Status of Women committee  Certainly we have a number of different data sources on aboriginal women and men. Not only do we have the census, which I've mentioned, and the labour force survey.... A lot of the data we showed you today is from the labour force survey, and we've started to identify aboriginal

Status of Women committee  Generally we have it on measures of employment rates, or unemployment, or self-employment, or income and household income. So all of that can be looked at in different ways.

Status of Women committee  Certainly on the part-time, I'm not sure that we asked a question about choice. Rather, we asked in a very objective way why they are working part-time. So it could be for child care, personal reasons, going to school, or if they weren't able to find full employment. So we can di

Status of Women committee  Certainly we have all of that information, particularly from the census. In the census, which we conduct every five years, we certainly have extensive information on their labour market conditions. We pulled some out on this in terms of education, and we certainly could look at s

Status of Women committee  I don't know if I have it linked up with child care, but we have some recent research that shows some earning differences between women with and without children. The results of that survey show that women with children earn about 12% less than women without children. We also k

Status of Women committee  Well, we've presented the data. That's for those to decide on the....

Status of Women committee  Certainly it would be possible. There are certainly rich sources of information on this. It is an issue that probably needs a little bit more looking into to explain it. We have the information available.

Status of Women committee  I think we've said all along that there are a number of factors, and often these factors are interrelated, such as working part-time or working fewer hours, as well as the occupations and industries involved. That is what our research has looked at. That is what we have in our da

Status of Women committee  There is none that I know of.

Status of Women committee  I don't know. We'd have to talk to some of our colleagues at Statistics Canada to see what they would know, and see if they are maybe working with other colleagues in other countries using similar sorts of data that we have. A lot of our data has come from the labour force survey

Status of Women committee  What Statistics Canada can do is provide the data on a number of aspects concerning it. What we've done today is present you information, for example, on hourly wages for different occupations by gender, and you can disaggregate it a lot more in terms of full-time, full year, or

Status of Women committee  That I don't know. Our role is to provide the building blocks, the data out there to show the information. We have rates of unionization, and I think we would probably have some, certainly, on our labour market--I'm not sure about the labour force survey, but on the extent to whi

Status of Women committee  We certainly know that in some of the professional occupations, such as health, business, and finance, there have been gains in terms of hourly wages. That's shown on slide 6. We certainly know that the higher the level of education, the higher the employment rate is among women.

Status of Women committee  I guess, as you see on slide 6, we would be able to produce that information for Quebec, to see how the female-to-male hourly wage ratio in different sectors—by industries, or in particular we've looked at occupations—has changed over time. That is something that would be availab

Status of Women committee  I have to say that we have not looked into that. Perhaps other parts of Statistics Canada have looked into it, but we don't have that information on hand with us today.