Status of Women committee  On the first part about fear of reprisal, there is a question related to that. It's not specific to harassment, but it is more generally about the recourse process. I'm sorry, what was the second part?

Status of Women committee  There is a question on satisfaction—i.e., does the employee feel satisfied with the way that management is handling harassment? There is also a question on satisfaction about discrimination. In both of those situations, 72% of employees felt strongly or somewhat agreed that their agency works hard to create a workplace that prevents harassment.

Status of Women committee  Yes, both the civil service of the RCMP and the other part of the RCMP were surveyed. That's because they decided that they wanted to do that.

Status of Women committee  It certainly wasn't perfectly even. We were happier with some response rates in some departments than we were with others. We were trying to get everybody up to that 70%-plus mark. I don't have them in front of me. We were tracking it as we were going through the survey and putting extra effort in the collection of this information, where we thought there might be an issue with low response.

Status of Women committee  Was Statistics Canada involved in the preparation of the questions for the 2011 version?

Status of Women committee  Yes, we were. They way it works is that the client provides us with the draft questions. The client in this case was the Office of the Chief Human Resource Officer. So they're really driving the content. That's their job. Our job is to make sure that the questions are clear and that the respondents to the survey can answer those questions.

Status of Women committee  Actually, if it's a question that is proposed on a previous survey, we might look at the response to that question on previous surveys. If there was a high number of blank responses to the question, it's an indicator that the employees didn't understand that question enough to answer it.

Status of Women committee  My pleasure.

Status of Women committee  No, it could be within the general population. It could be within the federal government workplace.

Status of Women committee  I don't have it with me, I'm sorry.

Status of Women committee  No, I don't know. There probably are. I don't know what they might be, what content they might have.

Status of Women committee  There absolutely is a possibility that we could do another survey. The role of my part of StatsCan is to respond to the demands for statistics within federal government departments. We have a core program of statistics that's funded through our base funding for StatsCan. That would be things like the census and the national accounts, and various other surveys.

Status of Women committee  I don't have the stats before me, but there's that website I was referring to earlier. The easiest way to find it is to google “PSES results 2011”. The top link will take you to it. You can see the PSES results for the public service, but you can also see them by organization, as long as the organization's large enough, and by demographic group.

Status of Women committee  There is, yes.

Status of Women committee  It's a very good question, and thank you for asking it. It's one of the things I wanted to address during the presentation. The type of harassment is not asked in the 2011 PSES. It has not been asked in previous versions of the survey as well, although it was tested as possible content when we were preparing for the 2008 survey.