Status of Women committee  I can't really answer that because I don't know what the mandate is of Elections Canada. Statistics Canada, in this context, is basing its data on a household survey, It's a general population survey.

Status of Women committee  There were actually no questions on the voting system in the general social survey. I don't know whether that is mentioned in other surveys.

Status of Women committee  As we were saying earlier, we are working on the content related to social identity for the next survey. If a question is of national significance, we have some flexibility.

Status of Women committee  Again, the data unfortunately does not allow us to make that analysis.

Status of Women committee  We haven't looked at the media or at information campaigns. I'm sorry. Those are all excellent questions.

Status of Women committee  That's a very interesting question, but we don't have any data on that.

Status of Women committee  Anna, do we know from the general social survey what are the questions of social identity that women are more interested in? Do we have general data from that survey?

Status of Women committee  I'll address that. It's just because it's a general household survey and we have a fairly small sample size. When we get to the smaller provinces and we break those numbers down into smaller and smaller pieces, there's a higher degree of variability. It's not that we need to be c

Status of Women committee  No, we don't. In fact, we didn't think that the voting behaviour was going to be of interest to the committee today. I'm very sorry that we didn't bring that for you, but we can make it available.

Status of Women committee  Statistics Canada doesn't gather data. The surveys we conduct are general household surveys, so we're not specifically targeting populations of interest such as political party members.

Status of Women committee  I would just add something on this question of the timeliness of the general social survey. I've made two appearances before a Senate committee on charitable donations, as well, recently and that question has come up. Stats Canada is modernizing the general social survey. We do h

Status of Women committee  The data don't allow us to actually go into that kind of detail, and I'm afraid I have to speak to the data. What we do see, though, is that difference whereby women seem a little less likely to put themselves out there. They are less likely to speak up in a meeting. They are les

Status of Women committee  I'm afraid the data actually don't allow us to shine that kind of lens on it.

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Good afternoon. We are very happy to be appearing before this committee to provide information on the general context of women's participation in political activities as part of your study on barriers facing women in politics in Canada. Statistics Canada

Procedure and House Affairs committee  At Statistics Canada when we are conducting our surveys, we do make the survey questionnaires available in different languages. The Aboriginal Peoples Survey was also translated into Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun, as was a Nunavut Government Employee Survey. When required, we also