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Table 7
Number of shelters in operation and of shelters that responded to the Transition Home Survey, Canada, provinces and territories, 2007/2008

Province and territory	Shelters in operation	Shelters that responded to the 2008 survey	Response rate
Province and territory	number	number	percentage
Canada	569	518	91
Newfoundland and Labrador	15	14	93
Prince Edward Island	5	5	100
Nova Scotia	16	14	88
New Brunswick	22	21	95
Quebec	126	115	91
Ontario	160	145	91
Manitoba	29	24	83
Saskatchewan	24	20	83
Alberta	50	44	88
British Columbia	110	105	95
Yukon	5	4	80
Northwest Territories and Nunavut¹	7	7	100
1. Due to the limited number of facilities for Northwest Territories and Nunavut, information for shelters in these territories has been combined for reasons of confidentiality and data quality. Note: Facilities that house or operate more than one type of shelter (e.g., transition home, emergency shelter and second stage housing) are asked to complete a separate survey for each shelter type. However, in a small number of cases it was not possible to obtain separate questionnaires for each shelter and information for more than one shelter type had to be included on one survey. In such cases, the determination of facility-type was based on the main focus of the facilities' activities (see Sources and methodology). Compared to the 2005-2006 THS, Canada's response rate was higher in 2007-2008 (91% vs. 88%). At the provincial level, response rates were either identical or similar to those of the previous cycle: in Prince Edward Island (100% for both cycles), in Newfoundland and Labrador (93% for both cycles), in Saskatchewan (83% for both cycles), in Quebec (91% vs. 90%), in Manitoba (83% vs. 82%), in Alberta (88% vs. 90%) and in British Columbia (95% vs. 93%). Response rates were higher in New Brunswick (95% vs. 87%), in Ontario (91% vs. 87%) and in Yukon (100% vs. 50%) and Northwest Territories and Nunavut (100% vs. 40%). Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Transition Home Survey, 2007/2008.