canadian travel survey, 1998 throughout 1998, statistics canada interviewed approximately 180,000...

Canadian Travel Survey, 1998

Throughout 1998, Statistics Canada interviewed approximately 180,000 Canadians across the country about their trips in Canada, about themselves and their households. The Canadian Travel Survey provides a yardstick for identifying who is travelling, the types of trips they are taking and how much they are spending.

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Canadian Travel Survey, 1998

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CANSIM II

The following CANSIM II tables are created from the Canadian Travel Survey:Table 426-0001 Domestic travel by prov, cmaTable 426-0002 Traveller characteristicsTable 426-0003 Travel char. by prov of distinTable 426-0004 Travel char. by prov visitedTable 426-0005 Reallocated expendituresTable 426-0006 Activity participation

Travel Defined

Same-day trips of 80km or more (40km in Ontario)

All overnight trips regardless of distance

CTS Microdata Files

Person Trip Person-Trip Person-Visit

– Census Division– Census Metropolitan Area– Province– Tourism Region

Person Microdata File

Contains travellers and non-travellers

Travellers

Non

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rsLabourForce

SurveySample


Each person is in the file only onceIncludes people who are travellers

(TOTTRIP > 0) and non-travellers (TOTTRIP = 0)

The total count of all non-travellers and travellers adds to the non-institutionalized Canadian population aged 15 and over in each monthly file (Jan-Nov) and in the annual file (Dec)


This file contains the volume of travellers and non-travellers but not the volume of trips

Only the person weight can be used with this file or when linked with records from the TRIP file

Person files cannot be combined across months; the data cannot be added over months

Unit of Analysis: Person

Conceptual social unit: single social entity, vis., non-institutionalized persons who 15 years or older

time: single point in time, vis., each month within 1998

spatial: Canada

Unit of Analysis: Person

Structural one file: one record for each person

flat, rectangular data file with no complex structure


LRECL = 77Number of Variables = 30Number of Suppressed Variables =

4– age, occup, indust, rescsd

19980100001 226.72532222 523126 10100010141001 0010010100

19980100002 611.74572222 211215 20200010111001 0010010100

19980100003 271.01382222 322115 10102000011001 0010010000

19980100004 660.73622222 523124 10200000021001 0010010000

19980100005 1016.47512222 311246 10200010151001 0010010100

Trip Microdata File

Person

Non-travellers

Travellers

TripKey: linkable via UNIQID

Trip Microdata File

One record exists for each trip taken by travellers

Can be analyzed only when linked with the Person file– Linkage is performed using the unique

person id (UNIQID) Sort the Person file by UNIQID Sort the Trip file by UNIQID and

TRIPNUM

Trip Microdata File

• Duplicate records of the same traveller have to be eliminated on the basis of selected trip characteristics to avoid double-counting

The trip file cannot be analyzed alone; no weight variable is included in this file

Must be merged with the Person file and the Person weight used

Trip Microdata File

The December trip files contains only trip information for those who travelled in December and cannot be used with annual information from the Person December file.

Unit of Analysis: Trip

Conceptual social unit: transactional observations, i.e., observed when a person goes on a trip

time: one or more times within a month

spatial: Canada

Unit of Analysis: Trip

Structural one file: one record for each trip taken

relational: n to 1 one or more trip records for one

traveller in the person file

Trip Microdata File


3– orcsd, decsd, foodpre

1998010000101 1001 0010013520 535504 210501010000200000000000000000200000000000000000000200000000200000000000000000000000000000021421 11 1 0 000000000000000000000400002001525 0008500000001900010000000000000194010000000000

Person-trip Microdata File

One record exists for each traveller for each trip

There are adult and child records in this file

One record for adults from the same household regardless of the number of adults and one record for children from the same household regardless of the number of children who travelled


This file allows calculating person-trip or household-trip information

The person-trip concept is used to measure the total number of trips combined with the total number of people who went on the trip

When compiling person-trip information, the Person-trip weight must be used (PTRIPWT)


A household-trip is defined as a trip involving one or more persons from the same household leaving and returning together

The household-trip concept is used to measure the total number of trips.

The household-trip weight variable must be used when compiling household information (HHTRIPWT)


Both the person-trip and household-trip information provided in monthly files is additive

Reported expenditures are only available in the Person-Trip file

When compiling expenditure data, only the household-trip weight can be used because these expenditures represent household expenses and not just traveller’s expenses

Unit of Analysis: Person-trip

Conceptual social unit: transactional

observations, representing a traveller and a trip

time: one or more times within a month, and months can be combined

spatial: Canada

Unit of Analysis: Person-trip

Structural one file: a record represents a

traveller (adult or child) and a trip

crossed: person by trip hierarchical

adult-child records in an hierarchy



6– age, occup, indust, orcsd, decsd,

foodpre199801000010101 226.7253 226.7253 523126 10100010141001 0010013520 535504 21050101000302020200200000000000000000200000000000000000000200000000200000000000000000000000000000021421 11 1 0 000000000000000000000400002001525 0008500000001900010000000000000194010000000000

Person-visit Microdata File

Person-trip

Visit

Key: linkable via UNIQID & TRIPNUM

Visit Microdata File

A visit is defined as location of destination of the trip whether for an overnight stay of the traveller or a same-day trip

A visit can be a part or the whole trip

The visit concept is used to measure the number of person-visits who went to a specific location


Visit information is provided at four different geographic levels: CD, CMA, Province and Tourism Region.

Each monthly visit file also contains reallocated expenditure information representing the money spent in each location

The person-visit information is additive across monthly files


To use the information in the person-visit file, the information must be linked with the person-trip file of the same month.

Linkage with the person-trip file– Sort the person-trip file by:

MONTH, UNIQID, TRIPNUM, ADCH– Sort the visit file by:

MONTH, UNIQID, TRIPNUM, ADCH, REXPROV, REALTYPE

– Link by UNIQID and TRIPNUM


When compiling visit information, the person-trip weight (PTRIPWT) must be used.

When compiling reallocated expenditures information, the household-trip weight (HHTRIPWT) must be used.

Unit of Analysis: Person-visit

Conceptual social unit: transactional

observations, representing a visit to a destination

time: one or more times within a month, and months can be combined

spatial: organized around Province, CMA, CD, and Tourism Region

Unit of Analysis: Person-visit

Structural one file: a record represents a visit to a destination

relational: n to 1 one or more visit records, based

on destination, for each trip in the person-trip file

Visit Microdata Files


3– weight, hhtripwt, rfoodpre

19980100001010011 10 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001525 000000000000000000000000000000015250

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