Age-standardization

Since the age structure of a population is a major determinant of its cancer burden, direct comparisons of basic rates across geographic regions or time periods would be misleading if age composition differed. The Canadian Cancer Registry (CCR) uses age-standardization to remove the impact of age composition from comparisons across geographic regions or time periods. Specifically, the July 1, 2011 Canadian population is used as the standard population for the CCR beginning with the 2013 diagnosis year (see Table below, and CANSIM table 103-0554).  The age-standardized rates can be interpreted as the rates that would have been observed if the populations of interest had the same age distribution as the standard population.

The July 1, 1991 Canadian population was used as the standard population for the CCR for the 1992-2013 diagnosis years (see Table below, and CANSIM table 103-0553), but will be discontinued for the 2014 and subsequent diagnosis years.

The Informatics Professional Services Price Indexes (IPSPI) is an annual business survey conducted by Statistics Canada (SC) to generate estimates of price changes of informatics professional services transacted in Canada. To alleviate some of the reporting burden faced by companies participating in this survey, SC will use administrative data as a substitute for survey data where appropriate. As of reference year 2013, the IPSPI will substitute survey data with T2 tax data for all simple enterprises to estimate average price changes in the informatics professional services industry.

The Informatics Professional Services Price Indexes^Note 1
The IPSPI collects financial, wage and contractor fee information that is used to produce price indexes measuring changes in prices for informatics professional services. Under the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS 2007), this industry consists of all enterprises primarily engaged in providing at least one of the following services:

541510 - Computer Systems and Related Services
511210 - Software Publishers
518210 - Data Processing, Hosting and Related Services
519130 - Internet Publishing and Broadcasting, and Web Search Portals

Selection of Sampled Units for Tax Data Replacement
The IPSPI sample contains two types of enterprises: simple and complex.

A simple enterprise is an entity engaged in a single industry and at a single location. T2 tax data is considered an acceptable replacement for simple enterprises because it provides comparable information for the sampled unit. Approximately 75% of the IPSPI sample contains simple enterprises.

About Tax Data and the Informatics Professional Services Price Indexes

Corporate Income Tax
Corporate income taxes are taxes levied against profits earned by businesses during a given taxable period. All businesses in Canada, with the exception of Crown corporations, Hutterite colonies and registered charities, have to file a corporation income tax (T2) return every tax year. Reporters must remit taxes no later than 6 months after the last day of the businesses’ fiscal period (tax year).

Every month, the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA) sends the T2 Incorporated Businesses file to SC’s Tax Data Division (TDD), which carries out further processing solely for statistical purposes. This processing ensures that the database accessed by the various business survey programs is clean and complete. Processing activity carried out by TDD involves an editing and imputation process to detect and correct outliers and to replace missing values for businesses that filed their returns too late. This processing is not done to administer or monitor the corporate tax program and no modifications are sent back to CRA. Confidentiality of information relating to individual persons, businesses or organizations (public or private, including public institutions and NGOs) used in record linkages is strictly maintained and the results of the record linkage is not used for purposes that can be detrimental to the persons, businesses or organizations whose information is involved.

Price index calculation using T2 tax data
From each respondent and for each fiscal year, the IPSPI survey collects information on the revenue and expenses associated with sales of informatics professional services. The survey also asks for information on the average annual percentage change in wages paid to employees and in fees paid to contract workers that work to produce the service. These data are used to derive a price relative by calculating the product of a profit multiplier and a labour component. The index is then calculated using a geometric mean of all enterprise price relatives.

A similar approach is taken to estimate the index using tax data based on the relationship between the available T2 variables and collected survey variables. For the profit component of the equation, variables from the tax data were selected to correspond to survey data variables based on their definitions. The labour component of the equation consists of a weighted average of wage and contract fee changes by approximating average labour cost changes.

Quality of the estimates
Prior to the introduction of tax data replacement in reference year 2013, a thorough assessment was carried out to demonstrate its merits. In particular, the estimates produced using the IPSPI survey data were compared to those obtained using a combination of survey data and tax data. The substitution of tax data was determined to be suitable in NAICS 511210 Software Publishing, 518210 Data Processing and Hosting and 541541 Computer System Design.

Conclusion
The replacement of survey data with administrative data, specifically T2 data, maintains the high quality standard of the IPSPI estimates while reducing respondent burden for small businesses in particular. Tax data will be introduced into price estimates for NAICS 511210 Software Publishing, 518210 Data Processing and Hosting and 541541 Computer System Design beginning in reference year 2013. Estimates for NAICS 519130 will continue to be based exclusively on survey data.

Notes

The estimates present gross expenses and rebates (where applicable) for each item. Gross expenses, net expenses and rebates are available.

Estimates of farm operating expenses represent business costs incurred by farm operators for goods and services used in the production of agricultural commodities. All expense information is on a calendar-year basis. If direct rebates are paid to farmers to reduce the cost of particular inputs, then the net expense estimates are used in the preparation of net income, although both gross and net expenses may be displayed. As the objective is to produce provincial estimates of net income, within-province flows from one farm to another are excluded from the estimates. The province can be viewed as one large farm.

Property tax estimates include municipal and school taxes on agricultural land and buildings owned and operated by farmers. They exclude property tax on land rented to others as this is not the business of producing agricultural goods. Taxes on land rented from others are also excluded as these are accounted for in rent expenses. The personal share of property taxes on the farm house is excluded.

Cash rent expenses are estimated for rent paid for land and buildings rented from the government or private sector, including other farmers. Taxes paid on property rented from others and community pasture or grazing fees are included. Quota rental and machine rental costs are excluded. Share rent expenses are estimated for the value of rent, which is paid on a share-crop basis.

Cash wages and room and board estimates include farm wage and salary expenses for hired labour. Wages for the family, including the spouse and children, are also part of this estimate. Wages are split into family and non-family using data from the most recent Census of Agriculture. An increase in family wages would decrease net farm income but leave family income unchanged. Employer contributions for Worker's Compensation, Employment Insurance and the Canada Pension Plan are included. A separate estimate was made for room and board expenses prior to 1986.

Interest expense estimates are made for interest paid on all farm business loans such as mortgages or credit from suppliers and private individuals. Payments on the principal are excluded. Interest paid on land rented to others or on the personal portion of the farm house are excluded using information on land tenure from the most recent Census of Agriculture and tax allowances.

Repairs to buildings and fences expenses include all of the costs associated with the repair and maintenance of farm buildings and fencing, including the farm business share of the farm house. Expenses associated with capital improvements, such as renovations, alterations and new building or fence construction are excluded. A separate estimate was made for repairs to fences expense prior to 1986.

Electricity and telephone expenses are estimated for the farm business only. The personal use portion of these expenses and installation costs are excluded using information from the most recent Census of Agriculture and tax allowances.

Heating fuel expenses include heating and grain drying with oil, propane, natural gas, wood and coal. The personal share of home heating is excluded using information from the most recent Census of Agriculture and tax allowances.

Fuel expenses include petroleum, diesel oil and lubricants used for all types of machinery and equipment from tractors and combines to generators and irrigation pumps. The personal shares of these expenses are excluded using information from the most recent Census of Agriculture and tax allowances.

Machinery repair and other machinery expenses are estimated for repairs and maintenance, licence, registration and insurance costs for farm vehicles and machinery. These estimates include the cost of parts, labour and the farm business share of automobile and truck maintenance.

Fertilizer and lime expenses include all costs associated with the purchase of fertilizer and lime including spreading, if it is part of the cost. A separate estimate was made for lime expense prior to 1986.

The estimate for pesticides represents farm expenditures for all pesticides, herbicides, insecticides and fungicides. If the application of pesticides is part of the cost, it is also included.

Commercial seed expenses include the value of seed and seedlings purchased by farmers through commercial channels, such as elevators, seed houses and seed dealers. The estimates exclude expenses for seed purchased from other farmers as this is an inter-farm transfer in the provincial accounting system. The value of home-grown seed and the value of seed bought for resale are excluded. Seed cleaning and treatment costs are included if they are part of the purchase cost. Prior to 1973, purchases also included nursery stock. From 1973 to 1982, farmers' purchases of nursery stock have been deducted from nursery stock receipts in the farm cash receipts account. Since 1983, only nursery stock purchases from within the same province have been deducted.

Irrigation expense estimates are for the purchase of water or water rights, and exclude the operation or purchase of irrigation equipment.

Twine, wire and containers expenses include farmers' costs for the purchase of baler twine, binder twine, baling wire, plastic wraps and containers. Containers include burlap and plastic bags, wood and cardboard boxes, plant pots and flats, egg cartons and trays, etc. Large containers, such as grain bins, are not included since these are considered capital expenditures.

Crop and hail insurance expenses include the premiums that farmers pay towards both private and government programs. Prior to 1971, crop insurance and business insurance expenses are combined in a total insurance expense. Crop insurance indemnities have been included in the cash receipts account since 1971.

Commercial feed expenses are estimated in the same manner as those for seed. Only the cost of feed and feed supplements purchased by farmers through commercial channels is included—the value of feed bought from other farmers and the value of home-grown feed are therefore excluded. Hay and straw costs are included.

Livestock purchase estimates represent only interprovincial and international trade of cattle, calves, weanling pigs and lambs moving directly to farms. Stock bought and sold between farmers in the same province are not included. From 1971 to 1996, livestock purchase estimates included poultry purchases. Poultry purchases represented the cost of purchasing chicks, pullets, turkeys, geese, ducks, and all other types of poultry from hatcheries. Prior to 1997, hatcheries were considered outside of the agricultural sector. With the inclusion of hatcheries in the agricultural sector, beginning in 1997, under the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), expenses for poultry purchases have decreased. Movements of birds between farms - including purchases from hatcheries - within the same province are not included.

The artificial insemination fees and veterinary expenses estimates represent all costs that farmers incur when obtaining these services, such as medicine, semen, and technical or professional assistance.

Business insurance expenses for 1971 to date represent the gross amount of premiums paid to protect the capital employed in agricultural production. Estimates for earlier years are net of indemnities and are included with crop insurance expenses.

Custom work expenses are net and represent the difference between custom work expenses and custom-work receipts. They include custom work, contract work, machine hire expenses, and the rental and leasing of farm machinery, equipment and vehicles. Expenses with benefits spread out over many years (such as land clearing) are excluded.

Stabilization premiums are expenses that farmers pay to belong to stabilization programs that support either farm income or prices for selected commodities.

Legal and accounting fees that are pertinent to the farming operation are included. Prior to 1990, legal and accounting fees were a part of other expenses.

Other expenses include items that are not covered elsewhere in the accounts such as office and promotion expenses. Legal and accounting fees were part of other expenses before 1990. They are now a separate item.

Description of depreciation charges

Depreciation charges against the farm business are intended to account for economic depreciation or the loss in fair market value of the capital assets. Generally, depreciation is considered to occur as a result of aging, wear and tear, and obsolescence. It represents the value of capital that is no longer available for future use. Economic depreciation should not be confused with accounting depreciation, tax depreciation, or capacity depreciation.

Building depreciation estimates the depreciation of farm buildings on owner-occupied farms, including the farm business share of houses. The charge for building depreciation on tenant-occupied farms is assumed to be included in the cost of cash or share rent. Machinery depreciation estimates the depreciation of the farm business share of autos and trucks and the depreciation of other machinery that are owned by the farm business. Autos, trucks and machinery leased by the farmer are not depreciated.

Description of rebates

National and provincial estimates of rebates paid directly to farmers represent a reduction in business costs incurred in the production of agricultural commodities. Rebates, paid by various governments, are calculated on a calendar-year basis.

Preliminary estimates for a calendar year are available in May of the following year (i.e., five months after the end of the reference year). The November release revises these estimates to incorporate data received too late to be included in the first release, data revisions received from administrative source agencies, and to incorporate estimates from the Agriculture Taxation Data Program (ATDP), based on a partial sample. Updates based on the 100% ATDP sample are incorporated into the issue released the following May (i.e., 17 months after the end of the reference year).

Preliminary estimates for each farm operating expense except interest, irrigation, livestock and poultry purchases, crop and hail insurance, and stabilization premiums are obtained by applying price and quantity indicators to the previous year's final estimates. These are available in May—five months after the end of the reference year. Prior to 1991, most of the final estimates for farm operating expenses came from the National Farm Survey (NFS) and a sample of farmers' income tax records for unincorporated farms outside of the Prairies. From 1991 to date, the Agriculture Taxation Data Program (ATDP) is the main data source. The first sets of estimates that are based on a partial ATDP sample are released in November of the following year. Estimates based on the complete ATDP sample are released the following May, seventeen months after the end of the reference year.

Revisions are made in an effort to improve the quality of the estimates and may cover two years preceding the reference year for the November release, and one year for the May release.

Revisions are also incorporated into this series after the results of each Census of Agriculture have been reviewed. Concepts, methods and format may also be changed at this time, to provide a historical time series which is methodologically and conceptually consistent.

To obtain detailed technical information on the data quality of the Agriculture Taxation Data Program, whose estimates form the base of this series, users can refer to the Definitions, data sources and methods section of the release of Farm operating revenues and expenses.

For the other expense items (interest, irrigation, livestock and poultry purchases, crop and hail insurance, and stabilization premiums), preliminary estimates of the previous calendar year are released in May and includes all data received from source agencies or Statistics Canada sources at the time of release. The November release revises these to incorporate changes made by the source agencies, and to accommodate data received too late to be included in the first release.

Interest expenses are estimated from administrative data prepared by banks, credit unions, the Farm Credit Canada, federal and provincial governments, and from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. The data are adjusted to conform to the required concepts. Examples of such adjustments would be converting fiscal year data to a calendar-year basis, or the exclusion of the personal share portion of the interest on the house mortgage.

Irrigation expense estimates come from the Association of British Columbia Irrigation Districts, Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, the Saskatchewan Water Corporation, and the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration.

Livestock purchase expense estimates are based on international and interprovincial import data. The number of animals imported interprovincially and internationally is obtained from supply and disposition balance sheets published by the Agriculture Commodities section. The values for animals imported interprovincially are based on prices received by farmers in the exporting province, as compiled by the Canadian Agricultural Financial Statistics section. Transportation costs between provinces, as provided by the transportation industry, are added to the livestock purchase expense. The value of animals imported internationally is calculated using International Trade Division data.

Prior to 1997, poultry purchase expense estimates included the cost of purchasing chicks from hatcheries. With hatcheries becoming part of the agricultural sector in 1997, only the value of chicks and hatching eggs imported interprovincially and internationally is measured. Quantities of pullet and broiler chicks, turkey poults and chicken and turkey hatching eggs are obtained from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Prices are obtained from the Canadian marketing agencies for eggs, broiler hatching eggs and turkeys. International import prices are obtained through the International Trade Division, Statistics Canada.

Crop and hail insurance estimates come from the Canadian Crop Hail Underwriters Association and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's administrative data.

Stabilization premium estimates are provided by the provincial governments. Stabilization programs include the Farm Income Stabilization (ASRA) program in Quebec, the Dairy Subsidy (1981 to 2002), the private Dairy Livestock Insurance Program in Nova Scotia (1991 to present), private livestock insurance in Newfoundland and Labrador (1991 to present) and the Cattle Price Insurance Program (CPIP) in Alberta (2009 to present). In recent years, additional programs include the Ontario Risk Management Program (2007 to present), Nova Scotia poultry insurance (2008 to present), PEI livestock insurance (2009 to present), the Hog Price Insurance Program in Alberta (2011 to present), and the Overwinter Bee Mortality Insurance in Manitoba (2012 to present). The method for handling stabilization premiums was revised as part of the 1971-to-1987 intercensal revisions. For 1971 to date, premiums are reported in the farm operating expenses series.

Estimation methodology for depreciation charges

The depreciation on farm buildings is based on the value of farm land and buildings. Provincial owner-occupied proportions are derived from the Census of Agriculture estimates of land tenure. The building depreciation expenses are revised from 1997 to 2007 using the Farm Credit Canada (FCC) farmland sales data to adjust the building/land value split. Unlike the FCC data, the Census of Agriculture does not separate the value of buildings from the value of land. The FCC sales data are used in combination with information from the Census of Agriculture on the value of land and buildings and land tenure to derive the building/land value splits by province. The proportions of houses and other buildings to land are derived from the special 1958 Farm Income and Expenditure Survey, with some adjustments prior to 1984 to account for changes in the proportions over time.

The business share of the house was based on tax allowances and expert opinion. These proportions are used to derive the owner-occupied farm business share of the value of farm houses and other buildings. Depreciation is calculated using the declining balance method where the appropriate capital value is multiplied by the depreciation rate. The depreciation rate is 2% for farm houses and 5% for other buildings. It would take 80 and 31 years, respectively, to depreciate 80% of the value from any particular year, using the declining balance method.

Depreciation of autos, trucks and other farm machinery are based on their respective capital value series, using the declining balance method. Depreciation rates vary by province, but range between 9% and 17%. It would take approximately 17 and 9 years, respectively, to depreciate 80% of the value from any particular year, using this method. Only the farm business portion of depreciation on autos or trucks is included. The business share of the autos and trucks was based on tax allowances and expert opinion.

Leasing of automobiles, trucks and farm machinery

Beginning in the early 1990s, the leasing of vehicles and farm machinery became increasingly common. The portion of the value of autos, trucks and farm machinery that was being leased by farmers was removed from the depreciation calculation.
Machinery and equipment is separated into five categories :

• automobiles
• trucks
• tractors
• self-propelled combines
• all other machinery.

The practice of leasing is most common for the first four categories (above) while "all other machinery" is, for the most part, owned outright by farmers.

Decisions made on the basis of information provided by manufacturers, dealers, surveys, administrative data, etc. are the following :

• Automobiles, trucks, tractors, and self-propelled combines purchased prior to 1992 were not purchased under a lease agreement.
• The capital value owned by the farm operator used in calculating depreciation was reduced when the leasing calculations began in 1992.

Automobiles and trucks

It is assumed that at the end of the lease agreement for automobiles and trucks (i.e., after three years) either the leasee buys the vehicle outright at a "buy out" value or another farmer buys the used vehicle outright or the leasee returns the vehicle to the dealer who sells it to the non-agriculture sector.

Tractors and self-propelled combines

At the end of the lease agreement for tractors (i.e., after four years) and self-propelled combines (i.e., after three years) either the leasee buys the machinery outright at a "buy out" value or another farmer buys the used machinery outright. In either case, the value of used farm machinery purchased outright is included in the total value of owned farm machinery.

Estimation methodology for rebates

The rebate estimates include all payments made directly to producers under federal, provincial and municipal expense-reducing programs. Administrative data are obtained directly from provincial departments of agriculture and finance.

As the data are obtained directly from the agencies administering the rebate programs, and making payments to the producers, they are deemed to be of good quality.

March 10, 2016 (Previous notice)

To facilitate the requirements of their programs, Employment and Social Development Canada and Statistics Canada have agreed to add 25 occupational titles to the National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2011. These occupational titles are published as an update to the NOC 2011, and do not have an impact on the existing classification structure.

• National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2011

The NOC 2016 will be released in late 2016, and will include these occupational titles.

The National Occupation Classification (NOC) 2016 will be released in late 2016, and will include these occupational titles

NOC Unit Group	Occupational Titles
0012	chief privacy officer - government services
0013	chief privacy officer - financial, communications and other business services
0014	chief privacy officer - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
0015	chief privacy officer - trade, broadcasting and other services, n.e.c.
0016	chief privacy officer - construction, transportation, production and utilities
0512	executive producer - video games
0512	executive producer - visual effects
0711	residential construction site manager
2174	mobile applications developer
2263	health and safety advisor
2263	safety supervisor - occupational health and safety
2283	video game tester
4313	armoured soldier
4313	combat engineer
5131	visual effects producer /
5131	visual effects technical director - motion pictures
5131	visual effects project manager
6316	surveillance supervisor - casino
6541	surveillance operator - casino
6731	environmental service worker (ESW) - hospital
7293	residential insulation installer
7441	solar hot water system installer
7441	bathtub liner installer
9232	battery operator - oil and gas
9537	window and door assembler - PVC window and door manufacturing

To learn more, please contact RESP-NC-NOC-CNP-GR@hrsdc-rhdcc.gc.ca

Statement 3(I,II)

1. Introduction

The Air Passenger Origin and Destination (POD) Survey is conducted continuously by all Canadian air carriers assigned to reporting Level I and Level II¹ that, in each of the two years immediately preceding the reporting year, enplaned 600,000 or more scheduled revenue passengers using fixed wing aircraft. The Aviation Statistics Centre (ASC) of Statistics Canada collects the data under the authority of the Statistics Act – RSC 1985, Chapter S19 and the Canada Transportation Act, Section 50, for the statistical purposes of both Statistics Canada and Transport Canada.

The POD Survey covers revenue passenger trips made in whole or in part on domestic and/or international scheduled flights. Carriers must report such trips if (i) they operated one or more segments of the itineraries and (ii) no other carrier participating in the survey operated any preceding segments. Reporting is based on information obtained from lifted flight coupons (or their electronic equivalent). The complete ticket itinerary is recorded as one entry for each trip showing the routing from the initial origin to the final ticket destination and including, in sequence, each point of intraline or interline transfer, the carrier (both operating and advertised for code share segments) and the fare basis code on each flight coupon stage as well as the total value of the ticket in Canadian dollars. Carriers reporting a 10% sample of their itineraries are to report only tickets with numbers ending in zero.

This document details the requirements of the POD Survey as well as the instructions on how the data are to be reported.

2. The Survey Universe

The POD Survey universe includes all revenue passenger trips moving in whole or in part on domestic and/or international scheduled flights operated by participating air carriers. All electronic tickets from all scheduled flights of the reporting carrier must be examined to identify any tickets that meet the Survey selection requirements. The POD Survey must not be limited to the tickets that the reporting carrier issues. The Survey must include all tickets in which the carrier transported a passenger. The electronic ticket sale record can be the source of the data to be examined. The passenger ticket itinerary information to be reported in the POD Survey can be recorded from the first ticket coupon. There is no requirement to wait until a trip has been completed to report the ticket itinerary information. Coupons from a conjunction² ticket set shall be considered as a single itinerary under the ticket number of the primary (first) ticket of the conjunction set.

It is recognized that many airlines do not record the entire itinerary from tickets issued by other airlines for revenue accounting purposes. However, the reporting carrier is required to obtain the complete itinerary data for tickets issued by other airlines in order to determine if the ticket meets the selection requirements for inclusion in the Survey.

2.1 Honoured Tickets

There are instances where a reporting carrier may honour the ticket of another carrier (non code-share partner) and transport the passenger without re-issuing the ticket. In these cases, the reporting carrier should treat the ticket as if it had actually been re-issued and report it accordingly. This includes changing the air carrier code of the ticketing carrier from the one on the ticket to the carrier that honoured the ticket.

3. Sample Selection and Reporting Criteria

3.1 Use of 10 percent sample

Where the POD Survey data represent a 10% sample of tickets in which a participating carrier transported the passenger(s) on at least one segment of the ticketed journey, each participating airline must examine all electronic tickets, including Automated Ticket and Baggage (ATB) tickets for passengers on all of the carrier's scheduled flights throughout its system. This requirement applies to tickets issued by the reporting airline as well as tickets issued by other airlines.

Tickets to be retained for further sampling consideration are:

1. Group-tickets with 11 or more passengers regardless of the ticket serial number.
2. Single-passenger tickets with serial numbers ending in the digit zero (not the check digit). For conjunction tickets, the serial number for the first group of tickets determines the reportability of the entire conjunction set.
3. Group tickets with 10 or less passengers with serial numbers ending in the digit zero (not the check digit).

3.2 Use of 100 percent sample

In order to improve sample accuracy or to prevent distortions, the Aviation Statistics Centre may require a carrier to employ a 100 percent sample.

In certain markets or in special situations (e.g. on-board sales on shuttle services), a carrier may elect to use a 100 percent sample. In such cases, prior approval for use of this option must be obtained from the Aviation Statistics Centre. Similarly, if this option has been adopted, it may not be discontinued without prior approval by the Aviation Statistics Centre.

4. Conversion of Ticket Itinerary to the Required Dual-Carrier Format

The Aviation Statistics Centre requires that passenger itineraries be reported with the operating and the advertised carrier identified on each trip segment. The reporting carrier must identify the advertised carrier and record it in the advertised carrier field for each segment.

Each reporting air carrier must also identify itself as the operating carrier (in the operating carrier field) on each segment of the itinerary on which it has or will transport the passenger(s).

The reporting air carrier must also identify the operating carrier on each flight segment on which it is the advertised carrier. However, the reporting carrier is not responsible for reporting the operating carrier of a code share flight in the reported itinerary if the reporting carrier is not in a code sharing relationship with the advertised carrier for that flight.

5. Identification of Reporting Carrier

The first operating participating carrier³ in a trip is responsible for reporting to the survey since it is the one most likely to have the information necessary for reporting.

6. Information to be Reported to the Air Passenger Origin and Destination Survey

The following items are to be reported for each ticket selected for the POD Survey (see Appendix B for the actual record layout). Note that conjunction tickets and re-issued tickets do not require special treatment and are to be treated the same as regular tickets. No adjustment is made in the survey for alterations or changes in itinerary, which take place subsequent to the trip segment covered by electronic ticket.

6.1 Number of Passengers

This is the number of passengers listed for the ticket. For tickets covering 1 to 10 passengers, include the actual number of passengers. A half-fare passenger, such as a child, is to be counted as one passenger. A fractional-fare passenger, such as in a family plan, is also to be counted as one passenger. Tickets for infants under two years of age and not occupying a seat are not to be counted. Passengers flying on "frequent flyer" redemptions are counted as passengers⁴. If a reporting air carrier, using the 10% sample method, issued tickets covering more than 10 passengers, the passenger counts associated with these tickets are to be divided by 10 and then rounded to the nearest whole passenger. (Carriers reporting a 10% sample may contact the Aviation Statistics Centre regarding possible alternate approaches to reporting tickets for more than 10 passengers.)

6.2 Carrier – Routing Detail

The data reported for each passenger trip should show the complete routing, from the origin airport to the destination airport, including each airport where the passenger made a connection or a stopover (intraline or interline). In addition, for each segment in the itinerary, the reporting airline must report the advertised carrier (the carrier whose code and flight number appear on the face of the coupon or in the ticket itinerary) and the operating carrier (the airline that actually provided the transportation) if it is a partner to the reporting airline in a code-share relationship on that segment. For segments not flown by the reporting airline or one of its code-share partners and not advertised on the reporting airline or one of its code-share partners, the operating carrier should be the same as the advertised carrier. The specific reportable data elements representing carrier-routing detail are as follows:

1. IATA Location code for the airport of origin of the segment. This is the airport at which the passenger boarded the flight.
2. IATA Carrier code for the operating airline, or the airline providing the transportation. If the reporting airline or an airline honouring the reporting airline's coupon is transporting the passenger, insert that airline's code in the operating carrier field for the coupon. If the reporting airline or one of its code-share partners is not the operating airline, use the code of the advertised airline in the operating carrier field.
3. IATA Carrier code for the advertised airline, or the airline appearing on the flight coupon. Note that this is not necessarily the airline issuing the ticket.
4. Fare basis code. This refers to the one-character fare basis code originating with the United States Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT). Air carrier fare basis codes are to be converted to these codes (see Appendix E for a list of the codes).
5. IATA Location code for the airport of destination of the segment. This is the second airport of the coupon and represents the trip termination, a point of intraline or interline connection, a stopover, or a change-of-gauge. Where surface transportation is indicated in an itinerary, use the code "--" (dash dash). Omit any surface portions, which appear at the beginning or end of an itinerary. If a carrier is not known, use the code "UK" (unknown). Helicopter and air taxi portions of itineraries are to be retained and recorded.

6.3 Total Value of the Ticket (including taxes) in Canadian Dollars

This is the total dollar value listed for the ticket. The amount is to be reported in Canadian dollars.

Reporting carriers using the 10 % sample method should divide the total value of the ticket by the number of passengers reported if the number of passengers on the ticket is between 2 and 10. If the number of passengers on the ticket was more than 10, divide the total value of the ticket by the original number of passengers on the ticket (not the number of passengers resulting from the previous instruction to divide by 10).

All carriers are responsible for reporting total ticket value for bulk fare tickets or inclusive tour tickets sold either directly to passengers or through tour operators. Where such tickets contain no fare information, the reporting carrier must report the value of the ticket that the reporting airline received from the tour operator. This can be derived by dividing the monthly contract revenue received by the airline from the tour operator for a city-pair by the number of passengers who travelled in the city-pair using tickets covered by the contract.

Only if the total ticket value cannot be determined from the ticket or calculated from bulk fare contracts may the reporting airline use 99999 in the fare field.

7. Aggregating Recorded Data

Prior to the submission of each quarterly report to the Aviation Statistics Centre, the reporting carrier is required to sort the recorded entries into alphabetic sequence by itinerary, i.e. by ticket origin, complete routing (including the fare code) and ticket destination. All identical entries are then to be combined into one summary record each quarter.

The number of passengers on the summary records is to be the sum of the passenger amounts of all the individual identical records combined. Fare amounts are also to be summed accordingly.

8. Sources of Data for Reporting

Airlines that are required to participate in the POD Survey must use all possible sources of information needed to report complete and accurate itinerary data.

If an electronic ticket does not contain all the information needed to help the reporting airline to report the required POD Survey data then the airline must obtain the information from additional sources. If the reporting airline also issued the ticket, then the airline may need to examine its ticket sales data or its Transaction Control Number (TCN) records to assist it in reporting the entire itinerary, operating carriers and airport codes in an accurate manner.

If an electronic ticket is part of a ticket issued by another airline then the reporting carrier is responsible for obtaining all of the itinerary information that it needs from the issuing carrier. If the ticket is issued by a code-share partner of the reporting carrier or by another air carrier that belongs to a marketing alliance that includes a Canadian air carrier, then the reporting carrier must obtain all information from the issuing carrier that will help it to report the entire itinerary, in the applicable quarter.

9. Statement of Procedures

Each airline that participates in the POD Survey is required to prepare and send to the Aviation Statistics Centre a statement of the procedures the airline uses to select, record, summarize, edit and report the survey data. The Aviation Statistics Centre must approve changes made to POD Survey processing prior to their implementation. The Statement of Procedures should provide enough detail for the Aviation Statistics Centre to understand the carrier's flow of processing of tickets, the selection and reporting decisions, methods used to identify the operating carrier, editing and management responsibility and supervision.

10. Submission of Reports

Reports are to be filed with the Aviation Statistics Centre for each quarter of the year, within thirty (30) days after the end of each quarter. The data should be created in text file format and submitted via Statistics Canada's E-File Transfer Service.

10.1 Reporting by E-File Transfer

Statistics Canada has an e-File Transfer Service (e-FT) in place, which enables organizations outside of Statistics Canada to exchange electronic files in a secure manner using the Internet.

If POD Survey data are provided by e-File transfer, please refer to the attached separate document titled "Statistics Canada's e-File Transfer Service: External User Guide" for detailed user instructions.

Carriers should contact the Aviation Statistics Centre when choosing to use the e-File Transfer service so that appropriate user accounts and permissions may be established.

Individual file password(s) should be communicated directly to the manager of the Air Passenger Origin and Destination Survey.

11. Record Retention

Participating airlines are required to retain all passenger ticket itinerary information used to prepare the POD Survey reports for three years. Records should be retained to enable the airline to reconstruct the POD Survey reports for the latest three years (twelve quarters). The method of storage and retrieval of stored records must be identified in the carrier's Statement of Procedures.

Appendix A: Canadian Air Carriers Participating in the Air Passenger Origin and Destination Survey

Appendix B : Revenue Passenger Origin-Destination Survey Record Layout

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Revenue Passenger Origin-Destination Survey – Statement 3 (I, II)

General information

This information is collected under the authority of the Statistics Act, Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, Chapter S19.

COMPLETION OF THIS QUESTIONNAIRE IS A LEGAL REQUIREMENT UNDER THIS ACT.

Survey purpose – The purpose of this mandatory, quarterly survey is to provide estimates, on a city-pair basis, of air passengers travelling on scheduled commercial flights. Your information may also be used by Statistics Canada for other statistical and research purposes.

Confidentiality – Statistics Canada is prohibited by law 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.

Fax or e-mail transmission disclosure – Statistics Canada advises you that there could be a risk of disclosure during the transmission of information by facsimile or e-mail. However, upon receipt, Statistics Canada will provide the guaranteed level of protection afforded all information collected under the authority of the Statistics Act.

Record linkages – To enhance the data from this survey, Statistics Canada may combine it 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 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 this data.

Although, under Section 12 of the Statistics Act, respondents can object to the sharing of information with other organizations, because Transport Canada has the legislative authority to collect this information on a mandatory basis pursuant to the Canada Transportation Act and the Transportation Information Regulations, respondents do not have the right to object to the sharing of the data.

However, respondents may refuse to share their information with the Canadian Transportation Agency by writing a letter of objection to the Chief Statistician and returning it with the completed questionnaire. Under the terms of the Section 12 agreement, the Canadian Transportation Agency has agreed to keep the data confidential and use them only for statistical purposes.

Please submit your data within 30 days of the current reference quarter.

Appendix C: Glossary of Terms

Selected terms used in these instructions are defined and explained in the glossary in the context applicable to these instructions only. They are not intended to be general definitions for use beyond the confines of this passenger survey.

Carrier

• Advertised Carrier: The airline whose code and flight number appear on the flight coupon or in the ticket itinerary.
• Carrier: Any scheduled air carrier, Canadian or foreign, that appears on a coupon stage in a ticket itinerary, including helicopter and taxi carriers.
• Operating Carrier: The air carrier that actually operated the advertised flight. The operating carrier may advertise its own flight while allowing another airline to advertise the same flight. In some situations, the code-share operator does not advertise service under its own name and only operates flights for the airline advertising the service.
• Participating Carrier: An air carrier that is governed by the survey data collection and reporting instructions contained herein and which is required to file POD reports with the Aviation Statistics Centre.
• Reporting Carrier: The air carrier in a given itinerary, which has identified the reportable flight coupon and recorded the itinerary for inclusion in the data submission to the Air Passenger Origin and Destination Survey.

Carrier Reporting Level (2010 definitions):

• Level I: Every Canadian air carrier that, in the calendar year immediately preceding the reporting year, transported at least 2 million revenue passengers or at least 400 thousand tonnes of cargo.
• Level II: Every Canadian air carrier that, in the calendar year immediately preceding the reporting year, transported at least 100 thousand, but fewer than 2 million revenue passengers, or at least 50 thousand but less than 400 thousand tonnes of cargo.
• Level III: Every Canadian air carrier not classified in reporting level I or II that, in the calendar year immediately preceding the reporting year, realized gross revenues of at least 2 million dollars for the provision of air services for which the air carrier held a licence.
• Level IV: Every Canadian air carrier not classified in reporting level I, II or III that, in the calendar year immediately preceding the reporting year, realized gross revenues of less than 2 million dollars for the provision of air services for which the air carrier held a licence.

Change of Gauge: The planned change from one aircraft to another or from an aircraft of one size to that of another size within the itinerary of a single flight number. For example, a flight from Sydney to Los Angeles may operate from Sydney to Auckland with a B767 and from Auckland to Los Angeles with a B747. For the purposes of POD Survey reporting, a passenger with a SYD-LAX coupon should be reported as SYD-AKL-LAX such that the point of change of gauge is inserted in the reported itinerary.

Connection:

• Interline Connection: A passenger's transfer from a flight operated by one airline to a flight operated by another airline, with or without a stopover, at an intermediate point in an itinerary.
• Intraline Connection: A passenger's transfer from one flight to another flight at an intermediate point in an itinerary, where the same air carrier operates both flights.

Itinerary: All points in the passenger journey, beginning with the origin, followed by the routing, and ending with the destination, in the sequence shown on the ticket.

Lifted Flight Coupon (or Electronic Equivalent): A passenger ticket coupon, good for travel on a single flight that has been either removed by the transporting airline at the time of passenger boarding or surrendered by the passenger in exchange for a boarding pass. The electronic equivalent would be any evidence of passenger travel on a flight that is part of a ticket itinerary.

Point:

• Intermediate Point: Any point in an itinerary, other than the origin or destination, at which the passenger makes an interline or intraline connection.
• Point: A city or airport (including heliports).

Revenue Passenger: A person for whose transportation an air carrier receives commercial remuneration. This definition includes, for example, (i) passengers travelling under publicly available promotional offers ("two-for-one") or loyalty programs ("frequent flyers"); (ii) passengers travelling as compensation for denied boarding; (iii) passengers travelling at corporate discounts ; (iv) passengers travelling on preferential fares (government, seamen, military, youth, student). This definition excludes, for example, (i) persons travelling free; (ii) persons travelling at a fare or discount available only to employees of air carriers or their agents; (iii) employees of an air carrier travelling on the business of the carrier; (iv) infants who do not occupy a seat.

Routing: The carrier on each flight coupon stage in an itinerary and the intermediate points of connection (interline and intraline) in the sequence of occurrence in the movement of the passengers from origin to destination.

Scheduled Service: The operation of a flight on a regular basis according to a published timetable and available to the public on short notice.

Surface Segment: Ground transportation (bus, rail, boat) that is included as part of a ticketed air itinerary and the total value of the ticket.

Ticket:

• Conjunction Ticket: Two or more tickets concurrently issued to a passenger, which in total constitute a single travel document for a single ticket itinerary.
• Electronic Ticket: A computer record of a ticketed passenger itinerary and fare.
• Group‑Fare Ticket: A single ticket valid for the transportation of two or more revenue passengers over the same itinerary.
• Reissued Ticket: A ticket issued in exchange for all or part of the unused portion of a previously issued ticket.
• Single‑Passenger Ticket: A passenger ticket valid for transportation of only one revenue passenger over a given itinerary.

Ticket Destination: The last point in the itinerary and the last point at which the passenger is to deplane at the completion of the journey. (In round‑trip itineraries, the ticket destination and the ticket origin are the same.)

Ticket Number: The sequential number on a ticket, consisting of a three-digit carrier number and a ten-digit document number. The check digit is excluded. For the purposes of identifying zero-ending tickets for inclusion in the sample for the POD Survey, it is the tenth digit of the document number that is to be considered. The ticket number is also known as the document control number or form and serial number.

Ticket Origin: The first point in the itinerary and the point where the passenger first boards an air carrier.

Appendix D: Summary of Sample Selection Logic

Step 1: Tickets issued by reporting airline or other airlines

Step 2: Is the ticket for a group of 11+ passengers?

• If Yes, go to Step 4
• If No, go to Step 3

Step 3: Does the ticket number end in zero?

• If Yes, go to Step 4
• If No, do not report ticket to POD Survey

Step 4: If this is a conjunction ticket, is this the first booklet?

• If Yes, go to step 5
• If No, do not report ticket to POD Survey

Step 5: Was the ticket first used during the Quarter being processed?

• If Yes, go to Step 6
• If No, do not report ticket to POD Survey

Step 6:

• Determine operating carrier for all trip segments on which reporting carrier or its affiliate was or will transport the passenger.
• Convert the Fare Basis code on each coupon to one of the U.S. DOT\StatsCan POD Survey Fare Basis reporting codes.
• Is reporting carrier the first operating carrier in the ticket itinerary?
• If Yes, go to Step 7
• If No, do not report ticket to POD Survey

Step 7: Report entire ticketed itinerary to POD Survey

Appendix E: United States Department of Transportation / Statistics Canada Air Passenger Origin and Destination Survey Codes for Reporting Fare Basis Information in the Itinerary Record

Seven single-character codes, created by the United States Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT), Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Office of Airline Information, are to be used for reporting fare basis information in the POD Survey. These codes are designed to provide identification for unrestricted (full) and restricted (discount) fares in first class, business class and coach class categories and a code for an unknown fare basis. The POD Survey fare basis reporting codes are:

• F - Unrestricted First Class
• G - Restricted First Class
• C - Unrestricted Business Class
• D - Restricted Business Class
• Y - Unrestricted Coach/Economy Class
• X - Restricted Coach/Economy Class
• U - Unknown (This fare category is used when a fare basis code is not shown on a ticket coupon, or when you cannot read the fare basis code, or when two or more carrier fare codes are compressed into a single coupon.)

"Unrestricted" includes all fares not subject to restrictions other than time of day, such as night and off-peak fares. These categories include all "full" or "premium" fares (F, C, P, W, Y, J, R), plus all otherwise unrestricted off-peak fares (FN, YN, CN, and KN) and the "economy" (K) fares.

"Restricted" includes any fare subject to significant restrictions, such as, advanced purchase requirements, minimum or maximum stay, refund penalty, membership in a particular group (military, youth, clergy), tour package and similar characteristics.

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Notes

1. See definitions under "Carrier Reporting Level" in the Glossary in Appendix C.
2. See definition of "Ticket: Conjunction" in the Glossary in Appendix C.
3. For a list of the carriers participating in the POD Survey, see Appendix A.
4. See definition of "Revenue Passenger" in the Glossary in Appendix C.

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