Human Resources committee  No, we don't have those numbers. I don't know if it's within the database of the Treasury Board.

Human Resources committee  That's the number I just gave. The public sector number is 13.5 days. The private sector number is 8.4 days.

Human Resources committee  With regard to your question earlier, Sandra had that data in front of her, so I'll pass that on to the committee. The same survey that I mentioned earlier, the labour force survey, tells us that in the broad public sector, on average, 13.5 days of work are lost due to absenteeism.

Human Resources committee  The data are collected from the labour force survey. To what degree we can produce them regionally depends upon the sample size in that region. For bigger regions, we could produce some estimates. For smaller regions, we couldn't.

Human Resources committee  We're in the middle of collective bargaining for the statistical survey operations. There are two bargaining tables. I would say that it's going very well right now—very collaborative.

Human Resources committee  Sure. Are you referring to sick leave within StatsCan or sick leave for the public service as a whole?

Human Resources committee  There's some information from the labour force survey. I do not have it with me today, but we could provide it to you.

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to thank the committee for inviting us to appear today in the context of its study of Bill C-62, the proposed act to amend the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations Act and other acts. Statistics Canada, now entering its 100th anniversary, has grown from the humble beginnings of one office and 123 employees in 1918, to approximately 5,500 employees spread across three major regional offices, and approximately 1,600 statistical survey operations interviewers across the country.