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National Household Survey (NHS) Dictionary –Definitions by topic
Aboriginal Peoples
Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity
- Age at immigration
- Citizenship
- Ethnic origin
- First official language spoken
- Generation status
- Home language
- Home language – Part A
- Home language – Part B
- Immigrant status
- Knowledge of non-official languages
- Knowledge of official languages
- Mother tongue
- Period of immigration
- Place of birth of father
- Place of birth of mother
- Place of birth of respondent
- Population group
- Religion
- Visible minority
- Year of immigration
Education and Labour
- Attendance at school
- Class of worker
- Commuting distance
- Commuting duration
- Commuting type
- Degree in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine or optometry
- Employed
- Employment rate
- Experienced labour force
- Full-time or part-time weeks worked in 2010
- Highest certificate, diploma or degree
- Hours worked for pay or in self-employment
- Incorporation status
- Industry (based on the North American Industry Classification System [NAICS] 2007)
- Inexperienced labour force
- Labour force
- Labour force status
- Labour force status (based on 1971 concepts)
- Language of work
- Location of study
- Location of study compared with province or territory of residence
- Looked for paid work in past four weeks (full- or part-time work)
- Major field of study - International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) and Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada concordances
- Major field of study (based on the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2000, historical)
- Major field of study (based on the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2011)
- Mode of transportation
- New job to start in four weeks or less from reference week
- Not in the labour force
- Occupation (based on the National Occupational Classification - Statistics [NOC–S] 2006)
- Occupation (based on the National Occupational Classification [NOC] 2011)
- On temporary lay-off or absent from job or business
- Participation rate
- Place of work status
- Postsecondary certificates, diplomas and degrees, types obtained
- Reasons unable to start a job
- Secondary (high) school diploma or equivalent
- Time arriving at work
- Time leaving for work
- Unemployed
- Unemployment rate
- Vehicle occupancy
- Weeks worked in 2010
- When last worked for pay or in self-employment
- Work activity in 2010
- Workplace location
Mobility and Migration
- Census division of current residence
- Mobility 1 - Census division of residence 1 year ago
- Mobility 1 - Census metropolitan area or census agglomeration of residence 1 year ago
- Mobility 1 - Census subdivision of residence 1 year ago
- Mobility 1 - Census subdivision type of residence 1 year ago
- Mobility 1 - Components of migration (in and out)
- Mobility 1 - Country of residence 1 year ago
- Mobility 1 - Mobility status - Place of residence 1 year ago
- Mobility 1 - Province or territory of residence 1 year ago
- Mobility 1 - Statistical Area Classification of residence 1 year ago
- Mobility 5 - Census division of residence 5 years ago
- Mobility 5 - Census metropolitan area or census agglomeration of residence 5 years ago
- Mobility 5 - Census subdivision of residence 5 years ago
- Mobility 5 - Census subdivision type of residence 5 years ago
- Mobility 5 - Components of migration (in and out)
- Mobility 5 - Country of residence 5 years ago
- Mobility 5 - Mobility status - Place of residence 5 years ago
- Mobility 5 - Province or territory of residence 5 years ago
- Mobility 5 - Statistical Area Classification of residence 5 years ago
- Province or territory of current residence
Income and Housing
- Adjusted after-tax income for economic families and persons not in economic families
- Adjusted after-tax income of households
- Adjusted income for economic families and persons not in economic families
- Adjusted market income of households
- Adjusted total income of households
- After-tax income
- After-tax income of census families
- After-tax income of economic families
- After-tax income of households
- Annual payment for electricity
- Annual payment for fuels
- Annual payment for water and other municipal services
- Annual property taxes
- Average income of families or persons not in families
- Average income of households
- Average income of individuals
- Bedrooms
- Benefits from Canada Pension Plan or Quebec Pension Plan
- Benefits from Employment Insurance
- Census family total income
- Child benefits
- Child care expenses paid
- Child or spousal support payments
- Composition of income
- Condition of dwelling
- Condominium fees
- Condominium status
- Disposable income for the MBM
- Dividends, interest on bonds, deposits and savings certificates, and other investment income
- Earner or employment income recipient
- Earnings or employment income
- Economic family total income
- Government transfer payments
- Household maintainer
- Household total income
- Housing suitability
- Income decile group
- Income status
- Income tax paid
- Low-income after-tax cut-offs (LICO-AT)
- Low-income before-tax cut-offs (LICO-BT)
- Low-income gap
- Low-income measure after tax (LIM-AT)
- Low-income measure before tax (LIM-BT)
- Low-income measure of market income (LIM-MI)
- Major source of income
- Market Basket Measure MBM
- Market income
- Monthly mortgage payment
- Net capital gains or losses
- Net farm income
- Net non-farm income from unincorporated business or professional practice
- Non-discretionary spending for the MBM
- Number of persons per room
- Old Age Security pension and Guaranteed Income Supplement
- Other income from government sources
- Other money income
- Owner's major payments
- Period of construction
- Prevalence of low income
- Primary household maintainer
- Property taxes included in mortgage payments
- Rent, gross
- Rent, monthly cash
- Retirement pensions, superannuation and annuities, including those from RRSPs and RRIFs
- Rooms
- Self-employment net income
- Severity of low income
- Shelter-cost-to-income ratio
- Subsidized housing
- Tenure
- Total income
- Total income plus net capital gains or losses
- Value of dwelling
- Wages and salaries
Other
- Activities of daily living
- Age
- Census family
- Census family composition
- Census family status
- Census family structure
- Census farm
- Common-law status
- Date of birth
- Dwelling, private, occupied by usual residents
- Economic family
- Economic family status
- Economic family structure
- Farm operator
- Household living arrangements
- Household size
- Household type
- Household, private
- Introduction to the family universe
- Introduction to the geography universe
- Introduction to the population in private households universe
- Introduction to the private dwellings occupied by usual residents universe
- Introduction to the private households universe
- Legal marital status
- Marital status
- Presence of children
- Relationship to household reference person (Person 1)
- Rural farm population
- Sex
- Structural type of dwelling
- Usual place of residence
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