Status of Women committee  No. We asked, “What were you doing?” They described their job, and then their job was classified into an occupational standard. For instance, someone would say, “I'm a bricklayer” or might say, “I lay bricks for a living”, and then there's a standard occupation description that is bricklayer, and everybody who says something that's related to laying bricks gets the same code.

Status of Women committee  No, I don't have that with me.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  As I was explaining, this is not an existing dataset. Is that an official request of the committee to have it come out?

Status of Women committee  This is a very rich dataset. Not surprising, as people know, if you look at older cohorts to younger, as this committee has seen, the younger cohorts have higher participation in the labour force and so it was—

Status of Women committee  You're going to a very specific level of granularity here. You're getting to an individual level where I'd be sort of....

Status of Women committee  It's a level of confidentiality because then you start divulging personal information about individuals. It's a caveat on it that.... The information we gave in this presentation, because of the level of detail and the richness of the data, can be done at five-year age groups or ten-year age groups.

Status of Women committee  These aren't approximations. They were measured within the survey.

Status of Women committee  It's how it's defined, so we've given a definition of STEM so that people can say, “Okay, I agree with that definition.” It's a variable that we've derived, so someone can say, “I derive it differently.” It is there, so I wouldn't want people to think that.... For instance, someone could say they want to use ages 25 to 28.

Status of Women committee  Yes, how you want to identify....

Status of Women committee  Again, that's not something I see at Statistics Canada.

Status of Women committee  I could do a little bit of digging to see if there are some surveys that we've done in the past that may inform that.

Status of Women committee  Basically the way in which the labour data is collected is by using the International Labour Organization standard for employment and unemployment over time. It's the same questions over time.

Status of Women committee  There are none in the national household survey.

Status of Women committee  Yes.