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Statistics Canada

General Information

Background

Statistics Canada collects and provides statistical information on the characteristics and behaviour of Canadian households, businesses, institutions and governments for research, policy development, program administration, decision‑making and general informational purposes. This is done under the authority of the Statistics Act which prohibits the disclosure of identifiable information to anyone without the consent or knowledge f the individual person, business or organization concerned.

The statistical information banks maintained by Statistics Canada contain some personal information that has been obtained from a variety of sources. Information is collected directly from individuals through the censuses of population and agriculture, and from sample surveys such as surveys on income and expenditure, the labour force and special surveys. It is also collected through certain formal agreements the Agency has entered into with large institutions and various levels of Canadian governments. These arrangements give Statistics Canada access to administrative records for the purpose of extracting data on the client populations of the institutions of health, education and justice and on the activities of the population as it comes in contact with the state (e.g., the registration of births, deaths and marriages).

One of the most important of these agreements is with the Canada Revenue Agency to access taxation returns for statistical purposes, thus allowing the use of an administrative file of the federal government containing a wealth of information on the socio‑economic fabric of the Canadian population. The access to tax records has allowed Statistics Canada to exempt many respondents, particularly small businesses, from filing several questionnaires.

Information banks maintained by Statistics Canada are largely automated. Since records in these banks are meant to be used for statistical purposes and not for administrative purposes, they are rarely organized by name. In fact, few databanks contain names. Some banks are organized by a unique identifier, be it a number assigned by Statistics Canada, a number assigned by the administrative source, such as a registration number or the social insurance number. Records in other banks are classified geographically, or by the name of the company. It should be noted that many of the statistical databanks contain only a sample of the population. To locate a statistical record, Statistics Canada will require, in most cases, not only an identifier, but additional information such as the time period in which an individual has responded to a survey, or his/her street address, or his/her industry sector.

Responsibilities

The mandate and program objectives of Statistics Canada are: to collect and publish in aggregate formats statistical information on the characteristics and behaviour of Canadian households, businesses, institutions and governments for research, policy development, program administration, decision‑making and general informational purposes; to collaborate with other participants in the broader national statistical system in extending the system's scope, usefulness and use; and to provide leadership, professional expertise and coordination in such efforts.

Legislation

Corporations Returns Act, 1985, c. C43
Statistics Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. S19

Organization

Chief Statistician of Canada
The Chief Statistician is a deputy of the Minister Responsible for Statistics Canada. The Chief Statistician advises on matters pertaining to statistical programs of the department and agencies of the Government of Canada, and confers with such departments and agencies to that end. The Chief Statistician supervises generally the administration of the Statistics Act and controls the operations and staff of Statistics Canada.

Departmental Secretariat
The Departmental Secretariat serves as the principal focal point for liaison with the Minister Responsible for Statistics Canada, other ministers, and members of Parliament in general. In support of the Minister, the Departmental Secretariat processes correspondence, deals with parliamentary returns, responds to oral and written questions and prepares briefing material on issues relating to Statistics Canada's programs and policies. Its other functions include providing staff support to the Chief Statistician and the Policy Committee as well as liaising with various management committees. The Departmental Secretariat is also responsible for review and control of official government documentation.

Statistical and Analytical Programs

Aboriginal Statistics
The program provides subject-matter expertise, coordination and integration in the collection, analysis and dissemination of data about Aboriginal people on topics such as education, use of Aboriginal language(s), labour activity, income, health, communication technology, mobility and housing conditions. In this capacity, it provides information, support and advice to federal departments, Aboriginal governments and organizations. The program also includes a statistical training program to build statistical skills and knowledge among Aboriginal organizations and communities.

Agriculture, Technology and Transportation Statistics
The program plans, directs, coordinates and controls the provision of statistical information and advice concerning agriculture, science, technology, broadcasting, telecommunications, innovation and electronic commerce, small business, special surveys and transportation to governments, private organizations and institutions. The program supports statutory requirements largely focussed in the System of National Accounts.

Analytical Studies
The program integrates, analyses and interprets data collected both within the department and elsewhere to describe and draw inferences about the nature of Canada's economy and society. It develops new and improved techniques for the statistical analysis and interpretation of socio‑economic data sets. This program provides Statistics Canada's assessment of current economic conditions. The program produces annual estimates of multifactor productivity and associated analytical reports. These activities are vital for the Bank of Canada, Finance Canada, Industry Canada and the private sector financial community.

Census of Agriculture
The program conducts the quinquennial Census of Agriculture, and produces and publishes economic series on the agriculture sector that flow to the System of National Accounts to form the agriculture component of the Gross Domestic Product, thereby satisfying requirements of the Fiscal Arrangements Act. This program provides a comprehensive picture of the agriculture sector at the national, provincial and sub-provincial levels and is mandated by the Statistics Act.

Census of Population
The program plans, develops and implements all collection, processing and dissemination of the periodic decennial and quinquennial censuses of population, Canada's national inventory of key socio‑economic phenomena. This program is the only reliable source of detailed data for small groups (such as lone-parent families, ethnic groups, industrial and occupational categories and immigrants) and for areas as small as a city neighbourhood or as large as the country itself. Because the Canadian census is collected every five years and the questions are similar, it is possible to compare changes that have occurred in the make-up of Canada's population over time. This program is mandated in many statutes and acts including the Statistics Act, Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act, Canada Elections Act, Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act, Canada Council Act, Provincial Subsidies Act, Railway Relocation and Crossing Act, Industrial and Regional Development Act, Constitutional Amendments Act, Income Tax Act, Municipal Grants Act, Canada Pension Plan, Old Age Security Act, and the War Veterans Act.

Demography
This program produces Canada's quarterly and annual post-censal and inter-censal population estimates used to satisfy the statutory requirements of the Canada Health and Social Transfers, Equalization and Territorial Formula Financing, Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act, Canada Pension Plan Act, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Act, Canada Student Loans Act, and the Canada Student Financial Assistance Act. Population estimates are produced at three geographic levels: Canada, province and territory, and census division, census metropolitan area and economic region. Data include estimates of births, deaths, immigration, total emigration, change in non-permanent residents, and inter-provincial and intraprovincial migration. For program and policy purposes such as pension and labour market planning and forecasting, population projections are also prepared following each census. Population estimates and projections are used by all levels of government, the private sector, researchers and non-government organizations.

Economy Wide Statistics
The program plans, directs, coordinates and controls the provision of statistical information and advice on financial and taxation statistics for enterprises, international trade, investment and capital stock, and prices to governments, private organizations and institutions. The program supports statutory requirements largely focussed in the System of National Accounts.

General Social Characteristics Statistics
This program produces information and analytic outputs on key social issues, including immigration, ethnicity, social engagement, youth, families, gender, seniors, and social well-being. The program also conducts the General Social Survey, develops and maintains the Longitudinal Immigration Database, and is the focal point for the development of post-censal surveys. The program provides information and subject-matter expertise to help support the policy interests of Human Resources and Social Development Canada, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Health, Justice, Canadian Heritage, and Status of Women.

Health Statistics
The program provides statistical information and analysis about the state of health of Canadians. This is achieved by conducting the ongoing Canadian Community Health Survey and the National Population Health Survey as well as occasional surveys. The program also collects the data for and maintains Canada's Vital Statistics and the Canadian Cancer Registry. The program is also responsible for the development and management of health surveys using direct measures. The Canadian Health Measures Survey is collecting key information relevant to the health of Canadians by means of direct physical measurements. This information is used to assist and support health planners and decision-makers at all levels of government, to sustain demographic and epidemiological research, and to report to the Canadian public about their collective health and health care system. This program supplies the System of National Accounts with data required by the Financial Management System of Government Statistics and the Fiscal Arrangements Act while the Vital Statistics data are used by the Population Estimates program whose results in turn are used for the Equalization program.

Industry Statistics
The program plans, directs, coordinates and controls the provision of statistical information and advice on distributive trades, business surveys, manufacturing, construction, energy; and service industries to governments, private organizations and institutions. The program supports statutory requirements largely focussed in the System of National Accounts.

Institutions and Social Statistics
The program collects, produces, analyses and disseminates socio‑economic statistics related to justice, education, culture and tourism, and public institutions. The program facilitates decision‑making and research in both the public and private sectors. The program supports statutory requirements largely focussed in the System of National Accounts and in the Canadian legal system.

Labour and Household Surveys
This program covers household surveys such as the Labour Force Survey, surveys on family income and expenditure, and establishment‑based surveys of employment. The program supports various statutory requirements either directly or via the System of National Accounts.

Socio-Economic Analysis
The program plans, coordinates and conducts a range of statistical analyses and publications as well as develops, maintains and disseminates several micro-simulation models. These activities serve four main functions: they provide high quality and often leading edge analyses on important contemporary topics for the general public; they provide information of direct relevance to matters of current policy concerns; they contribute more generally to the corpus of national and international research in the peer-reviewed literature; and they provide in-depth feedback and quality assurance to a wide range of the data producing units with Statistics Canada.

System of National Accounts
The program provides a conceptually integrated framework of statistics and analysis for studying the evolution of the Canadian economy. The accounts are centred on the measurement of production of goods and services, and the purchase/sale of goods and services in domestic and international markets. Production and consumption are measured in dollar terms. Monetary flows are tracked among the four major sectors of the economy: households, businesses, governments and non-residents. Saving, investment, assets, liabilities and national wealth are measured. The program supports various statutory requirements and its outputs are vital to the policy development and program responsibilities of the Bank of Canada, Finance Canada, Industry Canada, Foreign Affairs and International Trade and several other federal and provincial departments and agencies. Its outputs are also widely used in the private sector.

Statistical Support Services

Classification Services
The program is responsible for the development and implementation of standard classifications and establishes official concordances between international and Canadian classifications. It also standardizes economic and social concepts and provides a system of comprehensive documentation for all surveys conducted by Statistics Canada.

Collection Support Services
The program provides data collection services to Statistics Canada and is responsible for the coordinated planning of capacity and capabilities across the collection infrastructure and collection research. It also is responsible for human resources operations for employees hired under the Statistics Act.

Geography Services
The program maintains a spatially referenced geographic database in support of the Census of Population as well as the Census of Agriculture, the Standard Geographical Classification and other Statistics Canada programs. It is also responsible for the development of geographic concepts, the delineation of the geographic areas and the publication of maps and other reference materials. The program is the centre of expertise in the application of automated geographic and cartographic techniques.

Informatics Services
The program is responsible for developing, delivering and maintaining informatics services in support of the business requirements of the statistical and administrative programs of Statistics Canada.

Methodology Services
The program ensures that the statistical methodology used by all Statistics Canada surveys is sound and statistically efficient. It is responsible for the development and maintenance of methodology standards, the development and support of generalized methods for survey functions, and research on problems related to survey design and evaluation, time series and the analysis of survey data. It is also responsible for the development and maintenance of a central register of enterprises and associated establishments for statistical purposes.

Tax Data Program
The program is responsible for obtaining statistical data from the Canada Revenue Agency and for processing and making these data available to other Statistics Canada programs. It has a leadership role within the Agency in developing approaches and methods by which tax data may be used to supplement or replace data collected by surveys.

Corporate Services

Evaluation Services
The evaluation services facilitate formative and summative evaluations, provide quality assurance on other program evaluation studies, and evaluate departmental program policies. These examinations are conducted to professional and government program evaluation standards. Program evaluation reports provide feedback on the current level of effectiveness and efficiency and contribute to determining the ongoing relevance of the programs and the level of resources necessary to achieve expected results.

Facilities/Asset Management Services
The facilities and asset management services include managing Statistics Canada's facilities and related assets, including office buildings, office equipment, furniture, and all informatics/non-informatics equipment and software related to facilities.

Financial Management Services
The financial management services support Statistics Canada's programs and involve several activities undertaken to ensure the prudent use of public resources, such as financial planning, cost and cash accounting, revenue management, and the development, implementation, operations of the financial accounting framework and oversight of the administration of the Financial Administration Act. These services also provide information for decision-making, comprehensive and integrated reporting on ongoing programs and permit effective external reporting. Other services consist of providing leadership, guidance and direction on all accounting and financial management systems and processes.

Human Resources Management Services
In order to enhance organizational performance, the human resources management services assist management in obtaining, deploying, developing, motivating and retaining employees. These services also include the monitoring of individual training for employees, the management of translation services and official languages, the human resources development, operations and recruitment services.

Information Management Services
The information management service includes document management, distribution of data collection materiel, publications and general correspondence. It includes the services of the departmental library and administration of access to information and privacy legislation.

Internal Audit
Services supplied by the internal audit function provide timely assurance services and advice to the Chief Statistician and senior management. Through systematic and disciplined approach, the audit function provides independent and objective assessment, independent from line management, on risk assessment, control and governance.

International Relations
This program is responsible for the coordination of Statistics Canada's contacts with the statistical offices of other countries and international organizations such as the United Nations, its specialized agencies and regional commissions, the Organisation for Economic Co‑operation and Development, the European Union and the International Statistical Institute. It provides policy advice on international matters to senior Agency management; coordinates the work required for fulfilling international obligations such as representation at intergovernmental meetings and data reporting. It also manages the Agency's International Technical Assistance Program and maintains contact on behalf of the Agency with the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Canadian International Development Agency.

Management and Oversight Services
The management and oversight services involve providing central strategic direction and decision-making to manage the ongoing operations of the organization, supporting corporate planning and risk management and promulgating modern management know-how and best practices.

Public Affairs/Communications Services
The public affairs and communications services includes both internal services to support our dissemination of statistical information and external services to foster the widest possible access to Statistics Canada's information through means such as the Agency's website, publications and electronic products. The website serves as the Agency's principal dissemination and communication channel while the Agency's National Contact Centre handles external enquiries for statistical information by phone, fax and e-mail. In order to increase awareness, understanding and use of the Agency's information, these public affairs and communications services include outreach and capacity building initiatives among client communities.

Public Policy Services
The public policy services ensure that Statistics Canada's legal and policy obligations related to the Statistics Act are satisfied. They support the legislative framework of the Agency and include the provision of advice and guidance on policies and legislation to Statistics Canada employees as well as to officials of other government departments (federal, provincial and, occasionally, foreign).

Supply Chain Management Services
The supply chain management services assist managers in ensuring that competitiveness, cost effectiveness and quality are achieved in the acquisition and contracting of goods and services, as well as in the use, accounting and disposal of materiel assets. The services are also responsible for the inventory control of acquired assets.

Information Holdings

Institution-Specific Classes of Records

Departmental Secretariat

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

Standard Classes of Records

Please see the Introduction to this publication for the description of Standard Classes of Records.

Access to Information and Privacy Requests

Accounts and Accounting

Acts and Legislation

Administration

Administration and Management Services

Audits

Automated Document, Records and Information Management Systems

Boards, Committees and Councils

Budgets

Buildings

Buildings and Properties

Business Continuity Planning

Classification of Positions

Communications

Cooperation and Liaison

Disclosure to Investigative Bodies

Equipment and Supplies

Finance

Furniture and Furnishings

Hospitality

Human Resources

Information Technology Services

Lands

Occupational Health and Safety

Office Appliances

Official Languages

Pensions and Insurance

Personnel

Physical Security

Proactive Disclosure

Procurement and Contracting

Recruitment and Staffing

Relocation

Salaries and Wages

Staff Relations

Training and Development

Travel

Utilities

Vehicles

Institution-Specific Personal Information Banks

Statistical and Analytical Programs

Analytical Studies

Deemed Employees
Description: This bank describes information collected from individuals who have been contracted to carry out research or to perform other work pursuant to the Statistics Act. The personal information may include: full name, address, telephone and fax numbers, email address, qualifications/resumé, signed copies of contracts or memoranda of agreement, signed oaths or affirmation of secrecy, signed copies of the Acknowledgment related to the Oath of Secrecy and the Values and Ethics Code for the Public Service.
Class of Individuals: Individuals who have approved research projects to be undertaken in a Research Data Centre or at Statistics Canada headquarters, or who have been engaged to provide a specific service to Statistics Canada. In the majority of cases, these individuals are researchers.
Purpose: The purpose is to manage individuals who are conducting research or are providing a service to Statistics Canada for which they are required to have access to sensitive statistical information.
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Records are retained for two years after their last administrative use and then are destroyed. Records of signed oaths or affirmation of secrecy are kept indefinitely.
RDA Number: 98/005
Related Record Number: STC RDC 501
TBS Registration: 007093
Bank Number: STC PPU 810

Longitudinal Administrative Data
Description: This database contains information relating to the income and demographics of a sample of individuals and their families. The information is derived from the T1 Family File. Data are for the years 1982 and onwards.
Class of Individuals: 20% sample of individuals identifiable on the T1FF.
Purpose: The dynamics of income, migration and marital status can be examined. Relationships of change can be examined, providing information about probable cause of some life events such as entering and exiting low income status. The files are used to produce aggregate data on the economic performance and demographic characteristics of the population over time. The information obtained from this file is essential to the development and evaluation of policies related to economic well-being. No identifiable microdata are released.
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC SAD 555
TBS Registration: 005004
Bank Number: STC PPU 112

T1 Family File (T1FF)
Description: The database contains information on all tax filers as well as their identifiable filing and non-filing family members (census family definition). The family formation is done through deterministic and probabilistic matching and imputation. The data are compiled from taxation files and supplemented with estimates of components of income and taxes not covered in the federal taxation system (e.g., some provincial refundable tax credits, taxes for the province of Quebec).
Class of Individuals: Tax filers and non-filers.
Purpose: The objective of the development of this database is to address the need for annual data for large and small areas, providing a social and economic profile of the population. This information is essential, particularly to governments and private organizations, to the process of developing and evaluating programs and policies related to financial well-being. No identifiable microdata are released.
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC SAD 550
TBS Registration: 005003
Bank Number: STC PPU 111

Census of Agriculture

Census of Agriculture Database
Description: This database contains information obtained from the Census of Agriculture on the characteristics of farms and farm operators and information relating to crops, livestock, poultry, machinery, farm operating expenses and receipts by type of farm. Information on assets, liabilities and investments is also available.
Class of Individuals: Individuals considered to be farm operators.
Purpose: This bank provides a base inventory of Canadian agriculture, input to the System of National Accounts and information for production, marketing and policy decisions.
Consistent Uses: Statistics Canada may release name and address information to other members of the national agricultural statistical system for statistical purposes if the legal requirements imposed by the Statistics Act under section 17 are met.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC AGR 445 and AGR 450
TBS Registration: 001843
Bank Number: STC PPU 030

Census of Population

1940 National Registration Records
Description: The records provide social and economic information on individuals as well as information on their skills.
Class of Individuals: All persons 16 years of age or older in the period 1940‑1946 with the exception of those people who were, at the time of registration, members of the armed forces, a religious order, or confined to an institution.
Purpose: The information was originally obtained under the authority of the National Resources Mobilization Act, 1940, and the War Measures Act to permit the mobilization of all of the effective resources of the nation for the defence and security of Canada. The National Registration Regulations pursuant to this legislation gave custody of the records to Statistics Canada, then known as the Dominion Bureau of Statistics.
Consistent Uses: A program has been established called the Census Microfilm and Pension Searches Sub-unit to provide proof of age, place of residence, family relationships or length of residence in Canada from the 1940 National Registration Records. The service is normally provided in support of applications for pensions, citizenship, passports and similar situations where other administrative records are required but no longer exist or, as in a number of cases, were never issued. Searches are also conducted to provide third parties with information on individuals who were included in the 1940 National Registration. This information is typically requested for genealogical purposes and is made available only if proof is provided that the person about whom information is requested has been deceased for more than 20 years. A standard fee of $45 (plus GST and PST) is charged for each search undertaken; the fee is refunded if the search is not successful. Requests should be sent to the Census Microfilm and Pension Search Sub-unit, Census Operations Division, Statistics Canada, 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0T6.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC COP 020
TBS Registration: 001840
Bank Number: STC PPU 010

Census Pension Searches Program
Description: This bank contains information relating to applicants to the Census Microfilm and Pension Search Sub-unit and to members of the applicant's family. Search reference information such as name, date of birth, place of birth, place of residence is provided by the applicant in order to undertake a search of historical census and 1940 National Registration records. Results of a successful search will be furnished in the form of a certified transcript of the information found in the original records.
Class of Individuals: Individuals who make an application under the program.
Purpose: The purpose of this bank is to provide the necessary personal information to undertake a search of historical census and the 1940 National Registration records in order to provide proof of age or length of residence in Canada. The service is normally provided in support of applications for pensions, citizenship, passports and similar situations where other administrative records are required but no longer exist or, as in a number of cases, were never issued.
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 98/001
Related Record Number: STC COP 015
TBS Registration: 003117
Bank Number: STC PPU 012

Census of Population: Census Test
Description: This bank contains information collected from surveys over the last five years used to test Census of Population questions. The records in this bank are organized geographically by test module and year. To retrieve a record from this bank, the precise address at the time of the test, the name of the test module and the year surveyed are required.
Class of Individuals: Individuals within households selected to participate in census test surveys.
Purpose: The surveys are part of the testing program for the Census of Population. The objectives of the test surveys are to determine whether new or revised questions proposed for the census can be easily understood and correctly answered, and to assess public reaction to these questions by testing them on a small‑scale basis.
Consistent Uses: None
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC COP 015
TBS Registration: 002096
Bank Number: STC PPU 007

Census of Population: Evaluation Program
Description: This bank contains information from post‑censal studies to measure coverage and data quality and to evaluate the census enumeration of unoccupied dwellings and non‑respondent households.
Class of Individuals: Individuals selected to participate in evaluation studies.
Purpose: The studies are part of the evaluation program for the Census of Population. The objective of the overcoverage studies is to measure gross overcoverage by estimating duplicate and erroneous census enumerations. The purpose of the Reverse Record Check Survey is to estimate gross undercoverage, (the number and characteristics of persons and households missed by the census). The purpose of the Dwelling Classification Survey is to adjust the census counts for non-response and to estimate the number of occupied private dwellings which were misclassified as vacant and to adjust the occupied dwelling counts of the census accordingly.
Consistent Uses: The Dwelling Classification Survey is conducted once each census to produce the adjustments noted above. The Reverse Record Check and overcoverage studies are conducted once each census to estimate coverage error in the census. These estimates are used as adjustments in the population estimates program conducted by the Demography Division. The results are also used for the development of improved procedures for the subsequent census.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC COP 015
TBS Registration: 003015
Bank Number: STC PPU 008

Census of Population Questionnaires
Description: This bank contains information obtained from Censuses of Population taken since 1921. The records are identified by name and contain information on the social and economic characteristics of every person in the country. They are organized on a geographical basis and are held as microfilmed copies of the original questionnaire or digital images (2001 and 2006 Censuses). To retrieve a record from this data bank, the precise address at the time of the census is required. Only the individual named in the record can have access to information it contains, or the legal representative of a minor, incompetent or deceased person, but only for the purposes of settling the affairs of the estate of that person.
Class of Individuals: All individuals in Canada at the time of the census.
Purpose: The Census of Population is a national inventory of Canada's key socio‑economic phenomena, conducted at prescribed intervals by statutory requirement. The data collected, when compiled into statistics, are used for a wide range of purposes including the determination of economic and social policies, planning industrial development, and estimating needs for schools, roads and many other public services. Population figures are used to determine federal electoral district boundaries, and to calculate per capita grants to provinces and municipalities.
Consistent Uses: Statistics Canada has established a program called the Census Microfilm and Pension Search Sub-unit to provide proof of age or length of residence in Canada from historical census records. The service is normally provided in support of applications for pensions, citizenship, passports and similar situations where other administrative records are required but no longer exist or, as in a number of cases, were never issued. Census questionnaires may be used to draw samples for post‑censal and other surveys addressing issues of current social concern, research purposes and studies that are part of the evaluation program for the Census of Population.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC COP 015
TBS Registration: 001839
Bank Number: STC PPU 005

Referrals to the Department of Justice re: Refusal to Complete Census of Population or Census of Agriculture Questionnaires
Description: The information held in this bank consists of correspondence between Statistics Canada/the Department of Justice and individuals who have refused to complete a Census of Population or Census of Agriculture questionnaire when the case has been referred to the Department of Justice. The bank also contains information that enables an assessment of each case.
Class of Individuals: Individuals who have refused to complete a Census of Population or Census of Agriculture questionnaire and whose cases have been referred to the Department of Justice.
Purpose: The information in this bank is obtained in order to determine whether to pursue in a court of law those individuals who have refused to complete a Census of Population or Census of Agriculture questionnaire as required by the Statistics Act.
Consistent Uses: The original records are provided to the Department of Justice for prosecution purposes.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC SOP 602
TBS Registration: 002097
Bank Number: STC PPU 120

General Social Characteristics Statistics

Longitudinal Immigration Database
Description: The Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file combining linked immigration and taxation records. It is updated annually and covers immigrant tax-filers for 16 years. The IMDB brings together landing information from Citizenship and Immigration Canada's Field Operations Support System (FOSS) with taxation data from the Canada Revenue Agency (from the T1 personal tax return and T4 files). The database is a comprehensive source of data on the economic behaviour of the immigrant (tax filer) population in Canada and is a source of data that provides a direct link between immigration policy levers and the economic performance of immigrants. The IMDB is managed by Statistics Canada on behalf of a federal-provincial consortium led by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. The database is reviewed every five years to ensure its continuing relevance to immigration policy development.
Class of Individuals: Immigrants.
Purpose: The files are used to produce aggregate data on the economic performance and demographic characteristics of the immigration population over time. No identifiable data relating to immigrants are released.
Consistent Uses: Standard products are produced for the federal-provincial consortium for each annual update.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC HFS 722
TBS Registration: 003726
Bank Number: STC PPU 135

Health Statistics

Canada Health Survey
Description: This bank contains information obtained from the Canada Health Survey conducted by Health and Welfare Canada and Statistics Canada in 1978 and 1979. Information includes demographic data, health status, health consequence and risk factor information as well as anthropometric measurements and blood test analyses.
Class of Individuals: Individuals who responded to the survey.
Purpose: The purpose of this bank was to produce data relating to the health of Canadians including alcohol and tobacco use, activity and fitness, seatbelt use, immune status, health problems and disability, emotional health, blood pressure, health services and medication. The data served as input to the planning of health care, health promotion and disease prevention by governments and others.
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC HLT 115
TBS Registration: 001852
Bank Number: STC PPU 075

Canadian Cancer Registry
Description: The Canadian Cancer Registry is a continuation of the National Cancer Incidence Reporting System (1969‑1991). The information in this bank is provided annually by the ten provincial cancer registries and health authorities responsible for cancer registration in the Yukon, Nunavut and Northwest Territories. The information relates to each newly diagnosed case of primary cancer and includes the name of the person with cancer, socio‑demographic characteristics of the person, and diagnostic information.
Class of Individuals: All individuals diagnosed as having primary cancer as reported to provincial cancer registries and territorial health authorities.
Purpose: The purpose of this bank is to produce person‑oriented data on the incidence of new cases for primary sites of cancer reported to provincial and territorial cancer registries by site of tumour, age, sex and method of diagnosis. These data provide a large base of information for the study of variations in cancer incidence by personal characteristics and geographic region and allow the monitoring of trends in cancer incidence over time.
Consistent Uses: The Canadian Cancer Registry is used as one of the input files in long‑term medical follow‑up studies. It supplies cancer-related information on individuals in particular study groups.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC HLT 095
TBS Registration: 001850
Bank Number: STC PPU 065

Canadian Community Health Survey
Description: This bank contains cross-sectional data from the Canadian Community Health Survey and the Health Services Access Survey. The information includes demographic data and indicators of health status, health care utilization and factors that influence health.
Class of Individuals: Individuals who responded to the survey.
Purpose: The purpose of this bank is to provide information on the health status of Canadians from various areas of the country (from 122 to 136 health regions) and to provide information to better understand factors that influence health. The data are used by those in government and others interested in program planning and analysis in the areas of health care, health promotion and disease prevention.
Consistent Uses: Respondents are asked for permission to link information from provincial health files with the data collected in the survey, and when permission is granted, they are asked to provide their health number. Permission is also sought to share information collected in the survey with the provincial ministries of health, the Public Health Agency of Canada (starting in 2007) and Health Canada, in accordance with the provisions of section 12 of the Statistics Act.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC HLT 082
TBS Registration: 005335
Bank Number: STC PPU 066

Canadian Renal Failure Register
Description: The information in this bank was provided by reports from hospital dialysis and transplantation centres about all new patients starting treatment for chronic renal failure. Information includes the name of patient, socio‑demographic characteristics of the patient, and diagnostic and treatment information. This information was collected annually from 1981 to 1986.
Class of Individuals: Patients starting treatment for chronic renal failure.
Purpose: The purpose of this bank was to provide the number of cases under treatment and to produce data to be used in evaluating the efficiency of the treatment modes.
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC HLT 095
TBS Registration: 001849
Bank Number: STC PPU 060

Dental Hygienists Database
Description: This bank contains socio‑economic and demographic data on licensed/qualified dental hygienists. Variables include highest level of education, school years and place of graduation, type of employer, time spent in dental hygiene activities and numerically coded place of residence and employment. The files are not identified by a name but by a national registration number. The last survey was completed in 1983.
Class of Individuals: Licensed or qualified dental hygienists between 1975 and 1981.
Purpose: The purpose of this bank was to produce statistical data on the socio‑ economic and demographic characteristics of dental hygienists qualified to practise and reside in Canada, and to provide information to manpower planning groups and other users as a source of data for analysis and special studies.
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC HLT 080
TBS Registration: 001846
Bank Number: STC PPU 045

Hospital Morbidity
Description: This databank contains information obtained from hospitals in Canada on patients who have separated (discharges and deaths). The files are identified by a number assigned by the hospital and contain demographic and medical information on the patient such as age, sex, diagnosis, surgical operations, length of stay, condition of discharge, residence of the patient.
Class of Individuals: Hospital inpatients in Canada.
Purpose: The purpose of this bank is to provide national hospital morbidity statistics, including number of patients separated from hospitals, average length of stay and causes of hospitalization.
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC HLT 080
TBS Registration: 001848
Bank Number: STC PPU 055

Long‑term Medical Follow‑up Study Files
Description: The Long‑term Medical Follow-up Study Files are comprised of information from the following sources: input study files (often from groups outside Statistics Canada), the Canadian Cancer Registry (created from STC PPU 065), the Canadian Mortality Database (created from the Vital Statistics Database, STC PPU 035) and the Canadian Birth Database (also created from the Vital Statistics Database, STC PPU 035) plus provincial files. The input study files contain records of individuals provided by employers, unions, health surveys or other research groups. These input files are then matched to the Canadian Cancer Registry to determine the cause of cancer, to the Canadian Mortality Database to provide information on date, cause and place of death, or to the Canadian Birth Database to provide birth and parental details. In addition, the outcome files may be matched (e.g., infant birth and death records). The input study files can contain several hundred or hundreds of thousands of records, depending on the size of the study group. Individual identifying information usually includes name, birth date, sex, birthplace and place of residence. The name of the individual's parents or spouse may also be included where this information is required to confirm the validity of a linkage. Methodological studies are carried out to support the design and evaluation of mortality cohort studies. Records containing aggregated data from various sources on the vital status of the individual are also used. The input study file and the file containing, for example, the death records to which the study file records were linked, are kept separately. An identification number is present on both files which can bring corresponding records together, if necessary. Files are password-protected and stored in the Statistics Canada tape library.
Class of Individuals: Records of individuals who form part of population groups identified by employers, unions, health surveys or other research organizations as well as all individuals in the national files.
Purpose: Health statistics are used to describe the state of health of the Canadian people and the occurrence of illnesses. In particular, these files are primarily used to provide researchers with data they need to compare the rates and causes of death and/or cancer in groups exposed to different levels or types of chemicals, diet, medical treatment, x‑rays, disease, etc. This in turn gives information needed by policy makers to set appropriate levels of exposure to toxic agents in occupational, environmental and medical settings. Risk factor concerns relating to child and maternal health, including socio‑economic birth and mortality differentials, have also been investigated.
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC HLT 095
TBS Registration: 001860
Bank Number: STC PPU 076

Manitoba Medicare Records
Description: This bank contains medical and demographic information from the medical care insurance files of the province of Manitoba from 1984-1985 to 1988-1989. This information was obtained through formal arrangements with the province and was used for statistical purposes only.
Class of Individuals: Persons for whom a claim was submitted to the medical care insurance plan of Manitoba.
Purpose: To create and examine profiles of diseases in Canada from an epidemiologic perspective.
Consistent Uses: To achieve the purpose, it involved linkage of Hospital Morbidity Database files (STC PPU 055) and Canadian Mortality Database files (STC PPU 035).
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC HLT 080
TBS Registration: 002673
Bank Number: STC PPU 056

National Population Health Survey (Household, Institutions and North Components)
Description: This bank contains cross-sectional and longitudinal data from the various components of the National Population Health Survey. The household component has been conducted every two years since 1994‑1995. The health institutions component ended after five cycles of collection and the North component after three cycles. The information includes demographic data and indicators of health status, health care utilization and factors that influence health.
Class of Individuals: Individuals who responded to the surveys.
Purpose: The purpose of this bank is to provide information to monitor the health status of Canadians and to provide information to better understand factors that influence health. The data are used by government, researchers and others interested in program planning and analysis in the areas of health care, health promotion and disease prevention.
Consistent Uses: Respondents are asked for permission to link information from provincial health files with the data collected in the survey, and when permission is granted, they are asked to provide their health number. Permission is sought to share information collected in the survey with the provincial ministries of health, the Public Health Agency of Canada (starting in 2006) and Health Canada, in accordance with the provisions of section 12 of the Statistics Act.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC HLT 081
TBS Registration: 003305
Bank Number: STC PPU 077

Registered Nurses Database
Description: This bank contains annual socio‑economic and demographic data obtained from provincial nurses' associations on registered nurses licensed to practise in Canada. The information includes nursing education, year and location of graduation, activity status, type of employer, position and numerically coded location of residence and employment. The files are identified by a provincial registration number.
Class of Individuals: Registered nurses licensed to practise in Canada.
Purpose: The purpose of this bank is to produce data on nursing manpower to be used by planning groups and other users for analysis and special studies.
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC HLT 080
TBS Registration: 001847
Bank Number: STC PPU 050

Tuberculosis Database
Description: This database, provided by provincial and territorial offices of tuberculosis control, contains information on people with tuberculosis. The information includes socio‑demographic variables such as age, sex, aboriginal status and birthplace, and medical data such as type of tuberculosis, bacillary status and previous vaccination. The last year of data held by Statistics Canada is 1994.
Class of Individuals: The information relates to people with newly active and reactivated tuberculosis.
Purpose: This database contains information used for purposes of tuberculosis surveillance and control.
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC HLT 095
TBS Registration: 001851
Bank Number: STC PPU 070

Vital Statistics Database
Description: This bank has information obtained from the registration of births, marriages, deaths and stillbirths by registrars of vital statistics in each province and territory. The information on births relates to place of birth, particulars of parents (name, birth date and marital status of mother) and particulars of the child (surname and name). The information on stillbirths relates to particulars of the child, (place of birth, sex, weight) and particulars of parents (name, birth date, birthplace of parents). The marriage component of the database contains information on the bride and bridegroom (name, marital status and birth date), particulars of parents (name, birthplace) and on the date and place of marriage. Information on deaths relates to name of the deceased, date, place and cause of death. The social insurance number is not provided as a standard variable but may appear on records provided by some provinces and territories. The information has been obtained through formal arrangements with the provinces and is to be used for statistical purposes only. Statistics Canada, therefore, is unable to respond to requests for information contained in this bank, pursuant to section 19(1)(c) of the Privacy Act. Any individual wishing to obtain information relating to the registration of births, marriages or deaths should contact the appropriate provincial or territorial registrar.
Class of Individuals: All individuals who were either born in Canada or in the United States of Canadian citizens; individuals who married or died in Canada or Canadian citizens who died in the United States or in another country.
Purpose: The purpose of the bank is to provide input into the production of national statistics on births, marriages and deaths for Canada, the provinces and territories. These data are also used in special studies relating to mortality, fertility and life expectancy. Vital statistics are the prime components used in intercensal population estimates.
Consistent Uses: The Canadian Mortality Database, which forms part of the Vital Statistics Database, is used as one of the input files in long‑term medical follow‑up studies. It provides information on date, place and cause of death for individuals in a particular study group (see Personal Information Bank STC PPU 076).
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC HLT 095
TBS Registration: 001844
Bank Number: STC PPU 035

Institutions and Social Statistics

Cultural Labour Force Survey
Description: This bank contains information relating to people residing in Canada working in selected occupations and industries within the cultural sector. The survey was conducted in 1994. The survey targeted individuals working as artists, administrators, professionals and technicians in 14 areas: visual arts, crafts, design, literary arts, performing arts, film and video, broadcasting, cultural education, sound recording, book publishing, periodical publishing, heritage institutions, public libraries and other libraries.
Class of Individuals: Artists, administrators, professionals and technicians working in selected areas of the cultural sector in Canada.
Purpose: The survey was conducted to provide information on the education, career activities, work patterns, financial status and demographics of artists and cultural workers. Human Resources Development Canada sponsored the survey to help in the development of training and employment programs that better meet the needs of the cultural sector in Canada.
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC ECT 192
TBS Registration: 003724
Bank Number: STC PPU 125

Elementary/Secondary Teacher Database
Description: This bank contains information relating to characteristics of individuals who form part of the educational staff employed full‑ or part‑time in public elementary/ secondary schools for all provinces.
Class of Individuals: Educational staff in public elementary/secondary schools.
Purpose: The purpose of this bank is to produce statistical information relating to full‑time instructional and administrative school staff at the elementary/secondary school levels according to gender, age, staff position, and employment status.
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC ECT 165
TBS Registration: 001853
Bank Number: STC PPU 080

National Apprenticed Trades Survey
Description: The bank contains information collected in the 1995 National Apprenticed Trades Survey relating to respondents' experience and background before the apprenticeship, the apprenticeship program, content and certification, and the activities and work experience of respondents since they left the apprenticeship.
Class of Individuals: Individuals who completed or discontinued a registered apprenticeship program.
Purpose: The purpose of the survey was to examine the labour market experience of completers and discontinuers of a registered apprenticeship program two years after they left the program.
Consistent Uses: Statistics Canada entered into data‑sharing agreements under section 12 of the Statistics Act with Human Resources Development Canada, the Canadian Labour Force Development Board and provincial ministries responsible for apprenticeship training. The information provided to these organizations does not contain personal identifiers and is used only for statistical purposes. Respondents were advised of these agreements and were given the opportunity to object to the sharing of their data.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC ECT 180
TBS Registration: 003341
Bank Number: STC PPU 103

National Graduates Survey and Follow-up of Graduates Survey
Description: Surveys and follow-up surveys of graduates of public postsecondary education programs carried out in 1978, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1997, 2000 and 2002. The surveys were carried out using a sample of 1976 graduates (for the 1978 survey), 1982 graduates (for the 1984 and 1987 surveys) 1986 graduates (for the 1988 and 1991 surveys), 1990 graduates (for the 1992 and 1995 surveys) and 1995 graduates (for the 1997 and 2000 surveys) and 2000 graduates (for the 2002 survey). Information obtained from the institutions include student name, address, telephone number, level of education and field of study. Information collected in the survey include the extent of work experience before graduation and occupations and industries for jobs held two years (in the initial National Graduates Survey) and five years (in the subsequent follow-up survey) after graduation. Also collected were details of further studies since graduation and general socio-demographic information (age, marital status, sex, language). In 1999, Statistics Canada also surveyed the graduates from the class of 1995 who had moved to the United States. These graduates were asked the same kind of questions on the 1997 National Graduates Survey as well as questions as to why they had moved to the United States.
Class of Individuals: Graduates from trade‑vocational, college and university programs in 1976, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1995 and 2000.
Purpose: To produce statistical information for monitoring graduates' transition from school to work and their success in finding work related to their fields of study. The information assists students and guidance counsellors to help choose appropriate fields of study and education planners to organize courses and programs of study. It is also used by analysts to develop projection models of supply and demand of manpower by occupation. Other purposes include the evaluations of the extent to which graduates succeed in finding jobs related to their fields of study and the extent to which retraining leads to career changes.
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC ECT 170
TBS Registration: 001858
Bank Number: STC PPU 100

National Longitudinal Survey of Children: Educational Questionnaires
Description: This bank contains longitudinal data on the educational development of a series of age-segmented cohorts of children collected in connection with the National Longitudinal Survey of Children. As such, it represents a subset of a much larger bank of longitudinal information on child development. The data have been transferred to the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth personal information bank (refer to Bank Number STC PPU 014). The cohorts covered in the educational database are followed at two year intervals. Each cohort will be followed until the children within the cohort reach adulthood. Data in the education file have been collected from the children's teachers and principals, and from standardized tests of achievement. Information in the database covers variables on the child, the child's classroom, and the child's school. At the level of the child, variables represent the child's current grade, educational history, academic achievement, language of instruction, received instruction, attendance in special education classes, social skills, and behaviour, along with information on parents' involvement in the child's education. At the level of the classroom, information is available on class size and composition, material resources, instructional techniques, emphasis on academic achievement and the teacher's perceptions of his/her teaching efficacy. At the level of the school, variables include academic streaming, characteristics of the student body, disciplinary problems, parental involvement with the school, available human and material resources, and the social climate of the school. In addition, information is available on the responding teacher's and principal's demographic and educational background.
Class of Individuals: Age segmented cohorts (4‑5 years, 6‑7 years, 8‑9 years, 10‑11 years) of children enrolled in junior kindergarten to grade 6.
Purpose: To determine the factors which place or prevent children from becoming at risk for educational failure. The data will allow a wide variety of academic and policy- oriented researchers to determine the impact that education has on a wide variety of developmental outcomes such as children's future health, social development, and educational attainment.
Consistent Uses: Statistics Canada entered into a data‑sharing agreement under section 12 of the Statistics Act with Human Resources Development Canada (now Human Resources and Social Development Canada). The information provided to the department does not contain personal identifiers and is used only for statistical purposes. Persons responding to questions were given the right to refuse to share their information.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC ECT 180
TBS Registration: 003725
Bank Number: STC PPU 130

Postsecondary Student Information System
Description: The information in this bank is obtained from the administrative files of Canadian universities and other postsecondary institutions (community colleges, CEGEPs). It includes demographic data and information relating to the individual's activities as a student, such as qualification sought, discipline of specialization, and previous educational activity. There are no names in this databank. Consequently, for retrieval purposes, it is necessary to use the number assigned to the individual by the institution and the year(s) the individual studied at the institution.
Class of Individuals: Full‑time and part‑time students in Canadian postsecondary institutions.
Purpose: The purpose of this bank is to produce statistical information on students by province, institution, program and sex.
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC ECT 170
TBS Registration: 001855
Bank Number: STC PPU 090

Postsecondary Student Survey
Description: The survey population for the Postsecondary Student Survey, conducted in 1975 and 1984, was provided by the registrars of postsecondary institutions. It included the name, address, telephone number and registration characteristics of all students registered in a regular credit course during the fall term of 1974‑1975 and 1983‑1984. The survey sought information relating to current education, other education and employment of the respondent as well as background characteristics. It also collected information on how respondents financed their education.
Class of Individuals: Students registered for credit courses in Canadian universities and community colleges or equivalent institutions at the time of the survey.
Purpose: The purpose of the Post-secondary Student Survey was to provide comprehensive data on those who attended postsecondary institutions in Canada, their fields and levels of study, and how they financed their postsecondary education. The data provided a basis for the analysis of such issues as accessibility to postsecondary education in Canada.
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC ECT 170
TBS Registration: 001859
Bank Number: STC PPU 095

Postsecondary Teacher Database
Description: This bank contains information relating to salary, qualifications, age, sex, immigration status, citizenship and discipline taught. There are no names in this databank. Consequently, for retrieval purposes, it is necessary to use the number assigned to the individual by the institution as well as the name of the institution and the year(s) the individual taught at that institution.
Class of Individuals: All educational staff employed on a full‑time basis in universities and other post secondary institutions for all provinces.
Purpose: The purpose of this bank is to produce statistical information relating to the population and salaries of full‑time teachers, broken down into three distinct sections: salaries, age and qualification characteristics, and social and other characteristics.
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC ECT 170
TBS Registration: 001854
Bank Number: STC PPU 085

Registered Apprenticeship Information System
Description: Provincial and territorial departments responsible for apprenticeship training provide information annually to Statistics Canada on the number of apprentices registered and the number of certificates given by trade in each jurisdiction. Information has been collected since 1991. The records are identified by the registered apprenticeship number assigned by the province/territory and include the date of birth, gender and the trade in which the person is registered.
Class of Individuals: Persons taking apprenticeship training in a trade and registered with the province or territory.
Purpose: To provide statistical information on apprenticeship programs in Canada.
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC ECT 170
TBS Registration: 005069
Bank Number: STC PPU 083

School Leavers Survey and School Leavers Follow-up Survey
Description: The 1991 School Leavers Survey covered such topics as respondent socio‑economic profiles, school performances, lifestyles, health, literacy and labour market activities. For dropouts, additional topics include reasons for leaving, intentions on returning, labour market activities before/after leaving and other types of training/education received since leaving. The same individuals were re‑interviewed four years later in the School Leavers Follow‑up Survey collecting information on the school‑work transition.
Class of Individuals: Individuals who at the time of the survey were 18 to 20 years old and had completed secondary school, dropped out or were still in the educational system.
Purpose: The purpose of the surveys is to develop comparative profiles of three groups of secondary school attendees: those who successfully completed school, those still in the education system and those who "dropped out". The survey results allowed analysts to better understand the relationship between the leavers, their backgrounds and their subsequent labour market experiences.
Consistent Uses: Statistics Canada entered into data‑sharing agreements under section 12 of the Statistics Act with Employment and Immigration Canada and with provincial ministries of education, manpower and labour. The information provided to these departments does not contain personal identifiers and is used only for statistical purposes. Respondents were advised of these agreements and were given the opportunity to object to the sharing of their data.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC ECT 165
TBS Registration: 003013
Bank Number: STC PPU 093

Survey of Doctoral Degree Recipients
Description: This survey collected information on selected socio‑economic characteristics of doctoral degree recipients in Canada, their educational background and work experience, and their career expectations. The survey began in 1981 and was discontinued in 1986.
Class of Individuals: Recipients of a doctoral degree from a Canadian university.
Purpose: The purpose of this survey was to produce statistical information used by the granting councils to study trends in post‑graduate education with respect to the utilization of their funds, the employment pattern for graduates in the programs, the socio‑demographic characteristics of the graduates, and to undertake a cost analysis of the programs.
Consistent Uses: Statistics Canada entered into data‑sharing agreements under section 12 of the Statistics Act with selected organizations. Respondents were advised of these agreements and were given the opportunity to object to the sharing of their information.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC ECT 170
TBS Registration: 002436
Bank Number: STC PPU 097

Youth in Transition Survey
Description: The longitudinal Youth in Transition Survey collects data on a sample of youth across Canada every two years. The survey was initiated in January and May 2000. Information on over 52,000 youth from two age cohorts (15-year-olds and 18- to 20-year-olds) was collected during the first collection. For the 15-year-olds, information was also collected from their parents.
Class of Individuals: Youth born in 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1984.
Purpose: The primary objective of the survey is to provide policy-relevant information about school-work transitions and factors influencing education, training and work.
Consistent Uses: Statistics Canada entered into a data-sharing agreement under section 12 of the Statistics Act with Human Resources Development Canada (now called Human Resources and Social Development Canada). The information provided to this department does not contain personal identifiers and is used only for statistical purposes. Persons responding to questions were given the right to refuse to share their information.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC ECT 721
TBS Registration: 75146
Bank Number: STC PPU 150

Homicide Statistics
Description: This bank contains information obtained from police services on characteristics of homicide incidents, victims and accused persons. Detailed information includes the methods used to commit homicide (including firearm-related homicides), the accused-victim relationship (including spousal and other family-related homicides), gang and drug-related homicides and youth homicides.
Class of Individuals: Individuals who are victims of homicides and individuals who are accused of committing a homicide.
Purpose: The purpose of this bank is to provide information relating to the nature and extent of homicide in Canada and to describe the circumstances of homicide incidents as well as the characteristics of victims and accused persons
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC CCJ 135
TBS Registration: 001861
Bank Number: STC PPU 025

Labour and Household Surveys

Community Employment Innovation Project
Description: The bank includes a detailed account of labour market experiences. As well, respondents are asked to provide information on topics such as health and well-being, volunteer activities, education and skills and social network. To alleviate response burden and increase data quality, with the written consent of the individual, detailed information on income and profile of receipt of employment insurance and/or income assistance is obtained from administrative sources. The databank also includes administrative details on project participation. Survey data will be collected over a five-year period, data from administrative sources for up to nine years.
Class of Individuals: Individuals receiving employment insurance or income assistance benefits in the Regional Municipality of Cape Breton.
Purpose: The Community Employment Innovation Project explores a new way to support employment for people receiving social assistance and employment insurance. The research experiment is sponsored by Human Resources and Social Development Canada. The Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC) has overall responsibility for project design and coordination and research. Data collection activities are carried out on a voluntary basis. The purpose of the research is to determine if interventions have a positive impact on labour market outcomes (employment rate, earnings, lower rates of participation in employment insurance and income assistance programs) and the health and well-being of those participating.
Consistent Uses: Informed consent is obtained from participants to obtain personal information from administrative sources and to give Statistics Canada permission to undertake linkages. As well, written consent is obtained for the release of research files to SRDC.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC SSD 040
TBS Registration: 005084
Bank Number: STC PPU 121

Survey of Financial Security
Description: Conducted occasionally, the Survey of Financial Security collects information from a sample of Canadian households on assets and debts.
Class of Individuals: Persons in private households.
Purpose: The purpose of this bank is for operational reasons. Personal information such as name, address and telephone number are used to contact individuals for data collection. For those who consent, this information is also used to obtain information from income tax files for the purposes of the income content of the survey.
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC HLD 047
TBS Registration: 004252
Bank Number: STC PPU 151

Labour Force Survey
Description: The Labour Force Survey is a monthly survey conducted on a sample of approximately 53,000 households. The records are identified by name and carry information on the family composition, activities and characteristics of individuals in the Labour Force Survey sample. Data content includes the demographic profile of the respondent, employment profile such as name of employer, hours of work, and tenure. For those without work, information is available on work history, job search activities, and type of work sought. Data are also available on the educational pursuits of the respondent. Information relating to an individual cannot be retrieved based on name alone. The requester must provide the month(s) and year surveyed and the precise address at the time of the survey. There are also a number of special surveys that are conducted as supplements to the Labour Force Survey. To retrieve a record, the requester must provide the subject of the special survey, the year the survey was conducted, and the precise address at the time of the survey.
Class of Individuals: Individuals in private households.
Purpose: The main purpose of the bank is to produce employment and unemployment figures. The data also enable a wide variety of additional information to be derived on the characteristics of the Canadian labour force and on the population age 15 and over.
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC LAB 035
TBS Registration: 001841
Bank Number: STC PPU 015

Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada
Description: The Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada was designed to study how recent immigrants adjust to living in Canada which assists organizations such as Citizenship and Immigration Canada to determine how to facilitate the integration of new immigrants. The survey was longitudinal, with recent immigrants being interviewed at approximately six months, two years, and four years after landing in Canada. Approximately 20,300 immigrants from across Canada were selected.
Class of Individuals: Immigrants aged 15years and over whoarrived from abroad between October 2000 and September 2001.
Purpose: The survey was designed to improve the understanding of how immigrants adjust to life in Canada. Survey results shed light on the association between the socio-economic background of immigrants and their adjustment to life in Canada. It also identified barriers newcomers to Canada face during their initial integration and what type of help, if any, was useful.
Consistent Uses: Respondents were asked to sign a consent form (distributed through the Canadian Missions Abroad) to allow Statistics Canada to link to administrative files for the purposes of tracing.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC SSD 040
TBS Registration: 005005
Bank Number: STC PPU 018

National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth
Description: The National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth collects data on a sample of children across Canada every two years. The survey was initiated in November/December 1994. Information on over 23,000 children was collected during this first collection. Up to two children in each household were chosen from the initial sample to participate in the longitudinal portion of the survey. It is the intention to follow these children until they are 25 years of age. Interviews were conducted with the most knowledgeable person in the household about these children, usually their mother. Children who were 10 and 11 years of age in this first collection were asked to complete a questionnaire themselves. Information was also collected from the child's teacher and principal, with the consent of the parent. The original sample, reduced for budgetary reasons and through attrition, was about 10,900 after the sixth cycle.
Class of Individuals: Children aged 0 to 11 in 1994-1995. For Cycles 2, 3, 4 and 5, a new sample of children aged 0-1 at the time of collection was added and followed in two subsequent cycles. As well, a cross-sectional sample of 5-year-olds was chosen to top up Cycles 3 and 4 and a sample of 0 to 5-year-olds was chosen to top up Cycle 6. In addition, a sample of kindergarten children has been selected periodically in a small number of communities as part of a related project. One community was covered in 1999, five in 2000 and seven in 2001. A follow-up survey of the 2001 communities was done in 2005.
Purpose: The primary objectives of the survey are to determine the prevalence of various biological, social and economic characteristics and risk factors in Canadian children and youth, to monitor the impact of such factors, life events and protective factors on these children's development. This will provide information to policy and program officers for use in developing effective policies and strategies to help children to live healthy, active and rewarding lives.
Consistent Uses: Statistics Canada entered into a data‑sharing agreement under section 12 of the Statistics Act with Human Resources Development Canada (now called Human Resources and Social Development Canada). The information does not contain personal identifiers and is used only for statistical purposes. Persons responding to questions were given the right to refuse to share their information.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC SSD 040
TBS Registration: 003635
Bank Number: STC PPU 014

Second Follow-up to the Ontario Child Health Study
Description: The Ontario Child Health Study (OCHS) is a longitudinal survey designed to evaluate the impact of early childhood on later adult health, quality of life and role functioning. In 1983 Statistics Canada, in conjunction with McMaster University, first collected information on a group of 3,294 Ontario children living in 1,869 families. Information was gathered on any children in the household between the ages of 4 and 16. Interviews were conducted with one of the parents of the child(ren), and the children themselves completed a self-complete questionnaire if they were 12 years of age or older. In addition, information on these children was collected from the children's teacher. A follow-up of respondents to the 1983 study was conducted in 1987. The second follow-up of the Ontario Child Health Study in 2000 and 2001 went back to these children, who were at the time between the ages of 21 and 33, in order to collect further information about them, their spouse/partner (if applicable) and any children they had. Respondents and their spouse/partners both completed questionnaires.
Class of Individuals: Children aged 4 to 16 in 1983; 8 to 20 in 1987; and 21 to 33 in 2000-2001.
Purpose: The objective of the Second Follow-up to the Ontario Child Health Study was to link early childhood/adolescent experiences with early adult life, especially with respect to how well the respondent is performing in three major roles (worker, parent and partner), and how satisfied they were in these roles. This second follow-up of the OCHS, along with the previous studies, provided useful information for addressing many public health and developmental questions of interest to health researchers.
Consistent Uses: Statistics Canada entered into a data‑sharing agreement under section 12 of the Statistics Act with McMaster University. The information provided to McMaster University does not contain personal identifiers and is used only for statistical purposes. Persons responding to questions were given the right to refuse to share their information.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC SSD 040
TBS Registration: 005006
Bank Number: STC PPU 019

Self‑Sufficiency Project
Description: This bank contains information on the selected recipients' marital status, labour market participation, education and training, child care requirements, and family and parenting concerns. Several interviews were conducted, one at the beginning of the program, and up to four follow‑up interviews, the last taking place 72 months after the first for some participants. In addition to collecting a wide array of information about the selected participant, a follow-up survey gathered additional information on up to two children between the ages of 4 and 18 in each household. Depending on the age of the children, they were asked to complete a vocabulary test, a math test or a literacy skill assessment. Children between the ages of 10 and 18 were also asked to answer a self‑complete questionnaire.
Class of Individuals: Income assistance recipients in New Brunswick and British Columbia.
Purpose: The Self‑Sufficiency Project is a multi-year research demonstration designed to test the effectiveness of an earnings supplement to income assistance recipients who take jobs and agree to leave public assistance. Statistics Canada is responsible for data collection and creating analysis files for the study.
Consistent Uses: Respondents were asked to sign a consent form to allow Statistics Canada to link a variety of data sources, including administrative files held by the Canada Revenue Agency, Human Resources Development Canada (now called Human Resources and Social Development Canada) and the provincial income assistance ministries. Respondents were asked for authorization to share this information with the research firm administering the project and affiliated researchers.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC SSD 040
TBS Registration: 003214
Bank Number: STC PPU 026

Special Surveys
Description: This bank contains data obtained from ad hoc surveys which do not form part of the regular survey‑taking activity of the Agency. They cover a variety of socio‑economic topics including health, housing, labour market, education and literacy, as well as demographic data. The information may include names, social insurance numbers, addresses or telephone numbers.
Class of Individuals: Individuals selected to participate in the special surveys.
Purpose: The data are used by sponsoring agencies or Statistics Canada to either evaluate or benchmark existing socio‑economic programs or to develop such programs. The data collected may be one‑time or a series of point‑in‑time measures.
Consistent Uses: Depending on the individual survey, data may be shared with other federal and provincial government departments and other incorporated bodies if Statistics Canada has entered into a data-sharing agreement under section 12 of the Statistics Act.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC SSD 040
TBS Registration: 002189
Bank Number: STC PPU 016

Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics
Description: Conducted since 1993, the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics is a longitudinal study that provides data on the demographic, income, family and labour market characteristics of Canadians. Respondents are contacted annually for a period of six years.
Class of Individuals: Persons in private households.
Purpose: The purpose of this bank is for operational reasons. Personal information such as name, address and telephone number are used to contact individuals for data collection. For those who consent, this information is also used to obtain information from income tax files for the purposes of the income content of the survey.
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC HLD 038
TBS Registration: 003301
Bank Number: STC PPU 017

Surveys on Charitable Giving, Volunteering and Participating
Description: The bank describes information collected on how Canadians support individuals and communities on their own or through their involvement with charitable and non-profit organizations by means of the Canada Survey on Giving, Volunteering and Participation and the Follow-up Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participation. The personal information includes full name, address, telephone number, education, marital status, language of choice, type of employment, annual income, citizenship and immigration status, religion, ethnic origin, health status, civic participation (such as participating in school council or youth organizations), amount of money donated and payment method and to which organization(s), history of volunteering activities, nature of volunteer work, name of organization, reasons for volunteering, formal or informal volunteering, i.e., helping a friend or neighbour and reasons for not volunteering.
Class of Individuals: Individuals who are aged 15 years and over who respond to the surveys.
Purpose: The purpose of these surveys is to collect data regarding unpaid volunteer activities, charitable giving and participation as well as their motivations and barriers for doing so. The results will help build a better understanding of these activities which can in turn be used to help develop programs and services.
Consistent Uses: Statistics Canada has entered into data‑sharing agreements under section 12 of the Statistics Act with Imagine Canada (formerly the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy) and Health Canada. The information shared with these organizations does not contain personal identifiers, will be kept confidential and used only for statistical purposes. Respondents are advised of these agreements and are given the opportunity to object to the sharing of their data. A selection of respondents who participated in the Canada Survey on Giving, Volunteering and Participation will be re-contacted as part of a follow-up survey, the Follow-Up Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating, to determine how their volunteering and giving patterns may have changed, and if so, why.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC SSD 040
TBS Registration: 007092
Bank Number: STC PPU 156

Workplace and Employee Survey
Description: The Workplace and Employee Survey (WES) is a longitudinal business survey designed to provide current information of events occurring in firms, their evolution over time, and the link between these developments and practices with worker outcomes. The survey annually collected information from about 8,000 employers and 25,000 employees for the reference years 1999 to 2006. The employer questionnaire covered workforce characteristics, hirings and separations, compensation and human resource practices, training, technology use, business strategy and innovation. The employee questionnaire covered job activities, promotions, hours, earnings, training, use of computers and other technologies, education and family characteristics.
Class of Individuals: Paid workers who receive a T4 from their current employer.
Purpose: The survey supports research and policy development with respect to labour adjustment programs, workplace practices, social programs and education.
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Under development.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: STC LAB 075
TBS Registration: 003899
Bank Number: STC PPU 140

Corporate Services

Financial Management Services

Corporate Sales Support System
Description: The Corporate Sales Support System contains billing and shipping information as well as a description of the product and/or service purchased by the client.
Class of Individuals: Individuals who have purchased catalogued publications or other products and services from Statistics Canada.
Purpose: The purpose of this bank is to administer the billing system for Statistics Canada products and services.
Consistent Uses: Billing and customer information is also used to provide information to improve the marketing of the Agency's products and services.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Records are kept for a period of six years and then are destroyed.
RDA Number: 99/004
Related Record Number: STC DIS 603
TBS Registration: 003318
Bank Number: STC PPU 078

Public Affairs/Communications Services

Business Information Reporting System
Description: The Business Information Reporting System (BIRS) is a central repository which provides access to Statistics Canada product and client information. It includes transactional information from three main systems: the Corporate Sales Support System, e-commerce transaction log files and the Depository Services Program online system. BIRS contains key client information such as organization name, contact name, full address, phone number, fax number, e-mail address, and no-contact flags from the Client Contact Limitation File.
Class of Individuals: Individuals who have purchased products and services from Statistics Canada as well as individuals/ institutions who are eligible to receive a copy of a product as part of the "free public good" distribution programs such as the Depository Services Program and the media.
Purpose: The purpose of BIRS is to answer marketing questions such as product destination, how many units were sold and distributed, the date of purchase and delivery and billing amount.
Consistent Uses: Product and client information is also used to provide information to improve the marketing of the Agency's products and services.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Records are kept for a period of six years and then are destroyed.
RDA Number: 99/004
Related Record Number: STC MAR 572
TBS Registration: 005334
Bank Number: STC PPU 155

Client Contact Limitation File
Description: The Client Contact Limitation File (CCLF) is a database of clients who requested not to be contacted by Statistics Canada for market research and/or promotional purposes. The database contains tombstone client information (name, organization, address, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address).
Class of Individuals: Individuals who have received promotions or are contacted by Statistics Canada regarding products or market research. These include existing Statistics Canada clients and potential clients.
Purpose: To maintain records of existing Statistics Canada clients and potential clients who have requested that the use of their contact information be restricted in accordance with Statistics Canada's Client Information Policy.
Consistent Uses: None.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Records are kept for a period of six years and then are destroyed.
RDA Number: 99/004
Related Record Number: STC MAR 572
TBS Registration: 005104
Bank Number: STC PPU 153

Electronic Products Help Line Support Magic Service Desk
Description: The HelpLine Problem Management System is a database which contains client information such as name, address, phone, fax, cell and e-mail address, company, license number, questionnaire identifier, billing information, operating system and preferred language of communication. The database keeps a record of every contact the HelpLine has with clients, from the initial query to problem resolution, including total time required to respond to the client. The database tracks the number of times the client contacts the HelpLine and categorizes each contact based on the product and type of query.
Class of Individuals: Individuals who purchased an electronic product from Statistics Canada who have technical or subject-matter related questions; respondents who complete a Statistics Canada online survey supported by the HelpLine.
Purpose: The purpose of this database is to centralize information and provide a diagnostic tool for HelpLine staff to support clients in the use of Statistics Canada electronic products. The database is also used to facilitate monthly reporting and analysis of calls received based on client record and classification of the call.
Consistent Uses: The database is used by HelpLine staff as a reference and problem-solving tool.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Records are kept for a period of six years and then are destroyed.
RDA Number: 98/001
Related Record Number: STC MAR 572
TBS Registration: 005333
Bank Number: STC PPU 154

Standard Personal Information Banks

Please see the Introduction to this publication for the descriptions of Standard Personal Information Banks.

Access to Information and Privacy Requests

Applications for Employment

Automated Document, Records, Information Management Systems

Business Continuity Planning

Disclosure to Investigative Bodies

Electronic Network Monitoring Logs

Executive Correspondence Management Systems

Governor in Council Appointments

Hospitality

Internal Communications

Internal Disclosure of Wrongdoing in the Workplace

Members of Boards, Committees and Councils

Personnel Security Screening

Professional Services Contracts

Public Communications

Relocation

Security Video Surveillance and Temporary Visitor Access Control Logs and Building Passes

Travel

Classes of Personal Information

Administrative Files Obtained from Federal Government Departments for Statistical Purposes
The Statistics Act, under which Statistics Canada operates, gives the Agency the authority to access records maintained in any federal department or municipal office, corporation, business or organization where the information sought relates to the mandate of the Agency. Accordingly, Statistics Canada has entered into a number of arrangements with other federal government departments to access administrative files of those departments for the purpose of extracting data for statistical purposes. This has allowed Statistics Canada to exempt many respondents, particularly small businesses, from the filing of regular questionnaires.

The following is a list of the files obtained from each department. Statistics Canada may receive the entire file, or only part, depending on its requirements.

Canada Revenue Agency

CRA PPU 005 Individual Income Tax Return

CRA PPU 040 Taxation Taxpayer Master File

CRA PPU 043 Traveller Declaration Cards

Citizenship and Immigration Canada

CIC PPU 039 International Services: Overseas Immigration Case Files

CIC PPU 042 Immigration Case File

CIC PPU 053 Permanent Resident Data System

CIC PPU 055 Visitor Case File

Human Resources and Social Development Canada

HRSDC PPU 116 Old Age Security (OAS), Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS), Allowance (formerly Spouse's Allowances) (Individual)

HRSDC PPU 140 Canada Pension — Record of Earnings

HRSDC PPU 146 Canada Pension Plan — Retirement, Disability, Survivors and Death Benefits (Individual)

HRSDC PPU 150 Insurance Claim File — Local Office

HRSDC PPU 180 Benefit and Overpayment File

HRSDC PPU 210 Automated Earnings Reporting System

HRSDC PPU 293 Employment Benefits and Support Measures

HRSDC PPU 385 Record of Employment (Second Copy)

HRSDC PPU 390 Identity Management Services and Social Insurance Number Register

Justice Canada

JUS PPU 005 Central Registry of Divorce Proceedings

Business Statistics
The business database contains information which relates to the major industrial and services sectors of the economy. The information is obtained from establishments within companies through surveys, and from administrative records. It is used to describe the whole range of business activity in Canada, the goods and services produced, the cost structure of each industry and the location of industrial activity. It measures the kind and quality of goods produced, the costs of materials, labour and capital employed and the prices of both material and final products. The information is also a vital input to the System of National Accounts. As some of the businesses surveyed are unincorporated, there is personal information in this database relating to owners of unincorporated businesses who can be identified by a social insurance number. The business databank may contain personal information with respect to unincorporated businesses in the forestry, mining, energy and resource and manufacturing sectors; retail and wholesale trade; rail, road and water transportation industries; services, communications and tourism industries; general and trade contractors; and importers and exporters.

Manuals

CANSIM User Guide for E-STAT
Interviewer Training Manuals
Public Use Microdata Files Documentation for Surveys
Security Practices Manual
Statistics Canada Policy Manual

Additional Information

Please see the Introduction to this publication for information on access procedures under the provisions of the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act.

For additional information about the programs and activities of Statistics Canada, please contact:

Communications and Library Services Division
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Reading Room

In accordance with the Access to Information Act, an area on the premises of this institution has been designated as a public reading room. The address is:

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