Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  We'll tag team this one. We certainly acknowledge some data gaps, and certainly there are areas—

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  They're not a part of what I am talking about, in terms of where we receive our data.

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  We receive our data from police services or from Canadians who self-report on their experiences with victimization. There certainly are opportunities, perhaps, to explore the feasibility of looking across other data sources to see if there are opportunities to fill some of thes

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  As you very correctly observed, we do not gather information on missing persons. The information that we do gather, particularly in terms of our homicide surveys on homicides that have been confirmed and reported to us, is through police services. We haven't actually looked at

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  It's an area that we haven't talked about with our multiple various partners in terms of how we might even look towards assessing feasibility of this information. It's an area that exists in a different program, where they are collecting information. It's certainly something that

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  I'm not familiar with the specifics around that particular paper, so I can't comment on it directly. In terms of access to information at Statistics Canada, it depends on where that information can be disseminated, so in circumstances, for example, where the quality is appropria

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  I'm not familiar with the paper, as I said. The general social survey is not a longitudinal survey; it's a cross-sectional survey that we conduct every five years. The theme that we collect on changes over time. Information on the victimization cycle, for example, is collected

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  It's not by design a longitudinal survey. For longitudinal surveys you follow the same respondents over time on multiple occasions. This is a cross-sectional survey, so we're not following the same individuals over time. I'm not familiar with the specificities around the types

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  In terms of integration and partnerships, the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics at Statistics Canada is an operational arm of what is known as the national justice statistics initiative. This is a federal, provincial, and territorial partnership in which all the partners are

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  It is certainly the case, as you've seen in the data, that there is a significant amount of missing information around police-reported data and aboriginal identity. This is a known fact and is something that we have dialogued on with police services as well as our multiple partne

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  Thank you. I invite the committee to follow along in the presentation deck that we have provided. Thank you for the opportunity to present to this committee. In the presentation today we used data from both administrative and population-based victimization surveys to show the re

Justice committee  What I can tell you is that the rate in Manitoba gradually climbed until about 2004, and then declined in two of the past three years, including that 10% drop in 2007. We have not yet released more recent data that speaks to 2008. That will be coming out in July.

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the opportunity to present to the committee regarding Bill C-26. Statistics Canada does not take a position on the proposed amendments. The presentation we have prepared today contains data on motor vehicle thefts that may inform your discussions of

Justice committee  What I can speak to are some of the recent efforts that we've been putting into trying to gather more data around street gang activities as well as around organized crime activities. We began to work at Statistics Canada in 2005 with police services to try to gather more informat

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the opportunity to present to the committee regarding Bill C-14. You should all have before you a presentation deck. I invite you to read along with me. Statistics Canada does not take a position on the proposed amendments. What I will present are