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Does the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey report per 100,000? Also, I'm not able to locate justice spending back to 1990 only back to 2000:<http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/legal13-eng.htm>
AnswerStatistics Canada has not collected courts or prosecutions related expenditures data since the Courts Resources, Expenditures and Personnel Survey and the Prosecutorial Services in Canada were discontinued.
For police-reported crime rates per 100,000 population, the client will need to access two separate CANSIM tables. For data from 1977 to 1997, the information is contained in CANSIM table 252-0013 Crime statistics, by detailed offences. For data after 1997, the information is contained in CANSIM table 252-0051 Incident-based crime statistics, by detailed violations.
For expenditures on policing services, please see the following tables from the Juristat article Police Resources in Canada, 2013. Current and constant dollar expenditures on policing, Canada, 1986 to 2012 <http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2014001/article/11914/tbl/tbl11-eng.htm>. Total expenditures on policing, current dollars, by province and territory, 2012 <http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2014001/article/11914/tbl/tbl12-eng.htm>. Total expenditures on policing, constant dollars, by province or territory, 2002-2012 <http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2014001/article/11914/tbl/tbl13-eng.htm>.
For expenditures on legal aid plans, please see CANSIM table 258-0007 Legal aid plan expenditures, by type of expenditure.
For expenditures on the adult correctional system, please see the following table from the Juristat article Admissions to adult correctional services in Canada, 2011/2012.
<http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2014001/article/11918/tbl/tbl03-eng.htm>.
In regards to raw data, I do know that they were piloting access to administrative justice in the RDCs, but it is still in the pilot phase and not accepting new proposals.
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Will the 2012 Canadian Forces Mental Health Survey be available publically?
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No, there won’t be a PUMF for the Canadian Forces Mental Health Survey, just a masterfile.
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I have a researcher who is trying to find information about the number of Aboriginal/First Nations nurses in Canada, especially Saskatchewan.
We’ve been able to find figures for numbers of nurses overall at CIHI, but their stats don’t include ethnicity. LFS, APS and NHS tables address employment and educational attainment, but the data isn’t detailed enough. Is there another source of information or another approach one might take, short of ordering a custom tabulation?
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You can try contacting the Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada: <http://www.anac.on.ca/>. However, in regards to StatsCan, it would have to be a custom tab.
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I'm wondering whether you can suggest a source where we can find statistics about the number of people who die intestate in Canada. Are there any demographics - gender, ethnicity etc.
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The short answer is "no one knows exactly, really." The estimates gleaned from various Law associations ran anywhere from 1/3 to 60% in Canada. One can sort of understand why this situation exists. You have definitely unearthed a data gap in the jurisprudence data-sphere.
I believe the information would reside with the provinces, if available. I found one source that noted that
in British Columbia, you can register the location of your Will with the provincial department of vital statistics.
In B.C. this data is found in probate court files that are open for public access. However, there is no central probate index for all past and present probate files, so you will need to determine the court location where the probate application was filed, then visit the court house to obtain the information.
You can also do this via the Internet for recent cases through Court Services Online <https://eservice.ag.gov.bc.ca/cso/index.do> which allows you to search by Party Name, Decased Names, File Number and Date Range; however, you have to search probate case by probate case and once you find a case the court wants a minimum of $6.00 to access the record.
The Government of Ontario does not have a central registry of wills. There is information pertaining to Wills, Estates and Trusts on the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General site: <http://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/english/justice-ont/estate_planning.asp>
The 2010 Legacy Poll Findings might also be useful: <http://www.goodworksco.ca/media/10075/legacy_poll_findings_good_works_2010.pdf>
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I have a researcher looking for FIPI data for SK, but he’s run into a few problems I haven’t been able to solve myself. Specifically he’s looking for the following:
1. Building repair (2000 – latest) and building depreciation (1991 – latest) price indices. In CANSIM tables 328-0014 (terminated) and 328-0015 there is only one aggregate grouping for "Buildings and fencing”. It appears there’s no longer a specific price index for 'Building repair' after 2000. I also wonder if there is data related to price index of 'building depreciation'.
2. Machinery depreciation and Machinery repair price index for the 1991-2001 period.
3. Property tax. Neither he nor I can find a property tax price index for 2007 forward.
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Thank you for your interest in the Farm Input Price Index (FIPI). Before responding directly to your query, let me provide a bit of context. FIPI was introduced in 1961 and it has seen many changes over the years. In the 1990s, the index was calculated using surveyed data from farm operations. After budget cuts in the 1990s, most of these surveys were phased out and the structure of the index was modified. In fact in 2008 FIPI was terminated altogether. Following this termination, there was a great deal of user feedback indicating the need for this data, but there were still no funds to conduct surveys. As a result, the current FIPI index was developed that strictly uses administrative data or data from other existing surveys. The structure of the index depended on the data that was available. Moreover, the data quality in general is very good, but there are some components for which there was no good data and we had to use the closest approximation. Only the data of good quality is published in table 328-0015. Data of weaker quality is suppressed. For more information about FIPI, please see <http://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb-bmdi/document/2305_D2_T9_V2-eng.htm>.
Indices are calculated for “building repair,” “building depreciation” and “property taxes,” but they are at a lower quality and hence are not published. Regarding “machinery depreciation and repair," these indices are currently published, but the structure of the index in the previous FIPI (CANSIM table 328-0014) didn’t include these components.
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Do we have access to Taxfiler data through the DLI: <http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/bsolc/olc-cel/olc-cel?catno=17C0010&lang=eng>? My researcher is specifically looking for charitable donor information for Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
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Statistics Canada, CANSIM, table 111-0001 will provide the information you are looking from 1997 – 2011. The table is supposed be updated annually and there is no indication that the table has been terminated, so I would assume that at some point in the future the data for 2012 and 2013 will also be available.
Other tables that may be of interest are 111-002 Charitable donors, by age and sex, annual (Number), 1997 to 2011 And 111-003 Charitable donors, by income group, annual (Number), 1997 to 2011.
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Will the GSS Cycle 26 PUMF file may be available before April 1st?
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The GSS Cycle 26 PUMF will not be available by April 1st, but will be available early this summer. There will also be a DLI Webinar for GSS Cycle 26 that's set for the end of April (date has yet to be set). I have asked that the presenters provide an overview of what to anticipate in the PUMF
