoppages.
Record Number: STC NAD 078

National Accounts Data Development
Description: Records related to research based analysis of existing Statistics Canada data.
Document Types: Inflation accounting, household work, retirement pensions, non‑market production, production boundaries, underground economy, total consumption, satellite accounts, and concepts and definitions.
Record Number: STC NAD 230

National Tourism Indicators
Description: Records related to tourism in Canada.
Document Types: National estimates of tourism expenditures by category (transportation, accommodation, food and beverages, recreation and entertainment) and by origin of the demand (foreign travellers, Canadian tourists); estimates of employment generated by tourism activities.
Record Number: STC NAD 231

Non-profit Sector
Description: Records related to the economic contribution of the non-profit sector in Canada.
Document Types: Non-profit institutions, non-market activities, volunteer work, hospitals, universities, colleges.
Record Number: STC NAD 232

Industry Accounts

Gross Domestic Product by Industry
Description: Records related to industrial output.
Document Types: Gross domestic product by industry, real output measures, value added, industry measures, real domestic product, index of industrial production, gross output by industry, provincial output.
Record Number: STC IMA 240

Input‑Output Accounts
Description: Records related to the development and maintenance of national and provincial input‑output tables (part of which are gross domestic product by industry) and structural models.
Document Types: Annual data and records for current price Canadian input‑output tables, provincial data and inter-provincial trade flows for each province and territory, documentation for a national input‑output model and inter-provincial input‑output models.
Record Number: STC INO 265

Public Institutions Statistics

Federal Government
Description: Records relating to the federal government, its enterprises, related boards and commissions.
Document Types: Federal government and government enterprises; revenues and expenditures; assets, liabilities and debt position; employment, wages and salaries.
Record Number: STC PUI 220

Local Governments
Description: Records relating to municipal governments and related boards as well as local school boards, hospitals and government business enterprises.
Document Types: Local governments; revenues and expenditures; assets, liabilities and debt position; employment, wages and salaries.
Record Number: STC PUI 210

Provincial and Territorial Governments
Description: Records relating to provincial and territorial governments and their enterprises, boards, commissions and health and education institutions.
Document Types: Provincial and territorial governments and government enterprises; revenues and expenditures; assets, liabilities and debt position; employment, wages and salaries.
Record Number: STC PUI 215

Statistical Support Services

Classification Services

Standards
Description: Records related to classification standards, variables, data sources and methods.
Document Types: North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), concordances between different versions of Canadian, U.S. and international Standard Industrial Classifications; Standard Classification of Goods (based upon the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System), concordances between the Standard Classification of Goods and other Canadian commodity classifications and industry classifications; North American Product Classification System (NAPCS); Standard Geographical Classification; National Occupational Classification for Statistics (NOC-S) and related concordances; Chart of Accounts: Financial Position and Performance; Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP); other standards covering areas of social and economic statistics; Integrated Meta Database (IMDB).
Record Number: STC STD 535

Collection Support Services

Canadian Business Patterns
Description: Records related to the database ofCanadian business establishments.
Document Types: Business characteristics in terms of industry, geography, employment and revenue.
Record Number: STC BUS 525

Operations
Description: Records related to the development and on‑going work include: surveys (mail‑out/mail‑back surveys, computer-assisted telephone interviews); coding (medical codes, classification of Instructional Programs, North America Industrial Classification System coding, Product List of Annual Survey of Manufactures); data capture; mapping (reproduction, retrieving and filing and maintenance of maps); linking the Post Office Postal Codes to the Provincial, Federal or Electoral areas by using Standard Geographical Codes; and preparing the Street Network File for census enumeration.
Document Types: Surveys, coding, data capture, mapping
Record Number: STC OPI 595

Survey Management
Description: Records related to data collection and associated activities for population and agriculture censuses, household and business surveys.
Document Types: Data collection, interviewer manuals, cost estimates
Record Number: STC SOP 602

Unified Enterprise Survey (UES) Program
Description: Records relating to the collection management for all Statistics Canada business surveys and large businesses through the Enterprise Portfolio Manager Program; UES collection coordination and content harmonization services; UES informatics development, maintenance and support services; UES processing functions; and UES data and metadata storage.
Document Types: Respondent relations, computer support, processing.
Record Number: STC UES 307

Geography Services

Geography
Description: Records related to the Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) that contains roads (including road names and address ranges) from the National Geographic Database (NGD), a shared database between Statistics Canada and Elections Canada. The SDI supports a wide range of census operations, such as the maintenance and delineation of the boundaries of standard geographic areas (including the automated delineation of dissemination blocks, dissemination areas and urban areas) and custom area creation. The SDI is also the source for generating many geography products such as cartographic and digital boundary files and road network files.
Document Types: Road networks; geographic areas; postal codes; maps; geographic concepts; geographic information systems; automated delineation; population and area statistics; digital cartographic boundary files and digital boundary files.
Record Number: STC GEO 520

Informatics Services

Communications Services
Description: Records related to theplanning, design, installation and maintenance of the communications infrastructure in Statistics Canada and across the regional offices and operational supports for the infrastructure for Internet services and host web services.
Document Types: Electronic communications, local area networks, wide area networks, terminals.
Record Number: STC CLS 509

Computer Centre Operations Service
Description: Records related to the operation of departmental computer systems including the management of the Main Computer Centre facility and its security and environmental systems as well as shared server and mainframe resources.
Document Types: Computer support.
Record Number: STC CLS 512

Corporate Workstation Services
Description: Records related tosoftware products used within the Agency including configuration, deployment, upgrades and acquisition.
Document Types: Microcomputers, printers, software support.
Record Number: STC CLS 508

Informatics Advisory Services
Description: Records related to contacts for informatics services and management of a Help Desk and a web site for inquiries and service calls relating to their informatics and data communication needs.
Document Types: Service, support
Record Number: STC CLS 510

Informatics Security
Description: Records related to IT security services to assist departmental clients meet their business needs. Services include security awareness sessions, threat and risk assessments, disaster recovery planning assistance, access control facility management, data communications security services and computer virus control services. Also includes records related to development and implementation of security policies and practices consistent with government and specific departmental requirements.
Document Types: Security
Record Number: STC CLS 511

Informatics Training
Description: Records related to IT training services including research, design, manage and delivery of courses at both the Agency and divisional level.
Document Types: Training.
Record Number: STC CLS 505

LAN Services
Description: Records related to the operation and management ofthe internal computing environment used by divisional staff to perform day-to-day activities.
Document Types: Computer support.
Record Number: STC CLS 506

Mainframe Computer Services
Description: Records related to the provision of mainframe services to the Agency's divisions. Services include installation, updates and support to the mainframe hardware and operating systems and technical expertise on the mainframe and related areas such as workload management, disk and tape storage, the UNIX mainframe service and mainframe communications services.
Document Types: Computer support.
Record Number: STC CLS 517

Managed Storage/UNIX Services
Description: Records related toserver support for UNIX services in the Agency that include the Enterprise Backup (a service that protects the intellectual property and corporate data of Statistics Canada, provides a consistent backup strategy and supports corporate business resumption planning) and the Enterprise Storage Service (a service which provides Windows and UNIX server clients with an enterprise corporate storage environment).
Document Types: Computer support.
Record Number: STC CLS 515

Performance and Accounting and Informatics Planning, Policy and Standards Development
Description: Records related to the identification and recovery of costs of providing divisional services to clients. In addition, also includes development of informatics policy and standards and preparing the five-year capital plan.
Document Types: Capital plans, policies and standards.
Record Number: STC CLS 507

Regional Office/Intel Services
Description: Records related to the full range of IT services in the regional offices.
Document Types: Computer support.
Record Number: STC CLS 516

Technical Support Services
Description: Records related to the management of maintenance contracts for all of Statistics Canada computers and peripherals (except the IBM mainframe) and computer repairs and inventory of parts. Also includes management of the wiring and switches for voice and data communications within headquarters.
Document Types: Computer support.
Record Number: STC CLS 514

Performance and Accounting and Informatics Planning, Policy and Standards Development
Description: Records related to the identification and recovery of costs of providing divisional services to clients. In addition, also includes development of informatics policy and standards and preparing the five-year capital plan.
Document Types: Capital plan, policies and standards.
Record Number: STC CLS 507

Methodology Services

Business Survey Methods
Description: Records related to survey design, methodology, quality assurance, time series, and data analysis primarily for economic statistics programs that include sample surveys, censuses and the use of administrative records.
Document Types: Planning of surveys; use of administrative data; total survey design; sample designs; sampling frames; stratification and allocation; questionnaire design; sample maintenance and rotation; quality control and quality assurance; treatment of nonresponse; edit and imputation; outlier detection and treatment; assessment of sampling and non‑sampling errors; evaluation and redesign of surveys; methods for analysis of survey data; data integration; time series; forecasting models; linking of time series; calendarization; benchmarking and revision procedures; seasonal adjustment; survey methodology research.
Record Number: STC BSM 545

Household Survey Methods
Description: Records related to survey design, methodology, data quality and analysis primarily for the household and institutional statistics programs that include surveys, censuses and the use of administrative records.
Document Types: Planning of surveys; total survey design; sample designs; sampling frames; questionnaire design; quality control and quality assurance; estimation; edit and imputation; outlier detection and treatment; benchmarking and revision procedures; assessment of data quality (sampling and non‑sampling errors); small area estimation; evaluation and redesign of surveys; methods for analysis of survey data; data integration; evaluation and analysis of administrative data; survey methodology research.
Record Number: STC HSM 560

Social Survey Methods
Description: Records related to survey design, methodology, data quality, analysis of social statistics programs that include surveys, censuses and the use of administrative records, and statistical consultations.
Document Types: Planning of censuses and surveys; total survey design; sample designs; sampling frames; questionnaire design; quality control and quality assurance; estimation; edit and imputation; outlier detection and treatment; benchmarking and revision procedures; calibration of surveys with a common subject matter; assessment of data quality (sampling and non‑sampling errors); evaluation and redesign of surveys; methods for the analysis of survey data; data integration; evaluation and analysis of administrative data; survey methodology research.
Record Number: STC SVM 540

Tax Data Program

Taxation Data
Description: Records related to data from taxation records of individuals and businesses including not-for-profit agencies.
Document Types: Access to taxation data for statistical purposes (T1, T2, T3, T4, T4A, T3010, T1044, GIFI, GST and PD7).
Record Number: STC TAX 530

Corporate Services

Evaluation Services

Evaluation
Description: Records related to the development and coordination of the Department's Parliamentary reports, including the Report on Plans and Priorities and the Departmental Performance Report; management of the Department's Integrated Program Reporting process including development and ongoing support and maintenance and advice to managers in the preparation of performance management plans.
Document Types: Performance, program evaluation, quadrennial and biennial program reports, performance management agreements.
Record Number: STC CPD 728

Financial Management Services

Corporate Sales Support System
Description: Records related to an invoicing and inventory control system that provides information on accounts receivable for all products and services billed.
Document Types: Accounts receivable.
Record Number: STC DIS 603

Financial Management Operations and Systems
Description: Records related to expenditure and revenue transactions and general accounting services.
Document Types: Expenditures, revenues.
Record Number: STC FIN 635

Operational Planning and Programming
Description: Records related to the development and implementation of operational and financial planning systems, policies, procedures, business rules and costing methodologies; management of budgets at a corporate level for both functional and program terms; management of objective corporate performance reporting for both expenditure and revenue activities; coordination of financial information required for decision-making and quality assessments by senior management; negotiation and confirmation of resource levels with central agencies.
Document Types: Policies, procedures, methodologies.
Record Number: STC OPP 620

Information Management Services

Document Management Services
Description: Records relating to the document management program at Statistics Canada.
Document Types: Classification, retention, disposal.
Record Number: STC CSS 726

Library Documentation
Description: Records includepublications as well as research papers, working papers, user guides, CD-ROMs and associated documentation and internal documents. The collection dates to the founding of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics in 1918 but also includes documents such as census, foreign trade, etc. dating to 1841 from various statistical divisions that merged to become the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. The collection also consists of monographs, serials and reports in the subject areas related to Statistics Canada's activities and supporting documents published by Canadian federal and provincial governments, American and selected foreign and international organizations such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Document Types: Publications, monographs, reports.
Record Number: STC CMN 706

Management and Oversight Services

Planning
Description: Records relating to the strategic analysis, coordination and secretariat functions in support of the Department's long-term planning (LTP) process; analytical and strategic advice to senior management on central agency-driven initiatives and priorities that relate specifically to performance and planning, corporate performance and planning issues and Statistics Canada's Corporate Risk profile.
Document Types: Long-term planning, corporate risk framework, corporate risk profile.
Record Number: STC CPD 714

Public Affairs/Communications Services

Advisory Services
Description: Records relating to research services that identify which Statistics Canada data meet client needs; integration of data from one or more Statistics Canada files with client-proprietary data, other public sector data, or commercially published data available to the Agency); census consulting by identifying and cross-tabulating variables to assist clients in determining key demographic profiles on national, regional or more local geographic levels; geographic services by incorporating and illustrating a variety of different variables with thematic mapping; special services by organizing seminars and conferences on the use of Statistics Canada data and statistical methodologies and techniques; consultation services in conducting surveys; and regional delivery of Statistics Canada communications.
Document Types: Research, consultation, communications.
Record Number: STC UAS 606

CANSIM
Description: Records related to the maintenance, updating, marketing and utilization of the CANSIM databases; the development of new data content and new data storage, retrieval and delivery facilities; the development of meta data systems.
Document Types: Databases.
Record Number: STC DIS 580

Client Services
Description: Records related to the coordination of marketing activities including the development of strategic marketing plans, market research to assess client satisfaction and identify client needs, coordination of promotional and sales campaigns, pricing and licensing of the Agency's products, management of a marketing information system and a central registry of all broadcast e-mail communication activities in the Agency.
Document Types: Market plans, market research, promotional and sales campaigns, pricing and licensing.
Record Number: STC MAR 572

Communications
Description: Records related to interactions with program areas, clients and suppliers for media and public relations projects; release materials and associated documentation; minutes, recordings and associated documentation pertaining to federal‑provincial consultations; drafts, proofs and artwork related to the division's products; texts submitted for editing.
Document Types: Projects and programs
Record Number: STC CMN 570

Education Initiative
Description: Records related to the education initiative program that promotes the use of statistics throughout primary, secondary and postsecondary levels of education. The program includes the Data Liberation Initiative that provides postsecondary institutions access to Statistics Canada public use microdata files, databases and geographic files.
Document Types: Public use microdata, databases, lessons, plans, exercises.
Record Number: STC CMN 727

Online Catalogue of Products and Services
Description: Records related toa search and retrieval system which provides users with current information about products and services available from Statistics Canada.
Document Types: Products and services.
Record Number: STC UAS 604

Publications
Description: Records related to the production, sales and marketing of Statistics Canada's publications.
Document Types: Publications
Record Number: STC DIS 575

Public Policy Services

Data Access
Description: Records relating to agreements with other federal government departments, provincial governments, municipalities or other corporations for the joint collection or sharing of data; prescription orders; discretionary disclosures of information pursuant to the Statistics Act; and the administration within Statistics Canada of the Policy on Informing Survey Respondents, the Policy on Record Linkage, the Policy on Microdata Release, the Policy on the Security of Sensitive Statistical Information and the Policy on the Use of Deemed Employees.
Document Types: Policies, acts, agreements, orders.
Record Number: STC DAC 615

Departmental Security

Description: Records relating to the administration of the security program for Statistics Canada. These include physical security of designated and classified information and other assets held within Statistics Canada; inspections and investigations of suspected breaches or violations of security; checks with investigative agencies as part of the personnel screening process; emergency and safety practices and security awareness.
Document Types: Security, personnel screening, inspections.
Record Number: STC DAC 617