Status of Women committee  We could undertake that study, I believe, but we have not undertaken it yet. It would be a modelling exercise based on interest in politics: we don't have the desire to run for office, just an interest in politics.

Status of Women committee  We'd have to consult with another division at Statistics Canada to answer that.

Status of Women committee  We appreciate any support we can get, so yes, but I will highlight, too, that it depends on the particular topic. The general social survey, as Pamela mentioned, has several different issues. We can shed a ton of light on our victimization survey on victimization rates in Canada.

Status of Women committee  Yes, there are times when we have been asked to collect data on things that we could collect data on, but in terms of all the government and private sector priorities, they sometimes don't end up on the questionnaire.

Status of Women committee  Potentially. It varies a lot by survey and over time. We could look into it. I'll see what we can do.

Status of Women committee  No, and there were three categories that indicated there were time constraints, like at work, something else other than too busy, so it was a combination of all three that was equal, but there could have been some slight differences between men and women on the specific categorie

Status of Women committee  I didn't look at legislators, because the number of legislators in Canada was fairly small. No, I don't have that here. I have the number of legislators who took political science at school, but that's something different.

Status of Women committee  That could be negotiated. If it was a brand new survey or a brand new administrative instrument that we're doing, the timeliness could always be negotiated. It's mainly the general social survey that we work on that's every five to seven years. Other surveys at Statistics Canada

Status of Women committee  We did run a table looking at interest in politics by aboriginal groups. We intended to bring that here today, but for most of the categories of interest on first nations, Métis, and Inuit, we had that E that indicates a large coefficient of variation, which means that because of

Status of Women committee  It might be possible to track, but not in our vehicles that we use right now in our current surveys.

Status of Women committee  No. The percentage of women saying they were busy and men saying they were busy was about the same.

Status of Women committee  The biggest difference that stood out was for the category about not being informed. Again, we don't know if it is that women are more likely to admit to an interviewer that they weren't informed than men are or if there's something else going on behind that data. Again, we didn

Status of Women committee  We can infer some of it from the data in the infographic. Women are spending more time on local and civic issues, and volunteering for schools and clubs, so they may feel that these things are more important than volunteering for political parties.

Status of Women committee  We'd be happy to provide you with the actual tables for that after the meeting.

Status of Women committee  When preparing for today, we really tried to focus on the question at hand and come up with statistics from the general social survey about activity. Statistics Canada definitely has those numbers on income levels, age levels, even the earlier question about university degrees by