Question:
I have a PhD student who would like to have access to the microdata for the following three databases:
Business Register (BR), (http://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p2SV.pl?Function=getSurvey&SDDS=1105)
Exporter Register Database, (http://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p2SV.pl?Function=getSurvey&Id=24132)
Survey of Innovation and Business Strategies (SIBS) (http://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p2SV.pl?Function=getSurvey&SDDS=5171)
As these are all business-related sources I am inclined to think that the microdata would only be available at CDER. I checked their website and could only find is the SIBS.
Are the other two available at CDER? Also, is there any other way to obtain access to some of the data without going thorough CDER which is probably prohibitively expensive for my student? I noticed this guide to the BR (https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/statistical-programs/document/1105_D2_T1_V3) which mentions a Business Register System (BRS) and a Browsing Module. How does one get access to this?
Answer:
CDER indeed provides access to business microdata, including the ones listed below. To provide some context on Statistics Canada’s data access standards, please visit “Access to microdata”. For more data-specific questions, I encourage your student to contact CDER directly.
To our best knowledge, BRS is not provided to general public. Business microdata are highly confidential and the access is granted on a need-to-know basis. This means only researchers with approved project by STC are able to access these data.
To provide data-specific recommendations, I would encourage the researcher(s) to contact CDER directly. A drafted proposal would be a good start to place their research questions in context.
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Survey of Innovation and Business Strategy
Question
A researcher is working on marketing-related constructs such as strategy, marketing expenditures, performance, governance etc. for North American companies (including Canadian) - most of these constructs are used in SIBS (Survey of Innovation and Business Strategy). The researcher is interested in “firm-level” data and wondering if SIBS provides that access at all. He has looked into annual reports and other business resources that we subscribe to but, according to him, the strategy choice as measured in SIBS is very rare. Is it possible to get access to firm-level data from SIBS?
Answer
The SIBS data may be accessed by researchers through the Canadian Centre for Data Development and Economic Research (CDER): http://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/cder/index. They would need to submit a research proposal to use CDER’s cost recoverable secure access to business microdata for analytical research.
A researcher is working on marketing-related constructs such as strategy, marketing expenditures, performance, governance etc. for North American companies (including Canadian) - most of these constructs are used in SIBS (Survey of Innovation and Business Strategy). The researcher is interested in “firm-level” data and wondering if SIBS provides that access at all. He has looked into annual reports and other business resources that we subscribe to but, according to him, the strategy choice as measured in SIBS is very rare. Is it possible to get access to firm-level data from SIBS?
Answer
The SIBS data may be accessed by researchers through the Canadian Centre for Data Development and Economic Research (CDER): http://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/cder/index. They would need to submit a research proposal to use CDER’s cost recoverable secure access to business microdata for analytical research.
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