Location of workplace of employed person

Status: This standard was approved as a departmental standard on April 20, 2015.

Definition

Location of workplace refers to the geographic location of the person's workplace for those who have a usual place of work or who work at home.

Employed person refers to those who, during the reference period, had a labour force status of 'employed'. That is, those who, during the reference period:

(a) Did any work at all at a job or business, that is, paid work in the context of an employer-employee relationship, or self-employment. This also includes persons who did unpaid family work, which is defined as unpaid work contributing directly to the operation of a farm, business or professional practice owned and operated by a related member of the same household; or

(b) Had a job but were not at work due to factors such as their own illness or disability, personal or family responsibilities, vacation or a labour dispute. This category excludes persons not at work because they were on layoff or between casual jobs, and those who did not then have a job (even if they had a job to start at a future date).

Usage

Location of workplace applies to a specific job.

For the Census of Population, this specific job relates to the job the person held in the reference week. Persons with two or more jobs were to report the information for the job at which they worked the most hours.

Conformity to relevant internationally recognized standards

The definition of 'location of workplace' is compatible with the definition of location of place of work in the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe's "Conference of European Statisticians Recommendations for the 2020 Censuses of Population and Housing", 2015.

Classifications

• Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) 2021 September 07, 2021 to current
• Variant of Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) 2021 for Statistical area classification September 07, 2021 to current
• Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) 2016 May 16, 2016 to September 06, 2021
• Statistical Area Classification - Variant of SGC 2016 May 16, 2016 to September 06, 2021
• Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) 2011 May 16, 2011 to May 15, 2016

Additional information

See:

• Classification of Labour Force Status
• Classification of place of work status

Relation to previous version

• Location of workplace of employed person April 20, 2015 to current

  This standard replaces the recommended standard 'Geographic location of employed person'. The concept has been renamed "Location of workplace."

• Geographic location of workplace of employed person June 26, 2013 to April 19, 2015

  This standard was replaced by the 'Location of workplace of employed person' as of April 20, 2015.