Description of Figure 1, Strategic Outcome, Expected Results and Indicator

This chart presents the strategic outcome, expected results and indicators of progress as a three-tiered diagram.

Tier 1 is a statement of the strategic outcome:

Canadians have access to objective, high-quality, non-partisan statistics, statistical products, services and analyses on Canada’s economy and society that fulfill legal requirements, are relevant to policy formulation and decision makers and are responsive to emerging issues.

Tier 2 presents the three program activities to which the strategic outcome applies:

Program activity 1, Economic Statistics
Program activity 2, Social Statistics
Program activity 3, Census, Demography and Aboriginal Statistics

Tier 3 is a text table that shows the two raisons d’être that apply to all three of Statistics Canada’s program activities. Listed under each raison d’être are its expected results and its indicators. 

First raison d’être: Canadians have access to official statistics

Expected result: Statistics produced by Statistics Canada are available through a wide range of easily accessible media formats and venues

Indicators:  

• Access
  • Number of visits to the website
  • Number of page views of electronic publications
  • Annual percentage increase in the number of page views of electronic publications
  • Number of print publications sold
  • Client satisfaction with price to access data, retrieval process and convenience of output formats
• Organizational efficiency
  • Rating on Management Accountability Framework assessment
  • Use of administrative data in lieu of questionnaires
  • Survey response burden per Canadian business establishment
  • Cost per dwelling to conduct Census of Population

Second raison d’être: Canadians have trust in the official statistics

Expected result: Canadians are aware of the availability of these statistics and of their high quality, and of the professionalism and non-partisanship of Statistics Canada

Indicators:

• Relevance
  • Number of media citations
  • Number of references in Federal Budgets
  • Number of references in the Economic and Fiscal Updates
  • Number of data series downloaded from the online database (CANSIM)
  • Annual percentage increase in the number of data series downloaded from the online database (CANSIM)
  • Client satisfaction with Statistics Canada’s ability to meet their needs
  • 2006 Census of Population Dissemination Program Revenue
• Data quality
  • Percentage of major statistical outputs released as planned
  • Percentage of major statistical outputs whose sampling accuracy is within set objectives
  • Percentage of reloads
  • Net census undercoverage
  • Census response rates
• Organizational efficiency
  • Rating on Management Accountability Framework assessment
  • Use of administrative data in lieu of questionnaires
  • Survey response burden per Canadian business establishment
  • Cost per dwelling to conduct Census of Population

Note: Not all indicators are available for all program activities.