NAICS? YIKES! Or North American industry classification system (NAICS)? Yearly index of constant (k) dollar estimates (YIKES)!

Overview Finding what you’re looking for –Searching and Bibliocatwww.statcan.ca –Decoding Stats Can catalogue numbers –Finding what things mean (definitions) –Finding classifications and concordances Getting access to what you are looking for –Levels of access –Getting to the DSP when its not in your library catalogue

Overview (cont’d) Some common sources of confusion –CPI: index year versus basket –Census: community profiles versus census profiles versus topic-based tabulations

Finding what you need Review of the STC web site Searching the STC web site & Bibliocat Decoding STC product codes Finding definitions Finding classification schemes and concordances

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The Daily CANSIM Census

XPE 75 = subject group 001 = unique number for the product X = status of product ( preliminary, revision, supplement) (X= N/A) P = medium: ‘Print’ E = language (E=English)

Click on PDF to get Internet version of this publication.

XIE 75 = subject group (Employment/Labour) 001 = unique number for the product X = preliminary, revision, supplement etc status of the product (X=not applicable) I = medium: ‘Internet’/pdf format E = language (E=English) But we don’t want to pay Click on “Information for Libraries”

Click on DSP

Click on XIE to get to a list of available issues.

Source: At the bottom of the STC Daily New products listing, e.g. Last published overview of codes: 1997 Stat Can catalogue Table of ‘media’ and ‘language’ codes… More on ‘decoding’ Stats Can Product Codes…

e.g. 97F0005XIE Where: 97 = subject group: Census: various custom services F = product class: fixed product 0005 = unique number for the product X = variable descriptor: not relevant to this product I = medium: Internet E = language: English 2001 = census: = table number: are Special interest tables

e.g. 75C = subject group: Labour and households surveys analysis C = product class: custom retrieval 0002 = unique number for the product [N.B. custom retrievals can be output to a number of media, either official language, etc – so additional codes are not yet known]

e.g. 75M0010XCB Where: 75 = subject group: Labour and households surveys analysis M = product class: Microdata file 0010 = unique number for the product X = variable descriptor: not relevant to this product C = medium: cd-rom B = language: bilingual

Where are product codes used? Are used : –In the Stats Can ‘Products and services’ database –In Bibliocat (STC Library Catalogue) –On Stats Can publications (print and electronic) Are searchable: –On Stats Can web site –In Products and Services database –In Bibliocat –In CANSIM I and CANSIM II via E-STAT

Speaking of Bibliocat…

Use BiblioCat to search for older publications and resources. Alternatives include the 1994 STC catalogue and the Historical Catalogue of Statistics Canada Publications, 1918 – 1980.

Free, Unrestricted For Fee, Restricted Continuum of Access Chuck Humphrey, U of Alberta Data Library

Finding what things mean (definitions) Also look in Statistics Canada print products

Finding what things mean (definitions) On other web sites –Economic concepts: –Glossary of frequently used [financial and economic] terms –Thesauri and controlled vocabularies