Readrtss200412.txt

Residential Telephone Service Survey (rtss)
l'Enquête sur le service téléphonique résidentiel (estr)
Catalogue No.:  56M0001XCB

Abstract:

Statistics Canada was approached by Stentor Resource Centre Incorporated
to conduct a survey to monitor the telephone penetration rates across
Canada. The survey determines if the respondents have a telephone line
in their residence. If they do not have a telephone line, information is
collected as to the reasons why. Information is also collected on the
income characteristics of the selected households.

The management of the survey was transferred from Stentor to Bell Canada
in the Fall of 1998. The Labour Force Survey (LFS) supplementary
capacity is used to conduct this biannual survey. A sample of
approximately 44,000 respondents is used for this survey (five out of
six rotation groups). The survey data are collected using Computer
Assisted Interviewing (CAI). The first data collection procedure took
place during November's LFS week in 1996.

This microdata file is prepared biannually and contains the variables
from the survey, plus geographical variables from the LFS (province,
census metropolitan area, urban/rural breakdown). No other variables
from the LFS are added to the file.


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SURVEY STRUCTURE FOR THE DLI COLLECTION
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File(s) Prefix

rtss            : Residential Telephone Service Survey
    2004        : Survey Year
         ##     : 12 (Dec)
            dat : Data
            gid : Documentation and User's guide
            que : Questionnaire
            cbk : Codebook

File(s) Suffix (extension)

.dat :  Data file(s)                         .sps :  SPSS code
.doc :  Microsoft Word Document              .txt :  Text or data file(s)
.pdf :  Adobe Acrobat                        .xls :  Microsoft Excel
.prn :  Text or data file(s)                 .zip :  WinZip compressed file(s)
.sas :  SAS  code


NOTE:  - file(s) with extension
         .doc, .pdf, .wp, .doc, .xls, .zip, .exe are Binary and
         .dat, .sas, .sps, .txt                  are Ascii

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Directory Structure:  /dli/rtss/2004/12
                      /dli/rtss/2004/12/data
                      /dli/rtss/2004/12/doc
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DATA FILE(S):
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DIRECTORY:  /dli/rtss/2004/12/data

filename                    size       description

rtss200412dat.zip        395,529      compressed rtss200412-pumf.txt

       44 Maximum line length, constant records
   38,738 Line feeds
1,781,948 Total characters


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DOCUMENTATION(S):
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DIRECTORY:  /dli/rtss/2004/12/doc

English                    French                    DESCRIPTION

lfs-que.pdf           epa-que.pdf                  Labour Force Survey
                                                   Questionnaire.

lfs-appa.pdf, .doc    epa-appa.pdf, .doc           Appendix A: Labour Force
                                                   Survey Sample Design - 1995+


English                    French                    DESCRIPTION

rtss200412-cbk.pdf, .doc  estr200412-cbk.pdf, .doc   Codebook
rtss200412-gid.pdf, .doc  estr200412-gid.pdf, .doc   User's Guide
rtss200412-que.pdf, .doc  estr200412-que.pdf, .doc   Questionnaire

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COMMAND FILE(S):
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English                  French                    DESCRIPTION

rtss200412.sps, .sas     estr200412.sps, .sas      SPSS and/or SAS Code