Public Accounts committee  This is the most important of the advisory committees to me. It really is advising on statistical priorities and on our overall communications program, for example. It's made up of a wide range of relatively important and well-known Canadians.

Public Accounts committee  There are some 30 members. The current chair of the committee is Ian McKinnon, who has been a deputy minister at the provincial level. He also used to run a polling firm and is currently the president of Pacific Issues Partners, in Victoria, British Columbia. We strive for regional representation.

Public Accounts committee  To be advised effectively on priorities—on data priorities, on program priorities generally—I need a set of voices that are representative of the stakeholders in the statistical system. To have a committee that is dominated, as the committee has been to some extent in the past, by academics, gives the discussion a flavour that is somewhat biased in terms of certain interests and certain priorities.

Public Accounts committee  We're the ones who did the survey.

Public Accounts committee  We ask them to fill out a questionnaire. We don't track them.

Public Accounts committee  We are not satisfied with 67%. We'd like to see a much higher number. Of the 33% who are missing, some of them are people who came looking for statistics that we simply don't have. When they don't find it, obviously they're dissatisfied. But there is a lot of dissatisfaction with our search engine.

Public Accounts committee  I guess the survey itself wouldn't indicate that this is a significant concern. There is, certainly, information that used to be available that no longer is, and there is information available now that wasn't available previously. This has not been a theme of the feedback we've received from users as a predominant issue for them.

Public Accounts committee  Most of the commentary is regarding the use and usability of the site, but there were people who raised specific issues about what information they were looking for. When people who need to know results search for things, we monitor that, in part because if they conduct a search that says there are no results and there in fact was data available, it concerns us.

Public Accounts committee  We anticipate starting collection at the beginning of 2015, and publishing data later that year but I can't say exactly when at this point.

Public Accounts committee  There is actually quite a fair number. The zeros tend to be cottage country municipalities, where even though there is a significant population in the summer, nobody's principal residence is there. When we do the enumeration, we count them where they normally live, not where their cottage is.

Public Accounts committee  The quality concerns really occur in provinces and in areas where there are very small municipalities of this nature, or of even a few hundred people. Certainly all of it, or almost all of it, is in municipalities below 5,000, and most of it is below 1,000. In provinces where they've done amalgamations of their municipalities into larger municipalities, we didn't really have a significant problem.

Public Accounts committee  It's very much concentrated there. Yes.

Public Accounts committee  The data that we had at the time of the Auditor General's review simply gave the job vacancy numbers at the national and to some extent provincial level, and gave no detail by occupation, and certainly not for smaller geographies and was therefore really not meeting the need that was being expressed.

Public Accounts committee  I think approximately 36 reserves refused to give us access.

Public Accounts committee  The National Household Survey provides such information.