Ordering from the catalogue
This guide mentions various publications, products and services. Each one has a registration number, which is to be used when a product is ordered. The first numbers identify the publication, product or service number. The three letters following this number identify its qualities. Consider, for example, Perspectives on Labour and Income (Catalogue no. 75-001-XPE).

Explanation of numbers
The first two numbers stand for the subject group. In the example above, 75 represents the Labour and Household Surveys Analysis subject group. The character following this number indicates the product or class, which in this case is a book or report ("-"). The next three digits constitute a unique number applied to that product or service. In this sequence of three, the first refers to frequency ("0") and the last two form a sequential accession number ("01"). The frequency indicator for books/reports is as follows:

0 - Daily/Weekly/Monthly/ Seasonal/Quarterly/Semi-annual
1 - Census
2 - Annual
3 - Census
4 - Biennial
5 - Occasional
6 - Irregular

Explanation of letters
The first letter represents the stage of the publication of the product:

P - Preliminary - a product produced before final confirmation of data
X - not relevant to this product

The second letter represents the medium/mode in which the product is delivered:

P - Paper/print
F - Facsimile
C - CD-ROM
I - Internet
D - Diskette

The third letter represents the language in which the product is delivered:

E - English
F - French
B - Bilingual

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