Title: NAICS? YIKES!
1NAICS? YIKES!
- Or North American industry classification system
(NAICS)? - Yearly index of constant (k) dollar estimates
(YIKES)!
2Overview
- Finding what youre 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
3Overview (contd)
- Some common sources of confusion
- CPI index year versus basket
- Census community profiles versus census profiles
versus topic-based tabulations
4Finding 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
5Searching -- www.statcan.ca
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8The Daily
CANSIM
Census
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11- 75-001-XIE
- 75 subject group (Employment/Labour)
- 001 unique number for the product
- X preliminary, revision, supplement etc
- status of the product (Xnot applicable)
- I medium Internet/pdf format
- E language (EEnglish)
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15More 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
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19Where 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
20Speaking of Bibliocat
21Speaking 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.
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s.htm
Free, Unrestricted
Continuum of Access http//www.statcan.ca/english/
Dli/continuumofaccess.htm Chuck Humphrey, U of
Alberta Data Library
23Finding what things mean (definitions)
http//www.statcan.ca/english/concepts/index.htm
http//www4.statcan.ca/english/thesaurus/index.htm
- Also look in Statistics Canada print products
24Finding what things mean (definitions)
- On other web sites
- Economic concepts
- http//canadianeconomy.gc.ca/english/economy/conce
pts.html - Glossary of frequently used financial and
economic terms - http//www.fin.gc.ca/gloss/gloss-e.htmla
- Thesauri and controlled vocabularies
- http//www.collectionscanada.ca/8/4/r4-280-e.html