2009-2010 Part III - Departmental Performance Reports (DPR)

Description of Figure 2 Strategic Outcome, Expected Results and Indicators

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

Indicators¹:

• Access
  • Number of and percentage increase in visits to the website
  • Number of and percentage increase in page views of electronic publications
  • Number of print publications sold
  • Client satisfaction with price to access data
  • Client satisfaction with ease of retrieval process
  • Client satisfaction with convenience of output formats

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

Indicators¹:

• Relevance
  • Number of media citations
  • Number of and percentage increase in 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
  • Periodicity and timeliness of national accounts and unemployment data in G7 countries
  • Availability of comprehensive, high-quality and timely indicators as per international standards
  • Average GDP revision
  • Percentage of reloads
  • Net census undercoverage
  • Census response ratesçà
• Organizational efficiency
  • Number and percentage of business surveys using tax/administrative data
  • Number of administrative records used in order to reduce survey sizes^2,3
  • Response burden per establishment
  • Cost per dwelling to conduct the Census of Population
  • Rating on Management Accountability Framework assessment
  • Financial management indicators²
  • Departmental Staffing Accountability Report²
  • Public Service Employee Survey²

Notes

1. Not all indicators are available for all program activities.
2. New in 2009/2010.
3. Replaces the 2008/2009 indicator ‘Contacts avoided because of tax replaced units'.