Quarterly Industrial Consumption of Energy Survey

Detailed information for first quarter 2001

The survey provides estimates of the energy consumption of the energy-intensive manufacturing industries in Canada.

Data release - June 20, 2002

• Questionnaire(s) and reporting guide(s)
• Description
• Data sources and methodology
• Documentation

Description

The survey provides estimates of the energy consumption of the energy-intensive manufacturing industries in Canada. It is funded by Natural Resources Canada and Environment Canada. The information from this quarterly survey complements the information collected from a sample of less energy-intensive industries in the Annual Industrial Consumption of Energy Survey (record number 5047).

Federal (Natural Resources Canada, Environment Canada) and provincial agencies are provided with data on a regular basis, as are several forest products associations.

Reference period: Quarter

Collection period: The data are collected within 2 months after the reference quarter.

Subjects

• Energy
• Energy consumption and disposition

Data sources and methodology

Target population

The target population is all major energy consuming industries (pulp and paper, iron and steel, smelting and refining, cement plants, oil refineries, chemicals, and mining), all large utility steam plants, establishments using 1,000 Mg or more of coal per year, and all other manufacturing establishments that are large consumers of energy within each province or territory.

The survey frame is developed from the Annual Survey of Manufactures (Survey ID 2103) for manufacturing industries, the Census of Mines, Quarries and Sand Pits (Natural Resources Canada) for the mining industries, and the Electric Power Generating Stations survey (Survey ID 2193) for the electric utility conventional steam generating stations.

Sampling

This survey is a census with a cross-sectional design.

This methodology does not apply.

Data sources

Responding to this survey is mandatory.

Data are collected directly from survey respondents.

The data are collected by Statistics Canada's Head Office through a mail-out mail-back process. Follow-ups are conducted by phone or fax as needed to reach the target response rate.

Each year, respondents are sent the "Industrial Consumption of Energy Survey Guide."

View the Questionnaire(s) and reporting guide(s).

Error detection

Data are checked with the energy consumption of the establishment in previous periods.

Disclosure control

Statistics Canada is prohibited by law from releasing any information it collects that could identify any person, business, or organization, unless consent has been given by the respondent or as permitted by the Statistics Act. Various confidentiality rules are applied to all data that are released or published to prevent the publication or disclosure of any information deemed confidential. If necessary, data are suppressed to prevent direct or residual disclosure of identifiable data.

In order to prevent any data disclosure, confidentiality analysis is done using the Statistics Canada Generalized Disclosure Control System (G-Confid). G-Confid is used for primary suppression (direct disclosure) as well as for secondary suppression (residual disclosure). Direct disclosure occurs when the value in a tabulation cell is composed of or dominated by few enterprises while residual disclosure occurs when confidential information can be derived indirectly by piecing together information from different sources or data series.

Documentation

• Quarterly Industrial Consumption of Energy Survey - Data Quality Statements
  • Format: Quarterly Industrial Consumption of Energy Survey - Data Quality Statements - ARCHIVED - PDF, 166.59[ARCHIVED - PDF, 166.59 kb]