Monthly Restaurants, Caterers and Taverns Survey

Detailed information for June 2001

This survey collects sales and receipts data from a sample of restaurants, caterers and taverns to estimate provincial taxation shares.

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

Description

This survey collects sales and receipts data from a sample of restaurants, caterers and taverns in Canada. This data is used by federal and provincial governments, private associations and food service businesses for consulting, marketing and planning purposes. The provincial and federal governments use the information to estimate provincial taxation shares.

Reference period: Month

Collection period: 10th to 25th of each month

Subjects

• Accommodation and food
• Business, consumer and property services

Data sources and methodology

Target population

The target population consists of all statistical establishments with employees (sometimes referred to as firms or units) classified as food services and drinking places (NAICS 722) according to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).

More details are included in the document "Restratification and Methodology Changes in the Monthly Restaurants, Caterers and Taverns Survey (MRCTS)" accessible through a hyperlink in the Documentation section below.

• Additional documentation

Sampling

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

The Monthly Restaurant, Caterers and Taverns Survey sample design is a stratified simple random sample. The frame is derived from Statistic Canada's Central Frame Data Base (CFDB). The stratification is based on kind-of-business and provinces/territories. Kind-of-business groups are a grouping of 4 and 5 digit 1997 NAICS codes. Each kind-of-business/province combination is further subdivided into 3 substrata, based on size. The first of these substrata is a take-all stratum (census) and contains all complex businesses as well as all businesses in a kind-of-business/province combination whose revenues exceed a given threshold. The other two strata are take-some (partially sampled) and contain medium and small businesses respectively. Businesses are assigned to these strata based on estimates of their revenues found on the CFDB.

The sample size is about 3,300 companies.