Net budgetary authorities	Vote netting Authority	Net expenditures for the quarter ending September 30	Revenues spent from vote netting authority for the quarter ending September 30
2010-11	$562,733	$120,000	$261,951	$21,889
2011-12	$772,111	$120,000	$504,750	$18,217

Statistics Canada
Statement outlining results, risks and significant changes in operations, personnel and program

A) Introduction

Statistics Canada's Mandate

Statistics Canada is a member of the Industry Portfolio.

Statistics Canada’s role is to ensure that Canadians have access to a trusted source of statistics on Canada that meet their highest priority needs.

The agency’s mandate derives primarily from the Statistics Act. The act requires that Statistics Canada collect, compile, analyse and publish statistical information on the economic, social and general conditions of the country and its people. It also requires that Statistics Canada conduct a census of population and a census of agriculture every fifth year and protect the confidentiality of the information with which it is entrusted.

Statistics Canada is also mandated to co-ordinate and lead the national statistical system. The agency is considered a leader among statistical agencies around the world in co-ordinating statistical activities to reduce duplication and reporting burden.

Further information on Statistics Canada’s mandate, roles, responsibilities and programs can be found in the Statistics Canada 2011-2012 Main Estimates, available online at http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/est-pre/20112012/me-bpd/docs/me-bpd-eng.pdf.

The quarterly financial report

• should be read in conjunction with the 2011-2012 Main Estimates
• has been prepared by management as required by section 65.1 of the Financial Administration Act and in the form and manner prescribed by the Treasury Board
• has not been subject to an external audit or review.

Statistics Canada has the authority to collect and spend revenue from other government departments and agencies, as well as external clients, for statistical services and products.

Basis of Presentation

This quarterly report has been prepared by management using an expenditure basis of accounting. The accompanying Statement of Authorities includes the department's spending authorities granted by Parliament and those used by the department consistent with the Main Estimates for the 2011-2012 fiscal year. This quarterly report has been prepared using a special purpose financial reporting framework designed to meet financial information needs with respect to the use of spending authorities.

The authority of Parliament is required before moneys can be spent by the Government. Approvals are given in the form of annually approved limits through appropriation acts or through legislation in the form of statutory spending authority for specific purposes. 

When Parliament is dissolved for the purposes of a general election, section 30 of the Financial Administration Act authorizes the Governor General, under certain conditions, to issue a special warrant authorizing the Government to withdraw funds from the Consolidated Revenue Fund. A special warrant is deemed to be an appropriation for the fiscal year in which it is issued.

The agency uses the full accrual method of accounting to prepare and present its annual departmental financial statements that are part of the departmental performance reporting process. However, the spending authorities voted by Parliament remain on an expenditure basis.

B) Highlights of fiscal quarter and fiscal year to date results

This section highlights the significant items that contributed to the net increase in resources available for the year and actual expenditures for the quarter ended June 30.

Description: Comparaison of Net Budgetary Authorities and Expenditures as of Decemeber 31, 2009 and December 31, 2010

Chart 1 outlines the gross budgetary authorities, which represent the resources available, for use for the year as of June 30.

Significant Changes to Authorities

Total authorities available for the year have increased by $178.9 million, or 26.2%, from the previous year, from $682.7 million to $861.6 million. This net increase is mostly owing to the 2011 Census of Population and National Household Survey ($162.1 million) and the Census of Agriculture ($8.5 million). The current fiscal year is the peak year for census-related activities.

The primary census-related activities for 2011-12 are

• finishing development and testing of census collection and processing systems
• completing recruitment and training of field staff
• collecting and processing (such as implementing the communications program, mailing out questionnaires, receiving and capturing responses by mail and internet, following up missing questionnaires by telephone and enumerator)
• editing, imputing and validating data
• conducting a coverage-evaluation study
• reconciling the Farm Register (for the Census of Agriculture only)
• closing regional and local census offices and processing facilities
• analysing tax data as part of the feasibility study to explore the possibility of replacing detailed expense questions with tax data in the future
• developing and testing census dissemination and data quality systems and processes
• releasing population and dwelling counts and other major data outputs
• starting data-quality studies
• conducting evaluation studies of the 2011 Census Program to identify lessons learned and making recommendations for the future.

In addition to the appropriations allocated to the agency through the Main Estimates, Statistics Canada also has vote net authority within Vote 105, which entitles the agency to spend revenues collected from other government departments, agencies and external clients, for providing statistical services. The planned revenue is stable for 2010‑11 and 2011-12 at $120 million.

Significant Changes to Expenditures

Total expenditures recorded for the first quarter, ending June 30, 2011, increased by $140.1 million, or 104.1%, from the same quarter of the previous year, from $134.7 million to $274.8 million, according to the Table of Departmental Budgetary Expenditures by Standard Object.

Most of the increase in spending is due to census-related activities. Also, Statistics Canada has spent approximately 32% of its authorities at the end of the first quarter, compared with 20% in the previous year (Chart 1). Given that the Census Day was May 10, 2011, a significant amount of effort was incurred during the first quarter of the fiscal year.

Table A Departmental Expenditures by Standard Object

Departmental Expenditures by Standard Object	Year-to-year change, Q1 2010-11 to Q1 2011-12
	$000	% change
Note: For variances of more than 1 million, an explanation is provided
01 - Personnel	28,772	23.5
02 - Transportation and Communications	25,749	715.3
03 - Information	5,809	3,030.5
04 - Professional and Special Services	79,328	2,166.4
05 - Rentals	19	1.6
06 - Repairs and Maintenance	401	15.3
07 - Utilities, Materials and Supplies	157	43.3
08 - Acquisition of Land, Buildings and Works	-	-
09 - Acquisition of Machinery and Equipment	-84	-14.7
10 - Transfer Payment	-	-
11 - Other Subsidies and Payments	9	231.9
Total gross budgetary expenditures	140,161	104.1
Less revenues netted against expenditures:
Revenues	-3,364	-31.9
Total net budgetary expenditures	143,525	115.6

Standard Object 01, Personnel, shows a cost increase that is mainly due to additional public servants hired to conduct census-related activities.

Standard Object 02, Transportation and Communication, includes the cost of the delivery and return of census questionnaires for over 15 million dwellings, resulting in higher postage and transportation costs for the agency.

Standard Object 03, Information, is related to the census communications program implemented to support census collection activities, which increased advertising costs for the agency.

Standard Object 04, Professional and Special Services, saw increased costs because of census collection activities: approximately 35,000 field staff were recruited and trained to follow up with non-responding dwellings across the country.

Reductions in Revenues are primarily due to the timing differences between the two quarters for invoicing and project schedules for key deliverables.

C) Risks and Uncertainties

2011 Census of Population and National Household Survey

The financial risks associated with the Census of Population Program have lessened during the reporting period.

Throughout the first quarter, the Censuses of Population and of Agriculture were proceeding, as planned, to achieve targeted response rates, on schedule and on budget.

Initial results for the National Household Survey were much better than planned, despite the postal strike, which impeded operation. Collection of the National Household Survey will continue through July and into August.

Cost Recovery Activities

Statistics Canada has the authority to spend its revenues received during the year, representing, on average, 20% of the department’s funding. Of these revenues, approximately 80% come from other federal departments. However, other federal departments are faced with implementing budget restrictions such as cost containment and the strategic review. Consequently, there is a risk that other federal departments may reduce their purchases of statistical services and products: this would impact Statistics Canada’s available funding.

To mitigate this risk, Statistics Canada is monitoring planned revenue levels on a quarterly basis, and is communicating with key federal departments to assess the impact of budget pressures on their need for statistical services and products.

Budget 2010

Budget 2010 announced that the operating budgets of departments would be frozen at their 2010-11 levels for the fiscal years 2011-12 and 2012-13. Statistics Canada adjusted funding allocations to meet this challenge and the impact on departmental activities is being managed through the following actions and mitigation strategies for the fiscal year 2011-12:

• reductions to the research and analytical program
• cancellation of two completed pilot projects on environment statistics
• cancellation of the National Population Health Survey
• conversion to a cost recovery funding model for the Survey on Financing of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises.

D) Significant changes in relation to operations, personnel and programs

In contrast with last year, Statistics Canada is undertaking major activities this fiscal year that are critical to the success of the 2011 Census of Population and the National Household Survey. These activities include finalizing the equipping of field offices, hiring field staff, collecting data, follow-up with respondents, processing of returns, closing local census offices and processing facilities, developing and testing dissemination systems and processes, and starting data quality and evaluation studies. These activities culminate in the first of the census data releases, the Population and Dwelling Counts, in February 2012.

Early enumeration of remote and northern communities started in February 2011, and was successfully completed in April 2011.

The infrastructure required to conduct field operations was finalized, equipping and staffing five Regional Census Centers and 37 local census offices. Approximately 5,000 crew leaders and assistants were hired to recruit, train and supervise approximately 30,000 census enumerators who were hired for the period from May through mid-August.

The Data Operation Center was opened and began processing returned paper and Internet questionnaires, with a total staff complement of approximately 1,200 employees.

In areas with mail service, census letters or questionnaires were mailed in early May. The letters encouraged respondents to complete their census online, instead of using the traditional paper questionnaire.

Reminder letters were produced and mailed to non-respondents.

Door-to-door follow-up by enumerators started in May 2011 for the census and in June for the National Household Survey. More than 4 million follow-up cases are expected to be completed for the census by the end of July 2011.

Approval by Senior Officials

The original version was signed by
Wayne R. Smith, Chief Satistician
Monia Lahaie for Michel Cloutier, Chief Financial Officer
Ottawa, Ontario
Date signed August 29, 2011

Statement of authorities (unaudited)

	Fiscal year 2011-2012			Fiscal year 2010-2011
	Total available for use for the year ending March 31, 2012 *	Used during the quarter ended June 30, 2011	Year to date used at quarter -end	Total available for use for the year ended March 31, 2011 *	Used during the quarter ended June 30, 2010	Year to date used at quarter -end
	in thousands of dollars
More information is available in the attached table. * Includes only authorities available for use and granted by Parliement at quarter-end.
Vote 105 – Net Operating expenditures	661,448	247,613	247,613	491,001	106,183	106,183
Budgetary statutory authorities	80,113	20,028	20,028	71,732	17,933	17,933
Total Budgetary authorities	741,561	267,641	267,641	562,733	124,116	124,116
Non-budgetary authorities	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total authorities	741,561	267,641	267,641	562,733	124,116	124,116

Departmental budgetary expenditures by Standard Object (unaudited)

	Fiscal year 2011-2012			Fiscal year 2010-2011
	Planned expenditures for the year ending March 31, 2012	Expended during the quarter ended June 30, 2011	Year to date used at quarter -end	Planned expenditures for the year ending March 31, 2011	Expended during the quarter ended June 30, 2010	Year to date used at quarter -end
	in thousands of dollars
Expenditures:
Personnel	525,184	151,243	151,243	493,685	122,471	122,471
Transportation and Communications	76,957	29,349	29,349	40,909	3,600	3,600
Information	23,769	6,001	6,001	18,500	192	192
Professional and Special Services	159,874	82,989	82,989	46,891	3,662	3,662
Rentals	10,169	1,193	1,193	8,232	1,174	1,174
Repairs and Maintenance	21,258	3,021	3,021	19,849	2,620	2,620
Utilities, Materials and Supplies	19,204	521	521	17,205	363	363
Acquisition of Land, Building and works	-	-	-	-	-	-
Acquisition of Machinery and Equipment	24,444	486	486	37,462	569	569
Transfer Payment	561	-	-	-	-	-
Other Subsidies and Payments	141	12	12	-	4	4
Total gross budgetary expenditures	861,561	274,816	274,816	682,733	134,655	134,655
Less Revenues netted against expenditures:
Revenues	120,000	7,175	7,175	120,000	10,539	10,539
Total revenues netted against expenditure	120,000	7,175	7,175	120,000	10,539	10,539
Total net budgetary expenditures	741,561	267,641	267,641	562,733	124,116	124,116

 

	Net budgetary authorities	Vote netting Authority	Gross expenditures for the quarter ending June 30
2010-11	$562.7	$120.0	$134.7
2011-12	$741.6	$120.0	$274.8

Statistics Canada's Corporate Management Framework, shown in Figure 1, illustrates how the agency delivers its strategic outcome. This is followed by a description of both the framework and the enablers that allow the strategic outcome to be achieved.

Figure 1 — Performance Management Framework Diagram

Relevance is defined as producing information that meets Canada's evolving and highest priority needs. Relevance depends on user needs. To understand these needs, both present and future, and to ensure that its products and services meet them, Statistics Canada monitors data usage, and consults with users and stakeholders. Meeting those needs means taking into account how quickly the information is required. A statistical agency's programs must evolve continuously to stay relevant.

Trust has three dimensions: quality, objectivity and confidentiality. Users must be able to trust that the agency's statistics are factual and reliable representations of the social and economic worlds they are meant to describe; that they are objective; and that respondents' information is kept confidential. Quality can also be conceived of in terms of accuracy, interpretability and consistency. These dimensions are described in Archived: Statistics Canada's Quality Assurance Framework (PDF, 178 kb). To maintain and improve data quality, several measures work jointly at various levels throughout Statistics Canada, including a strong program of research and innovation in statistical methods, regular updates of standard classifications and regular internal quality reviews to identify and eliminate weaknesses—which are also an opportunity to share and promote best practices.

Access refers to awareness and use of Statistics Canada's rich inventory of information holdings. Access has two channels: publicly available data and microdata for statistical and research use. Access to microdata files is managed to ensure that the confidentiality of individual households and businesses is maintained. The agency's principal access conduit for publicly available statistics is its website. The key conduit for detailed microdata is the national network of research data centres, designed for statistical research in a secure, controlled setting. Both these mechanisms aim to meet the needs of Statistics Canada's diverse user community.

Stewardship, in the form of strategic leadership and proactive management of resources and assets, is a Statistics Canada tradition. Ensuring probity and value for money in all aspects of our work is a key component of our Corporate Management Framework. Statistics Canada strives to be a highly efficient organization: information is produced at the lowest possible cost. It has in place a unique governance and management structure, as well as a dynamic system to innovate, manage risks, and anticipate and address emerging issues and opportunities.

The enablers that help Statistics Canada achieve its strategic outcome are described below.

Human resources are by far Statistics Canada's most important asset. Therefore, effective human resource management is a key factor in achieving the agency's strategic outcome. Given the specialized skill requirements of a statistical agency, effort is focused on recruitment, training, career advancement and maintaining a positive workplace.

Governance — Statistics Canada has a mature and effective governance and management structure integrating strategic priority-setting and decision-making and ensuring accountability.

An established system of corporate committees engages managers in decision-making and recommends strategic options for program development and delivery. Committee membership includes senior managers from across Statistics Canada. The Policy Committee is the executive committee, responsible for strategic direction and overarching corporate management and decisions. All significant corporate issues are reviewed at this highest level. The Chief Statistician, on the advice of the Policy Committee, renders final decisions.

Integrated Strategic Planning — Statistics Canada's Integrated Strategic Planning Process (ISPP) is an annual six-step process that starts by establishing a strategic planning direction and ends with allocating resources for the new fiscal year. It also integrates the Departmental Project Management Office tools for project management and performance monitoring. The ISPP reflects the agency's corporate business architecture and integrates sound management practices such as risk management, investment planning, project management and evaluation into the planning process. The ISPP's six main steps include three key decision-making points in April, June and November of each year.

Investment proposals being submitted for approval must relate to the agency's priorities, considered in this order: corporate business architecture initiatives, continuity and quality maintenance of ongoing programs, and new initiatives that address strategic priorities or corporate risks. Continuity and quality of ongoing programs is fundamental to the organization: thus, at the heart of the ISPP decision-making process are 10-year continuity and quality maintenance investment plans maintained at the divisional or branch level.

The decision-making infrastructure, which includes an independent Departmental Audit Committee, encourages innovation and strategies to improve efficiency.

This structure also ensures good governance of material resources—in particular the information and communication equipment and technology that is essential for a modern statistical agency.

Risk management — In keeping with government-wide expectations of good governance and modern comptrollership, Statistics Canada places great emphasis on managing risk in all planning and program-delivery activities.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• General
  1. Expenditures by activity and performer
  2. Personnel
  3. Sources of funds for total scientific and technological activities
  4. Scientific and technological expenditures by socio-economic objectives
  5. Expenditures and personnel of scientific and technological establishment engaged in activities in the natural sciences and engineering, by region
  6. Transfers for natural sciences and engineering activities

Introduction

This introduction is intended to provide an overview of the process of collecting science expenditure data; definitions of and explanatory notes on natural sciences and engineering, social sciences and humanities, scientific and technological activities, performance sectors, and other terms used are given in subsequent sections.

The collection of science expenditure data is organized by the Investment, Science and Technology Division (ISTD) of Statistics Canada. This exercise was formerly conducted under the aegis of the Treasury Board Secretariat but is now solely a Statistics Canada survey.

Collection is undertaken to gather essential data describing the recent, current and proposed state of the federal resources allocated to science. Federal science expenditures data are provided to Industry Canada who in turn use the data in the development of advice to the Assistant Deputy Ministers' Steering Committee on the Management of S&T, their Minister and the Treasury Board Secretariat, as well as in policy development and in monitoring the implementation of science policies. Statistics Canada maintains historical expenditure series in natural sciences and engineering dating back to 1963 and to 1971 in the social sciences and humanities. These data are available through the Investment, Science and Technology Statistics Division (ISTD) or through special requests.

The basic reporting unit is the budgetary program of a department or agency. Each budgetary program forms the subject of separate scientific expenditure reports for the natural and for the social science activities within it. Both the program and the program activities within it may be scientific in whole or in part only. Only expenditures on the scientific components of a program or its activity are reported. In some programs it will be difficult to distinguish between the natural and social sciences. However, some allocation must be made and in determining this allocation, the dominant orientation of the projects and the area of expertise of the personnel involved must be considered. Detailed definitions are given on the following pages.

On the questionnaires, the identified expenditures are looked at from several different viewpoints and in various subdivisions. Expenditures on research and development (R&D) and related scientific activities (RSA) are subdivided to provide an indication of the "what" of a department's scientific effort. Expenditures in each category of scientific activity are further subdivided into "current" and "capital" segments. Current expenditures are additionally subdivided by sector, to indicate the "where" and "by whom" the activity is performed (e.g., in business enterprise, in higher education).

The human resources allocated to scientific activities are summarized in terms of the involved categories of personnel (scientific and professional, technical, etc.) and the principal focus of their efforts (R&D, RSA, administration of extramural programs).

When completed, checked for consistency with previous reports, entered into the database and totalled along the various dimensions, these data provide snapshots of the federal resources allocated to science, supporting not only the work of central agencies but also the submissions of departments and agencies requesting resources.

General

This guide consists of definitions/explanations for terms used in the questionnaire.

The natural sciences and engineering consist of disciplines concerned with understanding, exploring, developing or utilizing the natural world. Included are the engineering, mathematical, life and physical sciences.

The term social sciences is to be regarded as synonymous with social sciences and humanities and thus embraces all disciplines involving the study of human actions and conditions and the social, economic and institutional mechanisms affecting humans. Included are such disciplines as anthropology, business administration and commerce, information and knowledge management, criminology, demography, economics, geography, history, languages, literature and linguistics, law, library science, philosophy, political science, psychology, religious studies, social work, sociology, and urban and regional studies.

1. Expenditures by activity and performer

The questionnaire covers three consecutive fiscal years and the headings of all three are identical. One set of definitions/explanations therefore suffices.

Actual and planned expenditures on scientific and technological activities are to be classified according to the type of scientific activity and the performance sector in which the activities were or will be conducted.

Scientific and technological (S&T) activities are required for the generation, dissemination or initial application of the new S&T knowledge. The central activity is scientific research and experimental development (R&D). In addition there are a number of activities closely related to R&D, and are termed related scientific activities (RSA). Those identified as being appropriate for the federal government in the Natural sciences and engineering are: scientific data collection, information services, special services and studies and education support.

The performer is equivalent to the sector in which the scientific activity is conducted. The basic distinction is between intramural and extramural performance. Extramural payments are classified on the basis of the performance sectors to which they are made. The appropriate extramural performers are business enterprise, higher education, Canadian non-profit institutions, foreign performers, provincial and municipal governments, and other performers.

I. Research and experimental development

Research and experimental development – creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of scientific and technical knowledge and to use this knowledge in new applications.

The central characteristic of R&D is an appreciable element of novelty and of uncertainty. New knowledge, products or processes are sought. The work is normally performed by, or under the supervision of, persons with postgraduate degrees in the natural sciences or engineering.

An R&D project generally has three characteristics:

• a substantial element of uncertainty, novelty and innovation;
• a well-defined project design;
• a report on the procedures and results of the projects.

Examples:

1. Special investigation of a particular mortality in order to establish the side effects of certain medical treatments.
2. The investigation of new methods of measuring temperature is research as is the study and development of new systems and techniques for interpreting the data.
3. The development of new methods of identifying tree species and determining if they are diseased.
4. The creation of a new transportation system as a prototype and the technical evaluation of its operations is R&D.

R&D is generally carried out by specialized R&D units. However, an R&D project may also involve the use of non R&D facilities (e.g., testing grounds), the purchase or construction of specialized equipment and materials, and the assistance of other units. Costs of such items, attributable to the project, are to be considered R&D costs.

R&D units may also be engaged in non R&D activities such as technical advisory services, testing, and construction of special equipment for other units. So far as is practical, the effort devoted to such operations should be excluded from R&D.

On the other hand, R&D may be carried out by units normally engaged in other functions (e.g. a marine survey ship used for hydrological research, a geological survey team may be directed to work in a certain area in order to provide data for a geophysical research project). Such effort is part of an R&D project and, again, so far as is practical, the costs should be assigned to R&D expenditures.

ltem 1. In-house R&D – R&D performed by personnel of the reporting program. It may include R&D carried out on behalf of another program on a cost-recovery basis.

Item 2. Contracts – payments to organizations or individuals outside the federal government for the conduct of R&D by the recipient or to provide support for the federal government's in-house R&D programs.

1. R&D contracts – contracts to an outside institution or individual to fund R&D performed by the institution or individual. The criterion is: would the performer report the contract as intramural government-funded R&D if asked? If the answer is yes the activity would be an R&D contract, if no it would be a supporting contract. Contracts to other federal government departments should be reported as a transfer of funds on page 14 of the questionnaire.
2. Supporting contracts – contracts to an outside institution or individual to provide goods or services necessary to support the in-house R&D program. Examples are contracts with data processing firms for computing services, maintenance contracts for R&D facilities, or procurement contracts for specialized equipment which is not considered capital. The total amount reported for this activity should be reported under the intramural column on pages 4 to 6.

Contracts for related scientific activities (RSA) should continue to be reported in the appropriate activity and performance sector spaces provided on the questionnaire.

Item 3. R&D grants and contributions – awards to organizations or individuals for the conduct of R&D and intended to benefit the recipients rather than provide the program with goods, services or information. These funds are normally identical to that portion of the budgetary "grants and contributions" line object of expenditure which is devoted to R&D activities.

Grants and contributions for related scientific activities (RSA) are to be reported in the appropriate activity and performance sector spaces provided on the questionnaire.

Item 4. Research fellowships – awards to individuals for advanced research training and experience. Awards intended primarily to support the education of the recipients should be reported as education support.

Item 5. Administration of extramural programs – the costs of identifiable units engaged in the administration of contracts and grants and contributions for scientific activities that are to be performed outside the federal government. These expenditures should be broken down by the type of scientific activity supported, i.e. R&D or RSA.

Item 6. Capital expenditures – expenditures on construction, acquisition or preparation of land, buildings, machinery and equipment are capital expenditures. All other expenditures are current expenditures.

II. Related scientific activities

Related scientific activities are concerned with the generation, dissemination and application of scientific and technological knowledge. The kinds of related scientific activities for the natural sciences and engineering are described below.

Item 7. Scientific data collection – the gathering, processing, collating and analyzing of data on natural phenomena. These data are normally the results of surveys, routine laboratory analyses or compilations of operating records.

Data collected as part of an existing or proposed research project are charged to research. Similarly, the costs of analyzing existing data as part of a research project are R&D costs, even when the data were originally collected for some other purpose. The development of new techniques for data collection is also to be considered a research activity. Examples of scientific data collection are: routine geological, hydrographic, oceanographic and topographic surveys; routine astronomical observations; maintenance of meteorological records; and wildlife and fisheries surveys.

Item 8. Information services – all work directed to recording, classifying, translating and disseminating scientific and technological information as well as museum services. Included are the operations of scientific and technical libraries, S&T consulting and advisory services, the Patent Office, the publication of scientific journals and monographs, and the organizing of scientific conferences. Grants for the publication of scholarly works are also included.

General purpose information services or information services directed primarily towards the general public are excluded, as are general departmental and public libraries. When individual budgets exist, the costs of libraries which belong to institutions otherwise entirely classified to another activity, such as R&D, should be assigned to information services. The costs of printing and distributing reports from another activity, such as R&D, are normally attributable to that activity.

Sub category under Information services:

Museum services – the collecting, cataloguing and displaying of specimens of the natural world or of representations of natural phenomena. The activity involves a systematic attempt to preserve and display items from the natural world; in some ways it could be considered an extension of information services. The scientific activities of natural history museums, zoological and botanical gardens, aquaria, planetaria and nature reserves are included. Parks which are not primarily restricted reserves for certain fauna or flora are excluded. In all cases the costs of providing entertainment and recreation to visitors should be excluded (e.g. restaurants, children's gardens and museums).

When a museum also covers not only natural history but also aspects of human cultural activities, the museum's resources should be appropriated between the natural and social sciences. However, museums of science and technology, war, etc., which display synthetic or artificial objects and may also illustrate the operations of certain technologies, should be considered as engaged in museum services in social sciences.

Item 9. Special services and studies – work directed towards the establishment of national and provincial standards for materials, devices, products and processes; the calibration of secondary standards; non-routine quality testing; feasibility studies and demonstration projects.

Sub categories under Special services and studies include:

Testing and standardization – work directed towards the establishment of national and international standards for materials, devices, products and processes, the calibration of secondary standards and non-routine quality testing. The development of new measures for standards, or of new methods of measuring or testing, is R&D and should be reported as such. Exclude routine testing such as monitoring radioactivity levels or soil tests before construction.

Feasibility studies – technical investigations of proposed engineering projects to provide additional information required to reach decisions on implementation. Besides feasibility studies per se, the related activity of demonstration projects are to be included. Demonstration projects involve the operation of scaled-up versions of a facility or process, or data on factors such as costs, operational characteristics, market demand and public acceptance. Projects called "demonstration projects" but which conform to the definition of R&D should be considered R&D. Once a facility or process is operated primarily to provide a service or to gain revenue, rather than as a demonstration, it should no longer be included with feasibility studies. In all demonstration projects, only the net costs should be considered.

Item 10. Education support – grants to individuals or institutions on behalf of individuals which are intended to support the post-secondary education of students in technology and the natural sciences. General operating or capital grants are excluded. The activity includes the support of foreign students in their studies of the natural sciences at Canadian or foreign institutions. Grants intended primarily to support the research of individuals at universities are either R&D grants or research fellowships.

Awards intended primarily to support the education of the recipients should be reported as education support.

Item 11. Administration of extramural programs – the costs of identifiable units engaged in the administration of contracts and grants and contributions for scientific activities that are to be performed outside the federal government. These expenditures should be broken down by the type of scientific activity supported, i.e.R&D or RSA.

Item 12. Capital expenditures – expenditures on construction, acquisition or preparation of land, buildings, machinery and equipment are capital expenditures. All other expenditures are current expenditures.

III. Performers

Intramural includes costs incurred for scientific activities carried out by in-house personnel of units assigned to the program, the related acquisition of land, buildings, machinery and equipment for scientific activities; the administration of scientific activities by program employees and the purchase of goods and services to support in-house scientific activities.

The intramural expenditures reported for scientific activities are those direct costs, including salaries, associated with scientific programs. The costs should include that portion of a program's contribution to employee benefit plans (e.g., superannuation) which is applicable to the scientific personnel within the program.

Non-program ("indirect") costs such as the value of services provided by other departments without charge and accommodation provided by the reporting program are to be excluded. Support services (i.e. administration, finance) provided by the reporting program, proportional to S&T expenditures should be included.

Extramural performers are groups being funded for S&T activities by the federal government sector. In this survey the extramural performers include:

Business enterprise – business and government enterprises including public utilities and government-owned firms. Incorporated consultants providing scientific and engineering services are also included. Industrial research institutes located at Canadian universities are considered to be in the higher education sector.

Higher education – composed of all universities, colleges of technology and other institutes of post-secondary education, whatever their source of finance or legal status. It also includes all research institutes, experimental stations and clinics operating under the direct control of, or administered by, or associated with, the higher education establishments.

Canadian non-profit institutions – charitable foundations, voluntary health organizations, scientific and professional societies, and other organizations not established to earn profits. Non-profit institutions primarily serving or controlled by another sector should be included in the controlling sector.

Provincial and municipal governments – departments and agencies of these governments. Government enterprises, such as provincial utilities are included in the business enterprise sector, and hospitals in the Canadian non-profit institutions sector.

Foreign performers – all foreign government agencies, foreign companies (including foreign subsidiaries of Canadian firms), international organizations, non-resident foreign nationals and Canadians studying or teaching abroad.

Other performers – include provincial research councils, and individuals or organizations in Canada not belonging to any of the above sectors.

2. Personnel

Intramural expenditure data should be supported by data on the personnel devoted to scientific activities by all the employees engaged in these activities.

Full-time equivalent ( FTE ) – a measure of the time actually devoted to the conduct of scientific activities. An employee who is engaged in scientific activities for half a year has a full-time equivalence of 0.5. Personnel data reported should be consistent with expenditure data.

Scientific and professional – people in jobs that require at least one academic degree or nationally recognized professional qualification (e.g., Professional Engineer P.Eng.), as well as those with equivalent experience.

Technical – people in jobs that require specialized vocational or technical training beyond the secondary level (e.g., community colleges and technical institutes) as well as those with experience equivalent to this training.

Other – clerical, secretarial, administrative, operational and other support personnel.

In regard to personnel resources there are two caveats:

• where the S&T activities are a part of the program being reported, only auxiliary staff relevant to the S&T activities are reported on a prorated basis;
• whenever financial and administrative support is provided from another program, that support is allocated to the S&T resources for the program being reported.

3. Sources of funds for total scientific and technological activities

This question identifies the sources of funds for expenditures on scientific activities reported for all three years. It will help to ensure that work funded from outside the department is not overlooked.

Departmental S&T budget – that portion of the total departmental budget which was spent on natural science and engineering activities.

Revenues to / from other departments – money transferred into this program from another federal department or money transferred from this program to another federal department for activities in the natural sciences and engineering.

Provincial government departments – all funds from the provincial government used for natural science and engineering activities. The funds are referred to as payments, contributions, transfers, etc. Also include provincial portions of federal-provincial cost sharing programs performed by the department program.

Business enterprises – all funds from business enterprises used for natural science and engineering activities performed by the department.

From other sources – all funds for natural science and engineering activities from sources not specified above.

4. Scientific and technological expenditures by socio-economic objectives

Socio-economic objectives allow departments to classify their S&T resource allocations according to the purpose for which the expenditure is intended. The objectives are listed on the questionnaire at the highest level of aggregation with sub-levels given here for clarification of categories. In many cases, projects have multiple objectives and a department should assign its expenditures consistent with the stated objectives of the department. Care must be taken to avoid "double counting".

The objectives are based on the Nomenclature for the Analysis and Comparison of Scientific Programmes and Budgets (NABS) produced by the Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat).

1. Exploration and exploitation of the Earth – scientific activities with objectives related to the exploration of the Earth's crust and mantle, seas, oceans and atmosphere, and scientific activities on their exploitation. It also includes climatic and meteorological research, polar exploration (under various headings, as appropriate) and hydrology.

Examples:

• General scientific activities
• Mineral, oil and natural gas prospecting
• Exploration and exploitation of the sea-bed
• Earth's crust and mantle excluding sea-bed and studies of soil for agriculture (6)
• Hydrology – excludes scientific activities on: water supplied and disposal (2) and water pollution (3)
• Sea and oceans
• Atmosphere
• Other scientific activities on the exploration and exploitation of the earth

Excludes: scientific activities on pollution (objective 3), soil improvement (objective 2), land-use and fishing (objective 6).

2. Infrastructure and general planning of land use – scientific activities on infrastructure and land development, including research on the construction of buildings. More generally, it covers all scientific activities relating to the general planning of land-use. This includes scientific activities into protection against harmful effects in town and country planning but not scientific activities into other types of pollution (objective 3).

2.1 Transport systems – covers scientific activities on transport systems, including road accident prevention and ancillary services such as electronic traffic aids and radar stations. Also included is general scientific activities on transport systems, road and rail traffic, inland waterway and sea transport, air traffic, pipeline transport systems, works transport systems, combined transport systems and scientific activities on the potential effects on the environment of the planning and operation of transport systems. Scientific activities on transport equipment is included only when it forms part of the co-ordinated programmes for the development of improved and safer transport systems, otherwise, such research is classified in objective 7.

2.2 Telecommunications systems – covers scientific activities on telecommunications services and the planning and organization of telecommunications networks. It includes, in particular, general scientific activities on telecommunications systems, telephones, telex, data transmission, radio and television (including cable TV).

2.3 Other scientific activities – covers scientific activities on the infrastructure and general planning of land-use.

Examples:

• General scientific activities
• General planning of land-use
• Construction and planning of buildings
• Civil engineering – excludes scientific activities on building materials and industrial processes
• Water supply

3. Control and care of the environment – covers scientific activities into the control of pollution, aimed at the identification and analysis of the sources of pollution and their causes, and all pollutants, including their dispersal in the environment and the effects on man, species (fauna, flora, microorganisms) and biosphere. Development of monitoring facilities for the measurement of all kinds of pollution is included. The same is valid for the elimination and prevention of all forms of pollution in all types of environment.

Examples:

• General scientific activities on the environment
• Protection of atmosphere and climate
• Protection of ambient air
• Solid waste
• Protection of ambient water
• Protection of soil and groundwater
• Noise and vibration
• Protection of species and habitats
• Protection against natural hazards
• Radioactive pollution
• Other scientific activities on the environment

4. Protection and Improvement of human health – scientific activities aimed at protecting, promoting and restoring human health broadly interpreted to include health aspects of nutrition and food hygiene. It ranges from preventative medicine, including all aspects of medical and surgical treatment, both for individuals and groups, and the provision of hospital and home care, to social medicine and pediatric and geriatric research.

Examples:

• General scientific activities
• Medical scientific activities, hospital treatment, surgery
• Preventive medicine
• Biomedical engineering and medicines
• Occupational medicine
• Nutrition and food hygiene
• Drug abuse and addiction
• Social medicine
• Hospital structure and organization of medical care
• Other medical scientific activities

5. Production, distribution and rational utilization of energy – covers scientific activities into the production, storage, transportation, distribution and rational use of all forms of energy. It also includes scientific activities on processes designed to increase the efficiency of energy production and distribution, and the study of energy conservation.

Examples:

• Fossil fuels and their derivatives
• Nuclear fission
• Radioactive waste management including decommissioning with regard to fuel/energy
• Nuclear fusion
• Renewable energy sources
• Rational utilization of energy

6. Agricultural production and technology – covers all scientific activities on the promotion of agriculture, forestry, fisheries and foodstuff production. It includes: scientific research on chemical fertilizers, biocides, biological pest control and the mechanization of agriculture; research on the impact of scientific activities in the field of developing food productivity and technology.

6.1 Agriculture – covers scientific activities on animal products, veterinary medicine, crops, food technology and other scientific activities on agricultural production and technology.

6.2 Fishing – covers scientific activities on fishing, salting, drying and initial freezing of products (but not on preparation and canning (7)), scientific activities on fish-farming, exploration of new fishing grounds, exploration and development of new and unconventional sources of seafood.

6.3 Forestry – covers scientific activities into the ecological and economic aspects of forestry and timber production.

7. Industrial production and technology – covers scientific activities on the improvement of industrial production and technology. It includes scientific activities on industrial products and their manufacturing processes except where they form an integral part of the pursuit of other objectives (e.g. defence, space, energy, agriculture).

Examples:

• Increasing economic efficiency and competitiveness
• Manufacturing and processing techniques
• Petrochemical and coal by-products
• Pharmaceutical products
• Manufacture of motor vehicles and other means of transport
• Aerospace equipment manufacturing and repairing
• Electronic and related industries
• Manufacture of electrical machinery and apparatus
• Manufacture of non-electronic and non-electrical machinery
• Manufacture of medical and surgical equipment and orthopaedic appliances
• Manufacture of food products and beverages
• Manufacture of clothing and textiles and leather goods
• Recycling

8. Social structures and relationships – scientific activities on social objectives, as analysed in particular by social and human sciences, which have no obvious connection with other objectives. This analysis includes quantitative, qualitative, organizational and forecasting aspects of social problems.

Examples:

• Education, training, recurrent education and retraining
• Cultural activities
• Management of businesses and institutions
• Improvement of working conditions
• Social security system
• Political structure of society
• Social change, social processes and social conflicts
• Other scientific activities with regard to society

9. Exploration and exploitation of space – all civil space scientific activities. Corresponding scientific activities in the defence field is classified in objective 12. (Although civil space research is not, in general, concerned with particular objectives, it frequently has a specific goal, such as the increase of general knowledge (e.g. astronomy), or relates to particular applications (e.g. telecommunications satellites).

Examples:

• General scientific activities
• Scientific exploration of space
• Applied research programs
• Launch systems
• Space laboratories and space travel
• Other research on the exploration and exploitation of space

10. Non-oriented research – basic activities motivated by scientific curiosity with the objective of increasing scientific knowledge. It also includes funding used to support postgraduate studies and fellowships.

Examples:

• Mathematics and Computer Sciences
• Physical Sciences
• Chemical Sciences
• Biological Sciences
• Earth and Related (Environmental) Sciences (environment)
• Engineering Sciences
• Medical Sciences
• Agricultural Sciences
• Social Sciences
• Humanities

11. Other civil research – civil scientific activities which cannot (yet) be classified to a particular objective.

12. Defence – covers scientific activities for military purposes. It also includes basic research and nuclear and space research financed by ministries of defence. Civil scientific activities financed by ministries of defence, for example, in the fields of meteorology, telecommunications and health, should be classified in the relevant objectives.

5. Expenditures and personnel of scientific and technological establishment engaged in activities in the natural sciences and engineering, by region

Since 1978, Statistics Canada has been collecting detailed expenditure and person year data on intramural scientific activities of federal government departments and agencies by region. These data, coupled with data from other surveys, have been used by policy planners in federal and provincial governments, research managers and the media to assess the provincial distribution of science activities in Canada.

Again this year, we are asking for the information at the regional level. We are also asking for information in both natural science and engineering establishments as well as those performing activities in the social sciences and humanities, as international GERD statistics include activities in both science fields.

The Canada total expenditures and personnel reported for the actual year must be consistent with data reported on intramural expenditures, column one and total personnel.

6. Transfers for natural sciences and engineering activities

Include payments or recipients for contracts, transfers and joint programs from / to other federal government departments. Please identify the amount and names of the origination and recipient programs.

Please forward the completed questionnaire and listing of extramural performers by January 9, 2015 directly to:

Operations and Integration Division, Statistics Canada
2^nd Floor, Section B-17, Jean Talon Building, 150 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0T6
Phone Number: toll free at 1-800-387-0479
Fax number: toll free at 1-800-755-5514
Email: infotechsurv@statcan.gc.ca

Your participation is greatly appreciated and will contribute to providing useful information on federal S&T expenditures. You will be able to access these results through "The Daily" and CANSIM table358-0142 to 358-0151 and CANSIM table358-0163 to 358-0166.on Statistics Canada's web site. The data will also be available on Science.gc.ca. Thank you for your co-operation.

Errata

Date: June 2014

To: All users of the Survey on Living with Neurological Conditions in Canada—Canadian Community Health Survey linked file

Subject: Error in CCCDDIA logic

Product(s) affected:
Survey on Living with Neurological Conditions in Canada—Canadian Community Health Survey linked file

Years affected:
2011

Description of the problem(s):
The Diabetes Type derived variable (CCCDDIA) has a flaw in the logic that allowed respondents who should have been coded to gestational diabetes to be coded as Type 2 diabetes or ‘not stated’. Female respondents who answered CCC_10A=1 and CCC_10B=2 should have been classified as gestational diabetes. However, several cases also met the condition for Type 2 diabetes or for not stated. Because these other categories were derived first, these cases were coded as such, before the check for gestational diabetes could be run.

Additionally, all of the cases that were coded as ‘4’ could actually be correctly coded as type 2 diabetes. Because of the faulty logic, these cases did not meet any of the conditions and would not have been coded. This is likely the reason for the creation of the category 4 in the first place.

Suggested correction(s):
According to the Ng-Dasgupta-Johnson algorithm, upon which CCCDDIA is based, gestational diabetes should be derived first. In practice however, it is typical to list the DV code types in ascending order after the processing codes are derived.

To preserve the order of DV codes and fix the problems, the conditions for ‘not stated’ and type 2 have been rewritten with an extra condition that ensures there is no overlap with gestational diabetes. The new rule for type 2 diabetes now also covers all of the cases that would have otherwise been left uncoded and assigned a value of 4 – ‘unable to classify’. The new DV code now properly classifies all respondents without the need for this catch-all code. The corrected code for the derived variable is:

Table summary
This table displays the results of Suggested correction(s):. The information is grouped by Value (appearing as row headers), Condition(s)Description, Description and Notes (appearing as column headers).

Value	Condition(s)	Description	Notes
6	CCC_101 > 1	Population exclusions	NA
9	(CCC_10A in (7,8,9) or CCC_10B in (7,8,9) or CCC_10C in (97,98,99) or CCC_101 in (7,8,9) or CCC_102 in (997,998,999) or CCC_105 in (7,8,9) or CCC_106 in (7,8,9)) and(CCC_10A in (2,6,7,8,9) or CCC_10B in (1,6,7,8,9))	At least one required question was not answered (don’t know, refusal, not stated). Also, gestational diabetes cannot be derived.	NS
1	(DHH_SEX = 1 and CCC_101 = 1 and CCC_105 = 1 and CCC_106 = 2 and (CCC_10C <=3 and(DHH_AGE < 30 or CCC_102 < 30))) or (DHH_sex = 2 and CCC_101 = 1 and CCC_10B in (1,6) and CCC_105 = 1 and CCC_106 = 2 and (CCC_10C <=3 and (DHH_AGE < 30 or CCC_102 < 30)))	Type 1 diabetes
2	CCC_101 = 1 and (CCC_105 = 2 or CCC_102 >= 30 or CCC_10C > 3 or CCC_106 = 1 or (CCC_105 = 1 and(CCC_102 >= 30 or CCC_10C > 3))) and(CCC_10A in (2,6,7,8,9) or CCC_10B in (1,6,7,8,9))	Type 2 diabetes
3	CCC_101 = 1 and DHH_SEX = 2 and CCC_10A = 1 andCCC_10B = 2	Gestational diabetes

“Patch files” have been created for all affected files. They contain all records with the unique record identifier(s), as well as the correctly derived CCCDDIA. These patches can be used to replace CCCDDIA from the affected files by merging with the record identifier(s).

Correction steps:
Errata “patch” files are available and should be merged with the existing data files if CCCDDIA is being used in analysis.

Contact us:

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