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User Guide for the Survey of Household Spending, 2016
Appendix B
Response rates by collection month, Canada

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Table B1
Interview response rates by collection month, Canada^{Table B1 Note 1}, 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Interview response rates by collection month Eligible sampled households, No contacts, Refusals, Residual non-respondents, Respondents and Response rate, calculated using number and percentage units of measure (appearing as column headers).
	number					percentage
	Eligible sampled households	No contacts	Refusals	Residual non-respondents	Respondents	Response rate^{Table B1 Note 2}
All months	17,590	1,279	4,177	688	11,446	65.1
January	1,497	141	353	61	942	62.9
February	1,483	105	356	70	952	64.2
March	1,454	107	354	59	934	64.2
April	1,496	103	350	64	979	65.4
May	1,479	96	340	47	996	67.3
June	1,456	88	344	58	966	66.3
July	1,423	148	334	44	897	63.0
August	1,486	98	342	54	992	66.8
September	1,455	98	334	61	962	66.1
October	1,459	88	344	40	987	67.6
November	1,430	95	351	62	922	64.5
December	1,472	112	375	68	917	62.3
Note 1 Only the 10 provinces are included. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 (Respondent households/Eligible sampled households) x 100. Return to note 2 referrer

Table B2
Diary response rates by collection month, Canada^{Table B2 Note 1}, 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Diary response rates by collection month Eligible sampled households, Interview non-respondents, Diaries, Response rate, Refusal, Unusable and Usable, calculated using number and percentage units of measure (appearing as column headers).
	Eligible sampled households^{Table B2 Note 2}	Interview non-respondents^{Table B2 Note 3}	Refusal^{Table B2 Note 5}	Unusable	Usable	Response rate^{Table B2 Note 6}
	Eligible sampled households^{Table B2 Note 2}	Interview non-respondents^{Table B2 Note 3}	Diaries^{Table B2 Note 4}			Response rate^{Table B2 Note 6}
	number					percentage
All months	8,882	3,064	1,871	138	3,809	42.9
January	754	283	134	11	326	43.2
February	737	267	142	7	321	43.6
March	737	259	143	8	327	44.4
April	749	247	139	8	355	47.4
May	751	231	176	20	324	43.1
June	743	257	138	12	336	45.2
July	727	256	171	12	288	39.6
August	742	252	168	9	313	42.2
September	743	237	151	14	341	45.9
October	721	238	175	12	296	41.1
November	719	257	154	12	296	41.2
December	759	280	180	13	286	37.7
Note 1 Only the 10 provinces are included. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 The eligible sampled households are those selected to fill out the diary. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes interview "No contacts", "Refusals" and "Residual non-respondents" from households selected to fill out the diary. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 The definition of usable and unusable diaries is given in the "Data processing and quality control" section. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes diary "No contacts", "Refusals" and "Residual non-respondents" from interview respondents selected to fill out the diary. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 (Usable diaries/Eligible sampled households) x 100. Return to note 6 referrer

Date modified:: 2017-12-13