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Statistics Canada - Producer Prices Division

2009/2010

Purpose of this survey

This survey collects financial, wage and contractor fee information that is used to produce price indexes. These indexes measure change in prices for informatics professional services. You as the respondent will benefit from completing this questionnaire by now having the ability to benchmark your company against other companies in the same industry (in aggregate form only).

Statistics Canada uses this information to better measure the volume of activity in the computer services industry. For the purpose of this survey, ‘Informatics Professional Services’ covers the following types of businesses: Software publishers; Data processing; Hosting and related services; Computer systems and related services; Internet publishing and broadcasting, and Web search.

Confidentiality

Your answers are confidential

Statistics Canada is prohibited by law from releasing any information it collects which could identify any person, business, or organization, unless consent has been given by the respondent or as permitted by the Statistics Act. The confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act are not affected by either the Access to Information Act or any other legislation. Therefore, for example, the Canada Revenue Agency cannot access identifiable survey records from Statistics Canada. Information from this survey will be used for statistical purposes only and will be published in aggregate form only.

Record linkages

To enhance the data from this survey, Statistics Canada may combine it with information from other surveys or from administrative sources.

Your participation is important

Your participation is vital to ensure that the information collected in this survey is accurate and comprehensive.

Fax or other electronic transmission disclosure

Statistics Canada advises you that there could be a risk of disclosure during facsimile or other electronic transmission. However, upon receipt, Statistics Canada will provide the guaranteed level of protection afforded to all information collected under the authority of the Statistics Act.

Return Procedures

Please return the completed questionnaire to Statistics Canada within 15 days of receipt by mail using the return envelope. You can also fax it to us at 1-888-883-7999.

Lost the return envelope or need help? Call us at 1-877-604-7828 between 8:00am and 23:00pm Mountain Time or mail to: Statistics Canada, Operations and Integration Division, 150 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0T6.

If necessary, please make address label corrections (please print)

Legal Name
Business Name
Title of Contact
First Name of Contact
Last Name of Contact
Address (number and street)
City
Province/ territory
Postal Code/Zip Code
Country
Language Preference
- English
- French

A. Introduction

Instructions:

Please use this page as a quick reference for definitions of the Business Activities listed on the next page (Section B). For more detail or assistance completing any of the other sections please refer to the reporting guide included with this questionnaire.

Software Publishing

This Canadian industry includes establishments primarily engaged in publishing computer software, usually for multiple clients and generally is referred to as packaged software. Establishments in this industry carry out operations necessary for producing and distributing computer software, such as designing, providing documentation, assisting in installation and providing support services to software purchasers. These establishments may design and publish, or publish only.

Examples: Packaged computer software publishing (including designing and developing), Packaged computer software, all formats, Packaged publishers games.

Data Processing, Hosting and Related Services

This Canadian industry includes establishments primarily engaged in providing hosting or data processing services. Hosting establishments may provide specialized hosting activities, such as web hosting, video and audio streaming services, application hosting, application services provisioning, or may provide general time-share mainframe facilities to clients. Data processing establishments may provide complete processing and preparation of reports from data supplied by the customer; specialized services, such as automated data entry; or they may make data processing resources available to clients on an hourly or time-sharing basis.

Examples: Application hosting, Automatic data processing, Computer input preparation services, Computer processing services, Computer time-sharing services, Data entry services, Data processing services, Disk and diskette conversion services, Input preparation services, Leasing of computer time, Microfilm recording and imaging services, Optical scanning data services, Rental of computer time, Computer service bureaus, Video and audio streaming services, Web hosting

Internet Publishing, Broadcasting and Web Search Portals

This Canadian industry includes establishments primarily engaged in publishing and/or broadcasting content on the Internet or operating web sites, known as web search portals, that use a search engine to generate and maintain extensive databases of Internet addresses and content in an easily searchable format. The Internet publishing and broadcasting establishments in this industry provide textual, audio, and/or video content of general or specific interest. These establishments do not provide traditional (non-Internet) versions of the content that they publish or broadcast. Establishments known as web search portals often provide additional Internet services, such as e-mail, connections to other web sites, auctions, news, and other limited content, and serve as a home base for Internet users.

Examples: Internet directory publishing; Internet book publishing; Internet broadcasting; Internet entertainment sites; Internet game sites; Internet newspaper publishing; Internet periodical publishing; Internet software publishing; Publishing, maps, street guides and atlases (exclusively on Internet); Technical books, publishing (exclusively on Internet); Web search portals.

Computer Systems Design and Related Services

This Canadian industry includes establishments primarily engaged in providing expertise in the field of information technologies through one or more activities, such as writing, modifying, testing and supporting software to meet the needs of a particular customer, including the creation of Internet home pages; planning and designing computer systems that integrate hardware, software and communication technologies; on-site management and operation of clients' computer and data processing facilities; providing advice in the field of information technologies; and other professional and technical computer-related services.

Examples: Computer consulting services, Disaster recovery services, Facilities management services, Hardware consulting services, Custom computer programs or systems software development; Custom computer software consulting services, programming services, systems analysis and design; Computer-aided design (CAD) systems services; Computer-aided engineering (CAE) systems services; Data processing facilities management services; Design and system analysis, computer services (software); Facilities management services, computer support services; Information management system design services; Internet page design services, custom; Local area network (LAN) systems integrators; Management information systems design consulting services; Office automation, computer systems integration; Computer hardware requirements analysis; Software installation services; Custom software programming; Custom software systems analysis and design; Systems analysis and design, computer services (software); Systems engineering (system integration); Web page developing;

B. Business Activities

We have selected one business activity for your company:

Internet Publishing, Broadcasting and Web Search Portals

This Canadian industry includes establishments primarily engaged in publishing computer software, usually for multiple clients and generally referred to as packaged software. Establishments in this industry carry out operations necessary for producing and distributing computer software, such as designing, providing documentation, assisting in installation and providing support services to software purchasers. These establishments may design and publish, or publish only.

Was your company engaged in the business activity in 2010 that is identified above?

Yes Please go to Section C and complete the questionnaire.
No If no, please select one of the business activities below that best represents your business and complete the questionnaire.

Note: Only if you did not perform the pre-selected activity at all in 2010, then please select the activity that represents your main business activity.

Descriptions and examples of the business activities are given in section A. For more details of the business activities please refer to the reporting guide included with this questionnaire.

Software Publishing
Data Processing, Hosting and Related Services
Internet Publishing, Broadcasting and Web Search Portals
Computer Systems Design and Related Services

Other - Please Specify:

C. Reporting Period

Please report information for your fiscal years in 2009 and 2010

2009:

Fiscal year end date (year/month/day):
Number of months:

2010:

Fiscal year end date (year/month/day):
Number of months:

D. Revenue Share

Please provide the dollar value for revenue received from each of the following business activities in 2009 and 2010 from all provinces. Please report in Canadian dollars for your company’s Canadian operations. Please see Section A. Descriptions of Business Activities for the details of each activity.

If your company operates in more than one location then please provide the total from all locations (provinces and territories) in Canada.

Reporting Instructions:

Include: Fees charged to clients for employees and contract workers and expenses (cost + mark-up) recovered from clients (e.g. hardware, software, travel and accommodations, subcontracted services)
Exclude: Revenue earned by foreign operations. Software sales unrelated to informatics professional services, GST and all other taxes collected for remittance to a government agency.

Business Activity

Software Publishing:

Revenue in 2009 (CAN$):
Revenue in 2010 (CAN$):

Data Processing, Hosting and Related Services:

Revenue in 2009 (CAN$):
Revenue in 2010 (CAN$):

Internet Publishing, Broadcasting and Web Search Portals:

Revenue in 2009 (CAN$):
Revenue in 2010 (CAN$):

Computer Systems Design and Related Services:

Revenue in 2009 (CAN$):
Revenue in 2010 (CAN$):

Other :

Revenue in 2009 (CAN$):
Revenue in 2010 (CAN$):

Total:

Revenue in 2009 (CAN$):
Revenue in 2010 (CAN$):

E. Operating Revenue & Expenses

Reporting Instructions:

Please provide the dollar value for the revenue and expenses for the fiscal years indicated, only for the business activity selected in Section B.

If your company operates in more than one location, then please provide the total from all locations (provinces and territories) in Canada.

Please report in Canadian dollars for your company’s Canadian operations.

Please do not report revenue and expenses unrelated to the business activity selected in Section B.

Operating Revenue:

Include: Fees charged to clients for employees and contract workers and expenses (cost + mark-up) recovered from clients (e.g. hardware, software, travel and accommodations, and sub-contracted services).
Exclude: Revenue from foreign operations. Software sales unrelated to informatics professional services, GST and all other taxes collected for remittance to a government agency.
- Operating Revenue in 2009 (CAN$):
- Operating Revenue in 2010 (CAN$):

Expenses:

Expenses for Employees:

Include: Wages, salaries, benefits and bonuses paid to full-time, part-time and temporary employees whose time was charged to the business activity selected in Section B
Exclude: Overhead expenses (e.g. wages, salaries and benefits and bonuses of administrative staff, building occupancy costs, purchased services such as legal and accounting services).
- Expenses for Employees in 2009 (CAN$):
- Expenses for Employees in 2010 (CAN$):

Expenses for Contract Workers:

Include: Fees paid to contract workers for their work on the business activity selected in Section B.
- Expenses for Contract Worker in 2009 (CAN$):
- Expenses for Contract Worker in 2010 (CAN$):

Other Expenses:

Include: All other expenses incurred for work on the business activity selected in Section B (i.e. software, hardware, office expenses, travel and accommodation).
Exclude: Overhead such as GST refunded by government, rent, utilities and insurance.
- Other Expenses in 2009 (CAN$):
- Other Expenses in 2010 (CAN$)

F. Personnel

Average number of paid employees during the reporting period for the business activity selected in Section B.

To calculate the average number employed, add the number of employees in the last pay period of each month of the reporting period and divide this sum by the number of months (usually 12).
Exclude: Partners, proprietors and non-salaried personnel.
- Average number of paid employees in 2009:
- Average number of paid employees in 2010:

Full-time employees during the reporting period for the business activity selected in Section B.

Include: Full-time employment consists of persons who usually work 30 hours or more per week.
To calculate the average number of full-time employees, add the number of full-time employees in the last pay period of each month of the reporting period and divide this sum by the number of months (usually 12).
- Average number of paid employees who worked full-time in 2009:
- Average number of paid employees who worked full-time in 2010:

G. Average Annual Percentage Change in Labour Rates

Average annual percentage change for salaries and wages paid to employees and fees paid to contract workers

For the fiscal year indicated and the business activity selected in Section B, please complete the average annual percentage change for Salaries and wages paid to employees and fees paid to contract workers. Please follow the example below.

Example: Your company has 3 employees who can charge their time to the activity selected in Section B. Two of these employees received annual increases of 1% and 5%. The third employee did not receive an increase (0%). The sum of the three wage rate changes (1%+5%+0%) is 6.0%. When you divide by the number of employees (+6% / 3 employees), the result is an average annual percentage changes in wage rates of 2.0%.

If there is no change in the average annual percentage of salaries and wages and fees paid to contract workers, then write 0.

Salaries and wages rates:

Please report the average annual percentage change (+,-) in the salaries and wages paid to employees whose time is charged to the business activity selected in Section B (for all provinces and territories).
Exclude: The salary or wage changes for general and administrative staff.
- Salaries and Wages Rates in 2009 (%):
- Salaries and Wages Rates in 2010 (%):

Fees paid to contract workers:

Please report the average annual percentage change (+,-) in the fees paid to contract workers whose time is charged to the business activity selected in Section B (for all provinces and territories).
- Fees Paid to Contract Workers in 2009 (%):
- Fees Paid to Contract Workers in 2010 (%):

We welcome any suggestions that you may have for improving the Price Report for Informatics Professional Services.

Signature of Authorized Person:
Date Completed:

Name of authorized person to contact about this questionnaire (please print)

First Name of Authorized Person:
Last Name of Authorized Person:
Title of Authorized Person:
Telephone Number:
Extension:
Fax Number:
E-mail Address:

Time to complete questionnaire

How long did you spend collecting and reporting the information needed to complete this questionnaire?

Pre-filled questionnaire

In order to facilitate the completion of next year's questionnaire, we can provide you with a copy of the information you provided this year. Do you authorize us to send a pre-filled questionnaire containing the information you provided this year?

Please check

Yes (Please send a pre-filled questionnaire next year)
No (Please send a blank questionnaire)

Date:

Signature:

Please make a copy of this completed questionnaire for your records and return the questionnaire in the enclosed envelope.

Thank you

Statistics Canada - Producer Prices Division

2009/2010

Purpose of this survey

Confidentiality

Your answers are confidential

Record linkages

To enhance the data from this survey, Statistics Canada may combine it with information from other surveys or from administrative sources.

Your participation is important

Your participation is vital to ensure that the information collected in this survey is accurate and comprehensive.

Fax or other electronic transmission disclosure

Return Procedures

Please return the completed questionnaire to Statistics Canada within 15 days of receipt by mail using the return envelope. You can also fax it to us at 1-888-883-7999.

If necessary, please make address label corrections (please print)

Legal Name
Business Name
Title of Contact
First Name of Contact
Last Name of Contact
Address (number and street)
City
Province/ territory
Postal Code/Zip Code
Country
Language Preference
- English
- French

A. Introduction

Instructions:

Software Publishing

Examples: Packaged computer software publishing (including designing and developing), Packaged computer software, all formats, Packaged publishers games.

Data Processing, Hosting and Related Services

Internet Publishing, Broadcasting and Web Search Portals

Computer Systems Design and Related Services

B. Business Activities

We have selected one business activity for your company:

Software Publishing

Was your company engaged in the business activity in 2010 that is identified above?

Yes Please go to Section C and complete the questionnaire.
No If no, please select one of the business activities below that best represents your business and complete the questionnaire.

Note: Only if you did not perform the pre-selected activity at all in 2010, then please select the activity that represents your main business activity.

Descriptions and examples of the business activities are given in section A. For more details of the business activities please refer to the reporting guide included with this questionnaire.

Software Publishing
Data Processing, Hosting and Related Services
Internet Publishing, Broadcasting and Web Search Portals
Computer Systems Design and Related Services

Other - Please Specify:

C. Reporting Period

Please report information for your fiscal years in 2009 and 2010

2009:

Fiscal year end date (year/month/day):
Number of months:

2010:

Fiscal year end date (year/month/day):
Number of months:

D. Revenue Share

If your company operates in more than one location then please provide the total from all locations (provinces and territories) in Canada.

Reporting Instructions:

Include: Fees charged to clients for employees and contract workers and expenses (cost + mark-up) recovered from clients (e.g. hardware, software, travel and accommodations, subcontracted services)
Exclude: Revenue earned by foreign operations. Software sales unrelated to informatics professional services, GST and all other taxes collected for remittance to a government agency.

Business Activity

Software Publishing:

Revenue in 2009 (CAN$):
Revenue in 2010 (CAN$):

Data Processing, Hosting and Related Services:

Revenue in 2009 (CAN$):
Revenue in 2010 (CAN$):

Internet Publishing, Broadcasting and Web Search Portals:

Revenue in 2009 (CAN$):
Revenue in 2010 (CAN$):

Computer Systems Design and Related Services:

Revenue in 2009 (CAN$):
Revenue in 2010 (CAN$):

Other :

Revenue in 2009 (CAN$):
Revenue in 2010 (CAN$):

Total:

Revenue in 2009 (CAN$):
Revenue in 2010 (CAN$):

E. Operating Revenue & Expenses

Reporting Instructions:

Please provide the dollar value for the revenue and expenses for the fiscal years indicated, only for the business activity selected in Section B.

If your company operates in more than one location, then please provide the total from all locations (provinces and territories) in Canada.

Please report in Canadian dollars for your company’s Canadian operations.

Please do not report revenue and expenses unrelated to the business activity selected in Section B.

Operating Revenue:

Include: Fees charged to clients for employees and contract workers and expenses (cost + mark-up) recovered from clients (e.g. hardware, software, travel and accommodations, and sub-contracted services).
Exclude: Revenue from foreign operations. Software sales unrelated to informatics professional services, GST and all other taxes collected for remittance to a government agency.
- Operating Revenue in 2009 (CAN$):
- Operating Revenue in 2010 (CAN$):

Expenses:

Expenses for Employees:

Include: Wages, salaries, benefits and bonuses paid to full-time, part-time and temporary employees whose time was charged to the business activity selected in Section B
Exclude: Overhead expenses (e.g. wages, salaries and benefits and bonuses of administrative staff, building occupancy costs, purchased services such as legal and accounting services).
- Expenses for Employees in 2009 (CAN$):
- Expenses for Employees in 2010 (CAN$):

Expenses for Contract Workers:

Include: Fees paid to contract workers for their work on the business activity selected in Section B.
- Expenses for Contract Worker in 2009 (CAN$):
- Expenses for Contract Worker in 2010 (CAN$):

Other Expenses:

Include: All other expenses incurred for work on the business activity selected in Section B (i.e. software, hardware, office expenses, travel and accommodation).
Exclude: Overhead such as GST refunded by government, rent, utilities and insurance.
- Other Expenses in 2009 (CAN$):
- Other Expenses in 2010 (CAN$)

F. Personnel

Average number of paid employees during the reporting period for the business activity selected in Section B.

To calculate the average number employed, add the number of employees in the last pay period of each month of the reporting period and divide this sum by the number of months (usually 12).
Exclude: Partners, proprietors and non-salaried personnel.
- Average number of paid employees in 2009:
- Average number of paid employees in 2010:

Full-time employees during the reporting period for the business activity selected in Section B.

Include: Full-time employment consists of persons who usually work 30 hours or more per week.
To calculate the average number of full-time employees, add the number of full-time employees in the last pay period of each month of the reporting period and divide this sum by the number of months (usually 12).
- Average number of paid employees who worked full-time in 2009:
- Average number of paid employees who worked full-time in 2010:

G. Average Annual Percentage Change in Labour Rates

Average annual percentage change for salaries and wages paid to employees and fees paid to contract workers

If there is no change in the average annual percentage of salaries and wages and fees paid to contract workers, then write 0.

Salaries and wages rates:

Please report the average annual percentage change (+,-) in the salaries and wages paid to employees whose time is charged to the business activity selected in Section B (for all provinces and territories).
Exclude: The salary or wage changes for general and administrative staff.
- Salaries and Wages Rates in 2009 (%):
- Salaries and Wages Rates in 2010 (%):

Fees paid to contract workers:

Please report the average annual percentage change (+,-) in the fees paid to contract workers whose time is charged to the business activity selected in Section B (for all provinces and territories).
- Fees Paid to Contract Workers in 2009 (%):
- Fees Paid to Contract Workers in 2010 (%):

We welcome any suggestions that you may have for improving the Price Report for Informatics Professional Services.

Signature of Authorized Person:
Date Completed:

Name of authorized person to contact about this questionnaire (please print)

First Name of Authorized Person:
Last Name of Authorized Person:
Title of Authorized Person:
Telephone Number:
Extension:
Fax Number:
E-mail Address:

Time to complete questionnaire

How long did you spend collecting and reporting the information needed to complete this questionnaire?

Pre-filled questionnaire

Please check

Yes (Please send a pre-filled questionnaire next year)
No (Please send a blank questionnaire)

Date:

Signature:

Please make a copy of this completed questionnaire for your records and return the questionnaire in the enclosed envelope.

Thank you

Balance of Payments Division

Definition of commercial services

Commercial services cover several services such as management, telecommunications, financial services, insurance, ommissions on trade, computer services, research and development, professional services, training, health services, audiovisual and cultural services. Payments and receipts for the authorised use of propriety rights such as patents, copyrights and industrial process and designs are also covered by the definition of commercial services.

Costs or revenues for transportation services (such as freight), travel expenses and fares, goods imported or exported, interest, or profits and losses should not be reported on this survey. Salaries paid to non-Canadian employees for whom you complete a T4 slip (Statement of remuneration paid) should not be reported on this survey.

For more details, please consult the “Definitions and reference numbers” section, on page 4 of the BP-21S questionnaire on International Transactions in Commercial Services.

The Canadian reporting entity

The Canadian reporting entity, as a statistical unit, is defined as the organisational unit of a business that directs and controls the allocation of resources relating to its domestic operations, and for which consolidated financial and balance sheet accounts are maintained from which international transactions, an international investment position and a consolidated financial position for the unit can be derived.
The Canadian reporting entity should provide a fully consolidated report including itself and all of its Canadian subsidiaries and associates.

Definitions of “Foreign related parties” and “Other foreign parties”

In this survey you are asked to report your transborder trade with foreign related parties and your transborder trade with other foreign (arm's length) parties.

Foreign related parties (or related entities) are entities in which investors have the ability to exercise significant influence by virtue of their investment. Foreign related parties include foreign parent companies, branches, subsidiaries and other related parties in which the parent owns at least 10% of the voting rights or is substantially controlled by the same shareholders (please refer to C.I.C.A. accounting standards).
A related entity is either the foreign parent, a foreign affiliate in which your enterprise owns or controlled at least 10% of the voting rights, or a foreign affiliate owned or controlled by your foreign parent but in which the Canadian reporting entity holds no interest or less than 10%.
Other foreign parties are all other foreign entities that can not be defined as related parties.

Service transactions to include or to exclude depending of the entities involved

Please include commercial service transactions conducted between the Canadian reporting entity (surveyed by this questionnaire) and all foreign parties, related or not.

Do not include transactions conducted between one of your foreign related parties and another foreign entity. For example, if your foreign affiliated entity purchases a service from an unrelated entity from another country, that transaction should not be included. Do not include transactions conducted between one of your foreign related parties and a Canadian unrelated party.

Transactions between your Canadian entity and another Canadian entity owned by foreign interests are to be excluded as well. However, you should report transactions when your entity purchases (or sells) commercial services from (to) your foreign parent or from (to) a foreign affiliated or associated entity.

Why your enterprise has been selected to receive this survey

Your enterprise has been selected to receive this survey because you have reported international trade in services in the past.
Your enterprise could also have been selected randomly to represent other enterprises from the same economic sector as yours.

This survey is not intended solely for enterprises from the service sector. Enterprises producing mainly goods could also have international transactions in commercial services. For example, they could pay royalties for the use of a technology.

How to report transactions

Report all the commercial service transactions by category of services (see the “Definitions and reference numbers” section on page 4 of the questionnaire for more details), by partner country, and by affiliation between the parties involved.

Amounts reported should be rounded in thousands of Canadian dollars. For example, an amount of C$ 5,234,568.00 should be reported as “5,235” on the questionnaire. Amounts below C$ 500.00 are rounded to “0” and should, therefore, be omitted.

Allocate transactions to countries by using the country codes from the “yellow sheet” included with the questionnaire. If a country is not included on the list, write the name of the country instead.

When actual amounts are not available, please estimate your service expenses and revenues. Specify, in the “Comments” section of the appropriate schedule (A and/or B), that amounts are estimated.

If you are not sure if a transaction has to be reported or not in this survey, you could report the amount at line 32 and provide a description in the “Comments” section of the appropriate schedule (A and/or B).

If, after reading the definitions, your enterprise has no transaction of commercial services then report “0” at line 33 on both schedules A and B, sign the form and return it to Statistics Canada.

Example:

An enterprise is providing commercial services to three foreign clients:

It charges C$50,000.00 to a first subsidiary unit located in the United States for computer system development services
It charges C$100,000.00 to a second subsidiary unit located in the United States for computer system development services
It charges C$60,000.00 to an unaffiliated company located in the United Kingdom for financial advisory services

The enterprise must report these transactions on page 2 (Schedule A), since it is exporting commercial services.

The country code “USA” is entered at the top of the first column, and the country code “GBR” is entered at the top of the second column.

The revenues from the clients located in United States will be reported on line 5 “Computer services”. The two clients located in United States are affiliated, so both transactions are summed and “150” is reported in the left cell of the first column on line 5, under “to related entities”.

The revenues from the client located in United Kingdom will be reported on line 4, “Financial services other than insurance”. The client located in United Kingdom is not affiliated, so “60” is reported in the right cell of the second column on line 4, under “to other entities”.

Commodity line totals for related and other transactions are reported in the last column to the right, transactions with related entities are summed up in the left cell and transactions with other entities are summed in the right cell. Country total for related and other transactions are reported on line 33. Finally, total revenues on exports for related and other transactions are reported in the two cells at the bottom right of the table (last column to the right, line 33).

Schedule A - Exports of commercial services, 2008

For your operations in Canada, please report the value of services sold to customers abroad (revenues earned) during 2008 (or your nearest fiscal year)

Please report net of Withholding Tax, and in Thousands of $ Canadian

Schedule A - Exports of commercial services, 2008
Services (see definitions on page 4) Includes transactions concluded over the internet	Ref. No.	Country		Country		Country		Total revenues on exports
		Please enter country code from yellow sheet. Eg: JPN for Japan
		USA		GBR
		to foreign related parties	to other foreign parties	to foreign related parties	to other foreign parties	to foreign related parties	to other foreign parties	to foreign related parties	to foreign related parties
		Cdn. $'000
Telecommunications and related services	1
Construction services	2
Insurance claims received from non-resident insurers	3
Financial services other than insurance	4				60				60
Other computer services	5	150						150
Other. Please specify in the Comments section below	32
Total revenues	33	150			60			150	60

Notes

1. This guide is also valid for the questionnaire BP-17 (International Transactions between insurance brokers in Canada and their foreign affiliates, agents, and other companies or persons outside Canada)

Producer Prices Division

This page is for information purposes only and is not a functional form.

Confidential when completed

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

Completion of this questionnaire is a legal requirement under this Act.

Please correct the pre-printed information, if necessary, using the boxes below:

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Purpose of this survey

This survey collects financial and wage information that is used to produce price indexes. These indexes measure change in prices for engineering services. Businesses use these indexes to evaluate their performance, to track costs, and to index long-term contracts. Statistics Canada uses them to better measure the volume of activity in the engineering industry. The results of this survey are published in the Construction Price Statistics (Cat No. 62-007) on the STC Internet site.

Fax or other electronic transmission disclosure

Statistics Canada advises you that there could be a risk of disclosure during facsimile or other electronic transmission. 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.

Confidentiality

Return Procedures

We ask that you complete and return this questionnaire within 30 days of receipt to:

Statistics Canada
Producer Prices Division
10th Floor, Jean Talon Bldg
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0T6

Need Help?

If you require assistance in completing this questionnaire or expect delays in returning the survey, please contact:

Producer Prices Division
Telephone: 1-888-951-4550
E-Mail: sppi.coneng.ipps@statcan.gc.ca

A. Reporting Period

Please report information for your fiscal year ending between January 1 and December 31 for the years xxxx & xxxx

This report covers:

No. of months:
Ending mm/dd:

B. Main Business Activity

In the fiscal year reported in Section A, were sales of engineering services the main source of operating revenue for your firm?

B.1 If yes, please continue to Section C.
B.2 If no - please describe the nature of your firm's main business activity and return this questionnaire in the envelope provided.

C. Instructions for Steps 1, 2, 3

For the Fiscal Year indicated, please report your project-related revenues, expenses and wage changes in the appropriate table on page 3.

Geography: please report for activity contracted or primarily performed at all locations in Canada by your company, not the location of the project, except for Foreign clients.

For Foreign clients, the last category "Foreign includes all types of projects undertaken by your company for foreign clients.

Type of Engineering Project: please report for activity based on the type of engineering project. Please see E. Reference Guide for Engineering Specializations, last page.

D. Definitions for Steps 1, 2, 3

Definition for Step 1: Project-related Revenue

Project-related revenue (in Canadian dollars) from sales of engineering services.

Include:

Fees charged to clients for employees and contract workers for their work on engineering projects.
Other project-related expenses (cost+mark-up) recovered from clients (e.g. subcontracted services, travel and accommodation).

Exclude:

Revenue earned by your subsidiaries or foreign branches.
GST and all other taxes collected for remittance to a government agency.

Definition for Step 2: Project-related Expenses

Project-related expenses (in Canadian dollars) incurred for work on engineering projects.

Include:

Direct project-related expenses reimbursed and non-reimbursed by clients.

Exclude:

All overhead expenses (e.g. wages and benefits of non-chargeable administrative staff, building occupancy costs, purchased services such as legal and accounting services).
GST refunded by government.

Definition for Step 3: Average of Annual % Changes in Salaries and Wage Rates

Please report your firm's overall average of annual percentage changes (+,-, 0) in salaries or wages.

Include:

Salaries or wages paid to employees and contract workers whose time was charged to engineering projects.

Exclude:

The salary or wage changes for general and administrative staff.

Example: Your company has 3 employees who can charge their time to engineering projects. Two of these employees received annual increases of 1% and 5%. The third employee did not get an increase (0%).

The sum of the three wage rate changes (1%+5%+0%) is 6.0%

When you divide by the number of employees (+6% / 3 employees), the result is an average of annual % changes in wage rates of 2.0%.

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Average of Annual Percentage Changes in Salaries and Wage Rates
Type of Engineering Project Note: The last category "Foreign includes all types of projects undertaken by your company for foreign clients.	Code	Step 1	Step 2
For your fiscal year ending:			<Year>
	Code	Project-related revenues	Project-related expenses
Buildings	21	$	$
Transportation	34	$	$
Municipal Services	56	$	$
Environmental Services	7	$	$
Mining, Metallurgy, and Primary Metals	8	$	$
Pulp and Paper	9	$	$
Oil, Petroleum and Natural Gas	10	$	$
Power Generation and Transmission	11	$	$
Other Industrial Services	12	$	$
Other Engineering Services	13	$	$
Foreign	70	$	$
	Total	$
Please report the overall average of annual percentage changes (+,-, 0) in the salaries or wages paid to employees and contract workers whose time was charged to engineering projects.		Step 3	Exclude the salary or wage changes for general and administrative staff.
		%

E. Reference Guide for Engineering Specializations

21. Buildings
Structural, mechanical and electrical engineering for the construction, repair or renovation of commercial, public, institutional and residential buildings; building science

34. Transportation
Construction or repair of structures for air, rail, water, or land transportation-related studies and planning. Note: please report shipbuilding and aerospace projects under Other Engineering Projects

56. Municipal Services
Water supply and treatment storm water control; sewage treatment, waste disposal; urban/regional planning and development; construction of municipal facilities (community facilities, lights, parking, etc.)

7. Other Environmental Services
Environmental monitoring and impact assessment studies; development of standards for environmental protection; pollution control and hazardous or dangerous waste management; meteorology; oceanography; permafrost engineering

8. Mining, Metallurgy and Primary Metals
Exploration, extraction and processing of metallic and non-metallic minerals

9. Pulp & Paper
Forest management; extraction and processing of forest resources

10. Oil, Petroleum & Natural Gas
Exploration, extraction, processing and distribution of oil and gas resources

11. Power Generation & Transmission
Power generation and transmission; studies in energy use or conservation and in the use of alternative energy sources

12. Other Industrial
Construction, renovation or repair of industrial plants and buildings; development of manufacturing processes and products; communications computer technology, electronics and materials handling

13. Other Engineering Services
All other engineering projects not included in the previous categories. Examples include agriculture and rural development, fisheries, shipbuilding, aerospace, engineering, surveying, geology, and geophysics and construction

70. Foreign
All types of engineering projects undertaken by your Canadian offices for foreign clients

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We welcome any suggestions that you may have for improving our survey of prices for consulting engineering services.
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A. Reporting Period

Please report information for your fiscal year ending between January 1 and December 31 for the years xxxx & xxxx

This report covers:

No. of months:
Ending mm/dd:

B. Main Business Activity

In the fiscal year reported in Section A, were sales of engineering services the main source of operating revenue for your firm?

B.1 If yes, please continue to Section C.
B.2 If no - please describe the nature of your firm's main business activity and return this questionnaire in the envelope provided.

C. Instructions for Steps 1, 2, 3

For the Fiscal Year indicated, please report your project-related revenues, expenses and wage changes in the appropriate table on page 3.

Geography: please report for activity contracted or primarily performed at all locations in Canada by your company, not the location of the project, except for Foreign clients.

For Foreign clients, the last category "Foreign includes all types of projects undertaken by your company for foreign clients.

Type of Engineering Project: please report for activity based on the type of engineering project. Please see E. Reference Guide for Engineering Specializations, last page.

D. Definitions for Steps 1, 2, 3

Definition for Step 1: Project-related Revenue

Project-related revenue (in Canadian dollars) from sales of engineering services.

Include:

Fees charged to clients for employees and contract workers for their work on engineering projects.
Other project-related expenses (cost+mark-up) recovered from clients (e.g. subcontracted services, travel and accommodation).

Exclude:

Revenue earned by your subsidiaries or foreign branches.
GST and all other taxes collected for remittance to a government agency.

Definition for Step 2: Project-related Expenses

Project-related expenses (in Canadian dollars) incurred for work on engineering projects.

Include:

Direct project-related expenses reimbursed and non-reimbursed by clients.

Exclude:

All overhead expenses (e.g. wages and benefits of non-chargeable administrative staff, building occupancy costs, purchased services such as legal and accounting services).
GST refunded by government.

Definition for Step 3: Average of Annual % Changes in Salaries and Wage Rates

Please report your firm's overall average of annual percentage changes (+,-, 0) in salaries or wages.

Include:

Salaries or wages paid to employees and contract workers whose time was charged to engineering projects.

Exclude:

The salary or wage changes for general and administrative staff.

The sum of the three wage rate changes (1%+5%+0%) is 6.0%

When you divide by the number of employees (+6% / 3 employees), the result is an average of annual % changes in wage rates of 2.0%.

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Average of Annual Percentage Changes in Salaries and Wage Rates
Type of Engineering Project Note: The last category "Foreign includes all types of projects undertaken by your company for foreign clients.	Code	Step 1	Step 2
For your fiscal year ending:			<Year>
	Code	Project-related revenues	Project-related expenses
Buildings	21	$	$
Transportation	34	$	$
Municipal Services	56	$	$
Environmental Services	7	$	$
Mining, Metallurgy, and Primary Metals	8	$	$
Pulp and Paper	9	$	$
Oil, Petroleum and Natural Gas	10	$	$
Power Generation and Transmission	11	$	$
Other Industrial Services	12	$	$
Other Engineering Services	13	$	$
Foreign	70	$	$
	Total	$
Please report the overall average of annual percentage changes (+,-, 0) in the salaries or wages paid to employees and contract workers whose time was charged to engineering projects.		Step 3	Exclude the salary or wage changes for general and administrative staff.
		%

E. Reference Guide for Engineering Specializations

21. Buildings
Structural, mechanical and electrical engineering for the construction, repair or renovation of commercial, public, institutional and residential buildings; building science

8. Mining, Metallurgy and Primary Metals
Exploration, extraction and processing of metallic and non-metallic minerals

9. Pulp & Paper
Forest management; extraction and processing of forest resources

10. Oil, Petroleum & Natural Gas
Exploration, extraction, processing and distribution of oil and gas resources

11. Power Generation & Transmission
Power generation and transmission; studies in energy use or conservation and in the use of alternative energy sources

70. Foreign
All types of engineering projects undertaken by your Canadian offices for foreign clients

F. Comments (If more space is required, please attach a separate sheet.)

We welcome any suggestions that you may have for improving our survey of prices for consulting engineering services.
We would appreciate your comments on the following topics:

Questionnaire content
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Comprehension of questions (e.g. through definitions, instructions, examples, etc.)
Layout of the questionnaire
Timing of receipt of questionnaire
Nature of your firm's main business activity

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Signature of authorized person:
Date completed:

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Reporting Month

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Please return this questionnaire in the envelope provided.

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- First name
- Last name
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Please report for all of your operations in Canada.

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Survey objective

Statistics Canada is undertaking this survey to provide statistical information on the use and management of Intellectual Property (IP*) by Canadian enterprises. Patents, copyrights, trade-marks and other IP instruments are important marketplace frameworks that impact on the Canadian economy. The information compiled by this survey will be used by the Canadian government to better understand the impacts of patents, copyrights, trade-marks and other IP protection on industry efforts to become more productive and innovative.

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Who should complete this questionnaire?

Authorised representatives of the enterprise such as senior managers with a thorough knowledge of its intellectual property management.

Please consult the glossary if necessary at the end of the questionnaire.

For additional information, please call us toll free at 1-800-565-1685.

For this survey, please report for all of your operations in Canada for 2010.

All items marked with an asterisk (*) can be found in the glossary at the end of the questionnaire.

Section 1 – Enterprise Structure

This section asks about the ownership and organisation of your enterprise.

1. Is your Canadian enterprise* a subsidiary or branch of another enterprise?

Yes
No (Go to question 3)

2. Where is your enterprise's head office* located? Check only one.

Canada
United States
Europe
Asia Pacific
Other (please specify)

3. Does your Canadian enterprise have subsidiaries*?

Yes
No (Go to question 5)

4. Where are they located? Check all that apply.

Canada
United States
Europe
Asia Pacific
Other (please specify)

Section 2 – Enterprise Activity

This section asks about software, goods, services and creative works*, which your enterprise produces.

5. In 2010, did your enterprise earn operating revenue from sales of software products?

Exclude: Pre-packaged software products and applications (apps).

6. In 2010, did your enterprise earn operating revenue from sales of goods?

Include: Devices, Medications, Chemicals, Energy, Vehicles, Specialized equipment, Pre-packaged software, and other tangible goods.

Exclude: Music, Audio or film recordings, Software (other than pre-packaged), Publications, Other creative works, other intangible works.

7. In 2010, did your enterprise earn operating revenue from sales of services?

Include: Designs, Management, Monitoring, Technical advice, Plans, Consulting, Formulas, Repair and/or maintenance.

Exclude: Promotion of music, audio or film recordings, Consulting services for music, Audio or film recordings, Other services for creative works.

8. In 2010, did your enterprise earn operating revenue from sales or promotion of creative works created for the market or for a client?

Include: TV shows, Compilations, Interactive digital media, Publications, Music scores, Music lyrics, Music publications, Audio-visual works, Voice performance for animation, Magazines, Paintings, Commercials, Films, Websites, Webpages, Apps.

9. Thinking about your most important product or product-line* (i.e., software, goods, services or creative works) how many direct competitors* does your enterprise have in Canada?

0
1 to 3
4 to 6
7 to 10
More than 10
Don't know

10. Thinking about your most important product or product-line, does your enterprise sell high end and low end versions of similar software, goods, services or creative works at different prices in Canada?

Section 3 – Patents*

This section asks about your patent activities.

11. As of December 2010, did your Canadian enterprise hold or use issued patents…

A patent can fit into more than one category. Report one (1) patent for multiple registrations.

…applied for by your enterprise
- Yes
- No
- Total number
…originated with founders or predecessors
- Yes
- No
- Total number
…licensed* to others
- Yes
- No
- Total number
… purchased directly by your enterprise (excluding mergers and acquisitions)
- Yes
- No
- Total number
… obtained through mergers* & acquisitions*
- Yes
- No
- Total number
… obtained via strategic alliance* or partnerships
- Yes
- No
- Total number
… that were cross-licensed*
- Yes
- No
…owned by your foreign head office
- Yes
- No
… accessed through patent pools*
- Yes
- No

If 'No' to ALL options (i.e. 0 patents), Go to question 21.

12. In 2010, please report the number of patenting activities by your Canadian enterprise.

New Patent applications
- With the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
- With the United States Patent and Trade-mark Office (USPTO)
- With patent offices in other countries
Patents issued
- With the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
- With the United States Patent and Trade-mark Office (USPTO)
- With patent offices in other countries

13. Please list the patent numbers that were most important to your enterprise in 2010.

Please report multiple registrations for the same patent on the same line.

Patent 1
- Canada: CIPO Patent number
- United States: USPTO Patent number
- Patent offices in other countries
  1. Yes
  2. No
Patent 2
- Canada: CIPO Patent number
- United States: USPTO Patent number
- Patent offices in other countries
  1. Yes
  2. No
Patent 3
- Canada: CIPO Patent number
- United States: USPTO Patent number
- Patent offices in other countries
  1. Yes
  2. No
Patent 4
- Canada: CIPO Patent number
- United States: USPTO Patent number
- Patent offices in other countries
  1. Yes
  2. No
Patent 5
- Canada: CIPO Patent number
- United States: USPTO Patent number
- Patent offices in other countries
  1. Yes
  2. No

14. In 2010, did your Canadian enterprise sell any patents to other enterprises or organizations? (excluding establishments and companies within your own enterprise)

Yes
No (Go to question 16)

15. As a result, did the book value* of your Canadian enterprise:

Increase
Decrease
Stay the same
Don't know

16. In 2010, did your Canadian enterprise buy any patents from other enterprises or organizations? (excluding establishments and companies within your own enterprise)

Yes
No (Go to question 18)

17. As a result, did the book value of your Canadian enterprise:

Increase
Decrease
Stay the same
Don't know

18. In 2010, were any of your patents infringed*?

Yes
No (Go to question 20)
Don't know (Go to question 20)

19. How many infringements were there in 2010?

Number of infringements
Don't know

20. In 2010, in which of the following patent enforcement activities did your Canadian enterprise engage? Check all that apply.

No active patent enforcements in 2010
Monitoring for potential patent infringement*
Legal actions to enforce patents
Oppositions* to an intellectual property office with respect to patents
Enforcement undertaken by your enterprise's foreign parent

21. As of December 2010, how many of your patents had expired or were allowed to expire?

No Patents held or used
0
1 to 3
4 to 6
7 to 10
More than 10
Don't know

Section 4 - Copyrights*

This section asks about your copyright activities.

22. As of December 2010, did your Canadian enterprise hold or use any copyrights?

Include: Registered* and unregistered copyrights and copyrights licensed to and from others.

Yes: How many copyrights as of December 2010?
- 1 to 99
- 100 to 999
- 1000 or more
- Don't know
No (Go to question 30)

23. In 2010, how many copyrights were licensed TO others? (excluding establishments and companies within your own enterprise)

1 to 10
11 to 99
100 to 999
1000 or more
No copyrights licensed to others in 2010
Don't know

24. In 2010, how many copyrights were licensed FROM others? (excluding establishments and companies within your own enterprise)

1 to 10
11 to 99
100 to 999
1000 or more
No copyrights licensed from others in 2010
Don't know

25. In 2010, did your Canadian enterprise register any copyrights?

Yes
No (Go to question 27)

26. Please indicate the number of copyrights registered by your Canadian enterprise in 2010 with the following entities:
Please enter 0 if none.

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
United States Copyright Office
Copyright offices in other countries

27. In 2010, were there any known unauthorised uses of your copyrights (e.g. piracy*)?

Yes
No (Go to question 29)
Don't know (Go to question 29)

28. How many known unauthorised uses were there in 2010?

Number of unauthorised uses
Don't know

29. In 2010, in which of the following copyright enforcement activities did your Canadian enterprise engage?
Check all that apply.

No active copyright enforcements in 2010
Monitoring for potential copyright infringement*
Legal actions to enforce copyrights
Enforcement undertaken by your enterprise's foreign parent

Section 5 - Trade-marks

This section asks about your trade-marks activities.

30. As of December 2010, did your Canadian enterprise hold or use any trade-marks?

Include: Both registered and unregistered trade-marks, enterprise and all company names (if trade-marked) and enterprise logos and product logos (if trade-marked).

Exclude: Domain names.

Yes
- How many total trade-marks as of December 2010?
No (Go to question 37)

31. How many of these trade-marks ... A trade-mark can fit into more than one category. Please enter 0 if none.

…reflect the entire Canadian enterprise? (e.g. company name or logo)?
…are specific to software, goods, services or creative works?
… are specific to new technologies?
… are specific to new processes?

32. In which of the following ways were the trade-marks acquired? Check all that apply.

Created and used by the enterprise
Through Registration with a trade-mark office
Through the direct purchase From another enterprise
Indirectly through the purchase Of another enterprise
Through licensing or franchising agreements
Don't know
Other (please specify)

33. In 2010, please report activities for trade-marks by your Canadian enterprise: Please enter 0 if none.

Number of Trade-mark registrations
- With the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
- With the United States Patent and Trade-mark Office (USPTO)
- With Trademark offices in other countries
Number of Trade-mark renewals
- With the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
- With the United States Patent and Trade-mark Office (USPTO)
- With Trademark offices in other countries

34. In 2010, were any of your trade-marks infringed (e.g. counterfeiting*)?

Yes
No (Go to question 36)
Don't know (Go to question 36)

35. How many infringements in 2010?

Number of infringements in 2010
Don't know

36. In 2010, in which of the following enforcement activities did your Canadian enterprise engage? Check all that apply.

No active trade-marks enforcements in 2010
Monitoring for potential trade-marks infringement*
Legal actions to enforce trade-marks
Oppositions to an intellectual property office with respect to trade-marks
Enforcement undertaken by your enterprise's foreign parent

Section 6 - Other forms of protection and management of intellectual property

This section asks about other aspects of your intellectual property (IP).

37. In 2010, did your Canadian enterprise hold or use: Check all that apply.

Industrial designs*
Clinical trial data protection*
Domain names (websites)*
Trade secrets* to protect your Intellectual Property*
Non-disclosure agreements*
Open source*
Any other type of Intellectual Property (please specify)
None of the above

38. In 2010, where were business decisions regarding Intellectual Property managed? Check only one.

In Canada
Outside Canada
Both in and outside Canada
No decisions required on intellectual property (Go to question 40)

39. In 2010, which of the following types of services did your enterprise employ in managing Intellectual Property? Check all that apply.

Legal service or counsel
- Yes
  1. Internal
  2. External (contracted out)
- No
Patent agent* or Trade-mark agent*
- Yes
  1. Internal
  2. External (contracted out)
- No
Other service provider
- Yes, please specify
  1. Internal
  2. External (contracted out)
- No

Section 7 - Revenue and expenses

For these questions, please report in thousands of Canadian dollars for your fiscal year ending between April 1, 2010 and March 31, 2011.

Revenue

The next questions ask about your enterprise's operating revenue* in fiscal year 2010.
Please enter 0 if no revenue.

40. In 2010, what was the total operating revenue of your Canadian enterprise?

Total operating revenue
If '0' Go to question 42.

41. In 2010, estimate the percentage of this operating revenue that came from the following geographic markets:

Canada %
United States %
Europe %
Asia Pacific %
Rest of world %
Total 100%

42. In 2010, did your enterprise earn revenue from goods, services or creative works protected by patents (regardless of overlapping IP rights)?

Yes
- In Canada
- Outside Canada
- Both in and outside Canada
No

43. In 2010, did your enterprise earn revenue from goods, services or creative works protected by copyrights (regardless of overlapping IP rights)?

Yes
- In Canada
- Outside Canada
- Both in and outside Canada
No

44. In 2010, did your enterprise earn revenue from goods, services or creative works protected by product-specific trade-marks (regardless of overlapping IP rights)?

Yes
- In Canada
- Outside Canada
- Both in and outside Canada
No

45. In 2010, did your Canadian enterprise earn any revenue from royalties* or licensing fees? (excluding establishments and companies within your enterprise)

Yes
No (Go to question 48)

46. In 2010, please report the amounts of these royalties and licensing fees received from … (excluding establishments and companies within your enterprise). Indicate '0' if no amount received.

Patents
- In Canada ('000 $)
- Outside Canada ('000 $)
Industrial designs
- In Canada ('000 $)
- Outside Canada ('000 $)
Trade-marks
- In Canada ('000 $)
- Outside Canada ('000 $)
Copyright works (except software)
- In Canada ('000 $)
- Outside Canada ('000 $)
Pre-packaged software
- In Canada ('000 $)
- Outside Canada ('000 $)
Other software (customized)
- In Canada ('000 $)
- Outside Canada ('000 $)
Other intellectual property rights (please specify)
- In Canada ('000 $)
- Outside Canada ('000 $)

47. How were these royalties and licensing fees received? Check all that apply.

Running royalties*
Milestones payments*
One-time licenses*
Pay-per-play* (e.g. SOCAN, BMI, ASCAP)
Don't know
Other (please specify)

Expenses

The next questions ask about your enterprise's operating expenses in fiscal year 2010.
Please enter '0' if no expenses.

48. In 2010, what were your enterprise's operating expenses for the management and maintenance of intellectual property?

Salaries and wages for managing and maintaining Intellectual Property $
Direct fee payments to intellectual property offices (e.g. CIPO, USPTO, US Copyright Office) $
Legal services to manage IP (excluding salaries & wages) $
Administrative fees paid to copyright collectives $
Expenses to comply with IP-related government regulations (e.g. health and agriculture) $
Other expenses to manage and maintain intellectual property
- (please specify) $

49. In 2010, did your enterprise make any payments for royalties or licensing fees?
(excluding establishments and companies within your enterprise).

Yes
No (Go to question 51)

50. In 2010, please report the amounts of these royalties and licensing fees paid for ... (excluding establishments and companies within your enterprise)... Indicate '0' if no amount paid.

Patents
- In Canada ('000 $)
- Outside Canada ('000 $)
Industrial designs
- In Canada ('000 $)
- Outside Canada ('000 $)
Trade-marks
- In Canada ('000 $)
- Outside Canada ('000 $)
Copyright works (except software)
- In Canada ('000 $)
- Outside Canada ('000 $)
Pre-packaged software
- In Canada ('000 $)
- Outside Canada ('000 $)
Other software (customized)
- In Canada ('000 $)
- Outside Canada ('000 $)
Other intellectual property rights (please specify)
- In Canada ('000 $)
- Outside Canada ('000 $)

These next questions ask about the enterprise's technology and marketing-related expenses. Please report all in thousands of Canadian dollars where applicable.

51. In 2010, did your Canadian enterprise incur any expenses for internet and internet-related services (including service providers)?

Yes
- How much in 2010? ('000 $)
No

52. In 2010, did your Canadian enterprise incur any expenses for the development of in-house, custom designed or contracted out computer software?

Yes
- How much in 2010? ('000 $)
No

53. In 2010, did your Canadian enterprise incur any expenses for off-the-shelf pre-packaged purchase or acquisition and/or upgrade of software?

Yes
- How much in 2010? ('000 $)
No

54. In 2010, did your Canadian enterprise incur any expenses for the purchase and maintenance of personal computers (including handheld devices)?

Yes
- How much in 2010? ('000 $)
No

55. In 2010, did your Canadian enterprise incur any expenses for the creation of spin-off* companies?

Yes
- How much in 2010? ('000 $)
No

56. In 2010, did your Canadian enterprise incur any expenses for advertising or marketing?

Yes
- How much in 2010? ('000 $)
No

Other intellectual property related questions

These questions ask about other activities that relate to intellectual property.

57. In the last 3 years, did your Canadian enterprise produce any manuals associated with your software, goods, services or creative works?

58. In the last 3 years, did your enterprise produce any marketing brochures or pamphlets associated with your software, goods, services or creative works?

59. In the last 3 years, did your enterprise perform any research and development* in Canada?

60. In the last 3 years, excluding government funding, did your enterprise receive any funds from external investment sources (e.g., angel investors, venture capital, banks and other enterprises)?

Yes
No (Go to question 62)

61. In the last 3 years, how important were the enterprise's patents, copyrights or trade-marks in securing funds from external investment sources? Check only one for each column.

Patents
- Very important
- Moderately important
- Slightly important
- Not important at all
- Don't know
- Not applicable
Copyright
- Very important
- Moderately important
- Slightly important
- Not important at all
- Don't know
- Not applicable
Trade-marks
- Very important
- Moderately important
- Slightly important
- Not important at all
- Don't know
- Not applicable

62. In the last 3 years, did patents, copyrights or trade-marks held by others prevent any R&D performed by your enterprise?

Yes
No
Not applicable

63. In the last 3 years, did patents, copyrights or trade-marks held by others prevent commercialization of new software, goods, services or creative works?

Yes
No
Not applicable

64. In the last 3 years, did patents, copyrights or trade-marks held by others prevent your enterprise's ability to obtain financing?

Yes
No
Not applicable

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Copyright registration:
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Counterfeit:
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Domain Name:
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Enterprise:
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Head Office:
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Industrial Design:
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Intellectual property:
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breeders' rights), or that is provided commercial value (e.g. know-how, trade secrets).

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Mergers and Acquisitions:
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users to freely study, change, improve and at times also to distribute the software.

Operating Revenue:
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Opposition:
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Patents:
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Patent Agent:
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Patent Infringement:
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Patent Pool:
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Pay per play:
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Piracy:
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Product-line:
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Royalties:
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Running Royalties:
A stream of future royalty payments collected at regular intervals often used in the oil industry and music industry to describe a percentage ownership of future production (only applies to oil industry) or revenues from a given copyright work, which may
be divested from the original owner.

Spin off Companies:
A corporate action where a company "splits off" sections of itself as a separate business. The "spin-off" company takes assets, intellectual property, technology, and/or existing products from the parent organization.

Strategic Alliance:
A relationship between two or more parties to pursue a set of agreed upon goals or to meet a critical business need while remaining independent organizations.

Subsidiary:
An entity that is controlled by a separate higher entity called its parent.

Trade-mark:
Words, designs, numbers, shapes, or any combination of these, used to distinguish the goods or services of one person or organization from those of others. A trade-mark may be designed by the following symbols: ®, ™, SM.

Trade-mark Agent:
A person who is qualified to act in matters involving trade-mark and design matters (e.g. advising on the use and registration; filing and prosecuting applications to register; handling oppositions, revocations, invalidations and assignments; carry out searches; and advising on infringement matters). A trademark agent must be registered with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO).

Trade-mark Infringement:
Is a violation of the exclusive right attached to a trade-mark without the authorization of the trademark owner or any licensees. Infringement may occur when one party, the "infringer", uses a trademark which is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark owned by another party, in relation to products or services which are identical or similar to the products or services which the registration covers.

Trade Secrets:
Information that is secret or not generally known in the relevant industry and that gives its owner an advantage over competitors.

Monthly Retail Trade Survey (MRTS) Data Quality Statement

Objectives, uses and users
Concepts, variables and classifications
Coverage and frames
Sampling
Questionnaire design
Response and nonresponse
Data collection and capture operations
Editing
Imputation
Estimation
Revisions and seasonal adjustment
Data quality evaluation
Disclosure control

1. Objectives, uses and users

1.1. Objective

The Monthly Retail Trade Survey (MRTS) provides information on the performance of the retail trade sector on a monthly basis, and when combined with other statistics, represents an important indicator of the state of the Canadian economy.

1.2. Uses

The estimates provide a measure of the health and performance of the retail trade sector. Information collected is used to estimate level and monthly trend for retail sales. At the end of each year, the estimates provide a preliminary look at annual retail sales and performance.

1.3. Users

A variety of organizations, sector associations, and levels of government make use of the information. Retailers rely on the survey results to compare their performance against similar types of businesses, as well as for marketing purposes. Retail associations are able to monitor industry performance and promote their retail industries. Investors can monitor industry growth, which can result in better access to investment capital by retailers. Governments are able to understand the role of retailers in the economy, which aids in the development of policies and tax incentives. As an important industry in the Canadian economy, governments are able to better determine the overall health of the economy through the use of the estimates in the calculation of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

2. Concepts, variables and classifications

2.1. Concepts

The retail trade sector comprises establishments primarily engaged in retailing merchandise, generally without transformation, and rendering services incidental to the sale of merchandise.

The retailing process is the final step in the distribution of merchandise; retailers are therefore organized to sell merchandise in small quantities to the general public. This sector comprises two main types of retailers, that is, store and non-store retailers. The MRTS covers only store retailers. Their main characteristics are described below. Store retailers operate fixed point-of-sale locations, located and designed to attract a high volume of walk-in customers. In general, retail stores have extensive displays of merchandise and use mass-media advertising to attract customers. They typically sell merchandise to the general public for personal or household consumption, but some also serve business and institutional clients. These include establishments such as office supplies stores, computer and software stores, gasoline stations, building material dealers, plumbing supplies stores and electrical supplies stores.

In addition to selling merchandise, some types of store retailers are also engaged in the provision of after-sales services, such as repair and installation. For example, new automobile dealers, electronic and appliance stores and musical instrument and supplies stores often provide repair services, while floor covering stores and window treatment stores often provide installation services. As a general rule, establishments engaged in retailing merchandise and providing after sales services are classified in this sector. Catalogue sales showrooms, gasoline service stations, and mobile home dealers are treated as store retailers.

2.2. Variables

Sales are defined as the sales of all goods purchased for resale, net of returns and discounts. This includes commission revenue and fees earned from selling goods and services on account of others, such as selling lottery tickets, bus tickets, and phone cards. It also includes parts and labour revenue from repair and maintenance; revenue from rental and leasing of goods and equipment; revenues from services, including food services; sales of goods manufactured as a secondary activity; and the proprietor’s withdrawals, at retail, of goods for personal use. Other revenue from rental of real estate, placement fees, operating subsidies, grants, royalties and franchise fees are excluded.

Trading Location is the physical location(s) in which business activity is conducted in each province and territory, and for which sales are credited or recognized in the financial records of the company. For retailers, this would normally be a store.

Constant Dollars: The value of retail trade is measured in two ways; including the effects of price change on sales and net of the effects of price change. The first measure is referred to as retail trade in current dollars and the latter as retail trade in constant dollars. The method of calculating the current dollar estimate is to aggregate the weighted value of sales for all retail outlets. The method of calculating the constant dollar estimate is to first adjust the sales values to a base year, using the Consumer Price Index, and then sum up the resulting values.

2.3. Classification

The Monthly Retail Trade Survey is based on the definition of retail trade under the NAICS (North American Industry Classification System). NAICS is the agreed upon common framework for the production of comparable statistics by the statistical agencies of Canada, Mexico and the United States. The agreement defines the boundaries of twenty sectors. NAICS is based on a production-oriented, or supply based conceptual framework in that establishments are groups into industries according to similarity in production processes used to produce goods and services.

Estimates appear for 21 industries based on special aggregations of the 2007 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) industries. The 21 industries are further aggregated to 11 sub-sectors.

Geographically, sales estimates are produced for Canada and each province and territory.

3. Coverage and frames

Statistics Canada’s Business Register ( BR) provides the frame for the Monthly Retail Trade Survey. The BR is a structured list of businesses engaged in the production of goods and services in Canada. It is a centrally maintained database containing detailed descriptions of most business entities operating within Canada. The BR includes all incorporated businesses, with or without employees. For unincorporated businesses, the BR includes all employers with businesses, and businesses with no employees with annual sales that have a Goods and Services Tax (GST) or annual revenue that declares individual taxes. annual sales greater than $30,000 that have a Goods and Services Tax (GST) account (the BR does not include unincorporated businesses with no employees and with annual sales less than $30,000).

The businesses on the BR are represented by a hierarchical structure with four levels, with the statistical enterprise at the top, followed by the statistical company, the statistical establishment and the statistical location. An enterprise can be linked to one or more statistical companies, a statistical company can be linked to one or more statistical establishments, and a statistical establishment to one or more statistical locations.

The target population for the MRTS consists of all statistical establishments on the BR that are classified to the retail sector using the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (approximately 200,000 establishments). The NAICS code range for the retail sector is 441100 to 453999. A statistical establishment is the production entity or the smallest grouping of production entities which: produces a homogeneous set of goods or services; does not cross provincial boundaries; and provides data on the value of output, together with the cost of principal intermediate inputs used, along with the cost and quantity of labour used to produce the output. The production entity is the physical unit where the business operations are carried out. It must have a civic address and dedicated labour.

The exclusions to the target population are ancillary establishments (producers of services in support of the activity of producing goods and services for the market of more than one establishment within the enterprise, and serves as a cost centre or a discretionary expense centre for which data on all its costs including labour and depreciation can be reported by the business), future establishments, establishments with a missing or a zero gross business income (GBI) value on the BR and establishments in the following non-covered NAICS:

4541 (electronic shopping and mail-order houses)
4542 (vending machine operators)
45431 (fuel dealers)
45439 (other direct selling establishments)

4. Sampling

The MRTS sample consists of 10,000 groups of establishments (clusters) classified to the Retail Trade sector selected from the Statistics Canada Business Register. A cluster of establishments is defined as all establishments belonging to a statistical enterprise that are in the same industrial group and geographical region. The MRTS uses a stratified design with simple random sample selection in each stratum. The stratification is done by industry groups (the mainly, but not only four digit level NAICS), and the geographical regions consisting of the provinces and territories, as well as three provincial sub-regions. We further stratify the population by size.

The size measure is created using a combination of independent survey data and three administrative variables: the annual profiled revenue, the GST sales expressed on an annual basis, and the declared tax revenue (T1 or T2). The size strata consist of one take-all (census), at most, two take-some (partially sampled) strata, and one take-none (non-sampled) stratum. Take-none strata serve to reduce respondent burden by excluding the smaller businesses from the surveyed population. These businesses should represent at most ten percent of total sales. Instead of sending questionnaires to these businesses, the estimates are produced through the use of administrative data.

The sample was allocated optimally in order to reach target coefficients of variation at the national, provincial/territorial, industrial, and industrial groups by province/territory levels. The sample was also inflated to compensate for dead, non-responding, and misclassified units.

MRTS is a repeated survey with maximisation of monthly sample overlap. The sample is kept month after month, and every month new units are added (births) to the sample. MRTS births, i.e., new clusters of establishment(s), are identified every month via the BR’s latest universe. They are stratified according to the same criteria as the initial population. A sample of these births is selected according to the sampling fraction of the stratum to which they belong and is added to the monthly sample. Deaths occur on a monthly basis. A death can be a cluster of establishment(s) that have ceased their activities (out-of-business) or whose major activities are no longer in retail trade (out-of-scope). The status of these businesses is updated on the BR using administrative sources and survey feedback, including feedback from the MRTS. Methods to treat dead units and misclassified units are part of the sample and population update procedures.

5. Questionnaire design

The Monthly Retail Trade Survey incorporates the following sub-surveys:

Monthly Retail Trade Survey - R8

Monthly Retail Trade Survey (with inventories) – R8

Survey of Sales and Inventories of Alcoholic Beverages

The questionnaires collect monthly data on retail sales and the number of trading locations by province or territory and inventories of goods owned and intended for resale from a sample of retailers. The items on the questionnaires have remained unchanged for several years. For the 2004 redesign, the general questionnaires were subject to cosmetic changes only. The questionnaire for Sales and Inventories of Alcoholic Beverages underwent more extensive changes. The modifications were discussed with stakeholders and the respondents were given an opportunity to comment before the new questionnaire was finalized. If further changes are needed to any of the questionnaires, proposed changes would go through a review committee and a field test with respondents and data users to ensure its relevancy.

6. Response and nonresponse

6.1. Response and non-response

Despite the best efforts of survey managers and operations staff to maximize response in the MRTS, some non-response will occur. For statistical establishments to be classified as responding, the degree of partial response (where an accurate response is obtained for only some of the questions asked a respondent) must meet a minimum threshold level below which the response would be rejected and considered a unit nonresponse. In such an instance, the business is classified as not having responded at all.

Non-response has two effects on data: first it introduces bias in estimates when nonrespondents differ from respondents in the characteristics measured; and second, it contributes to an increase in the sampling variance of estimates because the effective sample size is reduced from that originally sought.

The degree to which efforts are made to get a response from a non-respondent is based on budget and time constraints, its impact on the overall quality and the risk of nonresponse bias.

The main method to reduce the impact of non-response at sampling is to inflate the sample size through the use of over-sampling rates that have been determined from similar surveys.

Besides the methods to reduce the impact of non-response at sampling and collection, the non-responses to the survey that do occur are treated through imputation. In order to measure the amount of non-response that occurs each month, various response rates are calculated. For a given reference month, the estimation process is run at least twice (a preliminary and a revised run). Between each run, respondent data can be identified as unusable and imputed values can be corrected through respondent data. As a consequence, response rates are computed following each run of the estimation process.

For the MRTS, two types of rates are calculated (un-weighted and weighted). In order to assess the efficiency of the collection process, un-weighted response rates are calculated. Weighted rates, using the estimation weight and the value for the variable of interest, assess the quality of estimation. Within each of these types of rates, there are distinct rates for units that are surveyed and for units that are only modeled from administrative data that has been extracted from GST files.

To get a better picture of the success of the collection process, two un-weighted rates called the ‘collection results rate’ and the ‘extraction results rate’ are computed. They are computed by dividing the number of respondents by the number of units that we tried to contact or tried to receive extracted data for them. Non-monthly reporters (respondents with special reporting arrangements where they do not report every month but for whom actual data is available in subsequent revisions) are excluded from both the numerator and denominator for the months where no contact is performed.

In summary, the various response rates are calculated as follows:

Weighted rates:

Survey Response rate (estimation) =
Sum of weighted sales of units with response status i / Sum of survey weighted sales

where i = units that have either reported data that will be used in estimation or are converted refusals, or have reported data that has not yet been resolved for estimation.

Admin Response rate (estimation) =
Sum of weighted sales of units with response status ii / Sum of administrative weighted sales

where ii = units that have data that was extracted from administrative files and are usable for estimation.

Total Response rate (estimation) =
Sum of weighted sales of units with response status i or response status ii / Sum of all weighted sales

Un-weighted rates:

Survey Response rate (collection) =
Number of questionnaires with response status iii/ Number of questionnaires with response status iv

where iii = units that have either reported data (unresolved, used or not used for estimation) or are converted refusals.

where iv = all of the above plus units that have refused to respond, units that were not contacted and other types of non-respondent units.

Admin Response rate (extraction) =
Number of questionnaires with response status vi/ Number of questionnaires with response status vii

where vi = in-scope units that have data (either usable or non-usable) that was extracted from administrative files

where vii = all of the above plus units that have refused to report to the administrative data source, units that were not contacted and other types of non-respondent units.

(% of questionnaire collected over all in-scope questionnaires)

Collection Results Rate =
Number of questionnaires with response status iii / Number of questionnaires with response status viii

where iii = same as iii defined above

where viii = same as iv except for the exclusion of units that were contacted because their response is unavailable for a particular month since they are non-monthly reporters.

Extraction Results Rate =
Number of questionnaires with response status ix / Number of questionnaires with response status vii

where ix = same as vi with the addition of extracted units that have been imputed or were out of scope

where vii = same as vii defined above

(% of questionnaires collected over all questionnaire in-scope we tried to collect)

All the above weighted and un-weighted rates are provided at the industrial group, geography and size group level or for any combination of these levels.

Use of Administrative Data

Managing response burden is an ongoing challenge for Statistics Canada. In an attempt to alleviate response burden and survey costs, especially for smaller businesses, the MRTS has reduced the number of simple establishments in the sample that are surveyed directly and instead derives sales data for these establishments from Goods and Service Tax (GST) files using a statistical model. The model accounts for differences between sales and revenue (reported for GST purposes) as well as for the time lag between the survey reference period and the reference period of the GST file.

For more information on the methodology used for modeling sales from administrative data sources, refer to ‘Monthly Retail Trade Survey: Use of Administrative Data’ under ‘Documentation’ of the IMDB.

Table 1 contains the weighted response rates for all industry groups as well as for total retail trade for each province and territory. For more detailed weighted response rates, please contact the Marketing and Dissemination Section at (613) 951-3549, toll free: 1-877-421-3067 or by e-mail at retailinfo@statcan.

6.2. Methods used to reduce non-response at collection

Significant effort is spent trying to minimize non-response during collection. Methods used, among others, are interviewer techniques such as probing and persuasion, repeated re-scheduling and call-backs to obtain the information, and procedures dealing with how to handle non-compliant (refusal) respondents.

If data are unavailable at the time of collection, a respondent's best estimates are also accepted, and are subsequently revised once the actual data become available.

To minimize total non-response for all variables, partial responses are accepted. In addition, questionnaires are customized for the collection of certain variables, such as inventory, so that collection is timed for those months when the data are available.

Finally, to build trust and rapport between the interviewers and respondents, cases are generally assigned to the same interviewer each month. This action establishes a personal relationship between interviewer and respondent, and builds respondent trust.

7. Data collection and capture operations

Collection of the data is performed by Statistics Canada’s Regional Offices.

Table 1: Weighted response rates by NAICS, for all provinces/territories: August 2011
	Weighted Response Rates
	Total	Survey	Administrative
NAICS - Canada
Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers	92.7	93.5	68
Automobile Dealers	94.9	95.2	58
New Car Dealers^{Note 1}	96.3	96.3
Used Car Dealers	72.6	75	58
Other Motor Vehicle Dealers	74.4	73.2	79.2
Automotive Parts, Accessories and Tire Stores	85.2	89.8	56.2
Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores	85.9	90.2	46.5
Furniture Stores	89.5	91.4	48.7
Home Furnishings Stores	79.6	87.9	45.6
Electronics and Appliance Stores	86.4	87.7	54.6
Building Material and Garden Equipment Dealers	88.4	92.1	59.2
Food and Beverage Stores	83.6	90.2	18.1
Grocery Stores	86.3	94.1	15.3
Grocery (except Convenience) Stores	89.2	97.1	14
Convenience Stores	54.4	59.7	24.1
Specialty Food Stores	68.7	76	40
Beer, Wine and Liquor Stores	76.6	78.5	20.5
Health and Personal Care Stores	89.4	90.9	72.8
Gasoline Stations	87.7	90.1	53.3
Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores	85.6	86.9	49.5
Clothing Stores	84.2	85.2	54.2
Shoe Stores	96.7	97.8	37.5
Jewellery, Luggage and Leather Goods Stores	83.2	86.9	36.9
Sporting Goods, Hobby, Book and Music Stores	85.6	90.8	43.1
General Merchandise Stores	99.2	99.3	77.6
Department Stores	100	100
Other general merchadise stores	98.5	98.7	77.6
Miscellaneous Store Retailers	80.3	86.5	29
Total	89.1	92	44.2
Regions
Newfoundland and Labrador	84.2	85.4	37.8
Prince Edward Island	85.2	86.4	8.9
Nova Scotia	92	94.1	49.2
New Brunswick	88.2	90.7	61
Québec	89.6	94.3	38.2
Ontario	89.3	91.9	44.9
Manitoba	91	91.6	63.9
Saskatchewan	90.3	92.4	45.7
Alberta	87.9	90.3	51.6
British Columbia	89.1	91.8	41.3
Yukon Territory	81.3	81.3
Northwest Territories	86.9	86.9
Nunavut	74.3	74.3
1. There are no administrative records used in new car dealers

Weighted Response Rates

Respondents are sent a questionnaire or are contacted by telephone to obtain their sales and inventory values, as well as to confirm the opening or closing of business trading locations. Collection of the data begins approximately 7 working days after the end of the reference month and continues for the duration of that month.

New entrants to the survey are introduced to the survey via an introductory letter that informs the respondent that a representative of Statistics Canada will be calling. This call is to introduce the respondent to the survey, confirm the respondent's business activity, establish and begin data collection, as well as to answer any questions that the respondent may have.

8. Editing

Data editing is the application of checks to detect missing, invalid or inconsistent entries or to point to data records that are potentially in error. In the survey process for the MRTS, data editing is done at two different time periods.

First of all, editing is done during data collection. Once data are collected via the telephone, or via the receipt of completed mail-in questionnaires, the data are captured using customized data capture applications. All data are subjected to data editing. Edits during data collection are referred to as field edits and generally consist of validity and some simple consistency edits. They are used to detect mistakes made during the interview by the respondent or the interviewer and to identify missing information during collection in order to reduce the need for follow-up later on. Another purpose of the field edits is to clean up responses. In the MRTS, the current month’s responses are edited against the respondent’s previous month’s responses and/or the previous year’s responses for the current month. Field edits are also used to identify problems with data collection procedures and the design of the questionnaire, as well as the need for more interviewer training.

Follow-up with respondents occurs to validate potential erroneous data following any failed preliminary edit check of the data. Once validated, the collected data is regularly transmitted to the head office in Ottawa.

Secondly, editing known as statistical editing is also done after data collection and this is more empirical in nature. Statistical editing is run prior to imputation in order to identify the data that will be used as a basis to impute non-respondents. Large outliers that could disrupt a monthly trend are excluded from trend calculations by the statistical edits. It should be noted that adjustments are not made at this stage to correct the reported outliers.

The first step in the statistical editing is to identify which responses will be subjected to the statistical edit rules. Reported data for the current reference month will go through various edit checks.

The first set of edit checks is based on the Hidiriglou-Berthelot method whereby a ratio of the respondent’s current month data over historical (last month, same month last year) or auxiliary data is analyzed. When the respondent’s ratio differs significantly from ratios of respondents who are similar in terms of industry and/or geography group, the response is deemed an outlier.

The second set of edits consists of an edit known as the share of market edit. With this method, one is able to edit all respondents, even those where historical and auxiliary data is unavailable. The method relies on current month data only. Therefore, within a group of respondents, that are similar in terms of industrial group and/or geography, if the weighted contribution of a respondent to the group’s total is too large, it will be flagged as an outlier.

For edit checks based on the Hidiriglou-Berthelot method, data that are flagged as an outlier will not be included in the imputation models (those based on ratios). Also, data that are flagged as outliers in the share of market edit will not be included in the imputation models where means and medians are calculated to impute for responses that have no historical responses.

In conjunction with the statistical editing after data collection of reported data, there is also error detection done on the extracted GST data. Modeled data based on the GST are also subject to an extensive series of processing steps which thoroughly verify each record that is the basis for the model as well as the record being modeled. Edits are performed at a more aggregate level (industry by geography level) to detect records which deviate from the expected range, either by exhibiting large month-to-month change, or differing significantly from the remaining units. All data which fail these edits are subject to manual inspection and possible corrective action.

9. Imputation

Imputation in the MRTS is the process used to assign replacement values for missing data. This is done by assigning values when they are missing on the record being edited to ensure that estimates are of high quality and that a plausible, internal consistency is created. Due to concerns of response burden, cost and timeliness, it is generally impossible to do all follow-ups with the respondents in order to resolve missing responses. Since it is desirable to produce a complete and consistent microdata file, imputation is used to handle the remaining missing cases.

In the MRTS, imputation is based on historical data or administrative data (GST sales). The appropriate method is selected according to a strategy that is based on whether historical data is available, auxiliary data is available and/or which reference month is being processed.

There are three types of historical imputation methods. The first type is a general trend that uses one historical data source (previous month, data from next month or data from same month previous year). The second type is a regression model where data from previous month and same month previous year are used simultaneously. The third type uses the historical data as a direct replacement value for a non-respondent. Depending upon the particular reference month, there is an order of preference that exists so that top quality imputation can result. The historical imputation method that was labelled as the third type above is always the last option in the order for each reference month.

The imputation methods using administrative data are automatically selected when historical information is unavailable for a non-respondent. The administrative data source (annual GST sales) is the basis of these methods. The annual GST sales are used for two types of methods. One is a general trend that will be used for simple structure, e.g. enterprises with only one establishment, and a second type is called median-average that is used for units with a more complex structure.

10. Estimation

Estimation is a process that approximates unknown population parameters using only part of the population that is included in a sample. Inferences about these unknown parameters are then made, using the sample data and associated survey design. This stage uses Statistics Canada's Generalized Estimation System (GES).

For retail sales, the population is divided into a survey portion (take-all and take-some strata) and a non-survey portion (take-none stratum). From the sample that is drawn from the survey portion, an estimate for the population is determined through the use of a Horvitz-Thompson estimator where responses for sales are weighted by using the inverses of the inclusion probabilities of the sampled units. Such weights (called sampling weights) can be interpreted as the number of times that each sampled unit should be replicated to represent the entire population. The calculated weighted sales values are summed by domain, to produce the total sales estimates by each industrial group / geographic area combination. A domain is defined as the most recent classification values available from the BR for the unit and the survey reference period. These domains may differ from the original sampling strata because units may have changed size, industry or location. Changes in classification are reflected immediately in the estimates and do not accumulate over time. For the non-survey portion, the sales are estimated with statistical models using monthly GST sales.

For more information on the methodology for modeling sales from administrative data sources which also contributes to the estimates of the survey portion, refer to ‘Monthly Retail Survey: Use of Administrative Data’ under ‘Documentation’ of the IMDB.

The measure of precision used for the MRTS to evaluate the quality of a population parameter estimate and to obtain valid inferences is the variance. The variance from the survey portion is derived directly from a stratified simple random sample without replacement.

Sample estimates may differ from the expected value of the estimates. However, since the estimate is based on a probability sample, the variability of the sample estimate with respect to its expected value can be measured. The variance of an estimate is a measure of the precision of the sample estimate and is defined as the average, over all possible samples, of the squared difference of the estimate from its expected value.

11. Revisions and seasonal adjustment

Revisions in the raw data are required to correct known non-sampling errors. These normally include replacing imputed data with reported data, corrections to previously reported data, and estimates for new births that were not known at the time of the original estimates. Raw data are revised, on a monthly basis, for the month immediately prior to the current reference month being published. That is, when data for December are being published for the first time, there will also be revisions, if necessary, to the raw data for November. In addition, revisions are made once a year, with the initial release of the February data, for all months in the previous year. The purpose is to correct any significant problems that have been found that apply for an extended period. The actual period of revision depends on the nature of the problem identified, but rarely exceeds three years. Time series contain the elements essential to the description, explanation and forecasting of the behaviour of an economic phenomenon: "They are statistical records of the evolution of economic processes through time."¹ Economic time series such as the Monthly Retail Trade Survey can be broken down into five main components: the trend-cycle, seasonality, the trading-day effect, the Easter holiday effect and the irregular component.

The trend represents the long-term change in the series, whereas the cycle represents a smooth, quasi-periodical movement about the trend, showing a succession of growth and decline phases (e.g., the business cycle). These two components—the trend and the cycle—are estimated together, and the trend-cycle reflects the fundamental evolution of the series. The other components reflect short-term transient movements.

The seasonal component represents sub-annual, monthly or quarterly fluctuations that recur more or less regularly from one year to the next. Seasonal variations are caused by the direct and indirect effects of the climatic seasons and institutional factors (attributable to social conventions or administrative rules; e.g., Christmas).

The trading-day component originates from the fact that the relative importance of the days varies systematically within the week and that the number of each day of the week in a given month varies from year to year. This effect is present when activity varies with the day of the week. For instance, Sunday is typically less active than the other days, and the number of Sundays, Mondays, etc., in a given month changes from year to year.

The Easter holiday effect is the variation due to the shift of part of April’s activity to March when Easter falls in March rather than April.

Lastly, the irregular component includes all other more or less erratic fluctuations not taken into account in the preceding components. It is a residual that includes errors of measurement on the 1. A Note on the Seasonal adjustment of Economic Time Series», Canadian Statistical Review, August 1974. A variable itself as well as unusual events (e.g., strikes, drought, floods, major power blackout or other unexpected events causing variations in respondents’ activities).

Thus, the latter four components—seasonal, irregular, trading-day and Easter holiday effect—all conceal the fundamental trend-cycle component of the series. Seasonal adjustment (correction of seasonal variation) consists in removing the seasonal, trading-day and Easter holiday effect components from the series, and it thus helps reveal the trend-cycle. While seasonal adjustment permits a better understanding of the underlying trend-cycle of a series, the seasonally adjusted series still contains an irregular component. Slight month-to-month variations in the seasonally adjusted series may be simple irregular movements. To get a better idea of the underlying trend, users should examine several months of the seasonally adjusted series.

Since April 2008, Monthly Retail Trade Survey data are seasonally adjusted using the X-12- ARIMA2 software. The technique that is used essentially consists of first correcting the initial series for all sorts of undesirable effects, such as the trading-day and the Easter holiday effects, by a module called regARIMA. These effects are estimated using regression models with ARIMA errors (auto-regressive integrated moving average models). The series can also be extrapolated for at least one year by using the model. Subsequently, the raw series—pre-adjusted and extrapolated if applicable— is seasonally adjusted by the X-11 method.

The X-11 method is used for analysing monthly and quarterly series. It is based on an iterative principle applied in estimating the different components, with estimation being done at each stage using adequate moving averages3. The moving averages used to estimate the main components—the trend and seasonality—are primarily smoothing tools designed to eliminate an undesirable component from the series. Since moving averages react poorly to the presence of atypical values, the X-11 method includes a tool for detecting and correcting atypical points. This tool is used to clean up the series during the seasonal adjustment. Outlying data points can also be detected and corrected in advance, within the regARIMA module.

Lastly, the annual totals of the seasonally adjusted series are forced to the annual totals of the original series.

Unfortunately, seasonal adjustment removes the sub-annual additivity of a system of series; small discrepancies can be observed between the sum of seasonally adjusted series and the direct seasonal adjustment of their total. To insure or restore additivity in a system of series, a reconciliation process is applied or indirect seasonal adjustment is used, i.e. the seasonal adjustment of a total is derived by the summation of the individually seasonally adjusted series.

12. Data quality evaluation

The methodology of this survey has been designed to control errors and to reduce their potential effects on estimates. However, the survey results remain subject to errors, of which sampling error is only one component of the total survey error. Sampling error results when observations are made only on a sample and not on the entire population. All other errors arising from the various phases of a survey are referred to as nonsampling errors. For example, these types of errors can occur when a respondent provides incorrect information or does not answer certain questions; when a unit in the target population is omitted or covered more than once; when GST data for records being modeled for a particular month are not representative of the actual record for various reasons; when a unit that is out of scope for the survey is included by mistake or when errors occur in data processing, such as coding or capture errors.

Prior to publication, combined survey results are analyzed for comparability; in general, this includes a detailed review of individual responses (especially for large businesses), general economic conditions and historical trends.

A common measure of data quality for surveys is the coefficient of variation (CV). The coefficient of variation, defined as the standard error divided by the sample estimate, is a measure of precision in relative terms. Since the coefficient of variation is calculated from responses of individual units, it also measures some non-sampling errors.

The formula used to calculate coefficients of variation (CV) as percentages is:

CV (X) = S(X) * 100% / X
where X denotes the estimate and S(X) denotes the standard error of X.

Confidence intervals can be constructed around the estimates using the estimate and the CV. Thus, for our sample, it is possible to state with a given level of confidence that the expected value will fall within the confidence interval constructed around the estimate. For example, if an estimate of $12,000,000 has a CV of 2%, the standard error will be $240,000 (the estimate multiplied by the CV). It can be stated with 68% confidence that the expected values will fall within the interval whose length equals the standard deviation about the estimate, i.e. between $11,760,000 and $12,240,000.

Alternatively, it can be stated with 95% confidence that the expected value will fall within the interval whose length equals two standard deviations about the estimate, i.e. between $11,520,000 and $12,480,000.

Finally, due to the small contribution of the non-survey portion to the total estimates, bias in the non-survey portion has a negligible impact on the CVs. Therefore, the CV from the survey portion is used for the total estimate that is the summation of estimates from the surveyed and non-surveyed portions.

13. Disclosure control

Statistics Canada is prohibited by law from releasing any data which would divulge information obtained under the Statistics Act that relates to any identifiable person, business or organization without the prior knowledge or the consent in writing of that person, business or organization. Various confidentiality rules are applied to all data that are released or published to prevent the publication or disclosure of any information deemed confidential. If necessary, data are suppressed to prevent direct or residual disclosure of identifiable data.

Confidentiality analysis includes the detection of possible "direct disclosure", which occurs when the value in a tabulation cell is composed of a few respondents or when the cell is dominated by a few companies.

Public and Private school data were collected on separate templates, spanning years 2005/2006 to 2009/2010 for public school data and 2007/2008 to 2009/2010 for private school data.

This page is for information purposes only and is not a functional form.

1. Expenditures, 2005/2006 to 2009/2010 (Public)

School Boards and Districts

Educator remuneration:
- row 1 Salaries/wages and allowances
- row 2 Fringe benefits (except employer's contribution to pension plans)
Educator pension plans:
- row 3 Employer's contributions to Canada and Quebec pension plans
- row 4 Other pension plans
- row 5 Periodic contributions to rectify actuarial deficiencies
Other operating expenditures:
- row 6 Other operating expenditures
- row 7 Total: operating expenses (rows 1 to 6)
Capital expenditures:
- row 8 Capital expenditures
- row 9 Interest on debt services
- row 10 Total: capital expenditures (rows 8 and 9)
- row 11 Total expenditures: school boards and districts (rows 7 and 10)

Ministry of Education

Educator remuneration:
- row 12 Salaries/wages and allowances
- row 13 Fringe benefits (except employer's contribution to pension plan
Educator pension plans:
- row 14 Employer's contributions to Canada and Quebec pension plans
- row 15 Other pension plans
- row 16 Periodic contributions to rectify actuarial deficiencies
Other operating expenditures:
- row 17 Other operating expenditures
- row 18 General administration
- row 19 Total: operating expenses (rows 12 to 18)
Capital expenditures
- row 20 Capital expenditures
- row 21 Interest on debt services
- row 22 Total: capital expenditures (rows 20 and 21)
- row 23 Total expenditures: Ministry of Education (rows 19 and 22)

Other Provincial Departments or Agencies

Educator remuneration:
- row 24 Salaries/wages and allowances
- row 25 Fringe benefits (except employer's contribution to pension plans)
Educator pension plans:
- row 26 Employer's contributions to Canada and Quebec pension plans
- row 27 Other pension plans
- row 28 Periodic contributions to rectify actuarial deficiencies
Other operating expenditures:
- row 29 Other operating expenditures
- row 30 Total: operating expenses (rows 24 to 29)
Capital expenditures:
- row 31 Capital expenditures
- row 32 Interest on debt services
- row 33 Total: capital expenditures (rows 31 and 32)
- row 34 Total expenditures: other provincial departments and agencies (rows 30 and 33)
- row 35 Total Education Expenditures (rows 11 , 23 and 34)

2. Enrolments by Type of Program, Grade and Sex, School Boards and Districts (Headcount), 2005/2006 to 2009/2010 (Public and Private)

2.1 Regular Programs for Youth for Male, Female and Total

Junior Kindergarten
Kindergarten
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
Ungraded
Total

2.2 Full Time Equivalent ( FTE ) Rate - Regular Programs for Youth for Male, Female and Total

Junior Kindergarten
Kindergarten

2.3 Upgrading programs¹ for adults for Male, Female and Total

less than 8
8
9
10
11
12
13
Ungraded
Total

2.4 Vocational Programs² for Youth and Adults for Male, Female and Total

Youth
Adults
Total

2B. Enrolments by Type of Program, Age and Sex, School Boards and Districts (Headcount), 2005/2006 to 2009/2010 (Public and Private)

2B.1 Regular Programs for Youth for Male, Female and Total

Age

Under 3
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30 to 34
35 to 39
40 and over
Unknown
Total

2B.2 Full Time Equivalent ( FTE ) Rate - Regular Programs for Youth for Male, Female and Total

Junior Kindergarten
Senior Kindergarten

2B.3 Upgrading programs¹ for adults for Male, Female and Total

Age

Under 10
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30 to 34
35 to 39
40 and over
Unknown
Total

2B.4 Vocational Programs² for Youth and Adults for Male, Female and Total

Age

Under 10
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30 to 34
35 to 39
40 and over
Unknown
Total

3. Enrolments by Type of Minority and Second Language Programs, Youth Sector by Grade, School Boards and Districts (Headcount), 2005/2006 to 2009/2010 (Public and Private)

3.1 Regular Second Language Programs³ for Male, Female and Total

Junior Kindergarten
Kindergarten
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
Ungraded
Total

3.2 Second Language Immersion Programs⁴ for Male, Female and Total

Junior Kindergarten
Kindergarten
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
Ungraded
Total

3.3 Minority language programs⁵ for Male, Female and Total

Junior Kindergarten
Kindergarten
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
Ungraded
Total

4. Enrolments by type of Aboriginal Language Programs by Grade, School Boards and Districts (Headcount), 2005/2006 to 2009/2010 (Public)

4.1 Aboriginal as Language of Instruction⁶

Junior Kindergarten
Kindergarten
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
Ungraded
Total

4.2 Aboriginal Language as Language of Instruction⁷

Junior Kindergarten
Kindergarten
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
Ungraded
Total

5. Enrolments in Special Needs Education⁸ by Type of Disability, Type of Class, School Boards and Districts (Headcount), 2005/2006 to 2009/2010 (Public)

5.1 Number of students identified and receiving additional program and service supports for Type of Class, Male, Female and Total

A. For sensory, physical and intellectual disabilities - Low incidence disabilities

Regular
Special

B. For learning disabilities and behavioural disabilities - High incidence disabilities

Regular
Special

C. To compensate for SES or other disadvantages

Regular
Special

Total

Regular
Special

Grand Total

6. Number of Graduates⁹ by Type of Programs, Age and Sex, School Boards and Districts, 2005/2006 to 2009/2010 (Public and Private)

6.1 Regular Programs for Youth for Male, Female and Total

Under 10
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30 to 34
35 to 39
40 and over
Unknown
Total

6.2 Adult Upgrading Programs¹⁰ for Male, Female and Total

Under 10
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30 to 34
35 to 39
40 and over
Unknown
Total

6.3a Vocational¹¹ Programs for Youth for Male, Female and Total

Under 10
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30 to 34
35 to 39
40 and over
Unknown
Total

6.3b Vocational¹¹ Programs for Adults for Male, Female and Total

Under 10
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30 to 34
35 to 39
40 and over
Unknown
Total

7.1 Number of Headcounts reported as Full/time or Part/time Educators¹² by Age Group and Sex, 2005/2006 to 2009/2010 (Public and Private)

Headcounts Educator

Full-time

Less than 25 years
25 to 29 years
30 to 34 years
35 to 39 years
40 to 44 years
45 to 49 years
50 to 54 years
55 to 59 years
60 to 64 years
65 and over
Unknown
Sub-Total

Part-time

Less than 25 years
25 to 29 years
30 to 34 years
35 to 39 years
40 to 44 years
45 to 49 years
50 to 54 years
55 to 59 years
60 to 64 years
65 and over
Unknown
Sub-Total
Total

7.2 Number of Educators¹² in Full/time Equivalent ( FTE ) by Categories, 2005/2006 to 2009/2010

Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Educators

Teachers
School Administrators
Pedagogical Support
Total

Notes:

1. Include enrolments in General Education Development (GED), Adult Basic Education (ABE) and other equivalency programs. Exclude any enrolments in upgrading programs offered at the postsecondary level.

2. Include enrolments in all professional and technical training programs offered in public schools operated by school boards or the province and in private schools. Exclude any enrolments in vocational programs offered at the postsecondary level.

3. Regular Second Language Programs (or Core Language programs) Enrolments in programs where French is taught to Anglophone students or English is taught to Francophone students as a “subject” in the regular course offerings. One or more additional subjects can also be taught in the student’s second official language but second language instruction must total less than 25% of all instruction time.

4. Second Language Immersion Programs: Enrolments in programs where French is the language of instruction for Anglophone students or English is the language of instruction for Francophone students. Instruction time in the student’s second official language is more than 25% of all instruction time.

5. Minority language as Language of Instruction: Enrolments in programs for students from the official language linguistic minority in the relevant province or territory (French outside Québec, English in Québec). These programs allow children in the linguistic minority to purse their education in their first official language.

6. Aboriginal language instruction (a.k.a. Aboriginal second language program or Core Aboriginal): Enrolments in programs where an Aboriginal language is taught as a subject as part of regular course offerings. One or more additional subjects can also be taught in an Aboriginal language up to less than 25% of the week.

7. Aboriginal language as language of instruction (a.k.a. Aboriginal first language program): enrolments in schools where all classroom instruction is in an Aboriginal language for Aboriginal children.

8. Students with special educational needs are those for whom additional public and/or private resources are provided to support their education. Additional resources are made available over and above those generally available to regular students. They are resources provided to support students who have difficulties following the regular curriculum. They can be personnel resources (a more favourable teacher/student ratio, additional teachers, assistants or other personnel), material resources (aids or supports of various types, modification or adaptation to classroom, specialised teaching materials) or financial resources (modified funding formulae, money set aside within the regular budget allocation or additional payments).

Following the OECD and recommendations from the Special Education and Student Services Directors of the Western and Northern Canada Protocol, they are broken in three sub-categories:

Category A refers to students whose disabilities have clear biological causes – such as physical disabilities, visual impairment/blind, hearing impairment/deaf, moderate to severe/profound intellectual disability, chronic health problem, multiple disabilities, autism and foetal alcoholic syndrome (FAS).

Category B refers to students who are experiencing learning and/or behavioural difficulties.

Category C refers to students whose difficulties are considered to arise primarily from socio-economic, cultural and/or linguistic disadvantages for which the education system seeks to compensate.

9. Include first time graduates only: count late graduates but do not count the same graduate twice.

10. Include graduates in General Education Development (GED), Adult Basic Education (ABE) and other equivalency programs. Exclude any graduates of upgrading programs offered at the postsecondary level

11. Include graduates in all professional and technical training programs. Exclude any graduates of vocational programs offered at the postsecondary level.

12. Educators include all employees in the public and private school system who belong to one of the three following categories: teachers, school administrators and pedagogical support. This definition excludes teacher aides, student teachers and other personnel who do not get paid for their employment. Personnel temporarily not at work (e.g. for reasons of illness or injury, maternity or parental leave, holiday or vacation) should be included.

Headcount educators are defined as the number of educators on September the 30th (or as close as possible thereafter) of the school year who are responsible for providing services to the students.

It includes all educators in regular public and private schools, provincial reformatory or custodial schools, and other students recognized and funded by a province or territory. Exclude correspondence or distance programs, or independent school schools financed by federal departments (e.g. the Department of National Defense and the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs).

This category also includes all educators in all professional and technical training programs offered in public schools operated by school boards or the province and private schools. Exclude, vocational programs offered at the postsecondary level, distance education programs, and schools financed by federal departments (e.g. the Department of National Defence and the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs).

Full Fime Equivalent (FTE) Educator is defined as the number of full-time educators on September the 30th (or as close as possible thereafter) of the school year, plus the sum of part-time educators according to their percentage of a full-time employment allocation (determined by the province or territory).

2009 to 2010 Collection Period

History and Background

The Elementary-Secondary Education Statistics Project (ESESP) started as a pilot project that was first introduced by Statistics Canada (STC) in 2003. The survey content originates from three (3) tables which were originally part of a survey that was sent out each year to all provinces and territories by the British Columbia Ministry of Education. Following formal consultation with all provinces, territories and data users, seven (7) new tables were introduced by Statistics Canada to collect additional data. The goal of this project is to collect elementary/secondary expenditure data and to replace several surveys which were used for the collection of enrolment, graduate, and educator data. These included the former Elementary-Secondary School Enrolment Survey, the Secondary School Graduate Survey, the Elementary-Secondary Education Staff Survey and the Principal’s Statistical Report as the official collection tools for elementary-secondary enrolments, graduates, and staff data. Although this project collects expenditure data, the Survey of Uniform Financial System – School Boards survey remains active. The main objectives we are hoping to achieve with this collection tool are to produce relevant, comparable and timely statistics and to reduce the respondent burden on educational organisations and school principals.

Statistics Canada maintains a close relationship with the Canadian Education Statistics Council, particularly the Strategic Management Committee (SMC) and seeks their on-going advice and guidance on the survey.

The Canadian Education Statistics Council (CESC) is a partnership between the Council of Ministers of Education of Canada (CMEC) and Statistics Canada. CESC was established in 1989 to improve the quality and comparability of Canadian education data and to provide information that can inform policy-development in education.

CESC produces “Education Indicators in Canada: Report of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program” (PCEIP) to provide a set of statistical measures on education systems in Canada for policy makers, practitioners, and the general public to monitor the performance of education systems, across jurisdictions and over time.

In January 2010, the name of the ESESP changed to the Elementary-Secondary Education Survey (ESES) to symbolize the change from a pilot project to an on-going core survey of Statistics Canada.

In order to obtain consistent counts of students, educators, graduates and expenditures for school boards and districts across provinces and territories, it is very important that respondents use common definitions.

Starting in January 2011 for the 2009/2010 collection period, Statistics Canada commenced collection of private school data. Following a jurisdictional review that took place in the summer of 2010, Statistics Canada was able to ascertain that of the data collected on the ESES for public schools, Enrolment (grade), Enrolment (age), Minority Language, Graduates and Educators could be provided by jurisdictions for private schools.

Definitions Section

The term School Board is used throughout this document. School Board encompasses district school boards, school authorities and/or their equivalent depending on the jurisdiction.

See page ten for a common definition of private school.

Table 1: Expenditures

School District
The terminology “school district” refers to all school boards and/or school districts.

School district expenditures
Include all expenditures (operating and capital) paid directly by district school boards.

Ministry of Education expenditures
Include all expenditures (operating and capital) expenses paid on behalf of district school boards by Ministries/Departments of Education or any other entities responsible for education (ex: Ministry of Learning, Ministry of Advanced Education).

Other provincial governments or agencies expenditures
Include all expenditures (operating and capital) incurred by other provincial departments or agencies such as Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Transport, etc… Please DO NOT include expenses paid on behalf of school districts by Ministries of Education.

The following are included:

Regular Programs for Youth
Adult Upgrading programs such as General Education Development (GED), Adult Basic Education (ABE) and other equivalent programs for secondary schools.
Vocational Programs for Youth and Adults offered at the secondary level only.

The following are excluded:

federal expenditures ( e.g. schools operated by the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs or the Department of National Defense, federal programs such as Official Languages, Human Resources Development Canada programs, CIDA programs, Health and Welfare programs)
expenditures for private schools
all expenditures related to programs at the post-secondary level
intrasectoral transactions
principal portion of debt repayments or bank loans
recoveries of expenditures from specified purpose
provision for vacation pay and similar employee benefit
provision for bad debts and any other provisions
reserves and other suspense accounts
deficits and write-off to losses
depreciation on capital expenditures (amortization charges)
debenture discount
taxes remitted to other government sub-sectors (ex: municipal taxes)

School boards and Districts

Educator remuneration:

Salaries, Wages and Allowances (row1)
Salaries and wages are the remuneration to educators for services rendered. Include principals, vice-principals and other professional non-teaching staff which includes, among others, pedagogical consultants, guidance counselors and special education teachers.

Allowances are payments made in addition to salaries/wages to compensate for isolation, additional administrative duties or other responsibilities and other similar costs. Please include sick leave payments, maternity leave and other approved leave. Ad hoc allowances for travel and accommodation are excluded and are reported in “Other operating expenditures”. Allowances also exclude payment of superannuation or pension premiums on behalf of the educator. For more information on the definition of “educators”, please see the Educator related tables (section 2.3).

Fringe benefits – except employer’s contribution to Canada and Quebec pension plans (row2)
Includes payment on behalf of the educator for unemployment insurance premiums, life insurance plans, health, dental and drug plans, vision care plans, workers' compensation plans, disability insurance plans, termination and early retirement gratuities, private use of institution's goods and services, employee discounts, professional fees related to professional development, payments to government work safety agencies, purchase and maintenance of clothing, moving fees, employee counseling services, union duties leave, annuity funds, paid recognition for years of service, paid holidays, trips, jury duty pay, employee parking lot fees, and board-sponsored recreation or paid memberships.

Educator pension plans:

Employer’s contribution to Canada and Quebec pension plans (row 3)
Includes the employer’s contribution to Canada and Quebec pension plans

Others pension plans (row 4)
Any other types of pension plans.

Periodic contributions to rectify actuarial deficiencies (row 5)
Adjustments made during the current year to ensure that the funds required are available, which are actuarial liability adjustments made to current service payments to reduce or eliminate the debt.

Other operating expenditures:

Other operating expenditures (row 6)
Include salary and non salary costs related to business administration, instruction, educational services, food services, school facilities services, school transportation and any other expenditure related to the provision of services in the public school system. Do not include interests on debt services.

Total operating expenditures (row 7)
The sum of rows 1 to 6.

Capital expenditures

Capital expenditures (row 8)
Include acquisitions of physical assets of a fixed or permanent nature with a useful life of more than one operating year. Include expenditures of an annual or cyclical nature for capital-lease and leasehold improvement ( e.g. major repairs and upgrades to school and board buildings, new school and board furniture equipment and vehicles). Exclude expenditures for non-major repairs and maintenance designated as “plant operation” in Other operating expenditures (row 6).

Please note that all capital expenditures must be reported with the historical cost in the year of the initial expenditure. If the capital expenditures are "amortized" during their useful life, they should be converted to the historical cost and reported to the year of the initial cost in order to insure the comparability of data between provinces and territories. Please include a description of each category on the Capital expenditure conversion form whenever the amortization of a fixed asset is used.

Interest on debt services (row 9)
Include the interest on loans and advances, bonds, debentures and mortgages. Include also other debt charges such as bank service charges and other charges pertaining to the servicing of the public debt.

Total capital expenditures (row 10)
The sum of rows 8 and 9.

Total expenditures - School boards and districts (row 11)
The sum of rows 7 and 10.

Ministry of Education

Educator remuneration:

Salaries, Wages and Allowances (row 12)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 1).

Fringe benefits – all, except employer’s contribution to pension plans (row 13)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 2).

Educator pension plans:

Employer’s contribution to pension plans (row 14)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 3).

Others pension plans (row 15)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 4)

Periodic contributions to rectify actuarial deficiencies (row 16)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 5).

Other operating expenditures:

Other operating expenditures (row 17)
Include only Ministry/Department of Education expenses relating to DIRECT financial support of school boards. For example, milk programs, textbooks, library, guidance and audio visual expenses. Do NOT include any grants or contributions to schools boards or districts.

General administration (row 18)
Include only administration expenses directly incurred by the Ministry/Department of Education. For example, the Minister’s Office expenses including his/her salary, human resources, administrative support and financial services. If any of these administration expenses stated above are also lumped together with post-secondary education, please state or pro-rate the elementary portion only.

Total operating expenditures (row 19)
The sum of rows 12 to 18.

Capital expenditures:

Capital expenditures (row 20)
Include only Ministry/Department of Education capital expenditures relating to direct financial support of school boards. Do NOT include any grants or contributions to schools boards or schools districts.

Interest on debt services (row 21)
Include the interest on loans and advances, bonds, debentures and mortgages. Include also other debt charges such as bank service charges and other charges pertaining to the servicing of the public debt.

Total capital expenditures (row 22)
The sum of rows 20 and 21.

Total expenditures – Ministry/Department of Education (row 23)
The sum of rows 19 and 22.

Other provincial departments or agencies

Educator remuneration:

Salaries, Wages and Allowances (row 24)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 1).

Fringe benefits – all, except employer’s contribution to pension plans (row 25)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 2).

Educator pension plans:

Employer’s contribution to pension plans (row 26)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 3).

Others pension plans (row 27)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 4).

Periodic contributions to rectify actuarial deficiencies (row 28)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 5).

Other operating expenditures:

Other operating expenditures (row 29)
Include only “Other provincial government or agencies” expenses relating to DIRECT financial support of school boards. For example, school book bureaus, milk programs, textbooks, guidance and audio visual expenses. Do NOT include any grants or contributions to schools boards or schools districts, administration expenses (see row 17). Do NOT include any expenses from Ministry/Department of Education.

Total operating expenditures (row 30)
The sum of rows 24 to 29.

Capital expenditures:

Capital expenditures (row 31)
Include only Other provincial governments or agencies capital expenditures related to DIRECT financial support of school boards. Do NOT include any grants or contributions to schools boards or schools districts. Do NOT include any expenses from Ministry/Department of Education.

Interest on debt services (row 32)
Include the interest on loans and advances, bonds, debentures and mortgages. Include also other debt charges such as bank service charges and other charges pertaining to the servicing of the public debt.

Total capital expenditures (row 33)
The sum of rows 31 and 32.

Total expenditures - Other provincial departments or agencies (row 34)
The sum of rows 30 and 33.

Total Education Expenditures (row 35)
The sum of rows 11, 23 and 34.

Table 2A and 2B: Enrolments by Type of Program, Grade and Sex, Age, School Boards and Districts (Headcount)

Enrolment
Number of students (headcount) enrolled in publicly funded schools operated by school boards or the province in September (or as close as possible thereafter) of the school year. It includes all students in regular publicly funded schools (graded and ungraded), provincial reformatory or custodial schools, and other students recognized and funded by a province or territory.
Exclude correspondence or distance education enrolments, private school students, independent school students or students in schools financed by federal departments ( e.g. the Department of National Defense and the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs).

Include other non-standard enrolment including students receiving educational services (if recognized by the province) and for schools and/or school districts that receive funding in a unique manner. They may be non-graduates who are taking only a few courses required to complete graduation. For example, a student who is enrolled in only 25% of a 'regular' course load and for whom the school or school district receives only 25% of the usual funding. This category may not apply to some provinces or territories.

Table 2.1 Regular Programs for Youth
Enrolments in general training programs offered to similarly aged young students.

Table 2.2 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Rate (Adjustment Factor) - Regular Programs for Youth
Full time equivalent (FTE) rate represents the time fraction spent in classroom and for which students are funded. If the time fraction is unknown, an estimate should be used. For example, junior kindergarten and kindergarten students taking a half-time program and where a half-time program is being funded, the FTE enrolment would be the headcount enrolment divided by two, which is 0.5. If a student is only taking a quarter of the usual course load and is funded on that basis, the FTE enrolment would be the headcount enrolment divided by four, which is 0.25.

For most jurisdictions, grades 1-12 have an FTE of 1.0 as these grades are generally considered full-time whereas FTE’s of less than 1.0 are prevalent for the Junior Kindergarten and Kindergarten grades.

Table 2.3 Upgrading Programs for Adults
Include enrolments in General Education Development (GED), Adult Basic Education (ABE) and other equivalency programs.
Exclude any enrolments in upgrading programs offered at the postsecondary level or by any institution other than a school board.

Table 2.4 Vocational Programs for Youth and Adults
Include enrolments in all professional and technical training programs offered in public schools operated by school boards or the province.
Vocational Education is designed to lead students to acquire the practical skills, know-how and understanding necessary for employment in a particular occupation or trade or class of occupations or trades. Successful completion of such programs usually lead to a labour-market relevant vocational qualification recognized by the competent authorities in the province/territory in which it is obtained.
To be considered a vocational student, at least 25 per cent of the student’s instructional time must be in a vocational or technical program.

Exclude any enrolments in vocational programs offered at the postsecondary level or by any institution other than a school board

Table 3: Enrolments by Type of Minority and Second Language Programs, (Headcount)

Table 3.1 Regular Second Language Programs (or Core Language programs)
Enrolments in programs where French is taught to Anglophone students or English is taught to Francophone students as a “subject” in the regular course offerings. One or more additional subjects can also be taught in the student’s second official language but second language instruction must not exceed 25% of all instruction time.

Table 3.2 Second Language Immersion Programs
Enrolments in programs where French is the language of instruction for Anglophone students or English is the language of instruction for Francophone students. Instruction time in the student’s second official language exceeds 25% of all instruction time.

Table 3.3 Minority Language Programs (or First Official Language programs)
Enrolments in programs for students from the official language linguistic minority in the relevant province or territory (French outside Québec, English in Québec). These programs allow children in the linguistic minority to pursue their education in their first official language.

Table 4: Enrolments by Aboriginal Language Programs by Grade, (Headcount)

Table 4.1 Aboriginal as Language of Instruction (a.k.a. Aboriginal second language program or Core Aboriginal)
Enrolments in programs where an Aboriginal language is taught as a subject as part of regular course offerings. One or more additional subjects can also be taught in an Aboriginal language but may not exceed 25% of all instruction time.
4.1 captures data for all students, aboriginal and non-aboriginal.

Table 4.2 Aboriginal Language as Language of Instruction (a.k.a. Aboriginal first language program)
Enrolments in schools where all classroom instruction is taught in an Aboriginal language for Aboriginal students (exclude non-Aboriginal/First Nation students).

Table 5: Enrolments in Special Needs Education by Type of Exceptionality (Disability), Type of Class, School Boards and Districts (Headcount)

Special Needs Education
Students with special educational needs are those who have been identified with an exceptionality for whom additional public and/or private resources are provided to support their education. Additional resources are resources made available over and above those generally available to regular students. They are resources provided to support students who have difficulties following the regular curriculum. They can consist of personnel resources (a more favorable teacher/student ratio, additional teachers, assistants or other personnel), material resources (aides or supports of various types, modification or adaptation to classroom, specialized teaching materials) or financial resources (modified funding formulae, money set aside within the regular budget allocation or additional payments).

Following the OECD definitions and recommendations from the Special Education and Student Services Directors of the Western and Northern Canada Protocol, these students are broken in three sub-categories:

A. Sensory, physical and intellectual disabilities - Low incidence disabilities
Refers to students whose disabilities have clear biological causes – such as physical disabilities, visual impairment/blind, hearing impairment/deaf, moderate to severe/profound intellectual disability, chronic health problem, multiple disabilities, autism and fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS).

B. Learning disabilities and behavioral disabilities - High incidence disabilities
Refers to students who are experiencing learning and/or behavioral difficulties.

C. To compensate for SES or other disadvantages
Refers to students whose difficulties are considered to arise primarily from socio-economic, cultural and/or linguistic disadvantages for which the education system seeks to compensate.

If a student has multiple special educational needs, this student should be counted in each of the sub-categories. However, please make sure that these students are only counted once in the totals.

Regular Class
Classroom composed of similarly aged students.
Students who are withdrawn from a regular class to receive special education services for less than 25% of their instructional time or students who receive special supports while attending a regular class are deemed attending a regular class.

Special Class
Segregated (all-day or partial) classroom composed of students with identified special education needs. If a student spends 25% or more of her/his time outside of the regular classroom, they are considered attending a special classroom.

Table 6: Number of Graduates by Type of Programs and Age and Sex

Graduates
Include first time graduates only. Count late graduates but do not count the same graduate twice.

Table 6.1 Regular Programs for Youth
Graduates of general training programs offered to similarly aged young students.

Table 6.2 Adult Upgrading Programs
Include graduates in General Education Development (GED), Adult Basic Education (ABE) and other equivalency programs.
Exclude any graduates of upgrading programs offered at the postsecondary level or by any institution other than a school board.

Table 6.3a, b. Vocational Programs for Youth and Adults
Include graduates in all professional and technical training programs.
Exclude any graduates of vocational programs offered at the postsecondary level or by any institution other than a school board.

Educator related definitions

Educator related tables
Include all employees in the public school system who belong to one of the three following categories: teachers, school administrators and pedagogical support.

It includes all educators in regular public schools, provincial reformatory or custodial schools, and other students recognized and funded by a province or territory.
Exclude correspondence or distance programs, private schools or independent school schools financed by federal departments ( e.g. the Department of National Defense and the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs).

Please note that all teachers in regular programs for youth, adult upgrading programs and vocational programs for youth and adults should also be included. Exclude any programs offered at the postsecondary level or by any institution other than a school board.

Teachers
This category includes personnel involved in direct student instruction in a group or one-on-one basis. Chairpersons of departments who spend the majority of their time teaching should also be reported in this category. Personnel temporarily not at work ( e.g. for reasons of illness or injury, maternity or parental leave, holiday or vacation) should also be included.

Include:

Classroom teachers
Special education teachers
Specialists (music, physical education)
Other teachers who work with students as a whole class in a classroom, in small groups in a resource room, or one-on-one inside or outside a regular classroom, including substitute/supply teachers.

Exclude:

Teacher’s aides, student teachers
Other personnel who do not get paid for their employment.

School Administrators:
This category includes all personnel who support the administration and management of the school ( e.g. principals, vice-principals and other management staff with similar responsibilities), only if they DO NOT spend the majority of their time teaching.

Exclude:

Higher level management
Receptionists, secretaries, clerks and other staff who support the administrative activities of the school
Those are reported under “other than educators”

Pedagogical Support
This category covers professional non-teaching personnel who provide services to students to support their instruction program. It includes educational assistants, paid teacher’s aides, guidance counselors and librarians.

Exclude:

Health and social support which should be reported under ‘other than educators”

Table 7.1 Number of full-time and part-time educators by age group and sex (headcounts)

Headcount Educator
Defined as the number of educators on September the 30th (or as close as possible thereafter) of the school year who are responsible for providing services to the headcount enrolment students.

Table 7.2 Number of Full-Time Equivalent ( FTE ) educators by categories

Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Educator
Defined as the number of full-time educators on September the 30th (or as close as possible thereafter) of the school year, plus the sum of part-time educators according to their percentage of a full-time employment allocation (determined by the province or territory). For example, if a normal full-time work allocation is ten months per year, an educator who works for six months of the year would be counted as 0.6 of a Full Time Equivalent (FTE) or an employee who works part time for ten months at 60% of full time would be 0.6 of an FTE.

Please report FTE’S under the three following categories: teachers, school administrators and pedagogical support.

New…Private School Data

(As a reminder, private school data is to be submitted as an aggregate at the provincial level, not school level).

Private elementary and secondary schools: These schools, whether church affiliated, or non-sectarian, are operated, managed and administered by private individuals and/or groups ( e.g. a Church, a Trade Union or a business enterprise, foreign or international agency), or its Governing Board consists mostly of members not selected by a public agency.

Source of funds: The extent to which an institution receives its funding from public or private sources does not determine the classification status of the institution between public and private. The ESES does not distinguish between government dependent private and independent private institutions.

Regulation: Privately managed schools may be subject to some regulation or control by public authorities, but these institutions are nevertheless classified as private, provided that they are ultimately subject to private control. Public regulation may extend to areas such as curriculum, staffing appointments, admissions policies, and other matters.

If you need to reach us…

If you require clarification or any other assistance, please do not hesitate to contact the ESES Team:

Riley Brockington,
ESES Manager and Analyst
613-951-2995
Riley.Brockington@statcan.gc.ca

Elaine Tremblay,
Statistical Officer
613-951-0695
Elaine.Tremblay@statcan.gc.ca

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