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February 29, 2008
Canada's balance of international payments, fourth quarter 2007
Canada's balance of international payments on current transactions in the fourth quarter of 2007 slipped into its first deficit since 1999 (negative $513 million seasonally adjusted). This was led by a further narrowing of the surplus on goods and a deterioration of the deficit on international travel. On the financial side of the ledger, non-residents' total investments in Canada, led by direct investment takeover activity, exceeded Canadian investments abroad in the fourth quarter.

February 28, 2008
Study: Sexual orientation and victimization, 2004
Gays, lesbians and bisexuals reported experiencing higher rates of victimization for violent crimes in 2004, including sexual assault, robbery and physical assault, than heterosexuals, according to a new study.
Complete report (PDF file - 440K, 14 pages)
Summary
More reports from the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics Profile Series

February 26, 2008
Survey of Household Spending, 2006
Household spending in 2006 continued to show the effects of the strong resource economy in the West. Spending growth in Alberta surpassed all other provinces by a wide margin.

February 26, 2008
Employment Insurance, December 2007
An estimated 458,900 Canadians (seasonally adjusted) received regular Employment Insurance (EI) benefits in December, up 10,060 from the previous month and the first increase in five months.

February 26, 2008
Payroll employment, earnings and hours, December 2007
In December, the average weekly earnings of payroll employees (seasonally adjusted) decreased 0.1% or by $0.71 from November to $782.02. Compared with a year earlier, average weekly earnings were up 3.1%

February 25, 2008
Education Matters: Insights on Education, Learning and Training in Canada, February 2008
- includes links to two articles:
* Literacy skills of Canadians across the ages: Fewer low achievers, fewer high achievers
* Student characteristics and achievement in science: Results of the 2006 Programme for International Student Assessment
[ Previous issues of Education Matters ]

February 22, 2008
Study: Hourly earnings, 1997 to 2007
Hourly earnings of managers, as well as those of professionals employed in business, finance and computer and information systems, increased faster than those of any other occupational groups during the past 10 years, according to a new study. On the other hand, blue-collar workers in manufacturing, clerical employees and salespeople in retail trade saw virtually no growth in earnings.
* Highlights
* Full article:
HTML
PDF (162K, 13 pages)

February 22, 2008
Study: RRSP investments, 2005
Overall, 6 out of every 10 families in Canada held savings in registered retirement savings plans (RRSPs) in 2005, and these plans had a median value of $25,000, according to a new study. The study, published today in the February 2008 issue of Perspectives on Labour and Income, showed that, as expected, the prevalence of families with RRSPs and the value of the plans both increased with age.
* Highlights
* Full article:
HTML
PDF (149K, 7 pages)

Source for both articles above:
Perspectives on Labour and Income
[ browse earlier issues back to 1989 by subject ]

February 22, 2008
Public sector employment, Fourth quarter 2007 (preliminary)
Public sector employment reached nearly 3.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2007, a gain of 2.5%, or 81,000, from the same quarter in 2006. It has been steadily increasing since 2000 after years of decline throughout the 1990s. Public sector employment comprises all levels of general government, universities, colleges, school boards, health and social service institutions and government business enterprises.

February 21, 2008
Study: Chronic pain in Canadian seniors, 1996/1997 and 2005
Chronic pain affects more than one-quarter of seniors living in households and close to 4 out of every 10 seniors in institutions, and it can have a profound impact on their quality of life, according to a new study.
Chronic pain in Canadian seniors
by Pamela L. Ramage-Morin
Abstract
Findings

February 21, 2008
Study: Health information and the Internet, 2005
More than one-third of Canadian adults, over half of them women, used the Internet to search for health information in 2005, according to a new study. Among those who also visited a doctor, more than one-third discussed the results of their Internet search with their physician. The study, "Getting a second opinion: Health information and the Internet," examines adults' use of the Internet to access health information in 2005.

February 21, 2008
Study: How families respond to layoffs, 1987 to 2001
Married women in at least some Canadian families were able to adjust to their husband's layoff by increasing their own employment income during the 1990s, a new study suggests.The study, published today in the Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series, assessed whether the earnings of wives and teenagers increased in response to layoffs experienced by husbands between 1987 and 2001.
Executive summary
Complete study paper (PDF file - 438K, 37 pages)

February 20, 2008
Leading indicators, January 2008
The composite index rose by 0.2% in January, after December was revised up to no change from November. The upturn was broadly based, with 5 of the 10 components rising, versus only 2 in December. Household spending remained the strongest sector of the economy, more than offsetting the sharp drop in the stock market at the start of 2008.

February 19, 2008
Consumer Price Index, January 2008
Consumer prices increased 2.2% during the 12-month period leading up to January 2008. The core index grew 1.4%, extending a decelerating pattern that began in July 2007.

February 18, 2008
Study: Impact of neighbourhood
income on child obesity, 1994 to 2002

Related link:

Effects of neighbourhood income on reported body mass index:
an eight year longitudinal study of Canadian children
By Lisa N. Oliver and Michael V. Hayes
Published: 14 January 2008
Abstract
Complete article (PDF file - 19K, 20 pages)
"(...) These findings provide evidence that effects of neighbourhood disadvantage on children's Body Mass Index occur between childhood and early adolescence and suggest that policies should target the conditions of childhood, including the neighbourhood environment."
Source:
BioMed Central
Publisher of 186 peer-reviewed open access journals

February 19, 2008
Consumer Price Index, January 2008
Consumer prices increased 2.2% during the 12-month period leading up to January 2008. The core index grew 1.4%, extending a decelerating pattern that began in July 2007.

February 18, 2008
Study: Impact of neighbourhood income on child obesity, 1994 to 2002

Related link:

Effects of neighbourhood income on reported body mass index:
an eight year longitudinal study of Canadian children
By Lisa N. Oliver and Michael V. Hayes
Published: 14 January 2008
Abstract
Complete article (PDF file - 19K, 20 pages)
"(...) These findings provide evidence that effects of neighbourhood disadvantage on children's Body Mass Index occur between childhood and early adolescence and suggest that policies should target the conditions of childhood, including the neighbourhood environment."
Source:
BioMed Central
Publisher of 186 peer-reviewed open access journals

February 13, 2008
Study: The 2006 Canadian immigrant labour market: Analysis by region or country of birth
Immigrants born in Southeast Asia, particularly those from the Philippines, had the strongest labour market performance of all immigrants to Canada in 2006, regardless of when they landed in the country, according to a new study. The study assessed the labour force situation for immigrants at three stages: very recent immigrants, who had landed between 2001 and 2006; recent immigrants, who had landed between 1996 and 2001; and established immigrants, who had been in Canada more than 10 years.

Executive summary (HTML)
Complete report (PDF file - 232K, 42 pages)
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February 8, 2008
Labour Force Survey, January 2008
Employment grew by an estimated 46,000 in January, boosting the employment rate to a record high (63.8%). These gains pushed the unemployment rate back down to 5.8%, matching the 33-year low

February 7, 2008
University enrolment, 2005/2006
Enrolment in Canadian universities hit a record high for the fifth consecutive year during the academic year 2005/2006, in the wake of on-going growth in the number of foreign students and young Canadian adults.

February 7, 2008
Study: Participation in sports, 2005
Barely 3 out of every 10 Canadians aged 15 and over participated regularly in one or more sports in 2005, a dramatic decline from the early 1990s when the proportion was closer to one-half, according to a new report.

February 7, 2008
University degrees, diplomas and certificates awarded, 2005
University students received a record number of bachelor's and master's degrees in 2005, as the overall number of degrees, diplomas and certificates rose for the seventh consecutive year. Universities granted a record high 215,400 degrees, diplomas and certificates in 2005, up 2.3% from 2004. This was an increase of more than 43,000 over the level in 1998, which was the lowest in 10 years.

February 7, 2008
New products
Insights on the Canadian Economy:
"From Roads to Rinks: Government Spending on Infrastructure in Canada, 1961 to 2005", no. 19
Summary (HTML)
Report (PDF - 346K, 28 pages)
[ Other issues in this series ]

February 6, 2008
Employment, Earnings and Hours, November 2007 (2.4MB, 541 pages)

February 5, 2008
Legal aid, 2006/2007
Canada's legal aid plans spent $659 million on delivering legal aid services in 2006/2007, or the equivalent of $20 for every Canadian. These figures do not include spending by the legal aid plans in Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island. Spending was down 4% from the previous year, once inflation was taken into account. However, this decline came on the heels of an increase of about 9% the year before. These plans have been established in each province and territory with the common goal of assisting lower income Canadians who require professional legal counsel. Each plan has developed its own individual legal aid scheme, so structures, operations and eligibility requirements vary from one jurisdiction to the next. For 2006/2007, 11 of 13 legal aid plans provided data for the survey.
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Related links:

Legal Aid in Canada:
Resource and Caseload Statistics, 2006/2007 (PDF File - 635K, 88 pages)

Crime and justice stats from StatCan

See also:
Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics links to crime and justice studies - from
Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Toronto)
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February 5, 2008
Postcensal estimates of population for census divisions, census metropolitan areas and economic regions (preliminary estimates)
Annual demographic estimates as of July 1, 2007, for census metropolitan areas, economic regions and census divisions, are now available.

Report:

Annual Demographic Estimates: Census Metropolitan Areas,
Economic Regions and Census Divisions, Age and Sex, 2002 to 2007
- incl. links to : 1. Highlights 2. Sections 3. Tables 4. Charts 5. Maps 6. Data quality, concepts and methodology 7. Appendices 8. User information 9. Related products
10. PDF version (2.3MB, 151 pages)

January 25, 2008
Consumer Price Index, December 2007
Consumer prices increased 2.4% between December 2006 and December 2007, a slight deceleration from the 12-month change of 2.5% posted in November. Again this month, higher gasoline prices and mortgage interest costs were the main factors driving the increase.

January 25, 2008
Study: The dynamics of housing affordability, 2002 to 2004
Almost 3 out of every 10 Canadians spent more than 30% of household income on shelter at some point between 2002 and 2004, according to a new study. But only slightly less than 1 out of every 10 did so for all three years. The study, published today in the online edition of Perspectives on Labour and Income, also showed that in any one year during this period, only about one-fifth of Canadians surpassed this benchmark.

Related links:

The dynamics of housing affordability
January 2008
Highlights
Full article:
HTML
PDF (155K, 12 pages)

January 25, 2008
Study: Immigrants in the hinterlands, 1992 to 2005
Where immigrants choose to settle appears to have an impact on their economic integration. It is much faster outside the large urban centres. In the larger urban centres, immigrants face a large initial income disadvantage and subsequent increases are not enough for them to achieve parity with other Canadians

Related links:

Immigrants in the hinterlands
January 2008
Highlights
Full article:
HTML
PDF (156K, 10 pages)

January 24, 2008
Study: Female offenders, 2005

January 24, 2008
Current economic conditions

January 23, 2008
Study: Obesity and the eating habits of the Aboriginal population, 2004
Off-reserve Aboriginal people aged 19 to 50 living in Ontario and the Western provinces in 2004 were two and a half times more likely to be obese or overweight, compared with their non-Aboriginal contemporaries, according to a new study.

January 23, 2008
Study: Life expectancy in the Inuit-inhabited areas of Canada, 1989 to 2003

January 22, 2008
Employment Insurance, November 2007 (preliminary)
Previous release
An estimated 446,030 Canadians (seasonally adjusted) received regular Employment Insurance benefits in November, down 5,790 people from October and the fourth consecutive monthly decline. The decline has been widespread over this period, affecting eight provinces.

January 18, 2008
(New products)
National Income and Expenditure Accounts,
Quarterly Estimates, Third quarter 2007
This publication presents quarterly information on Canada's National Income and Expenditure Accounts (NIEA). It contains data on gross domestic product (GDP) by income and by expenditure, saving and investment, borrowing and lending of each of four broad sectors of the economy: (i) persons and unincorporated businesses, (ii) corporate and government business enterprises, (iii) governments and (iv) non-residents. Information is also provided for selected subsectors.
Highlights
Complete report (PDF file - 2.5MB, 148 pages)
Other issues in this series

January 15, 2008
Aboriginal Peoples in Canada in 2006: Inuit, Métis and First Nations, 2006 Census
Statistics Canada today releases the first analysis of data on Aboriginal peoples from the 2006 Census.

Complete online document:

Aboriginal Peoples in Canada in 2006: Inuit, Métis and First Nations, 2006 Census

January 14, 2008
Study: Rural and urban workers living in low income
Roughly the same proportion of Canadian workers lived in low-income households in 2003, whether they inhabited a rural or an urban area, according to a new study. Furthermore, the study found that the rural working poor were in no more dire circumstances than their urban counterparts, given that their "depth" of low income was similar. For either group, the family income was about 30% below the low-income threshold.

Complete study:

A Comparison of Rural and Urban Workers Living in Low-Income
January 2008
NOTE: click the link above to access a highlights page and links (in the left-hand margin) to data and definitions, findings, figures, references, more info, other issues in this series, and more; click the link below to open the PDF file with the complete report
Complete report in PDF format (160K, 18 pages)

[ Other issues in this series ]
[ Analytical studies ]

January 9
International Survey of Reading Skills, 2005
Canada has very few people who exhibit a really limited capacity in reading component skills, according to a new follow-up study to an international literacy survey.

Complete report:

Learning Literacy in Canada: Evidence from the
International Survey of Reading Skills (PDF file - 974K, 129 pages)
January 2008

January 9
Education Matters: Insights on education, learning and training in Canada
January 2008

*** Literacy profile of off-reserve First Nations and Métis people living in urban Manitoba and Saskatchewan: Results from the International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey 2003
Research consistently shows that there is a strong link between literacy levels, education and labour market outcomes. This is especially true for the off-reserve First Nations populations in urban Manitoba and urban Saskatchewan, as well as for the urban Métis populations in those provinces. However, overall literacy levels remain low for First Nations individuals compared to their Métis and non-Aboriginal counterparts.

*** Taking time off between high school and postsecondary education: Determinants and early labour market outcomes
According to the 2004 Youth in Transition Survey, about 40% of 22 to 24 year-olds had gone directly to postsecondary studies following high school, while about equal proportions (30% each) had either delayed more than four months after high school graduation or had high school or less. This article asks whether having a gap in studies following high school matters for employment and earnings. In fact, it finds that it is completion of a postsecondary degree or diploma that matters most, not whether youth had delayed starting their postsecondary studies following high school completion ... more.

*** The fifth edition of Education Indicators in Canada: Report of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program is now available. It provides a wealth of statistical information on education for the provinces and territories, including trends in enrolment and graduation at all levels, as well as trends for educators and expenditures in education. It also presents a broad statistical portrait of the school-age population and indicators on such topics as the school readiness of children aged four and five and labour market outcomes

[ Latest releases on education ]
[ earlier issues of Education Matters ]

December 11, 2007
Provincial and territorial government finance: Assets and liabilities, March 31, 2006
On March 31, 2006, the net financial debt (defined as the excess of liabilities over financial assets) of provincial and territorial general governments reached $253 billion, down $6 billion or 2.3% compared with March 31, 2005. Financial assets were up 7.5% to $333.8 billion, and total liabilities were up 3.0% to $586.8 billion.

From Canadian Social Trends December 2007:

Census Snapshot of Canada — Population (Age and sex)
This article highlights some of the key trends observed in age and sex data from the 2006 Census.
HTML
PDF (48K, 2 pages)

Census snapshot of Canada — Families
This article highlights some of the key trends observed in family data from the 2006 Census
HTML
PDF (44K, 2 pages)

December 7, 2007
Labour Force Survey, November 2007
Employment rose by an estimated 43,000 in November, pushing the employment rate to another record high (63.8%). So far this year, employment has increased 2.3% (+388,000), stronger than the 1.8% increase seen over the same period in 2006. As more people entered the labour force in November, the unemployment rate moved up 0.1 of a percentage point to 5.9%.

December 7, 2007
Satellite account of non-profit institutions and volunteering, 1997 to 2004
Canada's core non-profit sector accounted for an estimated 2.5% of the nation's economic activity in 2004, as measured by gross domestic product.

December 5, 2007
Fixed assets, 2007
Canada's national wealth in net fixed assets—as measured by the total value of all its non residential buildings, engineering structures and machinery and equipment—increased by 22% between 1997 and 2007, largely the result of strong investment by the nation's mining and oil and gas extraction industries.

December 5, 2007
Performance of Canada's youth in science, reading and mathematics, 2006
Canadian 15-year-old students still are among the best in the world when it comes to science, reading and mathematics, according to new results from an international study that assesses the skill level of students nearing the end of their compulsory education.

December 5, 2007
Study: Canadian Health Measures Survey
In March 2007, Statistics Canada launched the Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS), the most comprehensive national survey using direct health measures ever conducted in Canada. This report, a supplement to Statistics Canada's regular publication Health Reports, contains five articles explaining key facets of the CHMS.

December 4, 2007
2006 Census: Immigration, citizenship, language, mobility and migration
Statistics Canada today releases detailed analyses of data from the 2006 Census on immigration and citizenship, as well as the composition of Canada's language groups.

December 4
New Products
Wow - talk about a low-key release for such valuable products!
* Language
* Immigration and citizenship
* Mobility and migration

Release topics and dates for 2006 Census data
[Click this link to access the datasets below]
* Release no. 1: March 13, 2007 - Population and dwelling counts
* Release no. 2: July 17, 2007 - Age and sex
* Release no. 3: September 12, 2007 - Families and households - Marital status (including common-law status) - Housing and shelter costs2 (including dwelling characteristics)
* Release no. 4: December 4, 2007 - Languages - Immigration and citizenship - Mobility and migration

SPECIAL NOTE TO NUMBER-CRUNCHERS:
The New Products page contains 100+ links to just-released Census 2006 data (some of the tables is free, and some is for sale. Below, you'll find just a few sample resources:

* Thematic Maps
A thematic map shows the spatial distribution of one or more specific data themes for standard geographic areas. The map may be qualitative in nature (e.g., predominant farm types) or quantitative (e.g., percentage population change).

* GeoSearch 2006
This interactive mapping application makes it easy to find many places in Canada, see them on a map, and get basic geographic and demographic data for those places. Click and zoom in on a map of Canada or search by place name, street name, street intersection or postal code. GeoSearch will display the appropriate map showing boundaries and other features. GeoSearch automatically displays population and dwelling counts for the selected places, and shows what kind of geographic area it is and its relationship to other geographic areas.

2006 Community Profiles, Census year 2006 (update)
These profiles present community-level information from the 2006 Census of Population. Users can search for an area of interest by typing its 'place name' in the box below or by clicking on a province or territory from the list below and selecting the area from a list.

Census Trends, 2006 Census
Census Trends presents a series of summary data trends spanning the 2006, 2001 and 1996 censuses. The product is designed to facilitate the analysis and comparison of the changing demographic and socio-economic composition of selected geographic areas across Canada. Summary data trends include percentage distributions and percentage change.

More 2006 Census links...

November 30, 2007
Canadian economic accounts, third quarter 2007 and September 2007
Economic growth moderated in the third quarter as real gross domestic product advanced 0.7%, down from 0.9% in the second. Economic output was up 0.1% in September, after increasing 0.2% in August and 0.1% in July. A more detailed analysis is available in Canadian Economic Accounts Quarterly Review.

November 30, 2007
Study: Impact of literacy on earnings for native-born Canadians
A new study, published today in the International Adult Literacy Survey monograph series, examines the distribution of literacy skills in Canada, how these skills are generated, and the impacts of literacy on labour market earnings. The study focused mainly on data from the Canadian component of the 2003 International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey, composed of a sample of over 22,000 respondents. The Canadian component of the 1994 International Adult Literacy Survey was also used to obtain a more complete picture of how literacy changes with age and across birth cohorts.

Complete study:
Literacy and the Labour Market:
The Generation of Literacy and Its Impact on Earnings for Native-born Canadians (November 2007)

November 29, 2007
Canada's balance of international payments, third quarter 2007
Canada's current account surplus with the rest of the world (on a seasonally adjusted basis) decreased $5.3 billion in the third quarter of 2007 to $1.0 billion, the lowest surplus since the second quarter of 2003. In the capital and financial account (not seasonally adjusted), both outward and inward investment flows slowed appreciably in the third quarter of 2007.

November 29, 2007
Canada's population by age and sex (as of July 1, 2007)
Canada's population continues to age, but it is still one of the youngest of the world's developed nations, according to new preliminary estimates. As of July 1, 2007, the population's median age was estimated at 39.0 years. In 2002, it was 37.6 years.

November 27, 2007
Hours worked and labour productivity in the provinces and territories, 2006
Growth in labour productivity eased in all provinces in 2006, except for the four Atlantic provinces. For a second straight year, Manitoba and Alberta recorded the strongest gains in productivity among the provinces, although in each case the gains were significantly slower than in 2005.

November 27, 2007
Employment Insurance, September 2007
An estimated 456,180 Canadians (seasonally adjusted) received regular Employment Insurance benefits in September, a 4.5% decrease from the previous month. Since the same period in 2006, the number of regular beneficiaries has declined 7.8% nationally. At the provincial level, the largest year-over-year declines occurred in Alberta (-15.4%), New Brunswick (-12.7%) and Manitoba (-11.9%). Regular benefit payments in September totalled $754.6 million, while 215,510 people made initial and renewal claims.

November 27, 2007
Payroll employment, earnings and hours, September 2007
In September, the average weekly earnings of payroll employees (seasonally adjusted) increased $2.01 from August, to stand at $772.52. The year-to-date growth, calculated as the average of the first nine months of 2007 compared to the average of the same nine months in 2006, is 3.1%. In Canada's largest industrial sectors, growth in year-to-date earnings in 2007 was observed in manufacturing (+3.5%), in health and social assistance (+3.5%), in educational services (+1.0%) and in retail trade (+0.3 %)

From Perspectives on Labour and Income - November 2007:

Pensions and retirement savings of families
By René Morissette and Yuri Ostrovsky
Prime-aged couples experienced a moderate decline in RPP coverage over the last two decades, as the substantial growth in wives’ labour market participation and the slight increase in their RPP coverage only partially offset a substantial decline in husbands’ coverage. On average, retirement savings of families rose over the last two decades, but the distribution became more unequal. To a large extent, the uneven growth in retirement savings mirrors the sharp increase in family earnings inequality since the early 1980s.

Depression at work
By Heather Gilmour and Scott B. Patten
Worldwide, depression is the leading cause of years lived with disability. It can affect many aspects of life, including work. In fact, the impact of depression on job performance has been estimated to be greater than that of chronic conditions.

November 22, 2007
Study: Growth in real income in Canada and the United States, 1980 to 2006
In terms of income per capita, the Canadian economy grew significantly faster than the US economy between 2000 and 2006. Real income per capita in the United States grew by 9.1% during this period, while in Canada real income per capita grew 15.5%, nearly two-thirds faster than the US rate.

Report:

Canadian and U.S. Real Income Growth Pre and Post 2000: A Reversal of Fortunes
Summary (HTML)
Complete report (PDF file - 230K, 33 pages)
November 2007

November 22, 2007
Residential care facilities, 2005/2006
Canada's 4,291 residential care facilities—public, private and not-for-profit—looked after a growing number of people in the fiscal year 2005/2006, from the elderly to those with mental health problems. These facilities provided cared for 235,916 residents, a 2.3% increase from 2004/2005, according to the most recent data from the Residential Care Facilities Survey.The residential care sector reported total expenses of $13.7 billion, while revenues reached $13.5 billion. Expenses rose by just under $1 billion and revenues increased by just over $1 billion.

Residential Care Facilities, 2005/2006
1. Highlights 2. Introduction 3. Analysis 4. Tables 5. Data quality, concepts and methodology 6. User information 7. Related products
8. PDF version (845K, 47 pages)

November 15, 2007
Registered apprenticeship training programs, 2005
Registrations for apprenticeship training programs increased in all major trade groups in 2005, with the largest gains occurring in the building construction trades group, thanks to Canada's construction boom. In addition, women accounted for almost 1 out of every 10 people who registered in these programs.

November 13, 2007
Study: Work stress among health care providers, 2003
Nearly half of all health care providers in 2003 suffered a high degree of work stress, with nurses, doctors and lab technicians reporting the highest levels, according to a new study published today in Health Reports.

Complete study:

Work stress among health care providers
By Kathryn Wilkins
November 2007
HTML version
PDF version (148K, 4 pages)
According to data from the 2003 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS), nearly one in three employed Canadians, about 5.1 million, reported that most days at work were “quite” or “extremely” stressful.

November 6, 2007
Savers, investors and investment income, 2006
The number of taxfilers reporting investment income, as well as the amount of investment income they reported, both increased for the third consecutive year in 2006. Investment income refers to the sum of dividend income from taxable Canadian corporations and interest income from investments in non-tax-sheltered vehicles. Nationally, over 8.2 million people reported $40.9 billion of income from investments, according to income tax returns filed in the spring of 2007. This is the highest number of people to report investment income since 2000, when some 8.5 million did so. In 2006, the number of people reporting investment income was up 5.4% from 2005, while the income was up 16.3%. This gain in investment income in 2006 was more than double the 7.9% growth rate observed in 2005.

<begin scary thought.>
"The number of savers (taxfilers reporting investment income) climbed 6.5% to 4.7 million in 2006."
By my calculations, that's around 15% of the Canadian population that has any nest egg, or emergency health fund, or post-secondary fund, or vacation fund, or --- you get the picture.
What about the other 85%?
Scary.
</end scary thought.>

November 5, 2007
Study: Assessing the use of government services online, 2005
About one-third (an estimated 8.2 million) of adult Canadians accessed government information and services online in 2005, making the Internet an important channel for governments, according to a new study in the Connectedness Series. The study, which uses data from the Canadian Internet Use Survey, found that men accounted for just over one-half (53%) of Government On-Line (GOL) users. Higher levels of personal income and education were also important factors, as were frequency and intensity of Internet use. (...) The majority of other Internet users—those who did not use the Internet to access Government Online—reported having no need for or no interest in these services (71%).

<begin yet another gratuitous comment from Gilles>
Regarding the 71% of Canadian Interent users who had no need for, nor interest in, online government services:
--- kinda reminds me of some of the folks in my great-grand-pappy's day, who used to say they had no need for these high-fallutin' horseless carriages...>
</end yet another gratuitous comment from Gilles>

November 2, 2007
Labour Force Survey, October 2007
Employment continued to rise in October, jumping an estimated 63,000, split between full and part time. At the same time, the unemployment rate fell to a 33-year low of 5.8%, down 0.1 of a percentage point from September.

November 1, 2007
Charitable donors, 2006
Canadian taxfilers reported making charitable donations totalling $8.5 billion in 2006, up 8.3% from 2005, while the number of donors decreased 1.4% to 5.8 million. The amount of donations increased in all provinces and territories. The highest increases occurred in Alberta (+15.5%), the Yukon (+15.2%), and Newfoundland and Labrador (+13.9%). The number of donors declined slightly in all provinces and territories, with the exception of Newfoundland and Labrador where the number remained relatively stable. Nationally, 25% of all taxfilers claimed charitable donations, roughly the same proportion as in the past. Manitoba had the highest percentage of taxfilers who declared a donation, at 28%, followed by Ontario with 27%. These two provinces have shown the highest and second highest percentage of taxfilers claiming charitable donations for the past 10 consecutive years.

October 23, 2007
Employment Insurance, August 2007 (preliminary)
An estimated 488,600 Canadians (seasonally adjusted) received regular Employment Insurance benefits in August, a 7.6% decrease from the previous month. The August figures are showing a decrease due to a temporary jump in July that was caused by the timing of the reference week for that month.

October 23, 2007
Adult criminal court statistics, 2005/2006
Adult criminal court cases have become more complex during the last 10 years, as cases involving multiple charges are accounting for a growing share of the total caseload. Cases involving multiple charges represented 60% of the adult caseload in 2005/2006, compared with 51% a decade earlier. In turn, this increased case complexity has likely contributed to the longer average time taken to complete a case in adult court. In 2005/2006, cases took 7 months on average to complete, significantly longer than 5 months 10 years earlier.

October 23, 2007
Youth court statistics, 2005/2006
Judges are seeing fewer young people aged 12 to 17 in their courtrooms, and fewer are being sent to custody, since the enactment of the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) in April 2003. There were 56,271 youth court cases completed during the 2005/2006 fiscal year, down 2% from the previous year. Since 2002/2003, the year prior to the enactment of the new legislation, youth court caseload has dropped 26%. This is consistent with police-reported data showing that in 2005, the rate of youth charged with criminal offences was 26% lower than in 2002. The YCJA aims to keep the less serious offences out of youth courts by dealing with youth in less formal manners.

October 16, 2007
Victim services, 2005/2006
About 400,000 victims of crime sought assistance from 589 victim services agencies between April 1, 2005, and March 31, 2006, according to a new report. These agencies reported having served about 161,000 female and 48,000 male victims. The victim's sex was not provided for the remaining 190,000 victims. Data came from the Victim Services Survey (VSS), which enumerated a total of 830 victim service agencies and 9 criminal injuries compensation programs identified as providing formal services to victims of crime. While responses were received from 697 of these agencies, some agencies did not respond to certain questions because the information was either not applicable or not available.

Related link:

Victim Services in Canada: National, Provincial and Territorial Fact Sheets, 2005/2006
Until recently, there were no nationally available data on the number and types of victim service agencies in Canada. In an effort to fill this information gap, the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics through funding from Justice Canada’s Policy Centre for Victim Issues, conducted its first national survey of various types of victim services in 2003. Recognizing the need to monitor the number and types of victim service agencies and to address emerging issues in the field of victim services, the Victim Services Survey was repeated in 2005/2006.
- includes links (in the left margin of the page) to a National Fact Sheet and fact sheets for the provinces and territories

October 3, 2007
Employment Insurance Coverage Survey, 2006
The number of people who have received regular Employment Insurance benefits has declined significantly during the past four years. However, an analysis of new data from the Employment Insurance Coverage Survey shows that this decline has been due mainly to a drop in unemployment, rather than a change in the composition of the unemployed.

October 2, 2007
Study: Birth outcomes by neighbourhood income
and recent immigration in Toronto, 1996 to 2001
Despite improvements over time in indicators such as infant mortality, adverse birth outcomes continue to be a concern in industrialized countries. This is especially true for preterm birth, which is the single most important cause of perinatal mortality. Unlike socio-economic disadvantage, recent immigration is less well understood as a dimension of potential disparities in birth outcomes.This article, published today in Health Reports, analyzes differences in birth outcomes in Toronto on the basis of neighbourhood income and recent immigration.
Source:
Health Reports
[ earlier editions of Health Reports ]

September 24
From the September 2007 issue of Perspectives on Labour and Income:

--- High-income Canadians
By Brian Murphy, Paul Roberts and Michael Wolfson
No agreed-upon definition exists of what constitutes high income, either in dollar cut-offs or as a percentage of the population. Researchers have used widely varying methods, producing widely varying outcomes. This paper presents various criteria for defining high income and looks at some of the characteristics and behaviours of high-income taxfilers under these definitions. Income taxes paid and effective tax rates are also examined.

--- Spending patterns in Canada and the U.S.
By Raj K. Chawla
In addition to sharing a border, Canada and the United States share many demographic and economic characteristics. Both countries have aging populations and low unemployment rates. Consumer spending has also been similar, although differences exist in certain areas. A comparison of spending patterns in Canada and the U.S. between the early 1980s and 2003.

September 21, 2007
Births, 2005
Canada recorded its highest number of births—and highest total fertility rate—in seven years in 2005, thanks mostly to women in their 30s. However, the total fertility rate is still far below the replacement level fertility.

September 20, 2007
Study: Why most university students are women, 2003
Young men are far less likely to attend university than young women, and this gap is largely associated with differences in academic performance and study habits at the age of 15, as well as parental expectations, according to a new study. In 2003, about one-quarter (26%) of 19-year-old men had attended university. In contrast, almost two in five (39%) 19-year-old women had done so. College attendance rates were about the same for young men and women.

Complete study:

Why Are Most University Students Women? Evidence Based on
Academic Performance, Study Habits and Parental Influences (PDF file - 348K, 26 pages)
by Marc Frenette and Klarka Zeman
September 2007

September 18
Census Snapshot of Canada — Urbanization
The richest source of information on the socio-economic condition of Canadian society is the Census of Population conducted every five years. Canadian Social Trends will be highlighting some of the key trends observed in data released from the 2006 Census.
HTML
PDF (44K, 2 pages)
Source:
Sept/07 edition of Canadian Social Trends
[ earlier editions of Canadian Social Trends ]

Also from the current issue of Canadian Socia l Trends:

September 18
Study: Delayed transitions of young adults, 1971 to 2001
Young adults were taking longer to make key life transitions to adulthood in 2001 than their counterparts were three decades earlier, according to a new study.

September 18
Study: Re-accreditation and the
occupations of immigrant doctors and engineers, 2001

September 17, 2007
Canada's international transactions in securities, July 2007
Canadian investment in foreign securities continued to slow for the third consecutive month in July as residents acquired $3.6 billion worth with nearly two-thirds in foreign stocks. Meanwhile, non-residents acquired $1.5 billion worth of Canadian securities in July after divesting two months in a row.

September 17, 2007
National balance sheet accounts, second quarter 2007
National net worth reached $5.3 trillion by the end of the second quarter of 2007, or $162,200 per capita. National net worth expanded by $86 billion (+1.6%) in the second quarter, growing less than in any of the previous six quarters.

September 13, 2007
Employer pension plans (trusteed pension funds), First quarter 2007
The value of employer-sponsored trusteed pension funds increased for the third consecutive quarter between January and March this year. These assets were worth $936.1 billion in the first quarter, up 2.3% from the fourth quarter of 2006. Assets have been rising since a 2.1% decline in the second quarter of 2006.

September 13, 2007
Back to school – September 2007
It’s that time of year again – back to school for tens of thousands of students from kindergarten to college and university, for their teachers and principals, and for tens of thousands of families who are busy preparing for another school year. In honour of this annual ritual, we have put together a few facts and figures relating to education, from the important role that parents play in preparing their children to begin school, to enrolment trends in college, university and apprenticeship training, to labour market outcomes across the country for individuals with differing levels of educational attainment.
Source:
Education Matters: Insights on education, learning
and training in Canada
[ earlier editions of this report ]

September 12, 2007
2006 Census: Families, marital status, households and dwelling characteristics
Statistics Canada today releases a "family portrait" of Canadians using the third set of data from the 2006 Census. This release examines developments in families, marital status, households and living arrangements in Canada between 2001 and 2006, and how children fit into these evolving family structures. In addition, it provides information on the number of same-sex couples, both those living in a common-law union and, for the first time, those who are married.

September 10, 2007
Study: Canada's immigrant labour market, 2006
Very recent immigrants who have been in Canada five years or less, that is, who landed between 2001 and 2006, had the most difficulty integrating into the labour market, even though they were more likely than the Canadian-born population to have a university education. In 2006, the national unemployment rate for these immigrants was 11.5%, more than double the rate of 4.9% for the Canadian-born population.

September 7, 2007
Labour Force Survey, August 2007
Employment edged up by an estimated 23,000 in August. The national unemployment rate remained unchanged at its 33-year low of 6.0%, as more people entered the labour force in search of work.

Related link:

Labour Force Information, August 12 to 18, 2007
September 7, 2007
- incl. links to:
* Highlights * Analysis — August 2007 * Tables * Charts * Data quality, concepts and methodology * User information * Related products * PDF version
[ earlier editions of Labour Force Information ]

September 4, 2007
Study: Female employment in the core public administration, 2006
This study is the second in a series that profiles shifts during the past 11 years in what is known as the "core public administration" (CPA), the 178,000 or so federal public servants for whom the Treasury Board is the employer. The CPA represented 46.7% of total federal employment in 2006.

Related link:

Female Employment in the Core (Federal) Public Administration
by Katarzyna Naczk, Public Institutions Division
September 2007

The first study, published in The Daily on March 5, 2007, showed that, globally, the federal public service was smaller in 2006 than it was 11 years earlier. It also showed that the composition of the CPA has been changing in tune with the times.

Source:
Analysis in Brief
(earlier issues of Analysis in Brief)

August 28, 2007
Study: Long-term productivity growth in Canada and the United States, 1961 to 2006
Labour productivity in the business sector increased at virtually the same pace in Canada and the United States during the past 45 years, but for entirely different reasons, according to a new study.

Related links:

Long-term Productivity Growth in Canada and the United States, 1961 to 2006
1. Abstract 2. Analysis 3. Charts 4. Appendices 5. User information
PDF version of the complete report (288K, 21 pages)
Source:
The Canadian Productivity Review
[ earlier editions of the Review ]

August 28, 2007
Payroll employment, earnings and hours, June 2007
In June, the average weekly earnings of payroll employees (seasonally adjusted) increased $2.27 from May to $769.43. The year-to-date growth, calculated as the average of the first six months of 2007 compared with the average of the same six months in 2006, was 3.1%.

Related links:

Employment, Earnings and Hours
HTML version - brief summary and links to main page, highlights and more info
PDF version of the complete report (2.4MB, 521 pages)
[ earlier editions of this report ]

July 24, 2007
Study: Real gross domestic product and the purchasing power of provincial output
Rising commodity prices and the surging Canadian dollar have led to a divergence between real earnings growth and the increase in the purchasing power of those earnings, according to a new study. From 2002 to 2005, real earnings rose by 8.3%, while the purchasing power of those earnings increased by 13.4%.

July 24, 2007
Employment Insurance, May 2007

July 20, 2007
Perspectives on Labour and Income, July 2007 online edition released
The July 2007 online edition of Perspectives on Labour and Income, released today, features the article "Life after high tech." (...) The article is based on the research paper, "Life after the High-tech Downturn: Permanent Layoffs and Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers", also released today as part of the Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series

Article:
Life after high tech
During the 1990s, the high-tech sector expanded at a much greater rate than the rest of the economy, its employment eventually representing 4.5% of the workforce in 2000. Then came the meltdown in 2001 with its headlines of large-scale layoffs...
July 2007

Report:
Life After the High-tech Downturn: Permanent Layoffs and
Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers (545K, 29 pages)
July 2007
by Marc Frenette

Source of the article:
Perspectives on Labour and Income, Vol. 8, no. 7
July 2007
Source:
Perspectives on Labour and Income
[ Back issues of Perspectives on Labour and Income ]
[ Subject index - Perspectives on labour and income ]

The Consumer Price Index, June 2007
HTML version
PDF version (438K, 62 pages)
Table of contents:
1. Highlights
2. Analysis
3. Tables
4. Charts
5. Data quality, concepts and methodology
6. Appendices
7. User information
8. Related products

Earlier issues of The Consumer Price Index

July 18, 2007
Crime statistics, 2006
Canada's overall national crime rate, based on incidents reported to police, hit its lowest point in over 25 years in 2006, driven by a decline in non-violent crime.
Source:
Juristat
[ Earlier issues of Juristat ]

Related link:

Crime Statistics in Canada, 2006
By Warren Silver, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Statistics Canada
Overview
Highlights
"The national crime rate reached its lowest point in over 25 years in 2006. The crime rate dropped by 3% last year, following a 5% decline in 2005. The crime rate has decreased by about 30% since peaking in 1991, after increasing steadily throughout the 1960s, 70s, and 80s."
Complete report (PDF file - 188K, 15 pages)

July 17, 2007
2006 Census: Age and sex
Statistics Canada today releases data from the 2006 Census on age and sex. A detailed analysis of how the nation's population age structure is changing is available in the online report Portrait of the Canadian Population in 2006, by Age and Sex, 2006 Census. Data from the census show large-scale changes in the age distribution of Canada's population as a result of population aging. The two main factors behind the population aging are the nation's low fertility rate and increasing life expectancy.
Source:
StatCan Census page

Related links:

Portrait of the Canadian Population in 2006, by Age and Sex: Findings
By Laurent Martel and Éric Caron Malenfant, Demography Division
HTML version
PDF version (628K, 46 pages)
Table of contents:
* Highlights
* National portrait
* Provincial/Territorial populations by age and sex
* Subprovincial population dynamics

2006 Community Profiles
These profiles present community-level information from the 2006 Census of Population. Users can search for an area of interest by typing its 'place name' in the box below or by clicking on a province or territory from the list below and selecting the area from a list.
- incl. population & dwelling counts and age characterisitcs

Age and sex
Portrait of the Canadian Population in 2006, by Age and Sex

More StatCan Census geography products

July 12, 2007
Current economic conditions
Output levelled off in April, after three consecutive gains, hampered in part by labour disputes. Employment growth resumed in June, after a two-month pause, as gains in services outweighed more losses in manufacturing. The economy continued to be influenced by gains in commodity prices and the exchange rate. Food and energy prices continued their upward trend, while metals remained near their historic highs. Partly as a result, the Canadian dollar posted its second fastest quarterly increase ever, just under 7%, hovering near a 20-year high in May and June.

Related link:

Canadian Economic Observer, July 2007
HTML version
PDF version (689K, 97 pages)
- incl. *Current economic conditions * Economic events * Feature article * Tables * Charts * User information

Earlier editions of The Canadian Economic Observer - back to 1990

Canadian Economic Observer
Historical statistical supplement, 2006/07 (PDF file - 723K, 157 pages)

Earlier issues of the statistical supplement - back to 2000

July 10
Work injuries
By Kathryn Wilkins and Susan G. Mackenzie
In the years 2002 to 2004, acute injuries occurring on the job resulted in an average of 465 deaths annually, and close to 300,000 compensated time-loss claims. The consequences of occupational injuries can be appreciable: lost work time and income, medical expenses, compensation costs, possible long-term health problems or disability, and a burden on the family of the injured worker.
Complete article:
HTML version
PDF version (245K, 18 pages)
Source:
Health reports (link to earlier issues back to 1996)

June 29, 2007
Shelters for abused women, 2005/2006
Between April 1, 2005 and March 31, 2006, nearly 106,000 women and children were admitted to shelters, most often to escape abuse, according to a new report. While the number of women admitted to shelters to escape abuse has stayed relatively stable during the past nine years, the number of children has fallen substantially. Children accounted for 41% of these admissions in 2006, compared with 49% in 1998, when Statistics Canada first began collecting these data, the report showed.

Report overview
About 7% of women and 6% of men across the country are the victims of violence at the hands of a current or former spouse or common-law partner, according to results from the 2004 General Social Survey (GSS) on Victimization. Specifically, the 2004 GSS indicated that some 546,000 women and 653,000 men in Canada were the victims of spousal violence in the five years preceding the survey.

Complete report (PDF file - 217K, 20 pages)

Related link:

Transition Homes in Canada: National, Provincial and Territorial Fact Sheets 2005/2006
June 2007
By Roxan Vaillancourt and Andrea Taylor-Butts, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics (Statistics Canada)
HTML version - click the links in the left margin for "National fact sheet" or "Fact sheets for the provinces and territories"
PDF version (237K, 30 pages)
"(...) As part of the Federal Family Violence Initiative, the Transition Home Survey (THS) was developed in order to address the need for improved information about services for victims of domestic violence. (...) The Transition Home Survey is a biennial census of all residential facilities for female victims of domestic violence.(...) Information is collected on the characteristics of the facilities and the services provided during the previous 12 months. Additionally, a snapshot day (April 19, 2006) is used to profile the women and children residing in the shelter on the given day. For the 2005/2006 Transition Home Survey, 553 shelters were contacted and responses were received from 486 or 88%. However, figures presented in the 2005/2006 THS Fact Sheets are representative of all 553 facilities, as an imputation procedure was used to replace missing data for non-respondents.
[ earlier editions of this report - 2001-2002 and 2003-2004 ]

- Go to the Canadian Government Sites about Women's Social Issues page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/women.htm

June 28, 2007
Canada's population estimates, First quarter 2007 (preliminary)
Statistics Canada today released population estimates for Canada, the provinces and territories, as of April 1, 2007. During the first quarter, Canada's population increased 0.23%. International migration accounted for two-thirds of the increase. As of April 1, Canada's population was estimated at 32,852,800, up 75,500 from January 1, 2007. Only the four westernmost provinces had growth rates at or above the national average.

Related link:

Quarterly Demographic Estimates, January to March 2007(Preliminary)
1. Notice to readers
2. Highlights
3. Analysis
4. Tables
5. Charts
6. Data quality, concepts and methodology
7. Appendices
8. User information
9. Related products
10. PDF version (424K, 104 pages)

June 26, 2007
Employment Insurance, April 2007 (preliminary)
An estimated 477,750 Canadians (seasonally adjusted) received regular Employment Insurance benefits in April, a slight drop from March (-0.9%). Overall, 10 of the 13 provinces and territories recorded declines, with the largest occurring in Manitoba (-3.6%) and Saskatchewan (-3.2%). Nationally, the number of regular beneficiaries was 3.1% lower than April 2006 and has been dropping steadily since mid-2003. Regular benefit payments in April totalled $741.2 million, while 221,500 people made initial and renewal claims.

June 26, 2007
Payroll employment, earnings and hours, April 2007 (preliminary)
In April, the average weekly earnings of payroll employees (seasonally adjusted) increased $1.68 (+0.2%) to $765.36 from March. The year-to-date growth is 3.0%. This rate of change is calculated as the average weekly earnings of the first four months of 2007 compared to the average of the same four months in 2006.
Related link:
Payroll employment, earnings and hours (PDF file - 2.2MB, 503 pages)
Earlier issues of this report

June 26, 2007
Canada Food Stats - Featured product
Canada Food Stats is an easy-to-use product that provides access to a broad spectrum of food statistics and indicators. It contains information on food available for consumption, food prices, nutrition, supply and demand, as well as data on the food industry, processing, employment, productivity, international trade and much more.

June 25, 2007
Study: Investment and long-term growth in labour productivity, 1961 to 2005
Investment in capital, rather than gains in worker skills or technological change, was the most important factor in the growth in labour productivity in the business sector during the past four decades, according to a new study. Between 1961 and 2005, labour productivity, one of the key indicators of an economy's health, rose at an annual rate of 2.1%. This study assessed the contribution of three main components of this growth.

Related links:

Investment and Long-term Productivity Growth in the Canadian Business Sector, 1961 to 2002
by John R. Baldwin and Wulong Gu
Executive summary
Complete report(PDF file - 463K, 72 pages)
Source:
The Canadian Productivity Review

The Comparative Level of GDP per Capita in Canada and the United States: A
Decomposition into Labour Productivity and Work Intensity Differences (PDF file - 306K, 54 pages)
March 2007

More StatCan studies related to productivity

June 21, 2007
Pension plans in Canada, as of January 1, 2006
After several years of growth, membership in Canada's 15,130 active registered pension plans remained virtually unchanged in 2005, according to new data from an annual census of these employer-sponsored plans.

June 19, 2007
Study: Canadians and their non-voting political activity, 2003
One in three Canadians aged 19 to 64 was involved in non-voting political activities in 2003, according to a new study published today in Canadian Social Trends.

June 19, 2007
Study: Maternal employment, breastfeeding and health, 1998 to 2003
Longer maternity leaves for Canadian mothers have meant that more of them have met breastfeeding targets recommended by public health agencies, according to a new study. The study examined the impact that an increase in maternity leave entitlement had on time away from work, breastfeeding, and the health of both mothers and their children.

June 15, 2007
Study: Labour force projections in Canada, 2006 to 2031
Canada's labour force will continue growing, but the overall participation rate will fall sharply, during the next quarter century in the wake of the nation's low fertility and the retirement of millions of baby boomers, according to a new study.

Complete study:

Labour Force Projections for Canada, 2006-2031 (PDF file - 738K, 13 pages)

June 15, 2007
Study: Persistence of low income among working-aged unattached individuals, 1993 to 2004

Complete study:

Persistence of Low Income Among Non-elderly Unattached Individuals (PDF file - 222K, 32 pages)
This report examines the transitions into and out of low income and the persistence of low income among Canadians. It also examines the incidence of low wage among full-time workers and the extent to which low wage workers live in low income families.
Source:
Income Research Paper Series - incl. links to earlier reports

June 14, 2007
Government finance: Revenue, expenditure and surplus, 2007
All Canadian governments, including the Canada and Quebec pension plans, recorded a consolidated surplus in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2007.

June 14, 2007
Foreign control in the Canadian economy, 2005
The share of foreign control in the Canadian economy remained relatively stable in 2005. However, Canadian-controlled corporations had a better year financially than their foreign-controlled counterparts, according to a new report.

Related link:

Corporations Returns Act, 2005

June 13, 2007
General Social Survey: Navigating family transitions, 2006
A growing proportion of fathers have taken leave from work for the birth or adoption of a child since 2001, although they have been returning to work sooner than mothers, according to a new report that analyzes the supports and services families use during key transitions in their life.

Related link:

Navigating Family Transitions: Evidence from the General Social Survey
HTML version
PDF version - 379K, 28 pages
Data presented in this study are taken from the General Social Survey ( GSS ). From June to October 2006, 23,608 people aged 15 or older and living in a private household in one of Canada 's 10 provinces were interviewed. Respondents contacted by the GSS were interviewed by telephone and mainly chosen by a random digit dialing sampling method. The survey collected detailed data on various aspects of the family, namely the transitions experienced by respondents: leaving the parental home, marrying or entering into a common-law union, having children, moving or buying a home, and separating or getting divorced. The survey also addressed important topics about the family, such as assistance and care provided to relatives, as well as work-family balance. The response rate was 68%.

Findings
Section 1: Navigating the birth or the adoption of a child
Section 2: Navigating couple dissolution

Tables and Charts - 17 in all

Family Structure by Region
HTML version
PDF version - 251K, 12 pages

June 8, 2007
Labour Force Survey, May 2007
Employment was little changed for a second consecutive month in May, with full-time gains mostly offset by losses in part time. The unemployment rate held steady for the fourth straight month at 6.1%, a 33-year low.

Related link:
Labour Force Information,May 13 to 19, 2007
Table of contents:
1. Highlights
2. Analysis — May 2007
3. Tables
4. Charts
5. Data quality, concepts and methodology
6. User information
7. Related products
8. PDF version (351K, 59 pages)

June 7, 2007 (under "New products")
How Statistics Canada Identifies Aboriginal Peoples
This reference document presents an overview of the different questions used by Statistics Canada to identify Aboriginal peoples. It is divided into three parts. Part one is a brief description of the data sources and their limitations. Part 2 deals with the 2006 census questions used to identify Aboriginal peoples while Part 3 deals with the identification questions used in the Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) and the Aboriginal Children's Survey (ACS).

June 5, 2007
Study: Lower income and declines in self-rated health, 1994/1995 to 1996/1997
Individuals living in households with combined incomes of less than $20,000 are almost three times more likely to experience a decline in self-rated health than people with the highest incomes, according to a new study. This study, published recently in the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, investigated whether income was associated with a decline in self-rated health, from good or better health to fair or poor, over a two-year period. It also examined whether stressors, such as job strain and financial problems, helped explain the relationship.

Related link:

Do Stressors Explain the Association Between Income and Declines in Self-Rated Health?
A Longitudinal Analysis of the National Population Health Survey
Heather M. Orpana, Louise Lemyre, Shona Kelly
Abstract
Complete report - PDF (123 KB)
Complete report - PDF with links (128 KB)
Source:
International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, Vol. 14, No. 1 (April 2007): pages 40-47.
[ Online Journal Portal ]

June 5, 2007
StatCan launches Teacher's Guide to Data Discovery
A new guide, available today, supports elementary and secondary teachers in helping students develop basic statistical skills. The Teacher's Guide to Data Discovery describes how to find interesting and grade-appropriate Canadian datasets online, to use appropriate graphs for displaying different kinds of data and to calculate basic statistical measures, with or without computers...

Teacher's Guide to Data Discovery
Stats 101!
- follow the links in the left margin of the main page of this guide to learn how to choose the dataset, to understand data concepts and to analyse the data with or without computer software
PDF version of the teacher's guide (272K, 23 pages)

June 1, 2007 (under "New products")
Employment, Earnings and Hours, March 2007 (PDF file - 2.2MB, 503 pages)
Highlights - HTML
Earlier issues of this report - (back to July 2000)

May 31, 2007
Canadian economic accounts, first quarter 2007 and March 2007
The economy picked up steam in the first quarter of 2007 as real gross domestic product advanced 0.9%, more than twice the pace of last quarter. A slight pick-up in consumer spending and an inventory build-up resulting from strengthened production fuelled the advance. Economic output was up 0.3% in March.

Related link:

Canadian Economic Accounts Quarterly Review

May 31, 2007
Income of individuals, 2005
The median total income of individuals amounted to $25,400 in 2005, up 1.9% from 2004 after adjusting for inflation. This is the largest annual increase in median total income of individuals since 2001. The median is the point where one half of incomes are higher and the other half are lower.

May 30, 2007
Residential care facilities, 2004/2005
Only 1 out of every 30 seniors aged 65 and over lived in one of Canada's 1,952 homes for the aged in the fiscal year 2004/2005, according to new data from the Residential Care Facilities Survey. Data for all provinces and territories, except Quebec, show that nearly 151,000 seniors, 3.4% of the total, resided in a home for the aged in 2004/2005.

Complete report:
Residential Care Facilities, 2004/2005
- incl. links to : Highlights * Introduction * Analysis * Tables * Data quality, concepts and methodology * User information * Related products * PDF version

Other StatCan reports on residential care facilities

May 25, 2007
Study: Impact of immigration on labour markets in Canada, Mexico and the United States
Immigration has tended to lower wages in both Canada and the United States, according to a new study. However, it was also found that the impact of immigrants on the wages of domestic workers depends to a large extent on the skill mix of the newcomers.
Summary of the research paper
Link to the source of the complete paper:
A Comparative Analysis of the Labor Market Impact
of International Migration: Canada, Mexico, and the United States
(free only for National Bureau of Economic Research subscribers, $5 for others)

May 24, 2007
Your Guide to Data Sources on Census-related Topics, Census year 2006
A new comprehensive guide to data sources on census-related topics for the Census year 2006 is available today. Your Guide to Data sources on Census-related Topics provides a list of alternate data sources that complement the existing information available through the census.
Related link:
Census of Canada - 2006, 2001, 1996

May 22, 2007
Study: Marital breakdown and subsequent depression, 1994/1995 to 2004/2005
Men and women whose marriage has broken up have a higher risk of being depressed than people who remained with their spouse, according to a new study. However, men appear to take the separation harder.

Complete article:
HTML
PDF (213K, 12 pages)

Source:
Health Reports
Health Reports, a quarterly journal produced by the Health Statistics Division at Statistics Canada, is designed for a broad audience that includes health professionals, researchers, policy makers, educators and students. Its mission is to provide high quality, relevant and comprehensive information on the health status of the population and the health care system.

Earlier issues of Health Reports - back to 1996

May 17, 2007
("New products")
Canadian Economic Observer, May 2007
- incl. links to : Current economic conditions - Economic events - Feature article - Tables - Charts - User information - PDF version

May 16, 2007
2006 Census of Agriculture: Farm operations and operators
Today, Statistics Canada provides the latest snapshot of the nation's agricultural industry using new data from the 2006 Census of Agriculture. Comprehensive information about agricultural operations across Canada and the people managing those farms is available in three reports.
Snapshot of Canadian Agriculture looks at the products and people of Canadian farming.
The Financial Picture of Farms in Canada reviews agriculture's performance from the perspective of small and large farms.
Farming in Canada's CMAs profiles the farms that share space with urban areas in Canada.

From the May 2007 issue of
Canadian Social Trends:

May 15, 2007
Study: Workaholics and time perception, 2005
One out of every three Canadians identifies themselves as a workaholic, and these individuals are much more likely to be dissatisfied with the balance between their work and family time than other workers, a new study has found. The study, published today in the May online edition of Canadian Social Trends, used data from the 2005 General Social Survey (GSS) to examine whether quality of life is different for workers who describe themselves as workaholics than for those who do not self-identify as workaholics.

Complete study:

Time escapes me: Workaholics and time perception
By Leslie-Anne Keown
HTML
PDF (75K, 5 pages)

Also in the same issue of Canadian Social Trends:

Aboriginal Languages in Canada: Emerging Trends and Perspectives on Second Language Acquisition
By Mary Jane Norris
Aboriginal people are confronted with the fact that many of their languages are disappearing. Over the past 100 years or more, at least 10 once-flourishing languages have become extinct. However, declining trends in the intergenerational transmission of Aboriginal mother tongues are being offset (to a degree) by the fact that Aboriginal languages are increasingly being learned as second languages.
HTML
PDF (104K, 9 pages)

Earlier issues of Canadian Social Trends

May 11, 2007
Labour Force Survey, April 2007
Estimates from Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey showed little overall change in employment in April. This follows strong employment gains since September 2006. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate remained at an historic 33-year low of 6.1%.

Related report:

Labour Force Information, April 15 to 21, 2007
[ Earlier editions of this report ]

May 11, 2007
Study: Income inequality and redistribution, 1976 to 2004
Inequality in after-tax family income grew through the 1990s, driven by an increase in inequality in family market income, according to a new study.

Complete study:

Income Inequality and Redistribution in Canada: 1976 to 2004
By Andrew Heisz
Executive summary
Complete study (PDF file - 395K, 58 pages)
[ Earlier issues of this study ]

May 10, 2007 (New Products)
Low Income Cut-offs for 2006
and Low Income Measures for 2005 (PDF file - 304K, 37 pages)
Low income cut-offs (LICOs) are income thresholds, determined by analysing family expenditure data, below which families will devote a larger share of income to the necessities of food, shelter and clothing than the average family would. To reflect differences in the costs of necessities among different community and family sizes, LICOs are defined for five categories of community size and seven of family size.

Low income Measures (LIMs), on the other hand, are strictly relative measures of low income, set at 50% of adjusted median family income. These measures are categorized according to the number of adults and children present in families, reflecting the economies of scale inherent in family size and composition. This publication incorporates a detailed description of the methods used to arrive at both measurements. It also explains how base years are defined and how LICOs are updated using the Consumer Price Index.

[ Other issues in this series ]

May 3, 2007
Consolidated government finance: Assets and liabilities, March 31, 2005
- includes a table showing Consolidated Net Financial Debt of federal, provincial, territorial general and local governments for March 31, 2001 to 2005 in dollars and expressed as a % or Gross Domestic Product and per capita expenditure
- also includes Consolidated Net Financial Debt of provincial, territorial general and local governments as of March 31, 2005 in total dollars and dollars per capita

May 3, 2007
Income of Canadians, 2005
Median after-tax income rose slightly for most Canadian families in 2005, and remained stable for unattached individuals, according to new data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics.

Related report:

Income in Canada, 2005
1. Highlights 2. Introduction 3. Analysis 4. Tables 5. Charts 6. Data quality, concepts and methodology 7. User information 8. Related products
9. PDF version (873K, 142 pages)

Earlier editions of Income in Canada - going back to 1998

May 3, 2007
Consolidated government finance:
Assets and liabilities, March 31, 2005
The consolidated net financial debt of the federal, provincial, territorial general and local governments, defined as the excess of liabilities over financial assets, decreased to $791.2 billion as of March 31, 2005, down $2.1 billion or 0.3% from March 31, 2004.

May 2, 2007
Follow-up Survey of Graduates, 2005
Two out of five graduates from the class of 2000 who had left school owing money to government student loans had completely repaid their debt five years after graduation. Of all graduates from a Canadian college or university in 2000, 56% had no debt from government student loan programs while 44% owed money to such programs. It is among this latter group that two out of five graduates had completely paid off their debt in 2005.

May 1, 2007
Education Matters: Insights on education, learning and training in Canada, May 2007
May 2007
This issue of Statistics Canada's free online publication Education Matters: Insights on Education, Learning and Training in Canada contains the following two articles:
- Children with disabilities and the educational system – a provincial perspective documents differences across provinces in the education of children who have physical, cognitive and behavioural disabilities. It explores the extent to which they attend regular school classes and have access to special education services. It also examines differences in the opinions of parents on whether their special-needs children were being encouraged to reach their full potential in school.
- Are 5-year-old children ready to learn at school? Family income and home environment contexts

Related link:

Education Matters:
Insights on education, learning and training in Canada
May 2007, volume 4 number 1

Previous issues of Education Matters - back to April 2004

April 30, 2007
Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada, 2005
Most new immigrants are pleased to be living here and have positive views of Canada's social and political environment. However, after four years in the country, their biggest difficulties are still finding an adequate job, and dealing with the language barrier, according to two new reports from the third wave of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada.

Canadian Social Trends April 2007
Immigrants’ perspectives on their first four years in Canada: Highlights from three waves of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada
by Grant Schellenberg and Hélène Maheux
This report examines immigrant settlement in terms of the subjective assessments and perceptions of immigrants themselves. Overall, it provides a broad overview of new immigrants’ perceptions, with emphasis on their responses to a broad range of questions rather than a single issue. Differences are examined across a limited set of characteristics, with particular focus on admission categories.
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PDF (1.2MB, 35 pages)

Related report:

Knowledge of Official Languages Among New Immigrants: How Important Is It in the Labour Market?, 2005
1. Highlights 2. Summary 3. Background 4. Sections 5. Charts 6. Data quality, concepts and methodology 7. Appendices 8. User information 9. Related products
10. PDF version (710K, 92 pages)

Also in Canadian Social Trends:

Social indicators: Economic - Health - Income - Justice - Labour Force - Population

Previous issues of Canadian Social Trends - several hundred articles right back to the early 1990s

April 27, 2007
Mortality, summary list of causes, 2004
The number of deaths attributable to cancer may soon surpass those caused by cardiovascular diseases. Combined, the two caused about six out of every 10 deaths in 2004. During the past 25 years, the proportion of deaths caused by cardiovascular diseases has been declining, while the proportion attributable to cancer has been on the rise. In terms of mortality rates, though, both causes of death have been declining, though much more so for cardiovascular disease.

Complete report:
Mortality, Summary List of Causes, 2004
Complementary morbid reading:
Causes of Death

April 26, 2007
Study: Demographic changes across an urban-to-rural gradient, 1971 to 2001
The growth in Canada's population during the past 30 years has been concentrated in the nation's largest metropolitan areas, and in rural areas on which these urban areas have a strong influence, according to a new report.

April 26, 2007
Payroll employment, earnings and hours, February 2007
The average weekly earnings of payroll employees (seasonally adjusted) increased $1.06 (+0.1%) from a month earlier to $764.12 in February. The year-to-date growth is 3.1%.

April 25, 2007
Provincial and territorial economic accounts, 2006
Alberta, the economic powerhouse, led the country in economic growth for the third consecutive year in 2006.
A detailed analysis of the provincial and territorial economies is available in the
Provincial and Territorial Economic Accounts Review (2006 preliminary estimates)

April 25, 2007
Local government finance: Assets and liabilities, December 31, 2004
The net financial debt of local governments, defined as the excess of liabilities over financial assets, hit $8.8 billion at December 31, 2004, down 9% ($875 million) from a year earlier.

Women in Canada: Work Chapter Updates
April 20, 2007 (under The Daily - New Products)
By Marcia Almey
PDF version (213K, 23 pages)
Tables

Earlier editions of Women in Canada: Work Chapter Update
- annual editions back to 2000

April 12, 2007
Study: Year end review of the economy, 2006
In retrospect, the most surprising development in Canada's economy last year was not that a surge in oil prices or the bursting of the American housing bubble failed to dampen growth, according to a year-end review of the economy. The theme that really stands out is the adaptability of Canadians faced with rapid changes in their economy.

Related link / Source:

Canadian Economic Observer
April 2007
- incl. links to : Current economic conditions - Economic events - Feature article (see above) - Tables - Charts - User information
PDF version (816K, 120 pages)

April 5, 2007
Labour Force Survey, March 2007
Employment jumped by an estimated 55,000 in March, continuing the upward trend that began in September 2006. Despite this growth in employment, the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 6.1%, as more people entered the labour market.

Related link:

Labour Force Information, March 11 to 17, 2007
April 5, 2007

Canada at a Glance, 2007
April 5, 2007 (under "New Products")
Canada at a Glance presents the current Canadian demographic, education, health, justice, housing, income, labour market, economic, travel, financial, and foreign trade statistics. This booklet also includes important international comparisons, so that readers can see how Canada stacks up against its neighbours. Updated yearly, Canada at a glance is a very useful reference for those who want quick access to current Canadian statistics.
HTML version
PDF version (1.5MB, 27 pages)

Earlier Issues of Canada at a Glance - going back to 2000

March 27, 2007
Employment Insurance, January 2007 (preliminary)
An estimated 484,330 Canadians (seasonally adjusted) received regular Employment Insurance benefits in January, down 0.2% from December.

March 27, 2007
Keeping up with the times: Canadians and their news media diet
by Leslie-Anne Keown
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