Financial Performance Indicators

Question

The FPI product - on the main product page http://www.statcan.gc.ca/bsolc/olc-cel/olc-cel?catno=61-224-XCB&lang=eng it states at the bottom:

"Free access
This product may also be accessible for free at these libraries.

These data are available at no additional charge to Canadian educational institutions participating in the Data Liberation Initiative."

Does this mean that I can hand over this product to someone outside of the University community?

What has happened - an employee of a company not associated in any way with the University called StatCan talked to a representative who in turn gave them my name and contact information. I'm a little confused - can I give it to her or not?

Answer

External clients may use the DSP copy of Financial Performance Indicators but they are not authorised to use the DLI copy of this product. The DSP copy has national level data whereas the DLI copy also includes lower levels of geography. The DLI copy is covered under the DLI licence and may therefore only be used by authorised users.

Thank you for letting us know that an external user was referred to you by the National Contact Centre, we will look into this. Generally, only members of the academic community would be referred to the DLI Contact in a member institution for information about a DLI product. I suspect that in this case the intention was to refer the user to a DSP library.