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