NAICS? YIKES!

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NAICS? YIKES!

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

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Overview

• Finding what youre looking for
• Searching www.statcan.ca and Bibliocat
• 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

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Overview (contd)

• Some common sources of confusion
• CPI index year versus basket
• Census community profiles versus census profiles
  versus topic-based tabulations

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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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Searching -- www.statcan.ca

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The Daily
CANSIM
Census
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• 75-001-XIE
• 75 subject group (Employment/Labour)
• 001 unique number for the product
• X preliminary, revision, supplement etc
• status of the product (Xnot applicable)
• I medium Internet/pdf format
• E language (EEnglish)

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More on decoding Stats Can Product Codes
Table of media and language codes

• Source At the bottom of the STC Daily New
  products listing, e.g.
• http//www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/060119/p060119
  .htm

Last published overview of codes 1997 Stat Can
catalogue
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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

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Speaking of Bibliocat
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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.
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http//www.statcan.ca/english/Dli/continuumofacces
s.htm
Free, Unrestricted
Continuum of Access http//www.statcan.ca/english/
Dli/continuumofaccess.htm Chuck Humphrey, U of
Alberta Data Library
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Finding what things mean (definitions)
http//www.statcan.ca/english/concepts/index.htm
http//www4.statcan.ca/english/thesaurus/index.htm

• Also look in Statistics Canada print products

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Finding what things mean (definitions)

• On other web sites
• Economic concepts
• http//canadianeconomy.gc.ca/english/economy/conce
  pts.html
• Glossary of frequently used financial and
  economic terms
• http//www.fin.gc.ca/gloss/gloss-e.htmla
• Thesauri and controlled vocabularies
• http//www.collectionscanada.ca/8/4/r4-280-e.html