NAICS? YIKES!

Or North American industry classification system (NAICS)?

Yearly index of constant (k) dollar estimates (YIKES)!

Overview

• Finding what you’re looking for– Searching www.statcan.ca and Bibliocat

– Decoding Stats Can catalogue numbers

– Finding what things mean (definitions)

– Finding classifications and concordances

• Getting access to what you are looking for– Levels of access

– Getting to the DSP when its not in your library catalogue

Overview (cont’d)

• Some common sources of confusion– CPI: index year versus basket– Census: community profiles versus census

profiles versus topic-based tabulations

Finding what you need

• Review of the STC web site

• Searching the STC web site & Bibliocat

• Decoding STC product codes

• Finding definitions

• Finding classification schemes and concordances

Searching -- www.statcan.ca

Results by category

The Daily

CANSIM

Census

75-001-XPE • 75 = subject group• 001 = unique number for the product• X = status of product (preliminary, revision, supplement) (X= N/A)• P = medium: ‘Print’• E = language (E=English)

Click on PDF to get Internet version of this publication.

75-001-XIE •75 = subject group (Employment/Labour)• 001 = unique number for the product• X = preliminary, revision, supplement etc status of the product (X=not applicable)• I = medium: ‘Internet’/pdf format• E = language (E=English)

But we don’t want to pay

Click on “Information for Libraries”

Click on DSP

Click on 75-001-XIE to get to a list of available issues.

Source: At the bottom of the STC Daily New products listing, e.g.http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/060119/p060119.htm

Last published overview of codes: 1997 Stat Can catalogue

Table of ‘media’ and ‘language’ codes…

More on ‘decoding’ Stats Can Product Codes…

e.g. 97F0005XIE2001042

Where:• 97 = subject group: Census:

various custom services• F = product class: fixed

product• 0005 = unique number for

the product• X = variable descriptor: not

relevant to this product• I = medium: Internet• E = language: English • 2001 = census: 2001• 042 = table number: 040-080

are Special interest tables

e.g. 75C0002• 75 = subject group:

Labour and households surveys analysis

• C = product class: custom retrieval

• 0002 = unique number for the product

[N.B. custom retrievals can be output to a number of media, either official language, etc – so additional codes are not yet known]

e.g. 75M0010XCBWhere:

• 75 = subject group: Labour and households surveys analysis

• M = product class: Microdata file

• 0010 = unique number for the product

• X = variable descriptor: not relevant to this product

• C = medium: cd-rom

• B = language: bilingual

Where are product codes used?

Are used:– In the Stats Can ‘Products and services’

database– In Bibliocat (STC Library Catalogue)– On Stats Can publications (print and electronic)

Are searchable:– On Stats Can web site– In Products and Services database– In Bibliocat– In CANSIM I and CANSIM II via E-STAT

Speaking of Bibliocat…

Speaking of Bibliocat…

Use BiblioCat to search for older publications and resources. Alternatives include the 1994 STC catalogue and the Historical Catalogue of Statistics Canada Publications, 1918 – 1980.

http://www.statcan.ca/english/Dli/continuumofaccess.htmFree,

UnrestrictedFor Fee, Restricted

Continuum of Access http://www.statcan.ca/english/Dli/continuumofaccess.htm

Chuck Humphrey, U of Alberta Data Library

Finding what things mean (definitions)

Also look in Statistics Canada print products

http://www.statcan.ca/english/concepts/index.htm

http://www4.statcan.ca/english/thesaurus/index.htm

Finding what things mean (definitions)On other web sites

– Economic concepts:http://canadianeconomy.gc.ca/english/economy/

concepts.html– Glossary of frequently used [financial and economic]

termshttp://www.fin.gc.ca/gloss/gloss-e.html#a– Thesauri and controlled vocabularieshttp://www.collectionscanada.ca/8/4/r4-280-e.html