Understanding the table Example 1

1. Understanding the tableExample 1 Question: What is the quality (c.v) of the estimates for the proportion of girls aged 3 in Newfoundland and Labrador at cycle 3? How many will there be in cycle 4 and 5? Will the quality suffer from the smaller sample size?

2. Click on the right arrow in Province to select a province

3. Select Newfoundland and Labrador (Terre-Neuve)

4. Click to select C3 Age = 3

5. Since the proportion of girls should be around 50%, click on Prop. Cible and select 50%.

6. You can now see that the c.v. for that particular domain in cycle 3 was 17.5% with 44 children in the sample. In cycle 5, we predict 35 children will be left in sample (assuming 90% response rate in cycle 4 and 5) and the c.v. will grow to 19.6%.

7. Understanding the tableExample 2 Question: What domains based on a 15% proportion are not publishable? We are looking for domains with a c.v. higher than 33.33%

8. Click and select Prop. cible of 15%

9. Click and select Custom in bs_cv

10. Select “is greater than” in the first field

11. Finally, type in 33.33 in the second field and click OK

12. You can now see the first few rows of estimates that we can’t release according to Statistics Canada generally used quality standards.