Question
A faculty member has inquired as to whether the Annual Estimates of Employment, Earnings and Hours based on NAICS 1991-2006 survey will ever be available for finer geographic levels specifically at the CD or CSD level? Or if it might be available as a custom tabulation request.
Answer
The author division has confirmed that the survey from which this product stems only provides data at the national and provincial level. They do not expect to produce data for finer geographical level from this survey nor would this information be available through a custom tabulation.
Showing posts with label Hours of work and work arrangements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hours of work and work arrangements. Show all posts
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Labour Force Data from 1964-Present
Question
An economics graduate student would like to find monthly Labour Force data, specifically Average Hours worked, and number of people employed, dating back to 1964. He has found the LFS data via CANSIM dating back to 1976, and earlier data appears only to be available annually.
Is anyone aware of another source?
Answers
1. StatsCan has monthly hours worked data from 1966 to 1975 on paper only. It is based on the very survey questionnaire which is not comparable to the survey from 1976 to present.
2. Stats Can print publication 71-001 has hours worked as a categorical variable and number of people employed, as far back as 1950, at least in all the monthly issues I checked. You would need to compute mid-points and multiply by the number of employed in each category, to come up with a monthly overall average, but with some key-punching grunt work, Excel will compute a monthly average nicely.
An economics graduate student would like to find monthly Labour Force data, specifically Average Hours worked, and number of people employed, dating back to 1964. He has found the LFS data via CANSIM dating back to 1976, and earlier data appears only to be available annually.
Is anyone aware of another source?
Answers
1. StatsCan has monthly hours worked data from 1966 to 1975 on paper only. It is based on the very survey questionnaire which is not comparable to the survey from 1976 to present.
2. Stats Can print publication 71-001 has hours worked as a categorical variable and number of people employed, as far back as 1950, at least in all the monthly issues I checked. You would need to compute mid-points and multiply by the number of employed in each category, to come up with a monthly overall average, but with some key-punching grunt work, Excel will compute a monthly average nicely.
Tuesday, August 8, 2006
Hourly wages and Health Care Expenses
Question
A student here is looking for a single source (or a continuous series) that would allow her to see hourly wage data, by specific occupation (e.g., farm labourer, clerk, carpenter, etc.), from the 1930s to the present. By preference, these data would be annual - but whatever is available would be welcomed.
The census data include annual earnings, but not hourly rates, by occupation.
Answers
1. There is some wage data in: B.R. Mitchell, International Historical Statistics: The Americas, 1750-2000. The series given are for "average daily wages" for 1901 -- 1958 and average monthly wages in manufacturing from 1958 to present. Perhaps a useful starting point?
2. The best source I found for wages by occupation was through the Labour Force Survey and the Survey on Employment, Payrolls and Hours.
Unfortunately, neither survey offers data for the years you request. Due to methodological changes in the LFS, I know that they have not applied the new methods to older data - which explains why you will not find a comparative series spanning the years you seek.
A student here is looking for a single source (or a continuous series) that would allow her to see hourly wage data, by specific occupation (e.g., farm labourer, clerk, carpenter, etc.), from the 1930s to the present. By preference, these data would be annual - but whatever is available would be welcomed.
The census data include annual earnings, but not hourly rates, by occupation.
Answers
1. There is some wage data in: B.R. Mitchell, International Historical Statistics: The Americas, 1750-2000. The series given are for "average daily wages" for 1901 -- 1958 and average monthly wages in manufacturing from 1958 to present. Perhaps a useful starting point?
2. The best source I found for wages by occupation was through the Labour Force Survey and the Survey on Employment, Payrolls and Hours.
Unfortunately, neither survey offers data for the years you request. Due to methodological changes in the LFS, I know that they have not applied the new methods to older data - which explains why you will not find a comparative series spanning the years you seek.
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Hours Worked by Households/Families
Question
Is there a source anywhere that would give me the above information -- for 1982?
Answer
The LFS microdata files contain respondent and spouse's usual hours at all jobs, and at the main job. So you can at least calculate hours worked for the census family, though not for the economic family or the household.
Is there a source anywhere that would give me the above information -- for 1982?
Answer
The LFS microdata files contain respondent and spouse's usual hours at all jobs, and at the main job. So you can at least calculate hours worked for the census family, though not for the economic family or the household.
Monday, July 4, 2005
Telecommuting
Question
We are looking for data on "telecommuting". Synonyms are teleworking, remote working or e-working. On Stat Can wbsite, I have found this article
http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/11-015-XIE/studies/wes006.htm
using WES survey data. Researches in CANSIM have been unsuccessful. Any ideas?
Answer
The "Survey of Work Arrangements" (91 & 95) collected data on work at home.
http://www.statcan.ca/english/Dli/Data/Ftp/was.htm
*the 1995 version is the most recent
We are looking for data on "telecommuting". Synonyms are teleworking, remote working or e-working. On Stat Can wbsite, I have found this article
http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/11-015-XIE/studies/wes006.htm
using WES survey data. Researches in CANSIM have been unsuccessful. Any ideas?
Answer
The "Survey of Work Arrangements" (91 & 95) collected data on work at home.
http://www.statcan.ca/english/Dli/Data/Ftp/was.htm
*the 1995 version is the most recent
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Home-based Businesses
Question
A student here has asked for data on the number of home-based businesses in Toronto. I can easily find the number of people
employed in home-based businesses, but not the number of such businesses. In the hope that I have somehow missed the blindingly obvious, is this information available somewhere?
Answer
The only information I found, which is fairly dated, is from the 1995 Survey of Work Arrangements 1995. There was an article written in Perspectives on Labour and Income (catalogue 95-001-XPE, Autumn 1998 - Vol. 10, no. 3) entitled "Home-based entrepreneurs" which reports findings from this survey and publishes some results at the Canada level.
Short of this survey, I can not imagine we have very much information to help you.
The issue stems from the fact that business counts primarily come from administrative data (from CRA). A business needs to register with CRA under two circumstances: 1) They have employees and need to register for a payroll account, or 2) the business makes more than $30,000 a year and needs to register for a tax number from CRA.
As you can see, home-based businesses are often entrepreneurs with a fairly low income and without employees. Unless we have a special survey seeking them out, it does not seem as though the information we collect covers your patron's needs.
A student here has asked for data on the number of home-based businesses in Toronto. I can easily find the number of people
employed in home-based businesses, but not the number of such businesses. In the hope that I have somehow missed the blindingly obvious, is this information available somewhere?
Answer
The only information I found, which is fairly dated, is from the 1995 Survey of Work Arrangements 1995. There was an article written in Perspectives on Labour and Income (catalogue 95-001-XPE, Autumn 1998 - Vol. 10, no. 3) entitled "Home-based entrepreneurs" which reports findings from this survey and publishes some results at the Canada level.
Short of this survey, I can not imagine we have very much information to help you.
The issue stems from the fact that business counts primarily come from administrative data (from CRA). A business needs to register with CRA under two circumstances: 1) They have employees and need to register for a payroll account, or 2) the business makes more than $30,000 a year and needs to register for a tax number from CRA.
As you can see, home-based businesses are often entrepreneurs with a fairly low income and without employees. Unless we have a special survey seeking them out, it does not seem as though the information we collect covers your patron's needs.
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