Status of Women committee  Basically, that's the concept of whether a woman who is self-employed has employees working for her or not. That's the difference, but it's also true of men. That's how we break down self-employment. There are two ways of breaking it down. One is whether it's an incorporated or u

Status of Women committee  I'll pass to Mr. Nault.

Status of Women committee  No, we don't have that information.

Status of Women committee  No.

Status of Women committee  Do you mean as self-employed? Basically the labour content of the national household survey is very similar to that in the monthly labour force survey, but of course there is a larger sample size, so you can look at it in more detail by specific occupations if there are specific

Status of Women committee  That would be something we'd have to look at separately. That is always the challenge with the data. Normally if you control for things you can control, I know overall it doesn't make [Inaudible--Editor]. But there are differences by the industry. With things like unionization,

Status of Women committee  But women do tend to be in different occupations than men where there are often different wage scales but if you control for everybody in the same group, you wouldn't expect to see a lot of difference.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  Generally at Statistics Canada the information we have is observing what's going on. The why is harder to get at. Often it's either because of the.... Sometimes it's stabilities. We often see in an economic cycle that if there's an economic downturn, people will go into self-empl

Status of Women committee  Right.

Status of Women committee  One thing we have noticed over time which started before the recession is the decrease in employment in manufacturing and there are more men than women in manufacturing. So some of that would be related to that as well. It's a fairly complex picture of how you disentangle it but

Status of Women committee  One of the areas—it's not in my area of expertise—but I do know that we're building the data on post-secondary education, and one of the things we know we can do is to link that data with some of the information we have on salaries. Then you can see where people, based on their e

Status of Women committee  I'd have to go back and look to see if I can find any from Stats Canada. I know there's a lot being done outside of Statistics Canada, that people are doing research, basically looking at things longitudinally. But I could go back and look for something at Stats Canada and forwar

Status of Women committee  Do you want me to go to the end?

Status of Women committee  Yes.