Status of Women committee  In regard to the general social survey, we can and do produce quite a bit of detailed information even with that smaller sample. As we've found, it was being used in a lot of reports, so it's still robust. Yes, it is a smaller sample, and we will not get the same level of infor

Status of Women committee  Rural and urban information we can, to some extent, produce from the GSS. It just depends on the amount of data required or the detail of the analysis. We still produce estimates on rural and urban--maybe not for every province, but we still do that from the GSS. We can still pro

Status of Women committee  Statistics Canada is still providing that information. It does so through the general social survey, so I don't....

Status of Women committee  Yes. It was a broader look at the census and the content, and it was one issue that came up.

Status of Women committee  I can't, off the top of my head, know that, and sometimes it's not necessarily that we were consulting specifically on unpaid work. When we start off the consultations, it's on all the content, so those comments may have come up as we were consulting on the entire census question

Status of Women committee  Are you referring to the sample size?

Status of Women committee  I think the sample size is about 25,000.

Status of Women committee  What we're.... I guess--

Status of Women committee  With the survey, though, you get a much richer set of information.

Status of Women committee  Okay. Time use includes unpaid household activities, and we do specifically ask questions in that survey on unpaid work or unpaid household activities.

Status of Women committee  With the GSS, we have collected that information consistently over about 20 years. That will be the way in which we look at it. We always release the GSS by looking at the consistency back with the past information we have collected. That will provide us with the information to k

Status of Women committee  In terms of the guide, as we always do going into consultations, the one in 2000 and each census look at all the content, so it wasn't just specifically this issue. There are other issues that we raise in the guide, so it's always re-looking at the census content. Is it relevant?

Status of Women committee  Yes. In particular, the general social survey is a survey we do annually. And it is on different topics, such as, for example, families or victimization. One of those cycles is the time use cycle, and that's conducted every five years. We started in 1992. The time use diary col

Status of Women committee  Yes, based on the feedback we got, the GSS was being used more frequently.

Status of Women committee  All of those surveys are voluntary, except for the labour force survey, which is mandatory.