Industry committee  Well, it's a little bit more complicated than that. What we're trying to do is to collect information at a neighbourhood level. We know that in some neighbourhoods you'll have smaller household sizes. There could be an apartment building, for example, or a student residence or wh

Industry committee  Our intent is not to include children.

Industry committee  That's why we do need some level of personal information, so that we can detect what are outliers and what are in scope.

Industry committee  If we're talking about a multi-generational occupied dwelling, for example, then that would form—

Industry committee  This is still in a design phase. It's a pilot project.

Industry committee  Once the data comes to us, those are the kinds of things that we will look at. There are definitions about the conditions under which a census family is formed, an economic family is formed. Those are the kinds of things that we will determine. We're not interested in an indivi

Industry committee  First, we've been very clear both in writing and verbally with the CBA that this is a pilot project. It remains a pilot project in its design phase. In terms of your question about our work with TransUnion, we worked with them over the course of a year. We worked in collaboratio

Industry committee  —is that this is data. You can look at an individual—

Industry committee  No.

Industry committee  No.

Industry committee  None.

Industry committee  Never.

Industry committee  I can identify four reasons. One is the declining response rates from our major source of survey, the Canadian household spending survey. It's sitting at about 40% today. It just isn't giving us the timely and detailed data that we need. We are seeing gaps because of the consump

Industry committee  The use of administrative data in Statistics Canada goes back to 1921, when we first started using vital statistics. Then it was supplemented in 1938 with trade data and so on.

Industry committee  As I said, with our traditional surveys we're seeing declining response rates. Canadians are busy. Canadians in many cases are not even reachable. They don't have land lines. There are various reasons why we're seeing the kinds of declining response rates. We have to go to admini