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NAICS? YIKES!

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

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NAICS? YIKES!

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  1. NAICS? YIKES! Or North American industry classification system (NAICS)? Yearly index of constant (k) dollar estimates (YIKES)!

  2. 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

  3. Overview (cont’d) • Some common sources of confusion • CPI: index year versus basket • Census: community profiles versus census profiles versus topic-based tabulations

  4. 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

  5. Searching -- www.statcan.ca

  6. Results by category

  7. The Daily CANSIM Census

  8. 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)

  9. Click on PDF to get Internet version of this publication.

  10. Click on “Information for Libraries” But we don’t want to pay • 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)

  11. Click on DSP

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

  13. More on ‘decoding’ Stats Can Product Codes… Table of ‘media’ and ‘language’ codes… 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

  14. 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

  15. 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]

  16. e.g.75M0010XCB Where: • 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

  17. 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

  18. Speaking of Bibliocat…

  19. 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.

  20. For Fee, Restricted http://www.statcan.ca/english/Dli/continuumofaccess.htm Free, Unrestricted Continuum of Access http://www.statcan.ca/english/Dli/continuumofaccess.htm Chuck Humphrey, U of Alberta Data Library

  21. Finding what things mean (definitions) • http://www.statcan.ca/english/concepts/index.htm Also look in Statistics Canada print products • http://www4.statcan.ca/english/thesaurus/index.htm

  22. 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] terms http://www.fin.gc.ca/gloss/gloss-e.html#a • Thesauri and controlled vocabularies http://www.collectionscanada.ca/8/4/r4-280-e.html

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