Tuesday, October 23, 2001
Released at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time

• Television viewing, fall 2000

  Pay-TV and specialty services have continued to grow at the expense of conventional television. By the fall of 2000, the audience share for conventional Canadian and foreign stations had declined to only 65%, compared with over 99% in 1982.

• E-commerce: Household shopping on the Internet, 2000

  Canadians more than doubled their purchases of goods and services on-line in 2000, as use of the Internet continued to expand. About 1.5 million households spent an estimated $1.1 billion over the Internet, up from about $417 million in 1999.

• Farm Product Price Index, August 2001
• Shipments of rolled steel, August 2001
• Steel primary forms, August 2001