Status of Women committee  Yes. It looks big, but it's just because the relative numbers are different. When I compare the difference on the average, the percentage difference between men and women is very similar; it's just that the numbers are different because of the scale.

Status of Women committee  Yes, in percentage terms they're slightly different. Based on that, it looks like there may be a few more men who have higher incomes. But I could pass along some information on the income distribution thing, because that's where the National Household Survey could really be dril

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  Yes. That's where you'd have to go that next step further in analysis and look only at unionized work. But that gets away from, of course, the self-employed. We're again talking about the employees and looking at women versus men in the same job, with the same amount of experienc

Status of Women committee  As you're pointing out, it's time to extricate those.

Status of Women committee  One thing to keep in mind with participation rate also is with the aging population. As people age, they come out of the labour market. We may be entering into a period where that is changing, but—

Status of Women committee  That's overall, yes.

Status of Women committee  Well, men make more—

Status of Women committee  Yes, there are a lot of factors all in there—

Status of Women committee  That's always one of the challenges in statistics, trying to understand what the difference is in participation rate. When it comes down to it, women are still the ones who go on maternity leave and have children, so that does impact some women's participation, and there are diff

Status of Women committee  I wouldn't hazard a guess. It would be a guess on my part. We don't have information as to the gender of people starting businesses.

Status of Women committee  I'll cover the median versus the average. For those who aren't familiar with the median, that's the point where 50% of the population is making more than that, and 50% are making less. It's right in the middle of the distribution. We've moved to that in income because we find a

Status of Women committee  Generally, I would say we know that for a huge proportion, if not all, of our statistics, most people do want it broken down by gender. This is why it's one of the key variables we make sure we have on all our household surveys, because we know there is an interest in looking at

Status of Women committee  It's different. I'd have to look at it in more detail, but for instance, the average wages and salary for men is about $50,000 versus $34,000 for women.

Status of Women committee  Well, generally every department has their own users. What we try to ensure is that there's equal access to the data. With basically every program, it's up to every user to decide what information they have use.... I know that labour market data is used at all levels of governmen