Census of Manufacturers

Question

I've been looking around for some historical information about the "Census of Manufacturers".

[1] Whatever happened to the "Census of Manufacturers"? I looked in the "Historical Statistics of Canada" and have read "Section R: Manufactures" which gives me very detailed information up to the '70's, of course.

However, does anyone know if it is still being conducted? IF NOT, what was the last year it was done under that name?

[2] Did the "Annual Survey of Manufacturers" replace the "Census of Manufacturers" in 1983? (1983 is the first year of data available to us through the DLI file, "Annual Survey of Manufactures, 1983 * 1995".)

[3] Any chance that the DLI community can get data more recent than 1995 for the "Annual Survey of Manufacturers"?

If we can get it via another data source, please let me know. At the moment, I can only think of CANSIM and the publications 31-001, "Monthly Survey of Manufacturing"; 31-203, "Manufacturing Industries of Canada"; and the titles for specifically named manufacturing industries.

Answer

There's a description of the Annual survey of manufactures at:
http://www.statcan.ca/english/sdds/2103.htm

It has links to the questionnaires, a note on comparability of data, etc., but no list of products that derive their data from it.

However, armed with the information that it is SDDS number 2103, you can go in to E-stat's version of CANSIM and search by survey number (ie. '2103') and find out which matrices are produced from it. A search of the Daily will tell you any other products produced from it since about 1996.