Industry committee  I can refer that question to Madam Bégin.

Industry committee  Yes. Statistics Canada has operations from across the country, and we've always had a mobile workforce, particularly in terms of interviewers. We will continue to work in a hybrid fashion, since we have for years. We are monitoring this centrally, and we're working on making sur

Industry committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Chair. To be honest with you, I'm not entirely familiar with that study by the CFIB, so I'm probably not the best placed to interpret the results, but we'll continue to objectively measure what small businesses identify as the burden.

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the question. Yes. We have done this in the past, and we've gotten some aspects of this in more real time. In our business conditions survey that we conduct in co-operation with the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, we found that in the fourth quarter of 20

Industry committee  I'll turn to my colleague, Madam Bégin.

Industry committee  To respond to your first question, yes, if we take a look at the employment of SMEs, small businesses account for about 10.3 million employees and medium-sized business account for about 3.4 million employees. That's the data we have. In terms of underground work, doing statisti

Industry committee  With respect to the measurement of the CPI, we continually review our methodology. We look at best practices from other countries. Doing that is standard practice for us. We always make sure we're up to date in our methodology.

Industry committee  The way in which we calculate the CPI itself hasn't changed. Are you asking about the basket weights we use to calculate the CPI?

Industry committee  Sure. The method we use to calculate the CPI hasn't changed significantly in as long as I can remember. What we do periodically update are the weights of the various commodities that we use to compile the CPI. For a long time we did this every five years. A few years back we cha

Industry committee  At Statistics Canada, we do periodically change.... The CPI is essentially a sort of weighted average of a basket of goods consumed by Canadian households. Over time, this basket changes. One reason it could change is that there are commodities that may have existed in the past t

Industry committee  That's not a change in the methodology per se, but rather a change in the weights that we apply to the various commodities that feed into the CPI.

Industry committee  Yes. That information is contained in the report we released earlier this week, and we'll make the link available to the committee.

Industry committee  I'm not certain that we collect information on those fee statements for small businesses.

Industry committee  Thank you for the question. We do collect data on both full-time and part-time jobs. Maybe I will turn to Josée Bégin.

Industry committee  No, we haven't changed the way in which we calculate food inflation.