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Labour
market and income data guide
January 2001
Estimates of labour income
Description: provides
estimates of wages and salaries and supplementary labour income by
province and industry
Who/what is surveyed:
all paid employees
How the data is collected:
combination of administrative data from Revenue Canada and data
based on various annual and monthly Statistics Canada surveys (mainly
the Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours and Labour Force Survey)
Geographic detail: Canada,
provinces, territories and abroad
Information collected:
1. wage and salary data
by industry and province
2. supplementary labour income, such as employers’ contributions
to health and welfare schemes, pension plans, workers’ compensation,
Employment Insurance, Canada/Quebec Pension Plans and retirement allowances
3. wage and salary data by government, personal and business sector
Frequency: Monthly
Data availability: Data
are available from 1961
Reference period: Calendar
month
Release dates: two
months after collection
What makes the data valuable:
1. long time series
2. detailed industry data by province
3. annual government, personal and business sector estimates
4. labour income is over 50% of gross domestic product
5. only source of supplementary labour income estimates
Products and services:
1. Data releases in The Daily:
January 2001
(data for October 2000)
October 2000 (data
for July 2000)
August 2000 (data
for May 2000)
Regular publications:
2. Estimates of Labour Income (Catalogue no. 13F0016XPB), monthly
3. Provincial economic accounts, annual estimates (Catalogue
nos. 13-213-PPB and 13-213-PIB)
4. Articles in Perspectives
on Labour and Income,Catalogue no. 75-001-XPE, quarterly paper
edition and Catalogue no. 75-001-XIE, monthly
online edition.
5. Articles in Canadian Economic Observer, Catalogue no. 11-010-XPB,
monthly
6. Articles in National Economic and Financial Accounts, Catalogue
no. 13-001-XPB, quarterly
7. CANSIM (Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System),
Statistics Canada’s publicly accessible database; for further
information, please call (613) 951-8200
8. Special tabulations meeting specific user requirements are available
on a cost-recovery basis.
Responsible division: Income and Expenditure Accounts
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