Business Conditions Survey for Heritage Institutions, Performing Arts, and Recreation and Entertainment Industries

Detailed information for second quarter 2006

This survey seeks opinions about current and future business conditions for the Heritage Institutions, Performing Arts, and Recreation and Entertainment Industries.

Data release - Data are currently not available

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

Description

This survey has been cancelled. This is a pilot survey.

The survey seeks informed opinions of industry participants about current and future conditions in their industry. Our objective is to produce good co-incident and leading indicators for the heritage institutions, performing arts, and recreation and entertainment industries specifically, and the tourism sector in general. These business tendency indicators measure: impediments to trade, current business activity and business activity outlook for the next three months.

The data are used by business operators and associations for market analysis and assessment of industry performance, operating characteristics and trends; by governments to develop national and regional economic policies; by agencies such as the Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC) and the Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Recreation (OMTR) for analysis and policy making and for providing valuable statistics and information feedback to the industries; and by Statistics Canada for maintaining important data input to the preparation of the Canadian System of National Accounts.

Subjects

• Business performance and ownership
• Culture and leisure
• Current conditions

Data sources and methodology

Target population

The target population consists of all statistical establishments (sometimes referred to as firms or units) classified as arts, entertainment and recreation (NAICS 71) according to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) during the reference year.

• Additional documentation

Sampling

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

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.