Title: Miscellaneous demographic characteristics

Series title: Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics (CCJS)

Principal investigator(s): Statistics Canada. Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics (CCJS)

Producer: Ottawa, Ont.: Statistics Canada. Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics (CCJS)

Date of creation: 1995

Funding agency:

Collector:

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

Date of distribution: 1999-08-31

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

Summary: Since crime rates may be affected by the social climate of an area, the SMA database includes Census variables which can be used to examine the composition of a population, population density, the incidence of low income, unemployment rates, family composition, high school drop-out rates, and migration. These indicators combine to form the social climate within which the administration of justice operates, and are available for the census years 1986 and 1991

Also included are population estimates for Canada, provinces and territories, selected municipalities, as well as employment by occupation for selected metropolitan areas.

Geographic coverage: Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas, selected municipalities (census subdivisions, CSDs)

Time period: 1977-1995

Periodicity: annual, quinquennial

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Universe:

Data type: aggregate time-series statistics

Unit of observation: geographic area x year

Sample:

Mode of data collection: derived

Extent of file: 5 data files (Beyond 20/20 format; number of logical records varies)

Citation: Statistics Canada. Adult criminal court survey: Guilty cases by most serious sentence, 1994/1995 - 2005/2006 [computer file]. Ottawa, Ont.: Statistics Canada. Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics (CCJS)[producer]; Statistics Canada. Data Liberation Initiative [distributor], 2008-02-25

Notes:

• The composition of Selected Municipal Areas (defined by the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics) reflects the geographic jurisdiction of individual municipal police forces. And since the jurisdiction of municipal police forces generally corresponds to established municipal boundaries, which are a standard Statistics Canada geography known as Census Sub-Divisions (CSD), each Selected Municipal Areas can be described as being composed of one or more CSD's.
• Occupational Data - Labour Force Survey: The Labour Force Survey (LFS) provides information about the occupation and industry attachment of persons employed. Since 1984, these statistics have been based on the 1980 Standard Occupational Classification and the 1980 Standard Industrial Classification. The same information is available for the persons unemployed and not in the labour force who have held a job in the past twelve months.

  For a person employed, the industry of the current job is recorded (the main job in the case of multiple jobholders). For those unemployed or outside of the labour force, the industry of the last job is recorded, provided the person has worked in the past five years.