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Statistics Canada was approached by Stentor Resource Centre Incorporated to conduct a survey to monitor the telephone penetration rates across Canada. The survey determines if the respondents have a telephone line in their residence. If they do not have a telephone line, information is collected as to the reasons why. Information is also collected on the income characteristics of the selected households.

The management of the survey was transferred from Stentor to Bell Canada in the Fall of 1998.

The Labour Force Survey (LFS) supplementary capacity is used to conduct this biannual survey. A sample of approximately 44,000 respondents is used for this survey (five out of six rotation groups). The survey data are collected using Computer Assisted Interviewing (CAI). The first data collection procedure took place during November's LFS week in 1996.

This microdata file is prepared biannually and contains the variables from the survey, plus geographical variables from the LFS (province, census metropolitan area, urban/rural breakdown). No other variables from the LFS are added to the file.

Information by format

([B] = Bilingual; see "Bilingual products" below )

Microdata specifications

Survey Year: December 2007
Reference Year: December 2007
Universe: All households
Total weighted number of units: 12,920,037
Number of records: 38,440
Number of variables: 24
File size: 1.77 KB
Format: ASCII

Survey Year: December 2006
Reference Year: December 2006
Universe: All households
Total weighted number of units: 12,737,058
Number of records: 39,125
Number of variables: 25
File size: 1.90 KB
Format: ASCII

Survey Year: December 2005
Reference Year: December 2005
Universe: All households
Total weighted number of units: 12,900,844
Number of records: 38,489
Number of variables: 21
File size: 1,680 KB
Format: ASCII

Survey Year: December 2004
Reference Year: December 2004
Universe: All households
Total weighted number of units: 12,450,168
Number of records: 38,738
Number of variables: 21
File size: 1,741 KB
Format: ASCII

Survey Year: May 2004
Reference Year: May 2004
Universe: All households
Total weighted number of units: 12,348,881
Number of records: 38,943
Number of variables: 21
File size: 1,750 KB
Format: ASCII

Survey Year: May 2003
Reference Year: May 2003
Universe: All households
Total weighted number of units: 12,191,305
Number of records: 39,924
Number of variables: 20
File size: 1,521 KB
Format: ASCII

Survey Year: November 2002
Reference Year: November 2002
Universe: All households
Total weighted number of units: 12,135,383
Number of records: 40,503
Number of variables: 20
File size: 2,216 KB
Format: ASCII

Survey Year: May 2002
Reference Year: May 2002
Universe: All households
Total weighted number of units: 12,055,565
Number of records: 39,188
Number of variables: 20
File size: 2,144KB
Format: ASCII

Subjects

Keywords

business service industries, data analysis, data collection, data processing, data quality, personal services industries, questionnaires, response rate, sampling and weighting, survey methodology, surveys, telephone services.

Free access

These data are available at no additional charge to Canadian educational institutions participating in the Data Liberation Initiative.

Bilingual products

Some bilingual products have changed to separate English and French products. In these cases, back issues are bilingual and the more recent issues are unilingual.

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