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Unlocking non official statistics

Unlocking non-official statistics

2009 Winter Institute on Statistical Literacy for Librarians

Angie Mandeville :: Librarian :: University of Alberta


Non official statistics
Non-official statistics

  • What are they?

  • Who publishes them?

  • Classification standards?

  • Tools & search strategies

  • Exercise(s)


What are they
What are they?

  • Non-official statistics are produced by a range of non-governmental bodies or publishers.

  • Dissemination: $

  • So…Who publishes them?



Associations1
Associations

  • Industry statistics & economic indicators:

    • Sales figures

    • Production rates

    • Export/import facts

    • Market share rankings

    • Demographics

    • Consumer spending habits

    • Surveys


Consulting professional service firms
Consulting/Professional service firms

84% of Canadians feel that Canada has one of the strongest banking systems in the world, and 85% have complete confidence in them.




Charities
Charities

“Caregivers have experienced the following physical changes since they began taking care of someone with Alzheimer’s disease: fatigue (47 per cent), difficulty sleeping (36 percent), headaches (23 per cent), back pain (21 per cent), weight gain (19 per cent) and worsening of existing conditions (15 per cent)”






Classification standards
Classification standards

  • NAICS

  • SIC

  • Others?


SIC

Developed late 1930’s –> last revised 1987

Analyze U.S. economy, manufacturing dominated

10 divisions -> grouping establishments engaged in producing/handling same product or rendering same service

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) System Search


Naics nakes
NAICS (nakes)

Developed 1997 by U.S., Canada and Mexico

New comparability in statistics about business activity across North America

20 industry sectors  production-oriented that groups establishments into industries based on activity, “like processes to produce goods or services”


Non official statistics stocking your tool belt
Non-official statistics: Stocking your tool belt

  • Print & Web-based

  • Free & Fee-based

  • Acquisition decisions



Tools print1
Tools - Print

  • Basic demographic info (age, gender, marital status, etc.)

  • Consumer psychographic profiles by community

    • E.g. Professional Duets

    • E.g. Urban Bohemia

  • U.S. tool - MyBestSegments


Tools free
Tools - Free

  • Alacrawiki

  • Winspear Canadian Industry Database (WCID)

  • Pathfinders (UA)

  • Google (or any other search engine)


Tools fee based
Tools – Fee-based

  • Global Market Information Database

    • Keyword search

    • Menu search

    • Browse


Gmid your turn
GMID: Your turn

  • Use Global Market Information Database to find a market report statistics about pet food and/or pet care in Canada.

  • What statistics are included in this report?


Tools fee based1
Tools – Fee-based

  • Print Measurement Bureau (PMB)

  • Superdemographics


Pmb your turn
PMB: Your turn

  • Use PMB to find statistics on numbers of pets in Canadian households

  • Use PMB to determine Edmonton’s top three coffee shops

  • What worked? What didn’t work?



Tools fee based3
Tools – Fee-based

  • Association directories

    • Associations Canada

    • Associations Unlimited


Search strategies
Search strategies

  • Basic questions:

    • Who would collect this? Publish it?

    • Why?

  • Mine bibliographic indexes

  • Pathfinders (HBS, UA, etc.)

  • Google

    • phrase searching

    • Kw: statistics (percent, per cent, billion, million, unit you’re measuring), market share, market size, industry overview, financial data, expenditures, costs


  • “Official statistics have to be compiled according to international guidelines and principles, but they cannot be considered the only reliable source of statistics. Relevant and reliable data are also produced by other bodies, such as international organisations, central banks, research institutes and non-governmental organisations. What matters is not necessarily the institutional position of the source, but the quality of data.”

    (Enrico Giovannini, Chief Statistician - OECD)


Gauging quality
Gauging quality international guidelines and principles, but they cannot be considered the only reliable source of statistics. Relevant and reliable data are also produced by other bodies, such as international organisations, central banks, research institutes and non-governmental organisations. What matters is not necessarily the institutional position of the source, but the

  • Producer’s reputation

  • Gap between collection and publication

  • Secondary?

    • Sources identified

  • Primary?

  • Text of document

  • Do results make sense?

  • Confirmed in other sources?


To spend or not spend
To spend or not spend international guidelines and principles, but they cannot be considered the only reliable source of statistics. Relevant and reliable data are also produced by other bodies, such as international organisations, central banks, research institutes and non-governmental organisations. What matters is not necessarily the institutional position of the source, but the

  • Audience

  • Potential usage

  • Positive reviews from others

  • Cost (deal breaker?)

  • Electronic or print


To spend or not to spend
To spend or not to spend international guidelines and principles, but they cannot be considered the only reliable source of statistics. Relevant and reliable data are also produced by other bodies, such as international organisations, central banks, research institutes and non-governmental organisations. What matters is not necessarily the institutional position of the source, but the

  • Access: Simultaneous users? Compatible with proxy server?

  • Technical issues: Compatibility with web browsers? Usage stats?

  • Price: Is consortia pricing an option?


Exercise
Exercise international guidelines and principles, but they cannot be considered the only reliable source of statistics. Relevant and reliable data are also produced by other bodies, such as international organisations, central banks, research institutes and non-governmental organisations. What matters is not necessarily the institutional position of the source, but the

  • Your turn to unlock!


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