Electricity Disposition - Quarterly Residential Sector

Detailed information for second quarter 2009

The purpose of this survey is to collect volumes of electricity sold by utilities to residential customers and the corresponding values.

Data release - These data are provided to the System of National Accounts on a quarterly basis and are not released to the public.

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

Description

The purpose of this survey is to collect volumes of electricity sold by utilities to residential customers and the corresponding values.

Subjects

• Energy
• Energy consumption and disposition

Data sources and methodology

Target population

The universe consists of all electric utilities in Canada who sell electricity to residential customers.

Instrument design

The survey questionnaire comprises volumes and values of electricity sold to residential customers.

Sampling

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

Data sources

Responding to this survey is mandatory.

Data are collected directly from survey respondents.

The data are collected through a mail-out/mail-back process. Follow-ups are conducted by phone, fax or email as needed.

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

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.