Indirect costs cover the application of Statistics Canada's world-class infrastructure to custom surveys:
- Comprehensive administrative business and household survey frames
- Internationally-coherent classification systems tailored to Canada
- Internationally-recognized questionnaire design and testing expertise
- An established national inventory of skilled, networked, bilingual interviewers
- Expert analytical resources
- Robust informatics infrastructure, data collection software and generalized systems to process, edit, impute, weight, apply disclosure control and disseminate data
- A culture of confidentiality that creates respondent trust