Real-time CANSIM tables
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Released: 2015-08-26
Statistics Canada is launching a new series of data tables—the real-time CANSIM tables—for 20 economic and social data time series to add more depth and context to some of its key datasets.
Real-time tables with data from the Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours are released today, while real-time tables for other surveys will be released shortly.
These tables provide real-time data—or vintage data—and meet the needs of expert data users. As new vintages are added, the real-time tables display the revised data for selected reference periods. This way, real-time tables allow users to examine a given time series of economic or social data as it appeared (and was used) at a given point in time before it was revised.
These real-time tables help economic and social statistics users to better analyze the impact and development of policy, to prepare forecasts, and to test econometric models.
The real-time CANSIM tables do not replace the current CANSIM tables. They are meant to augment and complement the data series and will be released within two weeks after the regular data series.
For more information, consult Real-time CANSIM tables.
Contact information
For more information, contact us (toll-free 1-800-263-1136; 514-283-8300; infostats@statcan.gc.ca).
To enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact James Tebrake (613-951-0538; james.tebrake@statcan.gc.ca), Macroeconomic Accounts Branch.
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