1. www.statcan.gc.ca Oslo City Group Use of administrative data sources
Telling Canada’s story in numbers
Kevin Roberts, Director
Environment, Energy and Transportation Statistics Division
May 2017

2. Energy Program - Overview
Production, imports/exports, stocks, supply/ disposition, operating revenues
Coal/Coke
Production, final destination, surplus and disposition
Crude Oil and Natural Gas
Refinery inputs, production, imports/exports, domestic sales, and inventory levels by province
Refined Petroleum Products
Distribution to ultimate consumers - residential, commercial, and industrial sectors
Pipelines
Production, capacity, fuel usage/costs. Transmission to distribution centres and end users
Nuclear and Electric Power
Supply
Data Sources
Annual/Monthly Surveys
Federal Government
Provincial/Territorial Government Data – e.g. regulators
Consumption/Use
Use
Industrial (ICE) and Household (HES) consumption
Balances
Input/Outputs at the national and provincial levels – Annual Release
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3. Key Principals for use of non-survey data
Statistics Canada influences, has access to and makes maximum possible use of administrative and alternative data in its statistical programs, resulting in reduced response burden, lower costs, improved quality and new data series for users, while maintaining public trust.
Provide suppliers of administrative data with a secure and user-friendly electronic transmission option
Use of secondary data sources can be used for a variety of purposes (e.g. direct replacement, confront existing data)
Invest in the systems of the Energy Statistics Program to improve the integrate and use of administrative data
Support ongoing research of external sources to fill energy data gaps
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4. Administrative Data Framework/Strategy
Governance Cultural
New Principles
Organisational
New central coordination
Governance
New policy
New directive
New guidelines
Legal
Statistics Act
Partnerships Corporate needs
Liaison unit
Consultations
Data custodian
Win-win approach:
Providing back quality reports or specialised products
Communication
Communication plan for the public, data providers and employees
Tools: Q&A for external and internal audience, brochures and letters for first contact with data providers
Internal communication activities
Knowledge Skills & Tools
Developing expertise in using new data sources (scanner data, smart meter data, credit card transactions)
Handbook, generic template for letters and agreements
Quality evaluation tools for administrative data
R&D Centralisation of preprocessing and processing activities
Developing a statistical population register
Big Data community of practices

5. Example 1 – Oil and Natural Gas
Crude Oil and Natural Gas (monthly release) – provides both supply and disposition and brings together data from three monthly survey programs and a number of administrative data sources.
Inputs from Provincial and Territorial government regulatory authorities are provided monthly (e.g. Production, Royalties, Drilling Activities, etc.)
National Energy Board (NEB) – Federal government authority (pipelines, energy development, trade)
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6. Example 2 – Electricity
Electricity (monthly and annual releases) – provides estimates on supply and disposition of electricity from electric utilities and industrial establishments that generate and distribute electric power. Administrative data used to supplement and replace survey data and/or for data validation.
Administrative data sources include:
Regulatory Corporate filings
Publications of Provincial Utility Boards, other regulatory submissions (i.e. NEB) and of Provincial Transmission System Operators
Publically available US based Transmission System Operators (TSOs)
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7. Example 3 – Energy consumption
Industrial Consumption of Energy (annual release) – provides estimates of energy consumption by manufacturing establishments in Canada. Administrative data is used as a direct source for specific industries.
Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC)
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8. Plans for Expansion Monthly Oil Pipelines – PETRINEX Expansion Project
Federal/Provincial strategic organisation supporting the upstream, midstream and downstream petroleum industry
Evaluating information that can be used to:
Improve industry coverage/enhance frame
Reduce response burden
Fill gaps for complex reporting units
Provide additional industry / company detail
Improve data quality (Coherence)
Important source for data validation and data confrontation
Renewable Energy – Electricity Surveys
Evaluating a number of new sources administrative data sources that include:
Provincial and Territory data for Peak load and capacity data
Federal departments (i.e. Natural Resouces Canada’s Off-grid data for Remote Communities database, NEB’s Renewable database)
Publically available sources on capacity data for renewable variables such as wind onshore (offshore in the future), solar PV and thermal, hydro, tidal, geothermal, bioethanol, biodiesel
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9. Questions?
Contact Information:
Kevin Roberts
Director
Environment, Energy, and Transportation Statistics Division
Telephone | Téléphone
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