DLI - Small Area DLI - Small Area DataDataProduct ReviewProduct Review

Jeff MoonMaps, Data, & Government Information Centre (MADGIC)Queen’s UniversityNational DLI TrainingMontrealMay 14, 2007

Small Area DataSmall Area Data

What data exists? Where does it come from?Coverage – Years, Geography? Content? Strengths & Weaknesses?

What Data What Data Exists?Exists?

SAADSmall Area & Administrative Data63C0021

SARTRESmall Area Retail Trade Estimates63C0021

SABALSmall Area Business & Labour Database61F0056XCB

Descript-ion

A wide variety tables dealing with income, income distribution, investment & more

Tables of retail sales ($) & no. of locations to 5-digit NAICS for incorporated retailers

A real grab-bag of statistics, from tourism to business, to justice and much more

Status Ongoing Ongoing Ceased

Where does it come Where does it come from?from?

Source Administrative records - most notably, the taxation files

Derived by integrating survey data on chain stores with tax data for non-chain retailers

Derived from a wide variety of sources (Census, Justice, Taxfiles, and more)

SAADSmall Area & Administrative Data

SARTRESmall Area Retail Trade Estimates

SABALSmall Area Business & Labour Database

Coverage – Years, Coverage – Years, Geography?Geography?Years Varies

1989/95/97 - 20031999 - 2003 Varies

1976 - 1995

Geography CanadaProvincesTerritoriesCensus Division (CD)Census Metropolitan Area (CMA)Census Agglomeration (CA)Census Tract (CT)Federal Electoral District (FED)Forward Sortation Area (FSA)

CanadaProvincesTerritoriesUrban – FSA’sRural - 6-digit Postal Codes

CanadaProvincesTerritoriesCensus Metropolitan Area (CMA)Census Agglomeration (CA)

SAAD SARTRE SABAL

Content?Content?SAAD SARTRE SABAL

Contents Canadian Capital GainsCharitable DonorsNeighbourhood Income and DemographicsCanadian InvestmentIncomeEconomic DependencyRRSP Contribution Limits Canadian Investors FamiliesRRSP Contributors Canadian SaversLabour Force Income Profiles Seniors Canadian TaxfilersMigration Estimates

NAICS (1 to 5 digit)Province / FSA / PCodeYearSales (1000’s dollars)Number of Locations

Adult Education and Training Labour Force Survey Tourism- Domestic travel Business Register Revenue Canada Business Administrative Data Census of Population Revenue Can. Business Admin Data Justice (Crime Statistics) Building Permits Housing Starts Consumer Price Index (CPI) Population Estimates and Projections Tourism- International Travel Education Manufacturing Justice (Crime statistics) Retail Trade Taxfiler Families Family Expenditure Income and Housing Section Motor Vehicle Registrations

Content of note…Content of note…SAAD: Economic Dependency SAAD: Economic Dependency RatiosRatios

Economic Dependency Ratio (EDR) Ratio of transfer payments to every $100 of total employment income. e.g. EDR of 18.64 means that $18.64 was received in transfer payments for every $100 of employment income for that area.

Provincial Index (Province = 100) & Canadian Index (Canada = 100)EDR expressed as a % of the EDR for the province. e.g. If EDR for an area has a provincial index of 114, that EDR is 14% higher than the provincial EDR. Same applies to Canada.

The place to go for detailed taxfiler information for small areas

Data broken down by gender, age, income, living arrangements, & more

Generally well documented (guides provided, but would have been nice to have definitions, footnotes, etc. in Excel Tables)

Strengths & WeaknessesStrengths & WeaknessesSAAD – SAAD – StrengthsStrengths……

Strengths & WeaknessesStrengths & WeaknessesSAAD – SAAD – WeaknessesWeaknesses……

Tables include column for Postal Walk, but no data provided

Tables broken up into inconsistent ‘chunks’ (e.g. 1995-2001 then 1999-2003, and 1995-2000 then 2003… where’s 2002?)

Economic Dependency Profiles show up in a number of places… confusing

http://library.queensu.ca/webdoc/ssdc/cdbksnew/saad/saad_guide.htm#edp

The only database that provides retail sales at a geographical level as small as the postal code.

Provides 5-digit NAICS codes starting in 1999.Census of companies registered as corporations.Possible to use these data to build econometric

models based on the retail sales variables. However, the strength of this database is cross-sectional rather than chronological analysis.

Its data follows closely the levels of data of annual and annualized monthly surveys.

Strengths & WeaknessesStrengths & WeaknessesSARTRE – SARTRE – StrengthsStrengths……

Source: prod.library.utoronto.ca:8090/datalib/codebooks/cstdli/sartre/sartre-gid.doc

Cannot be used for chronological analysis; postal code changes prevent this.Data published is dated.Many records are deleted for reasons of confidentiality (Duffett Rules).Data does not include non-incorporated stores, whereas the annual survey does.Comparison with other sources of retail sales information (monthly and annual

surveys (NAICS estimate)) at the FSA level is not possible and instead must be carried out at the provincial level.

Strengths & WeaknessesStrengths & WeaknessesSARTRE – SARTRE – WeaknessesWeaknesses……

Source: prod.library.utoronto.ca:8090/datalib/codebooks/cstdli/sartre/sartre-gid.doc

Strengths:Vast array of data from a variety of sources

Weaknesses:Dated and dead. No new version of SABAL since 1996.Less detail (e.g. SARTRE has 5-digit NAICS, SABAL has 4-digit in Business Register)

Strengths & WeaknessesStrengths & WeaknessesSABALSABAL

Census of Canada:The most detailed geography available – DA and block.PCensus for MapPointCanadian Consumer Expenditures – detailed expenditures to DA level and non-standard

geography (circles, polygons, drive-time polygons)Canada Business Summary – Numbers of businesses to 2-digit NAICS to the DA level and non-

standard geographyCensus data for non-standard geography

Other Sources of Small Area Other Sources of Small Area DataData

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