Survey of Improvement and Innovation in Construction Investments

Detailed information for 2000

The survey's objectives are to examine the reasons for major construction investments, to identify strategies that are used by investors to achieve satisfactory outcomes from their construction investments, and to identify obstacles to achieving these outcomes.

Data release - September 11, 2002

• Description
• Data sources and methodology
• Documentation

Description

The Improvement and Innovation in Construction Investments Survey is a one-time survey conducted on behalf of the National Research Council of Canada.

The survey's objectives are to examine the reasons for major construction investments, to identify strategies that are used by investors to achieve satisfactory outcomes from their construction investments, and to identify obstacles to achieving these outcomes.

Subjects

• Construction
• Economic accounts

Data sources and methodology

Sampling

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

The survey used a sub-sample composed of the top 300 capital construction investors of the 2000 Canadian Capital Expenditure Survey of buyers or investors of non-residential construction. The sample covered about one-third of total capital construction expenditures.

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.

Revisions and seasonal adjustment

This methodology does not apply to this survey.

Documentation

• User Guide: Canadian System of Macroeconomic Accounts
  This guide provides a detailed explanation of the structure, concepts and history of the Canadian System of Macroeconomic Accounts.
  
  Last review: June 22, 2018
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