University of Toronto. Data Library Service

Title: Small area business and labour database (SABAL)

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Principal investigator(s): Statistics Canada

Producer: Ottawa, Ont.: Statistics Canada (61F0056XCB)

Date of creation: 1996-04-23

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Distributor: Ottawa, Ont.: Statistics Canada. Data Liberation Initiative

Date of distribution: 1998

Access conditions/restrictions: University of Toronto faculty, students and staff, for academic research and teaching purposes only. See DLI licence.

Summary: SABAL combines a wide variety of economic and social statistics, and provides coverage of approximately 140 urban areas and 72 economic regions, in addition to Canada, the Provinces and Territories. Some data are not available at all geographic levels as can be seen from the GRID. SABAL also includes metadata on each of these data sources and a promotion advertising the other products and services offered by the contributing STC subject-matter Divisions.

The business sources included are:

The social sources included are:

  • Census of Population
  • Small Area Administrative Data (Taxfiler Data)
  • Labour Force Survey
  • Household Facilities and Equipment Survey
  • Education
  • Training
  • Justice
  • Population Projections
  • Family Expenditures
  • Consumer Finances Survey

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Geographic coverage: Canada, provinces, urban areas, economic regions

Time period: 1986-1995

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Data type: aggregate statistics

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Extent of file: 133 data files (Beyond 20/20 v4.1 format; number of logical records varies) & accompanying documentation

Citation: Statistics Canada. SABAL : small area business and labour database : training by age group of participant, province & city, 1991 and 1993 [computer file]. Ottawa, Ont.: Statistics Canada [producer]; Statistics Canada. Data Liberation Initiative [distributor], 1996 (STC cat. 61F0056XCB)

Notes: Original dissemination medium: cd-rom.

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Documentation & data: [Restricted]

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