Product Highlights – DLI Atlantic, Wolfville, NS Country Statements, Country Trade Profiles, International Merchandize Trade, Joint Canada/United States Survey of Health John Neilson, University of New Brunswick DLI Atlantic April 23, 2009

Country Statements, tracks imports and exports between Canada and its trading partners - deals with quantity and value of goods - by commodity code (the Harmonized System to the six digit level) see Canadian Export Classification x - each ‘statement’ covers one trading partner only

What does it look like?

Who would use this survey? - economists, federal and provincial governments (impacts on NAFTA) - exporters/importers, business/marketing researchers - international organizations such as the OECD, the WTO, the FAO and UNCTAD - trade associations such as the Canadian Association of Importers and Exporters and the Canadian Association of Regulated Importers

What else is there? The Country Trade Profiles… - values based companion database to “Statements” - statistics for 2002 – 2007 and, like Country Statements, it is in spreadsheet format - brief survey of two-way trade with Canada - covers Canada’s six biggest trading partners

What does it look like?

limits to these two trade databases - covers Canada’s six biggest trading partners - H.S. 6 is as fine as it gets - coverage is limited to 2002 – no analysis of trade statistics – that’s up to you But sometimes that’s all you need…

What if it’s not all you need… Then there’s the International Merchandise Trade Statistical Program “…[it measures] the change in the stock of material resources of the country resulting from the movement of merchandise into or out of Canada”

And it’s BIG - it monitors and records all goods which cross Canada’s territorial boundaries - provides inputs into the System of National Accounts, especially Balance of Payments and GDP - trade statistics reported on a customs basis or balance of payment basis

How big is it? - the import side alone of IMT, using HS to the 10 digit level is 458mb - variables include all countries of export or destination, mode of transportation, month, province of clearance, quantity, unit of measure, if U.S. then State of origin, value and year - goes back to 1988

What can you use it for? governments, to formulate trade and budgetary policies, and the other groups mentioned with “Statements” to: - monitor import penetration and export performance - monitor commodity price and volume changes - examine transport implications & infrastructure

What does it look like? several flavours including; - The International Merchandize Trade Data by Commodity Classification (HS) - Canadian International Merchandise Trade, cat. no x (monthly) - International Merchandise Trade, Annual review, cat. no x

Joint Canada/United States Survey of Health (JCUSH) - collaborative project by Statscan and U.S. National Center for Health Statistics - common set of questions to 3,500 Canadians and 5,200 U.S. Residents - broad focus is on health status and access to health services

JCUSH – a one-time survey - collection period, November, 2002 – March cross-sectional design by Statscan & NCHS - age groups 18-44, and 65 and over - Canadian & American interviews done by Statscan permanent employees

And even more detail... - questions on self-perceived health, chronic conditions, functional status, life- style factors (smoking and obesity), health care utilization, and satisfaction with health care services - results available in an analytical report (pdf) 82M0022-XIE and a PUMF from the Statistics Canada website

In addition to the pdf ‘findings’ report...

And these sources - a summary in... au courant, October, 2005, cat. No XIE As well as - “Comparing Health and Health Care Use in Canada and the United States”. Health Affairs: the policy journal of the health sphere, v. 25, no. 4 (20060: