| Geography | Month |
|---|---|
| 202202 | |
| % | |
| Canada | 0.7 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 1.6 |
| Prince Edward Island | 2.0 |
| Nova Scotia | 2.0 |
| New Brunswick | 1.4 |
| Quebec | 1.6 |
| Ontario | 1.4 |
| Manitoba | 2.1 |
| Saskatchewan | 2.6 |
| Alberta | 1.8 |
| British Columbia | 1.8 |
| Yukon Territory | 0.5 |
| Northwest Territories | 1.6 |
| Nunavut | 1.3 |
Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP)
This guide is designed to assist you as you complete the 2021 Annual Civil Aviation Survey - Level II. If you need more information, please call the Statistics Canada Help Line at the number below.
Help Line: 1-877-949-9492
Your answers are confidential.
Statistics Canada is prohibited by law from releasing any information it collects which could identify any person, business, or organization, unless consent has been given by the respondent or as permitted by the Statistics Act.
Statistics Canada will use information from this survey for statistical purposes.
This section verifies or requests basic identifying information of the business or organization such as legal name, operating name (if applicable), contact information of the designated contact person, current operational status, and main activity(ies).
1. Legal name and Operating name
Legal Name
The legal name is one recognized by law, thus it is the name liable for pursuit or for debts incurred by the business or organization. In the case of a corporation, it is the legal name as fixed by its charter or the statute by which the corporation was created.
Modifications to the legal name should only be done to correct a spelling error or typo.
To indicate a legal name of another legal entity you should instead indicate it in question 3 by selecting 'Not currently operational' and then choosing the applicable reason and providing the legal name of this other entity along with any other requested information.
Operating Name
The operating name is a name the business or organization is commonly known as if different from its legal name. The operating name is synonymous with trade name.
2. Designated contact person
Verify or provide the requested contact information of the designated business or organization contact person. The designated contact person is the person who should receive this questionnaire. The designated contact person may not always be the one who actually completes the questionnaire. If different than the designated contact person, the contact information of the person completing the questionnaire can be indicated later in the questionnaire.
3. Current operational status
Verify or provide the current operational status of the business or organization identified by the legal and operating name in question 1. If indicating the operational status of the business or organization is 'Not currently operational' then indicate an applicable reason and provide the requested information.
4. Main activity
This question verifies the business or organization's current main activity as classified by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is an industry classification system developed by the statistical agencies of Canada, Mexico and the United States. Created against the background of the North American Free Trade Agreement, it is designed to provide common definitions of the industrial structure of the three countries and a common statistical framework to facilitate the analysis of the three economies. NAICS is based on supply-side or production-oriented principles, to ensure that industrial data, classified to NAICS , are suitable for the analysis of production-related issues such as industrial performance.
The target entity for which NAICS is designed are businesses and other organizations engaged in the production of goods and services. They include farms, incorporated and unincorporated businesses and government business enterprises. They also include government institutions and agencies engaged in the production of marketed and non-marketed services, as well as organizations such as professional associations and unions and charitable or non-profit organizations and the employees of households.
The associated NAICS should reflect those activities conducted by the business or organizational units targeted by this questionnaire only, as identified in the 'Answering this questionnaire' section and which can be identified by the specified legal and operating name. The main activity is the activity which most defines the targeted business or organization's main purpose or reason for existence. For a business or organization that is for-profit, it is normally the activity that generates the majority of the revenue for the entity.
The NAICS classification contains a limited number of activity classifications; the associated classification might be applicable for this business or organization even if it is not exactly how you would describe this business or organization's main activity.
Please note that any modifications to the main activity through your response to this question might not necessarily be reflected prior to the transmitting of subsequent questionnaires and as a result they may not contain this updated information.
If the current NAICS associated with this business or organizations is not correct, please provide a brief description of the main activity and provide any additional information as requested.
Financial assets
Current assets
Include:
All other financial assets – (Include investments and special funds.)
Include investments in associated companies, other investments such as investments in stocks, bonds, and so on, and special funds such as equipment purchase funds, funds set aside for such special purposes as contractual deposits, pension funds, self-insurance funds, and so on.
Property and equipment
Operating - property and equipment – (Include capital leases.)
Include:
Accumulated depreciation and amortization - property and equipment
Include:
Non-operating property and equipment – (Include capital leases.)
Include the cost of all non-operating property and equipment, in other words, all property and equipment not included in the "operating" category above.
Accumulated depreciation and amortization - non-operating property and equipment
Include accumulated depreciation and amortization of the non-operating property and equipment.
All other assets
Include long-term prepayments, developmental and pre-operating costs such as the cost of extraordinary training, unamortized discounts and expenses on the issue of long-term debt securities, property acquisition adjustments, other intangibles such as payments made for patents, copyrights, and so on, and other deferred charges.
Total assets
The sum of the assets above less the accumulated depreciation and amortization.
Liabilities and capital
Current liabilities
Include:
Advances from associated companies and/or shareholders
Include the net amount from associated companies and/or shareholders for notes, loans or advances which are not currently settled.
Long-term debt and other non-current liabilities – (Include capital leases.)
Include:
Deferred income taxes
Include taxes that will be owed on income, but that have not yet been assessed.
All other liabilities
Include:
Shareholders' equity
Capital stock
Include the equity capital invested in a business through the purchase of various classes of common and preferred shares.
Retained earnings
Include the portion of after-tax profits left over, after dividends have been paid to shareholders, for reinvestment into the company. If this account is negative, then the amount indicated for this item should be shown with a negative (-) sign.
All other items
Include other paid-in capital and reserves. Other paid-in capital or contributed surplus includes the premiums or discounts that have resulted from selling stock, and stock received from donations. Reserves include any reserve fund such as reserve for self-insurance, reserve for pension, reserves against potential future losses, and so on. Also, include proprietorship or partnership accounts (balance year-end).
Total liabilities and capital
The sum of liabilities and capital plus the sum of shareholders' equity which should equal total assets.
Scheduled services
Transportation of passengers or goods, or both, by an aircraft provided by an air carrier that operates the air service and that, directly or indirectly, sells some or all of its seats or part or all of its cargo space to the public on a price per seat, price per unit of mass or price per volume of cargo basis.
Charter services
Transportation of passengers or goods, or both, by aircraft pursuant to a contract under which a person, other than the air carrier that operates the air service, or its agent, reserves a block of seats or part of the cargo space of an aircraft for the person's use or for resale to the public.
Include air ambulance service and the movement of people and goods to logging or heli-logging sites.
Exclude firefighting and heli-logging activities and the movement of people and goods to a firefighting site. (The former Transport Canada TP 8880 document "Starting a Commercial Air Service" outlining a list of activities which are specialty has been replaced with a new document TP 4711 "Air Operator Certification Manual" as of December 2020. A PDF version of volumes of this manual can be requested at: Air Operator Certification Manual – TP 4711)
Passenger revenue
Refers to the revenue earned from the transportation of passengers on scheduled and charter services. Include revenue from all surcharges (baggage, fuel, seat selection, changing or cancelling flights, and so on) that are retained by the air carrier. Exclude amounts such as taxes, navigation fees, security fees, and so on that are collected but passed on to other entities.
Goods revenue
Refers to the revenue earned from the transportation of goods on scheduled and charter services. Exclude taxes such as the Goods and Services Tax (GST), Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) or Provincial Sales Tax (PST).
All other flight-related revenue
Refers to the revenue earned from air transport activities not included in passenger revenue or goods revenue. Include revenue from other flying services such as flying training, recreational flying and other specialty flying.
All other revenue
Include subsidies and revenue earned from all other sources (including contra revenue, revenue of a corporate nature (leasing revenue, third party ground-handling, and so on), ancillary passenger revenue not easily allocated by operating flight (customs brokerage, and so on), revenue from in-flight sales (beverages, food, entertainment and wireless Internet access, and so on)).
Total operating revenue
The sum of passenger revenue, goods revenue, other flight-related revenue and revenue from all other sources.
Operating expenses - Ground property and equipment maintenance
Employee wages, salaries and benefits
Direct labour costs (wages and salaries) expended on the maintenance of ground property and equipment.
Include benefits such as employer contributions to pensions, medical benefits, insurance, and so on.
All other maintenance - ground property and equipment expenses
Expenses, both direct and indirect, incurred in the repair and upkeep of ground property and equipment.
Include materials and supplies, purchased repair services and all other related expenses.
Total maintenance - ground property and equipment expenses
The sum of the previous two expense items.
Operating expenses - Aircraft operations
Flight crew wages, salaries and benefits
Include the wages, salaries and benefits for flight crews (pilot, co-pilot, navigator, and so on).
Include benefits such as employer contributions to pensions, medical benefits, insurance, and so on and layover expenses such as hotels and meals.
Aircraft fuel and oil
Expenses for turbo fuel, gasoline and all other fuel and oil consumed such as turbine oil and piston oil.
Include throughput charges, non-refundable duties and taxes.
Landing fees
Include airport landing fees paid both in Canada and outside of Canada.
Navigation fees
Charges remitted to NAV CANADA or other international suppliers for the provision of air navigation services. Air navigation services include aeronautical communication services, aeronautical information services, aeronautical radio navigation services, air traffic control services, aviation weather services, emergency assistance services and flight information services.
Aircraft insurance
Expenses for insurance against accidental damage to flight equipment while in flight or on the ground and for insurance against liability occurring from the operation of aircraft or, in the case of non-insurance, the resulting expenses for which the carrier is liable.
Aircraft rental
Expenses incurred for the rental of aircraft (and crew) from other carriers, such as in chartering, interchange and operating or lease agreements.
All other aircraft operation expenses
Expenses incurred directly for the in-flight operation and related standby time of aircraft which are not elsewhere classified.
Total aircraft operations expenses
The sum of the previous seven expense items.
Operating expenses - Flight equipment maintenance
Employee wages, salaries and benefits
Direct labour costs (wages and salaries) expended on the maintenance of flight equipment.
Include benefits such as employer contributions to pensions, medical benefits, insurance, and so on.
Materials and supplies
Expenses on materials and supplies for the maintenance of flight equipment.
Purchased repair services
Expenses for repair services for the maintenance of flight equipment purchased from outside suppliers.
All other maintenance - flight equipment expenses
Expenses, both direct and indirect, incurred in the repair and upkeep of flight equipment.
Total maintenance - flight equipment expenses
The sum of the previous four expense items.
Operating expenses - In-flight services
Employee wages, salaries and benefits
Include:
Passenger food and supplies
Include expenses for in-flight meals, complimentary drinks, and so on, and the cost of supplies and personal services furnished to passengers.
Passenger liability insurance
Include the premiums for passenger liability and accident insurance paid by the carrier.
All other in-flight service expenses
Include passenger-related expenses incurred due to interrupted flights, including hotels, meals, taxi fares and other expense items, the cost of other services provided to passengers, such as pay, allowances and the cost of passenger service personnel, and all other services provided for the comfort of passengers in transit.
Total in-flight service expenses
The sum of the previous four expense items.
Operating expenses - Aircraft and traffic servicing
Employee wages, salaries and benefits
Include:
Purchased services
Expenses for aircraft and traffic servicing purchased from outside suppliers.
All other aircraft and traffic servicing expenses
Include expenses incurred on the ground for scheduling or preparing aircraft for arrival and takeoff, expenses incurred in enplaning and deplaning passenger and cargo traffic, and expenses involved in servicing and handling individual aircraft and traffic on the ground, in preparing aircraft crews for flight assignment, in controlling the in-flight movements of aircraft and the in-flight expenses of handling all traffic including baggage.
Total aircraft and traffic servicing expenses
The sum of the previous three expense items.
Operating expenses - Promotion and sales
Employee wages, salaries and benefits
Include:
All other promotion and sales expenses
Include:
Total promotion and sales expenses
The sum of the previous two expense items.
Operating expenses - Depreciation
Depreciation - flight equipment
Include:
All other depreciation
Include:
Total depreciation
The sum of the previous two expense items.
Operating expenses - All other expenses
Include general administration.
Employee wages, salaries and benefits
Include:
Exclude all amounts reported in the previous six wages, salaries and benefits categories.
All other expenses
Include:
Total other expenses
The sum of the previous two expense items.
Total operating expenses
The sum of the eight expenses sub-totals, in other words, Total maintenance - ground property and equipment expenses, Total aircraft operations expenses, and so on.
Operating income
Net operating income (a loss should be a negative number)
Total operating revenue less total operating expenses – calculated from the previous questions.
Non-operating income/expenses
Interest and discount income
Include interest income from all sources and cash discounts on the purchase of materials and supplies.
Interest expenses
Include interest on unpaid taxes and all classes of debt including premiums, discounts and expenses on short-term obligations, amortization of premiums, discounts and expenses on short-term and long-term obligations.
All other net non-operating income (enter a negative number for a loss)
Include:
Exclude staff reduction expenses which should be included under all other expenses.
Net non-operating income (a loss should be a negative number)
The sum of the previous three income or expense items.
Provision for income taxes
Include the provision for taxes payable on net income for the accounting period and adjustments of income taxes relating to previous years, including provisions for deferred income taxes resulting from differences between accounting income and taxable income that arise when the time of including items of revenue and expense in the computation of accounting income and taxable income do not coincide. If the net amount is negative, then the amount indicated for this item should be shown with a negative (-) sign.
Net income (a loss should be a negative number)
Net operating income plus net non-operating income less the provision for income taxes.
Fuel and oil consumed
Turbo fuel consumed
Include fuel used in both turboprop and jet aircraft.
Provide the quantity and expenses for turbo fuel consumed. Turbo fuel includes the turbine fuel uplifted for all aircraft in the carrier's fleet. Fuel uplift can be determined based on delivery notes or invoices, aircraft onboard measurement systems or, if the fuel was supplied by a customer, estimated based on hours flown. Report the quantity of turbo fuel consumed in litres.
Include turbo fuel consumed for all scheduled and/or charter operations, regardless of where purchased. The expenses for turbo fuel consumed should be reported in Canadian dollars, regardless of where purchased. Include throughput charges, non-refundable duties and taxes. If the fuel was supplied by a customer, an approximate value may be provided based on prevailing market rates.
Conversion factor
To convert gallons (imperial) into litres (l), multiply by 4.546092.
All other fuel and oil consumed
Provide the quantity and expenses for all non-turbo fuel and oil consumed. Report the quantity of all other fuel and oil consumed in litres.
The quantity should include gasoline, turbine oil, piston oil and all other types of fuel and oil consumed for all scheduled and/or charter operations, regardless of where purchased. The expenses for all other fuel and oil consumed should be reported in Canadian dollars, regardless of where purchased. Include throughput charges, non-refundable duties and taxes.
Conversion factor
To convert gallons (imperial) into litres (l), multiply by 4.546092.
Total fuel and oil consumed
The sum of the quantities and expenses reported in the previous two items.
Employment
Average number of employees
Refer to the average number of people employed for each of the six categories of personnel.
Include all employees, temporary or permanent, on the payroll of the air carrier during the reporting period. Include part-time employees, prorated to the amount of time worked when compared to full-time employees (for example, two part-time employees working half-time are equivalent to one full-time employee).
Wages and salaries expenses
Include a breakdown of the wages and salaries paid for each of the six categories of personnel.
Exclude all benefits, in other words, employer contributions to pensions, medical benefits, insurance, and so on or layover expenses, such as hotels and meals, for flight and cabin crews.
Employment category
Include:
Total employees
The sum of the number and the wages and salaries expenses for the six categories of personnel.
Revenue or expenses by area of operation
Passenger revenue
Include a breakdown of the revenue earned from the transportation of passengers for each province, territory and outside of Canada based on where the transportation service was provided. Total passenger revenue should equal the sum of passenger revenue from scheduled services and charter services previously reported.
Goods revenue
Include a breakdown of the revenue earned from the transportation of goods for each province, territory and outside of Canada based on where the transportation service was provided. Total goods revenue should equal the sum of goods revenue from scheduled services and charter services previously reported.
Employee wages and salaries
Include a breakdown of employee wages and salaries for each province, territory and outside of Canada based on where the employees are located. Total employee wages and salaries should equal the total wages and salaries expenses reported in the "Employment" section above.
This survey collects financial data from the Canadian Level I air carriers needed to measure the growth, the performance and the long-term financial position of the airline industry. The information is also used by Statistics Canada as input to the Canadian System of National Accounts and by individual carriers for measuring company performance relative to groups of competitors.
Your information may also be used by Statistics Canada for other statistical and research purposes.
Your participation in this survey is required under the authority of the Statistics Act.
Authorization to collect this information
Data are collected under the authority of the Statistics Act, Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, Chapter S-19.
Confidentiality
By law, Statistics Canada is prohibited from releasing any information it collects that could identify any person, business or organization, unless consent has been given by the respondent, or as permitted by the Statistics Act. Statistics Canada will use the information from this survey for statistical purposes only.
Record linkages
To enhance the data from this survey and to reduce the response burden, Statistics Canada may combine the acquired data with information from other surveys or from administrative sources.
Data-sharing agreements
To reduce respondent burden, Statistics Canada has entered into data-sharing agreements under Section 12 of the Statistics Act with Natural Resources Canada, Transport Canada and the Canadian Transportation Agency. Statistics Canada will only share data from this survey with those organizations that have demonstrated a requirement to use the data.
Under Section 12 of the Statistics Act, respondents can object to the sharing of information with other organizations. However, respondents do not have the right of refusal with respect to sharing the data with Transport Canada. Transport Canada has the legislative authority to collect and use this information pursuant to the Canada Transportation Act (CTA) and the Transportation Information Regulations.
Respondents may refuse to share their information with Natural Resources Canada and the Canadian Transportation Agency by writing a letter of objection to the Chief Statistician, and mailing it to the following address. These organizations have agreed to keep the data confidential and use them only for statistical purposes.
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Statistics Canada
Attention of Director, Enterprise Statistics Division
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1. Verify or provide the business or organization’s legal and operating name, and correct information if needed.
Note: Legal name should only be modified to correct a spelling error or typo.
Legal name
The legal name is one recognized by law, thus it is the name liable for pursuit or for debts incurred by the business or organization. In the case of a corporation, it is the legal name as fixed by its charter or the statute by which the corporation was created.
Modifications to the legal name should only be done to correct a spelling error or typo.
To indicate a legal name of another legal entity you should instead indicate it in question 3 by selecting 'Not currently operational' and then choosing the applicable reason and providing the legal name of this other entity along with any other requested information.
Operating name
The operating name is a name the business or organization is commonly known as if different from its legal name. The operating name is synonymous with trade name.
2. Verify or provide the contact information for the designated contact person for the business or organization, and correct information if needed.
Note: The designated contact person is the person who should receive this questionnaire. The designated contact person may not always be the one who actually completes the questionnaire.
3. Verify or provide the current operational status of the business or organization identified by the legal and operating name above.
4. Verify or provide the current main activity of the business or organization identified by the legal and operating name above.
Note: The described activity was assigned using the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
This question verifies the business or organization's current main activity as classified by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is an industry classification system developed by the statistical agencies of Canada, Mexico and the United States. Created against the background of the North American Free Trade Agreement, it is designed to provide common definitions of the industrial structure of the three countries and a common statistical framework to facilitate the analysis of the three economies. NAICS is based on supply-side or production-oriented principles, to ensure that industrial data, classified to NAICS , are suitable for the analysis of production-related issues such as industrial performance.
The target entity for which NAICS is designed are businesses and other organizations engaged in the production of goods and services. They include farms, incorporated and unincorporated businesses and government business enterprises. They also include government institutions and agencies engaged in the production of marketed and non-marketed services, as well as organizations such as professional associations and unions and charitable or non-profit organizations and the employees of households.
The associated NAICS should reflect those activities conducted by the business or organizational units targeted by this questionnaire only, as identified in the 'Answering this questionnaire' section and which can be identified by the specified legal and operating name. The main activity is the activity which most defines the targeted business or organization's main purpose or reason for existence. For a business or organization that is for-profit, it is normally the activity that generates the majority of the revenue for the entity.
The NAICS classification contains a limited number of activity classifications; the associated classification might be applicable for this business or organization even if it is not exactly how you would describe this business or organization's main activity.
Please note that any modifications to the main activity through your response to this question might not necessarily be reflected prior to the transmitting of subsequent questionnaires and as a result they may not contain this updated information.
The following is the detailed description including any applicable examples or exclusions for the classification currently associated with this business or organization.
Description and examples
Provide a brief but precise description of this business or organization's main activity:
e.g., breakfast cereal manufacturing, shoe store, software development
5. You indicated that (activity) is not the current main activity. Was this business or organization's main activity ever classified as: (activity)?
6. Search and select the industry classification code that best corresponds to this business or organization's main activity.
How to search:
Select this business or organization's activity sector (optional)
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1. What are the start and end dates of this business's or organization's most recently completed fiscal year?
For this survey, the end date should fall between April 1, 2021 and March 31, 2022.
Here are twelve common fiscal periods that fall within the targeted dates:
Here are other examples of fiscal periods that fall within the required dates:
Fiscal year start date:
Fiscal year-end date:
2. What is the reason the reporting period does not cover a full year?
Select all that apply.
1. For the reporting period ending YYYY-MM-DD, what were this business's assets and liabilities?
Report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.
Financial assets
Current assets
Include:
All other financial assets - (Include investments and special funds.)
Include investments in associated companies, other investments such as investments in stocks, bonds, and so on, and special funds such as equipment purchase funds, funds set aside for such special purposes as contractual deposits, pension funds, self-insurance funds, and so on.
Property and equipment
Operating - flight equipment - (Include capital leases.)
Include:
Accumulated depreciation and amortization - flight equipment
Include:
Operating - ground property and equipment - (Include capital leases.)
Include:
Accumulated depreciation and amortization - ground property and equipment
Include:
Non-operating property and equipment - (Include capital leases.)
Include the cost of all non-operating property and equipment, in other words, all property and equipment not included in the "operating" categories above.
Accumulated depreciation and amortization - non-operating property and equipment
Include accumulated depreciation and amortization of the non-operating property and equipment.
All other assets
Include long-term prepayments, developmental and pre-operating costs such as the cost of extraordinary training, unamortized discounts and expenses on the issue of long-term debt securities, property acquisition adjustments, other intangibles such as payments made for patents, copyrights, and so on, and other deferred charges.
Total assets
The sum of the assets above less the accumulated depreciation and amortization.
Liabilities and capital
Current liabilities
Include:
Advances from associated companies and/or shareholders
Include the net amount from associated companies and/or shareholders for notes, loans or advances which are not currently settled.
Long-term debt and other non-current liabilities - (Include capital leases.)
Include:
Deferred income taxes
Include taxes that will be owed on income, but that have not yet been assessed.
All other liabilities
Include:
Shareholders' equity
Capital stock
Include the equity capital invested in a business through the purchase of various classes of common and preferred shares.
Retained earnings
Include the portion of after-tax profits left over, after dividends have been paid to shareholders, for reinvestment into the company. If this account is negative, then the amount indicated for this item should be shown with a negative (-) sign.
All other items
Include other paid-in capital and reserves. Other paid-in capital or contributed surplus includes the premiums or discounts that have resulted from selling stock, and stock received from donations. Reserves include any reserve fund such as reserve for self-insurance, reserve for pension, reserves against potential future losses, and so on. Also, include proprietorship or partnership accounts (balance year-end).
Total liabilities and capital
The sum of liabilities and capital plus the sum of shareholders' equity which should equal total assets.
| CAN$ '000 | |
|---|---|
| Financial assets | |
| a. Current assets | |
| b. All other financial assets Include investments and special funds. |
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| Property and equipment | |
| a. Operating - flight equipment Include capital leases. |
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| b. Less accumulated depreciation and amortization | |
| c. Operating - ground property and equipment Include capital leases. |
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| d. Less accumulated depreciation and amortization | |
| e. Non-operating property and equipment Include capital leases. |
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| f. Less accumulated depreciation and amortization | |
| g. All other assets | |
| Total assets | |
| Liabilities and capital | |
| a. Current liabilities | |
| b. Advances from associated companies and/or shareholders | |
| c. Long-term debt and other non-current liabilities Include capital leases. |
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| d. Deferred incomes taxes | |
| e. All other liabilities | |
| Shareholders' equity | |
| a. Capital stock | |
| b. Retained earnings | |
| c. All other items | |
| Total liabilities and capital |
1. For the reporting period ending YYYY-MM-DD , what were the details of this business's operating revenue?
Report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.
Scheduled services
Transportation of passengers or goods, or both, by an aircraft provided by an air carrier that operates the air service and that, directly or indirectly, sells some or all of its seats or part or all of its cargo space to the public on a price per seat, price per unit of mass or price per volume of cargo basis.
Charter services
Transportation of passengers or goods, or both, by aircraft pursuant to a contract under which a person, other than the air carrier that operates the air service, or its agent, reserves a block of seats or part of the cargo space of an aircraft for the person's use or for resale to the public.
Include air ambulance service and the movement of people and goods to logging or heli-logging sites.
Exclude firefighting and heli-logging activities and the movement of people and goods to a firefighting site. (A complete list of activities which are specialty and therefore not subject to filing requirements as charter can be found in the Transport Canada document entitled "Starting a Commercial Air Service", TP 8880.)
Passenger revenue
Refers to the revenue earned from the transportation of passengers on scheduled and charter services.
Include revenue from all surcharges (baggage, fuel, seat selection, changing or cancelling flights, and so on) that are retained by the air carrier. Exclude amounts such as taxes, navigation fees, security fees, and so on that are collected but passed on to other entities.
Goods revenue
Refers to the revenue earned from the transportation of goods on scheduled and charter services. Exclude taxes such as the Goods and Services Tax (GST), Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) or Provincial Sales Tax (PST).
All other flight-related revenue
Refers to the revenue earned from air transport activities not included in passenger revenue or goods revenue. Include revenue from other flying services such as flying training, recreational flying and other specialty flying.
All other revenue
Include subsidies and revenue earned from all other sources (including contra revenue, revenue of a corporate nature (leasing revenue, third party ground-handling, and so on), ancillary passenger revenue not easily allocated by operating flight (customs brokerage, and so on), revenue from in-flight sales (beverages, food, entertainment and wireless Internet access, and so on)).
Total operating revenue
The sum of passenger revenue, goods revenue, other flight-related revenue and revenue from all other sources.
| CAN$ '000 | |
|---|---|
| Operating revenue | |
| a. Scheduled services - passenger revenue Include revenue from fees such as baggage, fuel, seat selection, etc. |
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| b. Scheduled services - goods revenue | |
| c. Charter services - passenger revenue | |
| d. Charter services - goods revenue | |
| e. All other flight - related revenue Include revenue from flying services such as flying training, recreational flying, etc. |
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| f. All other revenue Include subsidies and revenue earned from all other sources. |
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| Total operating revenue |
2. For the reporting period ending YYYY-MM-DD, what were the details of this business's operating expenses?
Report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.
Operating expenses - Ground property and equipment maintenance
Employee wages, salaries and benefits
Direct labour costs (wages and salaries) expended on the maintenance of ground property and equipment.
Include benefits such as employer contributions to pensions, medical benefits, insurance, and so on.
All other maintenance - ground property and equipment expenses
Expenses, both direct and indirect, incurred in the repair and upkeep of ground property and equipment.
Include materials and supplies, purchased repair services and all other related expenses.
Total maintenance - ground property and equipment expenses
The sum of the previous two expense items.
Operating expenses - Aircraft operations
Flight crew wages, salaries and benefits
Include the wages, salaries and benefits for flight crews (pilot, co-pilot, navigator, and so on).
Include benefits such as employer contributions to pensions, medical benefits, insurance, and so on and layover expenses such as hotels and meals.
Aircraft fuel and oil
Expenses for turbo fuel, gasoline and all other fuel and oil consumed such as turbine oil and piston oil.
Include throughput charges, non-refundable duties and taxes.
Landing fees
Include airport landing fees paid both in Canada and outside of Canada.
Navigation fees
Charges remitted to NAV CANADA or other international suppliers for the provision of air navigation services. Air navigation services include aeronautical communication services, aeronautical information services, aeronautical radio navigation services, air traffic control services, aviation weather services, emergency assistance services and flight information services.
Aircraft insurance
Expenses for insurance against accidental damage to flight equipment while in flight or on the ground and for insurance against liability occurring from the operation of aircraft or, in the case of non-insurance, the resulting expenses for which the carrier is liable.
Aircraft rental
Expenses incurred for the rental of aircraft (and crew) from other carriers, such as in chartering, interchange and operating or lease agreements.
All other aircraft operation expenses
Expenses incurred directly for the in-flight operation and related standby time of aircraft which are not elsewhere classified.
Total aircraft operations expenses
The sum of the previous seven expense items.
Operating expenses - Flight equipment maintenance
Employee wages, salaries and benefits
Direct labour costs (wages and salaries) expended on the maintenance of flight equipment.
Include benefits such as employer contributions to pensions, medical benefits, insurance, and so on.
Materials and supplies
Expenses on materials and supplies for the maintenance of flight equipment.
Purchased repair services
Expenses for repair services for the maintenance of flight equipment purchased from outside suppliers.
All other maintenance - flight equipment expenses
Expenses, both direct and indirect, incurred in the repair and upkeep of flight equipment.
Total maintenance - flight equipment expenses
The sum of the previous four expense items.
Operating expenses - In-flight services
Employee wages, salaries and benefits
Include:
Passenger food and supplies
Include expenses for in-flight meals, complimentary drinks, and so on, and the cost of supplies and personal services furnished to passengers.
Passenger liability insurance
Include the premiums for passenger liability and accident insurance paid by the carrier.
All other in-flight service expenses
Include passenger-related expenses incurred due to interrupted flights, including hotels, meals, taxi fares and other expense items, the cost of other services provided to passengers, such as pay, allowances and the cost of passenger service personnel, and all other services provided for the comfort of passengers in transit.
Total in-flight service expenses
The sum of the previous four expense items.
Operating expenses - Aircraft and traffic servicing
Employee wages, salaries and benefits
Include:
Purchased services
Expenses for aircraft and traffic servicing purchased from outside suppliers.
All other aircraft and traffic servicing expenses
Include expenses incurred on the ground for scheduling or preparing aircraft for arrival and takeoff, expenses incurred in enplaning and deplaning passenger and cargo traffic, and expenses involved in servicing and handling individual aircraft and traffic on the ground, in preparing aircraft crews for flight assignment, in controlling the in-flight movements of aircraft and the in-flight expenses of handling all traffic including baggage.
Total aircraft and traffic servicing expenses
The sum of the previous three expense items.
Operating expenses - Promotion and sales
Employee wages, salaries and benefits
Include:
All other promotion and sales expenses
Include:
Total promotion and sales expenses
The sum of the previous two expense items.
Operating expenses - Depreciation
Depreciation - flight equipment
Include:
All other depreciation
Include:
Total depreciation
The sum of the previous two expense items.
Operating expenses - All other expenses
Include general administration.
Employee wages, salaries and benefits
Include:
Exclude all amounts reported in the previous six wages, salaries and benefits categories.
All other expenses
Include:
Total other expenses
The sum of the previous two expense items.
Total operating expenses
The sum of the eight expenses sub-totals, in other words, Total maintenance - ground property and equipment expenses, Total aircraft operations expenses, and so on.
| CAN$ '000 | |
|---|---|
| Operating expenses - Ground property and equipment maintenance | |
| a. Employee wages, salaries and benefits | |
| b. All other maintenance - ground property and equipment expenses | |
| Total maintenance - ground property and equipment expenses | |
| Operating expenses - Aircraft operations | |
| a. Flight crew wages, salaries and benefits | |
| b. Aircraft fuel and oil | |
| c. Landing fees | |
| d. Navigation fees | |
| e. Aircraft insurance | |
| f. Aircraft rental | |
| g. All other aircraft operations expenses | |
| Total aircraft operations expenses | |
| Operating expenses - Flight equipment maintenance | |
| a. Employee wages, salaries and benefits | |
| b. Materials and supplies | |
| c. Purchased repair services | |
| d. All other maintenance - flight equipment expenses | |
| Total maintenance - flight equipment expenses | |
| Operating expenses - In-flight service | |
| a. Employee wages, salaries and benefits | |
| b. Passenger food and supplies | |
| c. Passenger liability insurance | |
| d. All other in-flight service expenses Include expenses incurred due to interrupted flights such as hotels, meals, etc. |
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| Total in-flight service expenses | |
| Operating expenses - Aircraft and traffic servicing | |
| a. Employee wages, salaries and benefits | |
| b. Purchased services | |
| c. All other aircraft and traffic servicing expenses | |
| Total aircraft and traffic servicing expenses | |
| Operating expenses - Promotion and sales | |
| a. Employee wages, salaries and benefits | |
| b. All other promotion and sales expenses | |
| Total promotion and sales expenses | |
| Operating expenses - Depreciation | |
| a. Depreciation - flight equipment | |
| b. All other depreciation Include provisions for the depreciation of all non-flight ground and property equipment, etc. |
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| Total depreciation | |
| Operating expenses - All other expenses Include general administration. |
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| a. Employee wages, salaries and benefits | |
| b. All other expenses Include all operating expenses and general administration expenses not reported elsewhere, expenses such as incidental air transport-related expenses, expenses for general financial accounting activities, supplementary labour income, property taxes, etc. |
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| Total other expenses | |
| Total operating expenses |
3. For the reporting period ending YYYY-MM-DD, what were the details of this business's operating and non-operating income?
Report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.
Operating income
Net operating income (a loss should be a negative number)
Total operating revenue less total operating expenses - calculated from the previous questions.
Non-operating income/expenses
Interest and discount income
Include interest income from all sources and cash discounts on the purchase of materials and supplies.
Interest expenses
Include interest on unpaid taxes and all classes of debt including premiums, discounts and expenses on short-term obligations, amortization of premiums, discounts and expenses on short-term and long-term obligations.
All other net non-operating income (enter a negative number for a loss)
Include:
Exclude staff reduction expenses which should be included under all other expenses.
Net non-operating income (a loss should be a negative number)
The sum of the previous three income or expense items.
Provision for income taxes
Include the provision for taxes payable on net income for the accounting period and adjustments of income taxes relating to previous years, including provisions for deferred income taxes resulting from differences between accounting income and taxable income that arise when the time of including items of revenue and expense in the computation of accounting income and taxable income do not coincide. If the net amount is negative, then the amount indicated for this item should be shown with a negative (-) sign.
Net income (a loss should be a negative number)
Net operating income plus net non-operating income less the provision for income taxes.
| CAN$ '000 | |
|---|---|
| Operating income | |
| a. Net operating income (a loss should be a negative number) Calculated from the previous questions as total operating revenue [$ amount] less total operating expenses [$ amount]. |
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| Non-operating income/expenses | |
| a. Interest and discount income | |
| b. Interest expenses | |
| c. All other net non-operating income (enter a negative number for a loss) | |
| Net non-operating income (a loss should be a negative number) | |
| d. Provision for income taxes | |
| Net income (a loss should be a negative number) |
4. For the reporting period ending YYYY-MM-DD, please provide the details of this business's fuel consumption.
Fuel and oil consumed
Turbo fuel consumed
Include fuel used in both turboprop and jet aircraft.
Provide the quantity and expenses for turbo fuel consumed. Turbo fuel includes the turbine fuel uplifted for all aircraft in the carrier's fleet. Fuel uplift can be determined based on delivery notes or invoices, aircraft onboard measurement systems or, if the fuel was supplied by a customer, estimated based on hours flown. Report the quantity of turbo fuel consumed in litres.
Include turbo fuel consumed for all scheduled and/or charter operations, regardless of where purchased. The expenses for turbo fuel consumed should be reported in Canadian dollars, regardless of where purchased. Include throughput charges, non-refundable duties and taxes. If the fuel was supplied by a customer, an approximate value may be provided based on prevailing market rates.
Conversion factor
To convert gallons (imperial) into litres (l), multiply by 4.546092.
All other fuel and oil consumed
Provide the quantity and expenses for all non-turbo fuel and oil consumed. Report the quantity of all other fuel and oil consumed in litres.
The quantity should include gasoline, turbine oil, piston oil and all other types of fuel and oil consumed for all scheduled and/or charter operations, regardless of where purchased. The expenses for all other fuel and oil consumed should be reported in Canadian dollars, regardless of where purchased. Include throughput charges, non-refundable duties and taxes.
Conversion factor
To convert gallons (imperial) into litres (l), multiply by 4.546092.
Total fuel and oil consumed
The sum of the quantities and expenses reported in the previous two items.
| Quantity - Litres (L) |
Expenses CAN$ '000 |
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|---|---|---|
| Fuel and oil consumed | ||
| a. Turbo fuel consumed (litres) Include fuel used in both turbopop and jet aircraft. |
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| b. All other fuel and oil consumed (litres) | ||
| Total fuel and oil consumed (litres) |
5. For the reporting period ending YYYY-MM-DD, please provide the details of this business's employment.
Employment
Average number of employees
Refer to the average number of people employed for each of the six categories of personnel. Include all employees, temporary or permanent, on the payroll of the air carrier during the reporting period. Include part-time employees, prorated to the amount of time worked when compared to full-time employees (for example, two part-time employees working half-time are equivalent to one full-time employee).
Wages and salaries expenses
Include a breakdown of the wages and salaries paid for each of the six categories of personnel.
Exclude all benefits, in other words, employer contributions to pensions, medical benefits, insurance, and so on or layover expenses, such as hotels and meals, for flight and cabin crews.
Employment category
Include:
Total employees
The sum of the number and the wages and salaries expenses for the six categories of personnel.
| Average number of employees | Wages and salaries expenses CAN$ '000 |
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|---|---|---|
| Employment | ||
| a. Pilots and co-pilots | ||
| b. Other flight personnel Include flight engineers, navigators, flight attendants, etc. |
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| c. General management and administration employees | ||
| d. Maintenance personnel | ||
| e. Aircraft and traffic servicing personnel Include flight dispatch personnel, flight planning staff, aircraft fuelers, etc. |
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| f. All other employees Include air ambulance attendants, accountants, purchasing personnel, etc. |
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| Total employees |
6. For the reporting period ending YYYY-MM-DD, please provide the distribution of this business's revenue and expenses by area of operation.
Revenue or expenses by area of operation
Passenger revenue
Include a breakdown of the revenue earned from the transportation of passengers for each province, territory and outside of Canada based on where the transportation service was provided. Total passenger revenue should equal the sum of passenger revenue from scheduled services and charter services previously reported.
Goods revenue
Include a breakdown of the revenue earned from the transportation of goods for each province, territory and outside of Canada based on where the transportation service was provided. Total goods revenue should equal the sum of goods revenue from scheduled services and charter services previously reported.
Employee wages and salaries
Include a breakdown of employee wages and salaries for each province, territory and outside of Canada based on where the employees are located. Total employee wages and salaries should equal the total wages and salaries expenses reported in the "Employment" section above.
| Passenger revenue CAN$ '000 |
Goods revenue CAN$ '000 |
Employee wages and salaries CAN$ '000 |
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| Area of operation | |||
| a. Newfoundland and Labrador | |||
| b. Prince Edward Island | |||
| c. Nova Scotia | |||
| d. New Brunswick | |||
| e. Quebec | |||
| f. Ontario | |||
| g. Manitoba | |||
| h. Saskatchewan | |||
| i. Alberta | |||
| j. British Columbia | |||
| k. Yukon | |||
| l. Northwest Territories | |||
| m. Nunavut | |||
| n. Outside Canada | |||
| Total |
1. Indicate any changes or events that affected the reported values for this business or organization, compared with the last reporting period.
Select all that apply.
1. Statistics Canada may need to contact the person who completed this questionnaire for further information.
Is ([Provided Given Names]) , ([Provided Family Name]) the best person to contact?
Who is the best person to contact about this questionnaire?
1. How long did it take to complete this questionnaire?
Include the time spent gathering the necessary information.
2. Do you have any comments about this questionnaire?
Enter your comments
Date: February 3, 2022
Program manager: Director, Centre for Population Health Data
Director General, Health, Justice, Diversity and Populations Branch
Personal information collected and used in the Mental Health and Access to Care Survey is described in Statistics Canada's "Health Surveys" Personal Information Bank. The Personal Information Bank refers to personal information that is related to participants of health surveys conducted by Statistics Canada.
The "Health Surveys" Personal Information Bank (Bank number: StatCan PPU 806) is published on the Statistics Canada website under the latest Information about Programs and Information Holdings chapter.
Statistics Canada is conducting the Mental Health and Access to Care Survey (MHACS) under the authority of the Statistics Act. The purpose of the MHACS is to collect information about the mental health status of Canadians, as well as their access to and need for services and supports, whether formal or informal. This voluntary survey also intends to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on population health as well as evaluate changes in patterns of mental health, service use and functioning in the last ten years.
A master microdata file will be produced and made available in Statistics Canada's Research Data Centres (RDC)Footnote 1. A subset of the master microdata file which contains only information of respondents who have consented to share their information, called the share file, will be made available to the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Health Canada (HC), the Institut de la statistique du Québec (ISQ) and provincial and territorial ministries of health.
The sample size is 40,000 Canadians aged 15 and over, as of March 1, 2022, living in private dwellings in the 10 provinces. Individuals living in the territories, in institutions, and on First Nations reserves are excluded from the sample. Full-time members of the Canadian Armed Forces are also considered out of scope for this survey. The sample will be composed of randomly-selected individuals who responded to the Census 2021 long questionnaire, with stratification by population group (South Asian, Chinese, Black, Filipino, and other), gender, and age groups (15-24, 25-44, 45-64 and 65+). A general random selection of individuals in the 10 provinces cannot achieve the same level of precision without a substantial increase of the sample size.
This voluntary household survey collects information about symptom-based assessment of DSM-IV lifetime and 12 month mental disorders (depression, bipolar disorder, social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, alcohol and other substance use and dependence), mental health service use and perceived need for care, positive mental health, suicide ideation and attempts, functioning, chronic conditions, medication use, and health behaviours such as smoking, physical activity, social support, childhood experiences of maltreatment (for respondents aged 18 and over), and work stress.
In addition, demographic information such as age, gender, postal code, Indigenous identity, population group, immigration and citizenship, education and income will be collected, as well as email address for contact information. Responses will be aggregated and processed to ensure that no individual can be identified.
To further reduce respondent burden, record linkage to tax data will be used to provide total household income for all respondents. Respondents will be informed that Statistics Canada will link their data to tax data. Furthermore, respondents will be asked to provide their consent to share their linked tax data with the Public Health Agency of Canada, Health Canada and provincial and territorial ministries of health, and for Quebec residents, the Institut de la statistique du Québec. Respondents will be asked in a separate statement for consent to share their survey response data with the Public Health Agency of Canada, Health Canada and provincial and territorial ministries of health (for Quebec residents, the Institut de la statistique du Québec) for statistical and research purposes. No other immediate requirements for linking results from the MHACS to other administrative datasets, surveys or the Census have been identified. However, given the importance of mental health for social and economic recovery from the pandemic, there is a potential need to have data on mental health impacts in the future. Any requirements for record linkage would follow established procedures for approval from the Chief Statistician and a record linkage rationale would be provided. If approved, all record linkages would be performed within Statistics Canada's secure Social Data Linkage Environment. Any data products released will be based on aggregated responses and processed to ensure that no individual can be identified.
While the Generic Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) addresses most of the privacy and security risks related to statistical activities conducted by Statistics Canada, this supplement describes additional measures being implemented due to the sensitivity of the information being collected, a portion of the survey respondents being minors, and targeted oversampling of population groups (South Asian, Chinese, Black, Filipino, and other). As is the case with all PIAs, Statistics Canada's privacy framework ensures that elements of privacy protection and privacy controls are documented and applied. The Mental Health and Access to Care Survey will collect information on mental health as well as sensitive personal information such as gender identity. This supplement describes how Statistics Canada designed and developed this survey while taking into account the possible impact to vulnerable populations, and integrating relevant principles of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada's Framework for the Government of Canada to Assess Privacy-Impactful Initiatives in Response to COVID-19.
The collection and use of personal information for the Mental Health and Access to Care Survey can be justified against Statistics Canada's Necessity and Proportionality Framework:
Some questions contained in the Mental Health and Access to Care Survey are considered sensitive as they relate to an individual's mental health and well-being. The overall risk of harm to the survey respondents is deemed manageable with existing Statistics Canada safeguards that are described in Statistics Canada's Generic Privacy Impact Assessment as well as with the following measures:
As with other mental health surveys conducted by Statistics Canada, mental health resources and contact information will be mailed to respondents along with the survey invitation letter, and can be provided verbally by interviewers at any time during the interviews. Because all interviews will be conducted over the phone with a Statistics Canada interviewer, interviewers will be trained and equipped to offer mental health resources and contact information to survey respondents.
Prior to collection, individuals selected to participate in the survey will be clearly informed that the survey is voluntary. They will also be informed of the survey's purpose and topics, so that respondents can make an informed decision about whether they want to participate. This notification to all potential respondents will be done through the survey invitation letter, which will be mailed to potential respondents prior to collection, and this information will be repeated verbally by the interviewer before any questions are asked. The topics listed as part of the survey will include: depression, anxiety, mania, social phobia, suicidal thoughts and behaviours, childhood maltreatment (collected among respondents aged 18 and over only), substance use and problems, disability, general and positive mental health, social support, and access to and use of mental health care services and supports. This information will be provided at the beginning of the questionnaire by the interviewer before the survey commences. Information about the survey, as well as the survey questionnaire, will also be available on Statistics Canada's website.
Following are the confidentiality measures that will be followed with respect to the use of personal information collected in the Mental Health and Access to Care Survey:
This assessment concludes that, with the existing Statistics Canada safeguards and additional mitigation factors listed above, any remaining risks are such that Statistics Canada is prepared to accept and manage the risk.
This Supplementary Privacy Impact Assessment has been reviewed and recommended for approval by Statistics Canada's Chief Privacy Officer, Director General for Modern Statistical Methods and Data Science, and Assistant Chief Statistician for Social, Health and Labour Statistics.
Pierre Desrochers
Chief Privacy Officer
Date: February 25, 2022
Eric Rancourt
Director General,
Modern Statistical Methods and Data Science
Date: February 28, 2022
Lynn Barr-Telford
Assistant Chief Statistician,
Social, Health and Labour Statistics
Date: February 28, 2022
The Chief Statistician of Canada has the authority for section 10 of the Privacy Act for Statistics Canada, and is responsible for the Agency's operations, including the program area mentioned in this Supplementary Privacy Impact Assessment.
This Privacy Impact Assessment has been approved by the Chief Statistician of Canada.
Anil Arora
Chief Statistician of Canada
Date: October 2021
Program manager: Director, Centre for Social Data Integration and Development
Director General, Census Subject Matter, Social Insights, Integration and Innovation
Personal information collected through the Childhood National Immunization Coverage Survey is described in Statistics Canada's "Special Surveys" Personal Information Bank. The Personal Information Bank refers to information collected through Statistics Canada's ad hoc surveys, which do not form part of the regular survey taking activity of the Agency. They cover a variety of socio-economic topics including health, housing, labour market, education and literacy, as well as demographic data.
The "Special Surveys" Personal Information Bank (Bank number: StatCan PPU 016) is published on the Statistics Canada website under the latest Information about Programs and Information Holdings chapter.
Statistics Canada has conducted the Childhood National Immunization Coverage Survey (CNICS) every second year since 2011, under the authority of the Statistics Act, on behalf of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). The purpose of the Childhood National Immunization Coverage Survey (CNICS) is to collect information on immunization coverage for vaccines administered to children and pregnant women.
The survey is intended to:
CNICS is a voluntary survey, and for the 2021 cycle it collects information for children and youth aged 2, 7, 14 and 17 years old, and women who gave birth between September 1, 2020, and March 1, 2021, living in the 10 provinces and three territories. It excludes those residing on First Nations reserves and those living in institutions. Vaccination data is collected from the parent or guardian of the child, the biological mother (for vaccines received during pregnancy), the health care provider who administered the vaccines (where possible and when permission is provided for children aged 2, 7, 14 and 17 years) and from immunization registries in the provinces of Manitoba and PEI (when the parent or guardian has given permission). These sources of data are combined to create a full and complete picture of vaccine coverage.
Survey topics include vaccination status for childhood vaccines and vaccines administered during pregnancy, reason for non-vaccination, trusted sources of information for vaccination, and knowledge and beliefs about vaccines in general. For the 2021 cycle, questions were added to help understand the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on immunization and vaccine coverage for children and pregnant women. In addition, parents and guardians of children aged 2, 7, 14 and 17 years old are asked for their child's COVID-19 vaccination status and, if not vaccinated, they are asked their likelihood to vaccinate their child.
As was the case in 2019, for the 2021 cycle parents and guardians living in the provinces of PEI and Manitoba will have the opportunity to skip the detailed questions about their child's vaccination history, if they agree to share their child's identifiers with the respective provincial immunization registry. Statistics Canada has data sharing and data acquisition agreements in place with both PEI and Manitoba and as such, when permission is given by the parent or guardian, is able to retrieve the child's detailed vaccination data from the provincial registry. Statistics Canada does not have access to all of the immunization registry records for PEI or Manitoba, only those for the children included in CNICS and where the parent or guardian has given express permission. Statistics Canada continues to negotiate agreements with health authorities to access data from the other provincial and territorial registries. To reduce respondent burden further, record linkage to tax data is used to provide total household income for all respondents.
No other immediate requirements for linking results from the CNICS to other administrative datasets, surveys or the Census have been identified. However, given the importance of vaccinations for health and for social and economic recovery from the pandemic, there is a potential need to have data on vaccination impacts in the future. Any requirements for record linkage would follow established procedures for approval from the Chief Statistician and a record linkage rationale would be provided. If approved, all record linkages would be performed within Statistics Canada's secure Social Data Linkage Environment. Any data products released will be based on aggregated responses and processed to ensure that no individual can be identified.
CNICS is expected to continue to be collected every 2 years, and the data collected for CNICS 2021 will be of particular interest to measure the impact of COVID-19 on routine childhood vaccinations and vaccines administered during pregnancy.
While the Generic Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) addresses most of the privacy and security risks related to statistical activities conducted by Statistics Canada, this supplement describes additional measures being implemented due to the sensitivity of the information being collected. The CNICS will be collecting information on COVID-19 vaccination status and the impact the COVID-19 pandemic, which becomes more sensitive when collected alongside personal information, such as age, education level, ethnicity or other demographic characteristics. This SPIA describes how Statistics Canada has accounted for the unique impact to vulnerable populations when designing and conducting this survey, and integrates relevant principles of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner's Framework for the Government of Canada to Assess Privacy-Impactful Initiatives in Response to COVID-19. As is the case with all PIAs, Statistics Canada's privacy framework ensures that elements of privacy protection and privacy controls are documented and applied.
The collection and use of personal information for the CNICS can be justified against Statistics Canada's Necessity and Proportionality Framework:
| Age group | Sample size |
|---|---|
| 2 years | 9,274 |
| 7 years | 1,044 |
| 14 (male) | 775 |
| 14 (female) | 774 |
| 17 | 846 |
| Pregnant women | 6,781 |
| Total | 19,494 |
Some questions contained in the CNICS may be considered sensitive as they relate to parents' and guardians' views on vaccination against COVID-19, a complex and often difficult topic to broach during the pandemic. However, the overall risk of harm to the survey respondents has been deemed manageable with existing Statistics Canada safeguards that are described in Statistics Canada's Generic Privacy Impact Assessment, as well as with the following measures:
Prior to the survey, respondents will be informed of the survey purpose, allowing them to decide whether they wish to participate. The survey purpose reads:
For parents/guardians of children aged 2, 7, 14 and 17 years:
The information collected by the Childhood National Immunization Coverage Survey (CNICS) measures the proportion of Canadian children who are vaccinated against certain diseases. It also asks parents and guardians about their knowledge of vaccines and the diseases they are meant to prevent, as well as their opinions about vaccines.
The data will be used to:
For pregnant women:
The Childhood National Immunization Coverage Survey (CNICS) collects data on vaccines received by mothers during their pregnancy, and on mothers' knowledge and perceptions about vaccination during pregnancy.
The data will be used to:
This information will be provided to survey participants via invitation and reminder letters. It will also be reiterated at the beginning of the questionnaire. Respondents will also be informed in the invitation letter, reminder letters, and in the questionnaire itself, that their participation is voluntary before being asked any questions. Information about the survey, as well as the survey questionnaire, will also be available on Statistics Canada's website.
Variables that directly identify respondents or their children will be separated from the data files in the first stage of data processing and placed in a secure location with controlled access. Variables that might indirectly identify respondents are examined and modified as necessary in order to protect the privacy and confidentiality of respondents. Individual responses will be grouped with those of others when reporting results. Individual responses and results for very small groups will never be published or shared with government departments or agencies. Careful analysis of the data will be performed prior to the publication and sharing of aggregate data to ensure that marginalized and vulnerable communities are not disproportionally impacted.
This assessment concludes that with the existing Statistics Canada safeguards and additional mitigation factors listed above, any remaining risks are such that Statistics Canada is prepared to accept and manage the risk.
This Supplementary Privacy Impact Assessment has been reviewed and recommended for approval by Statistics Canada's Chief Privacy Officer, Director General for Modern Statistical Methods and Data Science, and Assistant Chief Statistician for Social, Health and Labour Statistics.
Pierre Desrochers
Chief Privacy Officer
Date: October 28, 2021
Eric Rancourt
Director General,
Modern Statistical Methods and Data Science
Date: November 4, 2021
Lynn Barr-Telford
Assistant Chief Statistician,
Social, Health and Labour Statistics
Date: November 5, 2021
The Chief Statistician of Canada has the authority for section 10 of the Privacy Act for Statistics Canada, and is responsible for the Agency's operations, including the program area mentioned in this Supplementary Privacy Impact Assessment.
This Privacy Impact Assessment has been approved by the Chief Statistician of Canada.
Anil Arora
Chief Statistician of Canada
Date: March 2021
Program manager: Director, Centre for Social Data Integration and Development
Director General, Social Insights, Integration and Innovation Branch
In accordance with the Privacy Act, Statistics Canada is submitting a new institutional personal information bank (PIB) to describe any personal information obtained from child welfare agencies, and provincial and territorial ministries, for the purposes of the Statistics Act. The following PIB is proposed for review and registration.
Description: This bank describes information on child maltreatment, and family services obtained from child welfare agencies in Canada, including provincial and territorial ministries responsible for family services, Indigenous and other child welfare agencies. Personal information on children and caregivers may include first and last names, date of birth, gender, Indigenous and ethnic status, language, addresses and family demographics, as well as information related to their cases (reports made to the authorities, maltreatment types, level of substantiation, case assessments and outcomes, service provision, need for protection, placements, adoption or reunification).
Note: All direct personal identifiers such as names, addresses and data provider IDs are removed and replaced with a Statistics Canada record identifier. The personal identifiers are stored in a separate file with highly restricted access. Only the Statistics Canada identifier is kept with the information used for the database, to allow linkage between statistical files.
Class of Individuals: Children and caregivers (parents and guardians) accessing services or involved in child maltreatment cases reported to child welfare agencies in Canada.
Purpose: The personal information is used to create national statistical data on child maltreatment, and to enable statistical analyses of interactions with the system and of passage through the system, including referral to services, placement in foster care, connections to family, and reunification. Personal information is collected pursuant to the Statistics Act (Sections 3, 7, 8, 13, 22).
Consistent Uses: Subject to Statistics Canada's Directive on Microdata Linkage, information on child maltreatment may be combined with surveys or other administrative data sources for approved statistical purposes and longitudinal analysis. These data are used to: produce standardized national, provincial and territorial estimates; conduct retrospective, prospective, and life-course analyses; better understand protective and risk factors, and transfers between jurisdictions.
Retention and Disposal Standards: Information is retained until it is no longer required for statistical purposes and then it is destroyed.
RDA Number: 2007/001
Related Record Number: StatCan SSD 040
TBS Registration: To be assigned by TBS
Bank Number: StatCan PPU 813
With the collaboration of child welfare agencies, provincial and territorial ministries and Indigenous organizations and governments, Statistics Canada intends to acquire administrative data on child welfare in order to develop the Canadian Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS) on behalf of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). The CCWIS is a national public health information system on child welfare, and its purpose is to support nationally standardized analyses and reporting on child maltreatment; investigations and outcomes; the number of children in need of protection; and passage through the child welfare system, including referral to services, placement in foster care, connections to family, reunification, and other requests for family services. These data may be linked to other data held by Statistics Canada to better understand the family context, risk factors for child maltreatment, and long-term education, health and other outcomes for children. Such linkages could inform policies, laws, programs and family support services to improve the lives of children and their families. Moreover, as Indigenous children are overrepresented in the child welfare system, quality national data on child welfare, including standardized provincial and territorial data, can be of particular benefit to programs and services aimed at ensuring the well-being of First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities.
Statistics Canada's Generic Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) presents and addresses the privacy principles and levels of potential security risks related to its statistical activities. Existing safeguards have been assessed as sufficient to address the potential privacy risks associated with the CCWIS. This project will follow standard Statistics Canada data stewardship practices to ensure the privacy of any data collected.
The purpose of this PIA supplement is to clearly illustrate the need for this personal information to achieve Statistics Canada's statistical mandate, and to demonstrate the public benefit that will be derived from the CCWIS data.
The collection of personal information for the Canadian Child Welfare Information System was assessed against the four-part test proposed by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, and aligns with Statistics Canada's Necessity and Proportionality Framework:
This assessment concludes that, with the existing Statistics Canada safeguards, the agency is prepared to accept and manage any remaining risks.
This Supplementary Privacy Impact Assessment has been reviewed and recommended for approval by Statistics Canada's Chief Privacy Officer, Director General for Modern Statistical Methods and Data Science, and Assistant Chief Statistician, Social, Health and Labour Statistics Field.
Pierre Desrochers
Chief Privacy Officer
Date: March 23, 2021
Eric Rancourt
Director General,
Modern Statistical Methods and Data Science
Date: March 30, 2021
Lynn Barr-Telford
Assistant Chief Statistician,
Social, Health and Labour Statistics
Date: April 15, 2021
The Chief Statistician of Canada has the authority for section 10 of the Privacy Act for Statistics Canada, and is responsible for the Agency's operations, including the program area mentioned in this Privacy Impact Assessment. This Supplement to the Generic Privacy Impact Assessment is approved by the Chief Statistician of Canada.
Anil Arora
Chief Statistician of Canada
Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP)
This guide is designed to assist you as you complete the 2021 Annual Civil Aviation Survey - Level I. If you need more information, please call the Statistics Canada Help Line at the number below.
Help Line: 1-877-949-9492
Your answers are confidential.
Statistics Canada is prohibited by law from releasing any information it collects which could identify any person, business, or organization, unless consent has been given by the respondent or as permitted by the Statistics Act.
Statistics Canada will use information from this survey for statistical purposes.
Table of contents
This section verifies or requests basic identifying information of the business or organization such as legal name, operating name (if applicable), contact information of the designated contact person, current operational status, and main activity(ies).
1. Legal name and Operating name
Legal Name
The legal name is one recognized by law, thus it is the name liable for pursuit or for debts incurred by the business or organization. In the case of a corporation, it is the legal name as fixed by its charter or the statute by which the corporation was created.
Modifications to the legal name should only be done to correct a spelling error or typo.
To indicate a legal name of another legal entity you should instead indicate it in question 3 by selecting 'Not currently operational' and then choosing the applicable reason and providing the legal name of this other entity along with any other requested information.
Operating Name
The operating name is a name the business or organization is commonly known as if different from its legal name. The operating name is synonymous with trade name.
2. Designated contact person
Verify or provide the requested contact information of the designated business or organization contact person. The designated contact person is the person who should receive this questionnaire. The designated contact person may not always be the one who actually completes the questionnaire. If different than the designated contact person, the contact information of the person completing the questionnaire can be indicated later in the questionnaire.
3. Current operational status
Verify or provide the current operational status of the business or organization identified by the legal and operating name in question 1. If indicating the operational status of the business or organization is 'Not currently operational' then indicate an applicable reason and provide the requested information.
4. Main activity
This question verifies the business or organization's current main activity as classified by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is an industry classification system developed by the statistical agencies of Canada, Mexico and the United States. Created against the background of the North American Free Trade Agreement, it is designed to provide common definitions of the industrial structure of the three countries and a common statistical framework to facilitate the analysis of the three economies. NAICS is based on supply-side or production-oriented principles, to ensure that industrial data, classified to NAICS , are suitable for the analysis of production-related issues such as industrial performance.
The target entity for which NAICS is designed are businesses and other organizations engaged in the production of goods and services. They include farms, incorporated and unincorporated businesses and government business enterprises. They also include government institutions and agencies engaged in the production of marketed and non-marketed services, as well as organizations such as professional associations and unions and charitable or non-profit organizations and the employees of households.
The associated NAICS should reflect those activities conducted by the business or organizational units targeted by this questionnaire only, as identified in the 'Answering this questionnaire' section and which can be identified by the specified legal and operating name. The main activity is the activity which most defines the targeted business or organization's main purpose or reason for existence. For a business or organization that is for-profit, it is normally the activity that generates the majority of the revenue for the entity.
The NAICS classification contains a limited number of activity classifications; the associated classification might be applicable for this business or organization even if it is not exactly how you would describe this business or organization's main activity.
Please note that any modifications to the main activity through your response to this question might not necessarily be reflected prior to the transmitting of subsequent questionnaires and as a result they may not contain this updated information.
If the current NAICS associated with this business or organizations is not correct, please provide a brief description of the main activity and provide any additional information as requested.
Financial assets
Current assets
Include:
All other financial assets – (Include investments and special funds.)
Include investments in associated companies, other investments such as investments in stocks, bonds, and so on, and special funds such as equipment purchase funds, funds set aside for such special purposes as contractual deposits, pension funds, self-insurance funds, and so on.
Property and equipment
Operating - flight equipment – (Include capital leases.)
Include:
Accumulated depreciation and amortization - flight equipment
Include:
Operating - ground property and equipment – (Include capital leases.)
Include:
Accumulated depreciation and amortization - ground property and equipment
Include:
Non-operating property and equipment – (Include capital leases.)
Include the cost of all non-operating property and equipment, in other words, all property and equipment not included in the "operating" categories above.
Accumulated depreciation and amortization - non-operating property and equipment
Include accumulated depreciation and amortization of the non-operating property and equipment.
All other assets
Include long-term prepayments, developmental and pre-operating costs such as the cost of extraordinary training, unamortized discounts and expenses on the issue of long-term debt securities, property acquisition adjustments, other intangibles such as payments made for patents, copyrights, and so on, and other deferred charges.
Total assets
The sum of the assets above less the accumulated depreciation and amortization.
Liabilities and capital
Current liabilities
Include:
Advances from associated companies and/or shareholders
Include the net amount from associated companies and/or shareholders for notes, loans or advances which are not currently settled.
Long-term debt and other non-current liabilities – (Include capital leases.)
Include:
Deferred income taxes
Include taxes that will be owed on income, but that have not yet been assessed.
All other liabilities
Include:
Shareholders' equity
Capital stock
Include the equity capital invested in a business through the purchase of various classes of common and preferred shares.
Retained earnings
Include the portion of after-tax profits left over, after dividends have been paid to shareholders, for reinvestment into the company. If this account is negative, then the amount indicated for this item should be shown with a negative (-) sign.
All other items
Include other paid-in capital and reserves. Other paid-in capital or contributed surplus includes the premiums or discounts that have resulted from selling stock, and stock received from donations. Reserves include any reserve fund such as reserve for self-insurance, reserve for pension, reserves against potential future losses, and so on. Also, include proprietorship or partnership accounts (balance year-end).
Total liabilities and capital
The sum of liabilities and capital plus the sum of shareholders' equity which should equal total assets.
Scheduled services
Transportation of passengers or goods, or both, by an aircraft provided by an air carrier that operates the air service and that, directly or indirectly, sells some or all of its seats or part or all of its cargo space to the public on a price per seat, price per unit of mass or price per volume of cargo basis.
Charter services
Transportation of passengers or goods, or both, by aircraft pursuant to a contract under which a person, other than the air carrier that operates the air service, or its agent, reserves a block of seats or part of the cargo space of an aircraft for the person's use or for resale to the public.
Include air ambulance service and the movement of people and goods to logging or heli-logging sites.
Exclude firefighting and heli-logging activities and the movement of people and goods to a firefighting site. (The former Transport Canada TP 8880 document "Starting a Commercial Air Service" outlining a list of activities which are specialty has been replaced with a new document TP 4711 "Air Operator Certification Manual" as of December 2020. A PDF version of volumes of this manual can be requested at: Air Operator Certification Manual – TP 4711)
Passenger revenue
Refers to the revenue earned from the transportation of passengers on scheduled and charter services. Include revenue from all surcharges (baggage, fuel, seat selection, changing or cancelling flights, and so on) that are retained by the air carrier. Exclude amounts such as taxes, navigation fees, security fees, and so on that are collected but passed on to other entities.
Goods revenue
Refers to the revenue earned from the transportation of goods on scheduled and charter services. Exclude taxes such as the Goods and Services Tax (GST), Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) or Provincial Sales Tax (PST).
All other flight-related revenue
Refers to the revenue earned from air transport activities not included in passenger revenue or goods revenue. Include revenue from other flying services such as flying training, recreational flying and other specialty flying.
All other revenue
Include subsidies and revenue earned from all other sources (including contra revenue, revenue of a corporate nature (leasing revenue, third party ground-handling, and so on), ancillary passenger revenue not easily allocated by operating flight (customs brokerage, and so on), revenue from in-flight sales (beverages, food, entertainment and wireless Internet access, and so on)).
Total operating revenue
The sum of passenger revenue, goods revenue, other flight-related revenue and revenue from all other sources.
Operating expenses - Ground property and equipment maintenance
Employee wages, salaries and benefits
Direct labour costs (wages and salaries) expended on the maintenance of ground property and equipment.
Include benefits such as employer contributions to pensions, medical benefits, insurance, and so on.
All other maintenance - ground property and equipment expenses
Expenses, both direct and indirect, incurred in the repair and upkeep of ground property and equipment.
Include materials and supplies, purchased repair services and all other related expenses.
Total maintenance - ground property and equipment expenses
The sum of the previous two expense items.
Operating expenses - Aircraft operations
Flight crew wages, salaries and benefits
Include the wages, salaries and benefits for flight crews (pilot, co-pilot, navigator, and so on).
Include benefits such as employer contributions to pensions, medical benefits, insurance, and so on and layover expenses such as hotels and meals.
Aircraft fuel and oil
Expenses for turbo fuel, gasoline and all other fuel and oil consumed such as turbine oil and piston oil.
Include throughput charges, non-refundable duties and taxes.
Landing fees
Include airport landing fees paid both in Canada and outside of Canada.
Navigation fees
Charges remitted to NAV CANADA or other international suppliers for the provision of air navigation services. Air navigation services include aeronautical communication services, aeronautical information services, aeronautical radio navigation services, air traffic control services, aviation weather services, emergency assistance services and flight information services.
Aircraft insurance
Expenses for insurance against accidental damage to flight equipment while in flight or on the ground and for insurance against liability occurring from the operation of aircraft or, in the case of non-insurance, the resulting expenses for which the carrier is liable.
Aircraft rental
Expenses incurred for the rental of aircraft (and crew) from other carriers, such as in chartering, interchange and operating or lease agreements.
All other aircraft operation expenses
Expenses incurred directly for the in-flight operation and related standby time of aircraft which are not elsewhere classified.
Total aircraft operations expenses
The sum of the previous seven expense items.
Operating expenses - Flight equipment maintenance
Employee wages, salaries and benefits
Direct labour costs (wages and salaries) expended on the maintenance of flight equipment.
Include benefits such as employer contributions to pensions, medical benefits, insurance, and so on.
Materials and supplies
Expenses on materials and supplies for the maintenance of flight equipment.
Purchased repair services
Expenses for repair services for the maintenance of flight equipment purchased from outside suppliers.
All other maintenance - flight equipment expenses
Expenses, both direct and indirect, incurred in the repair and upkeep of flight equipment.
Total maintenance - flight equipment expenses
The sum of the previous four expense items.
Operating expenses - In-flight services
Employee wages, salaries and benefits
Include:
Passenger food and supplies
Include expenses for in-flight meals, complimentary drinks, and so on, and the cost of supplies and personal services furnished to passengers.
Passenger liability insurance
Include the premiums for passenger liability and accident insurance paid by the carrier.
All other in-flight service expenses
Include passenger-related expenses incurred due to interrupted flights, including hotels, meals, taxi fares and other expense items, the cost of other services provided to passengers, such as pay, allowances and the cost of passenger service personnel, and all other services provided for the comfort of passengers in transit.
Total in-flight service expenses
The sum of the previous four expense items.
Operating expenses - Aircraft and traffic servicing
Employee wages, salaries and benefits
Include:
Purchased services
Expenses for aircraft and traffic servicing purchased from outside suppliers.
All other aircraft and traffic servicing expenses
Include expenses incurred on the ground for scheduling or preparing aircraft for arrival and takeoff, expenses incurred in enplaning and deplaning passenger and cargo traffic, and expenses involved in servicing and handling individual aircraft and traffic on the ground, in preparing aircraft crews for flight assignment, in controlling the in-flight movements of aircraft and the in-flight expenses of handling all traffic including baggage.
Total aircraft and traffic servicing expenses
The sum of the previous three expense items.
Operating expenses - Promotion and sales
Employee wages, salaries and benefits
Include:
All other promotion and sales expenses
Include:
Total promotion and sales expenses
The sum of the previous two expense items.
Operating expenses - Depreciation
Depreciation - flight equipment
Include:
All other depreciation
Include:
Total depreciation
The sum of the previous two expense items.
Operating expenses - All other expenses
Include general administration.
Employee wages, salaries and benefits
Include:
Exclude all amounts reported in the previous six wages, salaries and benefits categories.
All other expenses
Include:
Total other expenses
The sum of the previous two expense items.
Total operating expenses
The sum of the eight expenses sub-totals, in other words, Total maintenance - ground property and equipment expenses, Total aircraft operations expenses, and so on.
Operating income
Net operating income (a loss should be a negative number)
Total operating revenue less total operating expenses – calculated from the previous questions.
Non-operating income/expenses
Interest and discount income
Include interest income from all sources and cash discounts on the purchase of materials and supplies.
Interest expenses
Include interest on unpaid taxes and all classes of debt including premiums, discounts and expenses on short-term obligations, amortization of premiums, discounts and expenses on short-term and long-term obligations.
All other net non-operating income (enter a negative number for a loss)
Include:
Exclude staff reduction expenses which should be included under all other expenses.
Net non-operating income (a loss should be a negative number)
The sum of the previous three income or expense items.
Provision for income taxes
Include the provision for taxes payable on net income for the accounting period and adjustments of income taxes relating to previous years, including provisions for deferred income taxes resulting from differences between accounting income and taxable income that arise when the time of including items of revenue and expense in the computation of accounting income and taxable income do not coincide. If the net amount is negative, then the amount indicated for this item should be shown with a negative (-) sign.
Net income (a loss should be a negative number)
Net operating income plus net non-operating income less the provision for income taxes.
Fuel and oil consumed
Turbo fuel consumed
Include fuel used in both turboprop and jet aircraft.
Provide the quantity and expenses for turbo fuel consumed. Turbo fuel includes the turbine fuel uplifted for all aircraft in the carrier's fleet. Fuel uplift can be determined based on delivery notes or invoices, aircraft onboard measurement systems or, if the fuel was supplied by a customer, estimated based on hours flown. Report the quantity of turbo fuel consumed in litres.
Include turbo fuel consumed for all scheduled and/or charter operations, regardless of where purchased. The expenses for turbo fuel consumed should be reported in Canadian dollars, regardless of where purchased. Include throughput charges, non-refundable duties and taxes. If the fuel was supplied by a customer, an approximate value may be provided based on prevailing market rates.
Conversion factor
To convert gallons (imperial) into litres (l), multiply by 4.546092.
All other fuel and oil consumed
Provide the quantity and expenses for all non-turbo fuel and oil consumed. Report the quantity of all other fuel and oil consumed in litres.
The quantity should include gasoline, turbine oil, piston oil and all other types of fuel and oil consumed for all scheduled and/or charter operations, regardless of where purchased. The expenses for all other fuel and oil consumed should be reported in Canadian dollars, regardless of where purchased. Include throughput charges, non-refundable duties and taxes.
Conversion factor
To convert gallons (imperial) into litres (l), multiply by 4.546092.
Total fuel and oil consumed
The sum of the quantities and expenses reported in the previous two items.
Employment
Average number of employees
Refer to the average number of people employed for each of the six categories of personnel.
Include all employees, temporary or permanent, on the payroll of the air carrier during the reporting period. Include part-time employees, prorated to the amount of time worked when compared to full-time employees (for example, two part-time employees working half-time are equivalent to one full-time employee).
Wages and salaries expenses
Include a breakdown of the wages and salaries paid for each of the six categories of personnel.
Exclude all benefits, in other words, employer contributions to pensions, medical benefits, insurance, and so on or layover expenses, such as hotels and meals, for flight and cabin crews.
Employment category
Include:
Total employees
The sum of the number and the wages and salaries expenses for the six categories of personnel.
Revenue or expenses by area of operation
Passenger revenue
Include a breakdown of the revenue earned from the transportation of passengers for each province, territory and outside of Canada based on where the transportation service was provided. Total passenger revenue should equal the sum of passenger revenue from scheduled services and charter services previously reported.
Goods revenue
Include a breakdown of the revenue earned from the transportation of goods for each province, territory and outside of Canada based on where the transportation service was provided. Total goods revenue should equal the sum of goods revenue from scheduled services and charter services previously reported.
Employee wages and salaries
Include a breakdown of employee wages and salaries for each province, territory and outside of Canada based on where the employees are located. Total employee wages and salaries should equal the total wages and salaries expenses reported in the "Employment" section above.
By: Scott Syms, Shared Services Canada
The breadth of the Python ecosystem is invaluable to the data science community. Python's selection of tools allows its users to access expressive environments to explore data, train machine learning models and display results in a self-documenting format. It's even been suggested that Jupyter Notebooks, a popular Python data exploration environment, replace the traditional scientific paper.Footnote 1
However, Python has its issues. The very elements that make it accessible and usable, such as dynamic typing, reference counting, and the global interpreter lock, can prevent programs from making full use of available computing resources. This is most apparent when processing large datasets or computational intensive workloads.
Typically, there are two approaches to large computing workloads in Python. C
For data scientists working with big data or heavy computational workloads, Python provides some work-arounds. Computational accelerators such as Numba,Footnote 2 PyPyFootnote 3 and PystonFootnote 4 use leverage coding optimizations to add speed to single machine development environments. When it's combined with Python's concurrency support,Footnote 5 these libraries can boost the processing capacity of a single machine.
Another approach employs libraries such as DaskFootnote 6 and PySparkFootnote 7 to distribute processing over several machines. There's nothing stopping you from doing both – optimize in place and distribute the load.
Ultimately, the tools you use are defined by implementation constraints. For data scientists with access to managed cloud environments, the ability to spawn hundreds of machines to quickly chew through data is an obvious way to address the computing problem. For users with more modest resources, however, the scalability options may be limited. AI at the edge of the network may not have the same compute capacity available as with cloud environments.
Near the end of 2020, the science publication Nature suggested an alternative to some of the traditional approaches to science data computation.Footnote 8 The author proposed writing scientific software in Rust, an emerging and highly-performant new language.
The Rust programming language made its debut in 2009 as a side project for Mozilla programmer, Graydon Hoare. It offers similar performance to C++, but provides better safeguards around memory use and concurrency. Like C++ and Python, it can be used across a range of platforms – from microcontroller programming, to high capacity asynchronous web applications. Rust applications can be compiled to WebAssembly,Footnote 9 allowing them to run in the browser at near-native speeds.
The combination of speed, safety and interoperability is an ideal mix of features when dealing with a big data engineering problem that comes from the analysis of global ship positional data.
By international agreement, ocean-going vessels must transmit voyage data messages using the Automatic Identification System (AIS).Footnote 10 These messages can be collected from space, aggregated into a global picture of shipping activity and sold to commercial and government organizations. The article Building a Maritime Picture in the Era of Big Data: The Development of the Geospatial Communication Interface+, describes the challenges with collecting vessel position data for global surveillance.Footnote 11
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) manages Government of Canada contracts for space-sourced global maritime tracking data. On any given day, they distribute millions of positional messages to maritime stakeholders across the government. Over the past decade, the CSA has collected well over 50 billion messages.
National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) maintains the global AIS standard. A sample of AIS data is provided below.
1569890647\s:VENDOR,q:u,c:1569890555*5F\!AIVDM,1,1,,A,13KG9?10031jQUNRI72jM5?40>@<,0*5C
1569890647\s:VENDOR,q:u,c:1569890555*5F\!AIVDM,1,1,,B,13aEPIPP00PE33dMdJNaegw4R>@<,0*77
1569890647\g:1-2-6056,s:VENDOR,c:1569890555*3A\!AIVDM,2,1,6,A,56:GTg0!03408aHj221<QDr1UD4r3?F22222221A:`>966PW0:TBC`6R3mH8,0*0E
1569890647\g:2-2-6056*58\!AIVDM,2,2,6,A,88888888880,2*22
Each sentence above contains metadata about the position report. They include:
Although some of the message is human-readable, important data about ship identity and movement is wrapped in a six-bit ASCII payload near the end of the sentence. Eric Raymond's AIVDM/AIVDO protocol decoding websiteFootnote 12 presents a detailed guide on how ship data is packed within the string.
The goal set for this Rust application is to convert an archive of raw AIS data into a JSON equivalent that can be used for data analysis. The output should preserve the original data for reprocessing, if needed. Reformatting the data as JSON is a valuable step in the data engineering pipeline as it allows the data to be loaded into a DataFrame, a database, or converted into a read-optimized format, such as Apache Parquet.
Below is the desired output when using JSON to packet and preserve original data alongside derived elements.
{
"sentence":"1569888002\\s:VENDOR,q:u,c:1569884202*4F\\!AIVDM,1,1,,B,1:kJS6001UJgA`mV1sFrGHAP0@L;,0*56",
"landfall_time":"1569888002",
"group":"",
"satellite_acquisition_time":"1569884202",
"source":"VENDOR",
"channel":"B",
"raw_payload":"1:kJS6001UJgA`mV1sFrGHAP0@L;",
"message_type":1,
"message_class":"singleline",
"mmsi":"725000984",
"latitude":-45.385661666666664,
"longitude":-73.55857,
"call_sign":"CQ4F3",
"destination":"HALIFAX",
"name":"SS MINNOW",
"ship_type":"23",
"eta":"",
"draught":"",
"imo":"",
"course_over_ground":"86950448",
"position_accuracy":"0",
"speed_over_ground":"101",
"navigation_status":"0"
}
To extract data from AIS data, each character in the payload must be converted from six-bit ASCII to its binary equivalent and the entire sentence is merged into a long binary string. Pieces of string are converted back into human readable numbers and text.
Figure 1: Extracting data from the payload requires it to be converted to binary.
To help squeeze all the computing possible from the host machine, Rust offers "fearless concurrency". The workload can be easily distributed across all available computer cores with message-passing channels relaying the data between threads.
The process is divided into three pools. The first is a single-threaded process that reads a source file of AIS data, inserting each line into a struct field, and passes the struct to a pool of threads that does the initial parsing through a channel.
The receiving thread parses the single line position messages, and forwards the results to a file writer as a JSON packet. Multiline sentences are passed to a second pool of threads that cache and reassemble sentence fragments. Again, these results are forwarded to the file writer as a JSON string.
Given that processing is handed off to competing concurrent threads, there are no order guarantees in output. Queuing delays and differences in processing time can ensure the output for each report will not be the same order as the input.
Figure 2: Program process
Regular expression can be used to extract human-readable data in the AIS sentence, but additional work has to be done to convert the data from the six-bit payload to a binary string, take slices of the result and convert these slices back to text, floats and integers.
Rust makes use of a well-thought build system where package dependencies and build directives can be specified in a definition file.
[package]
name = "rustaise"
version = "0.1.0"
edition = "2021"
[dependencies]
crossbeam-channel = "0.5.2"
threadpool = "1.8.1"
num_cpus = "1.13.1"
hashbrown = "0.12.0"
clap = "3.0.7"
regex = "1.5.4"
bitvec = "1.0.0"
serde = { version = "1.0.136", features = ["derive"] }
serde_json = "1.0.78"
[profile.release]
lto = true
Dependencies called "Crates" can be listed with a specific version. Upgrading to a different release of the crate has to be explicitly done, mitigating errors from moving to different library versions.
One of the methods Rust uses to maintain memory safety, is to tightly control variable scope.
// Let's assign 21 to x
let x = 21;
{
// Now let's assign 12 to x
let x =12;
}
// Since the scope has ended for the previous assignment
// the value of x is still 21
println!("{}", x);
The code snippet above would print the number "21" because the assignment "x = 12" is only valid between the braces.
This is a powerful way to keep your memory in order, but it can be counter-intuitive. For example, the following doesn't work because the variable -x is descoped at the end of the jf block brace pair.
if y == 1 {
let x = 21;
} else {
let x = 0;
}
println!("{}", x);
}
One way to deal with this is to create an anonymous function where the output of the function is assigned to the variable. Variable assignments with nested if and match evaluations are used throughout the program.
let y = 1;
let x = 21;
let x: i8 ={
if y == 1 {
67
}
else {
0
}
};
println!("{}", x);
The rigid control of variable lifetimes and ownership changes the way you structure your program.
The compiler is very chatty and will refuse to compile code that transgresses Rust's guard rails.
error[E0308]: mismatched types
--> src/main.rs:8:10
|
8 | 67.0
| ^^^^ expected `i8`, found floating-point number
For more information about this error, try `rustc --explain E0308`.
error: could not compile `playground` due to previous error
While sometimes frustrating, the compiler's messages are helpful in determining the cause of the error. The mantra "work with the compiler" is often seen in online comments.
The software begins by defining a struct that will hold the raw sentences and extracted data as it passes through the workflow.
#[derive(Serialize, Default, Clone, Debug)]
struct PositionReport {
pub sentence: String,
pub landfall_time: String,
pub group: String,
pub satellite_acquisition_time: String,
pub source: String,
pub channel: String,
pub raw_payload: String,
pub message_type: u64,
pub message_class: String,
pub mmsi: String,
pub latitude: f64,
pub longitude: f64,
pub call_sign: String,
pub destination: String,
pub name: String,
pub ship_type: String,
pub eta: String,
pub draught: String,
pub imo: String,
pub course_over_ground: String,
pub position_accuracy: String,
pub speed_over_ground: String,
pub navigation_status: String,
} // end of struct PositionReport
Note the #Derive keyword preceding the struct definition. Although Rust is not an object-oriented language like Java, it allows methods to be shared across structures using a feature called Traits in a way that emulates inheritance.
In the declaration above, the Serialize, Default, Clone and Debug traits are being added to the struct.
Defining thread pools are quite simple in Rust. The program finds the number of available cores and declares the number of workers for each thread.
For loops are used to launch individual threads.
// Workers are the number of CPUs.
let n_workers = num_cpus::get();
let reading_thread = ThreadPool::new(1);
let extraction_pool = ThreadPool::new(n_workers);
let multiline_assembly_thread = ThreadPool::new(n_workers);
for _a..n_workers: {
multiline_assembly.execute(move || {
// Do stuff
}
}
for _b..n_workers: {
extraction_pool.execute(move || {
// Do stuff
}
}
reading_thread.execute(move || {
// Do stuff
}
For loops control the number of threads launched, while the move keyword passes the current variables to the thread.
The relay channels between the threads are defined with a limit to prevent the producing threads from overfilling the channel and exhausting memory. By default, the program sets the upper bound to 500,000 elements, but it can be changed from the command line to best fit the available memory.
Each declaration defines a sending and receiving channel, and the data types that will be running across the message bus.
let (raw_file_tx, raw_file_rx): (Sender<PositionReport>, Receiver<PositionReport>) = bounded(flow_limit);
let (multiline_handling_tx, multiline_handling_rx): ( Sender<PositionReport>, Receiver<PositionReport>) = bounded(flow_limit);
let (ready_for_output_tx, ready_for_output_rx): (Sender<String>, Receiver<String>) =
bounded(flow_limit);
Because of Rust's rules on variable reuse, the channel data type has to be cloned in each thread, but each clone actually refers to the original instance of the message bus.
extraction_pool.execute(move || {
let raw_file_rx = raw_file_rx.clone().clone();
let extract_ready_for_output_tx = extract_ready_for_output_tx.clone();
let multiline_handling_tx = multiline_handling_tx.clone();
}
AIS message types determine how ship information is stored in the six-bit payload, so any parsing task has to begin with carving out the type of the current sentence and casting it as an unsigned INT in the appropriate struct field.
line.message_type = pick_u64(&payload, 0, 6);
From there, the message type can be matched against parsing templates and other fields in the struct populated.
match line.message_type {
1 | 2 | 3 => {
// If the message is class A kinetic.
line.mmsi = format!("{}", pick_u64(&payload, 8, 30));
line.latitude = pick_i64(&payload, 89, 27) as f64 / 600_000.0;
line.longitude = pick_i64(&payload, 61, 28) as f64 / 600_000.0;
...
}
5 => {
// If the message is class A static.
line.mmsi = format!("{}", pick_u64(&payload, 8, 30));
line.call_sign = pick_string(&payload, 70, 42);
line.name = pick_string(&payload, 112, 120);
...
}
Assembling multiline messages in multiple threads requires caching sentence fragments in a way that can be shared. This program uses a shared hash-map wrapped in a mutex to hold sentence fragments.
// Initiate Hashmaps for multisentence AIS messages
// These are wrapped by ARC and Mutexes for use under multithreading.
let mut payload_cache: Arc<Mutex<HashMap<String, String>>> =
Arc::new(Mutex::new(HashMap::new()));
let mut source_cache: Arc<Mutex<HashMap<String, String>>> =
Arc::new(Mutex::new(HashMap::new()));
let mut sat_time_cache: Arc<Mutex<HashMap<String, String>>> =
Arc::new(Mutex::new(HashMap::new()));
Like the interprocess channels, the hash-maps must be cloned in each thread instance.
// Initiate Hashmaps for multisentence AIS messages
let payload_cache = Arc::clone(&mut payload_cache);
let source_cache = Arc::clone(&mut source_cache);
let sat_time_cache = Arc::clone(&mut sat_time_cache);
Each hash-map needs a lock defined in each thread to deconflict the reads and delete from multiple threads.
let mut payload_lock = payload_cache.lock().unwrap();
let mut source_lock = source_cache.lock().unwrap();
let mut sat_time_lock = sat_time_cache.lock().unwrap();
// insert into time cache if struct field is not empty
if line.satellite_acquisition_time.len() > 0 {
sat_time_lock.insert(line.group.clone(), line.satellite_acquisition_time);
}
The SERDE crate offers a convenient way to serialize a struct to a JSON string. At the end of the parsing cycle, each thread converts the populated struct to JSON for writing to file.
ready_for_output_tx.send(serde_json::to_string(&line).unwrap());
The output of the program can be loaded in Pandas with the following command:
import pandas as pd
df=pd.read_json("output.json", lines=True)
It can also be converted to a compressed Parquet file using use Dominik Moritz's json2parquet program.
json2parquet -c brotli norway.json norway.parquet
Executing the program without parameters will output the following:
error: The following required arguments were not provided:
<INPUT>
<OUTPUT>
USAGE:
rustaise <INPUT> <OUTPUT> [FLOW_LIMIT]
For more information try --help
With the --help flag.
AIS parsing program 1.0
Scott Syms <ezrapound1967@gmail.com>
Does selective parsing of a raw AIS stream
USAGE:
rustaise <INPUT> <OUTPUT> [ARGS]
ARGS:
<INPUT> Sets the input file to use
<OUTPUT> Sets a custom output file
<FLOW_LIMIT> Sets a limit on the number of objects in memory at one time (default: 500000)
<PARSE_THREADS> Sets the number of threads to use for parsing (default: number of CPUs)
<MULTILINE_THREADS> Sets the number of threads to use for multiline parsing (default: number of CPUs)
OPTIONS:
-h, --help Print help information
-V, --version Print version information
Uncompressing the norway.7z program and running the following will generate a JSON file with parsed contents.
rustaise norway.nmea norway.json
The FLOW LIMIT parameter allows you to limit the data held in the message channels. In some memory constrained systems, capping in-flight messages prevents out-of-memory issues. The PARSE_THREADS and MULTILINE_THREADS are optional parameters that provide control over the number of threads created for the single and multiple line parsing threads.
Rust lives up to its reputation as a blazingly fast language.
The execution results in the timing table below are obtained from a MacBook 2.3 GHz 8-Core Intel i9 with 32Gb of memory. In the timing table, the row indicates the number of lines in the input file. The first column shows the processing time required to process the sample, and the final column forecasts how much data could be processed in a day at the sample rate.
| Sample Size | Timing | Forecasted Volume per Day |
|---|---|---|
| 1 million | 7s | 12,342,857,142 |
| 25 million | 65s | 33,230,769,230 |
| 174 million | 435s | 34,560,000,000 |
These figures suggest that the software would be able to process a 50-billion row AIS archive in just under two days, on a single laptop.
This is my first attempt to do serious programming in Rust and even from a novice's vantage point, there's room for improvement.
Generally, the "juice is worth the squeeze" here. Even with the code's drawbacks, Rust works as advertised and the effort in learning the language is worthwhile in situations where the code will be reused or where execution time is a concern.
Alternatively, developers who want to take advantage of Rust's performance while staying in the
Python ecosystem could use the PyO3Footnote 13 project to create native Python extensions in Rust.
All code is available at Github - ScottSyms/RustAISe.
Please feel free to use it and I'd appreciate any feedback you might have.
The software is made available under an Apache 2.0 license.
The archive includes a 7zip compressed sample of AIS data from the government of Norway. It's made available under the Norwegian License for Open Government Data (NLOD) 2.0.Footnote 14
Some of the bitvec manipulation code is taken from Timo Saarinen's nmea-parser packageFootnote 15 which is provided under an Apache 2.0 license.
Scott Syms is a Technical Advisor with Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, a part of SSC's Chief Technology Officer Branch.
Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP)
This guide is designed to assist you as you complete the 2021 Annual Civil Aviation Survey - Level IV. If you need more information, please call the Statistics Canada Help Line at the number below.
Help Line: 1-877-949-9492
Your answers are confidential.
Statistics Canada is prohibited by law from releasing any information it collects which could identify any person, business, or organization, unless consent has been given by the respondent or as permitted by the Statistics Act.
Statistics Canada will use information from this survey for statistical purposes.
Table of contents
This section verifies or requests basic identifying information of the business or organization such as legal name, operating name (if applicable), contact information of the designated contact person, current operational status, and main activity(ies).
1. Legal name and Operating name
Legal Name
The legal name is one recognized by law, thus it is the name liable for pursuit or for debts incurred by the business or organization. In the case of a corporation, it is the legal name as fixed by its charter or the statute by which the corporation was created.
Modifications to the legal name should only be done to correct a spelling error or typo.
To indicate a legal name of another legal entity you should instead indicate it in question 3 by selecting 'Not currently operational' and then choosing the applicable reason and providing the legal name of this other entity along with any other requested information.
Operating Name
The operating name is a name the business or organization is commonly known as if different from its legal name. The operating name is synonymous with trade name.
2. Designated contact person
Verify or provide the requested contact information of the designated business or organization contact person. The designated contact person is the person who should receive this questionnaire. The designated contact person may not always be the one who actually completes the questionnaire. If different than the designated contact person, the contact information of the person completing the questionnaire can be indicated later in the questionnaire.
3. Current operational status
Verify or provide the current operational status of the business or organization identified by the legal and operating name in question 1. If indicating the operational status of the business or organization is 'Not currently operational' then indicate an applicable reason and provide the requested information.
4. Main activity
This question verifies the business or organization's current main activity as classified by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is an industry classification system developed by the statistical agencies of Canada, Mexico and the United States. Created against the background of the North American Free Trade Agreement, it is designed to provide common definitions of the industrial structure of the three countries and a common statistical framework to facilitate the analysis of the three economies. NAICS is based on supply-side or production-oriented principles, to ensure that industrial data, classified to NAICS , are suitable for the analysis of production-related issues such as industrial performance.
The target entity for which NAICS is designed are businesses and other organizations engaged in the production of goods and services. They include farms, incorporated and unincorporated businesses and government business enterprises. They also include government institutions and agencies engaged in the production of marketed and non-marketed services, as well as organizations such as professional associations and unions and charitable or non-profit organizations and the employees of households.
The associated NAICS should reflect those activities conducted by the business or organizational units targeted by this questionnaire only, as identified in the 'Answering this questionnaire' section and which can be identified by the specified legal and operating name. The main activity is the activity which most defines the targeted business or organization's main purpose or reason for existence. For a business or organization that is for-profit, it is normally the activity that generates the majority of the revenue for the entity.
The NAICS classification contains a limited number of activity classifications; the associated classification might be applicable for this business or organization even if it is not exactly how you would describe this business or organization's main activity.
Please note that any modifications to the main activity through your response to this question might not necessarily be reflected prior to the transmitting of subsequent questionnaires and as a result they may not contain this updated information.
If the current NAICS associated with this business or organizations is not correct, please provide a brief description of the main activity and provide any additional information as requested.
Scheduled services
Transportation of passengers or goods, or both, by an aircraft provided by an air carrier that operates the air service and that, directly or indirectly, sells some or all of its seats or part or all of its cargo space to the public on a price per seat, price per unit of mass or price per volume of cargo basis.
Charter services
Transportation of passengers or goods, or both, by aircraft pursuant to a contract under which a person, other than the air carrier that operates the air service, or its agent, reserves a block of seats or part of the cargo space of an aircraft for the person's use or for resale to the public.
Include air ambulance service and the movement of people and goods to logging or heli-logging sites.
Exclude firefighting and heli-logging activities and the movement of people and goods to a firefighting site. (The former Transport Canada TP 8880 document "Starting a Commercial Air Service" outlining a list of activities which are specialty has been replaced with a new document TP 4711 "Air Operator Certification Manual" as of December 2020. A PDF version of volumes of this manual can be requested at: Air Operator Certification Manual – TP 4711)
Fixed wing
Means a power-driven, heavier-than-air aircraft, deriving its lift in flight chiefly from aerodynamic reactions on surfaces which remain fixed. An aircraft having wings fixed to the airplane fuselage and outspread in flight – that is non-rotating wings.
Helicopter
Means a rotary wing, heavier-than-air aircraft, supported in flight chiefly by the reactions of the air on one or more power-driven rotors on substantially vertical axes. A helicopter does not have conventional fixed wings, nor is it provided with a conventional propeller for forward thrust.
Total operating revenue
Include revenue from air transportation services (for example, transportation of passengers, transportation of goods and other flight-related revenue [such as flying training, recreational flying and other specialty flying]) and all other sources.