1. DLI Ontario Training April, 2015 Vince Gray

2. What is it? See Statistics Canada web site (http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/olc-cel/olc.action?ObjId=61-517-X&ObjType=2&lang=en&Limit=1)http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/olc-cel/olc.action?ObjId=61-517-X&ObjType=2&lang=en&Limit=1 “It provides up-to-date information reflecting recent corporate takeovers and other substantial changes. Ultimate corporate control is determined through a careful study of holdings by corporations, the effects of options, insider holdings, convertible shares and interlocking directorships.”

3. Coverage – what is in it “The product covers every individual corporation that is part of a group of commonly controlled corporations with combined assets exceeding 600 million dollars or combined revenue exceeding 200 million dollars. Individual corporations with debt obligations or equity owing to non-residents exceeding a net book value of 1 million dollars are covered as well.”

4. Coverage - time First released for 1987 Subsequently released in 1990, 1992, 1994, 1993/1994 With April-June 1995, became a quarterly release On public Statistics Canada web site, all versions prior to 1 st quarter 2012 are Archived First released to DLI on CD with 1 st quarter, 1998 Data centres may have continuous CD-ROM holdings to 2 nd quarter 2012 EFT site has 2001, 2004 to 2014 available for download

5. Format: pre-1998 Have never seen the products: don’t know the format

6. Format: 2001 EFT site provides Microsoft Access database Can be used with Windows XP, 7, 8 as long as have MS Access No custom software interface No documentation (just the database)

8. Format: 1998 - 2010-Q3 2004-Q1 to 2010-Q3 available on EFT site Zipped formats of CD-ROM product Installs custom search /browse software Provides documentation in English and French Tutorial, About StatCan, About the product, what is NAICS/SICC/SICE/CALURA, statistical notes & definitions, etc. Multiple versions do not play together nicely Do not work with Windows 7 (or 8?)

9. 3 rd Quarter, 2010

10. Format: 2010-Q4 onward Zipped formats of CD-ROM or EFT-ready product Installs custom search / browse software Multiple versions do play together nicely No documentation Works with XP and Windows 7 (and Windows 8?) Nested display that must be expanded Print format does not display all of the content seen while browsing

11. 4 th Quarter, 2010: browse

12. 4 th Quarter, 2010: print

13. 4 th Quarter, 2014: browse

14. Things to think about None of the displays show the version of ICO being used – so potentially easy to get confused between which version is being shown – name files appropriately (e.g., ico20103.txt for 3 rd quarter, 2010) Pre 2010-Q4 cd versions use 8-character file naming convention for exported files – will truncate longer, more explanatory file names without warning Do we want DLI to get older versions of ICO (from earliest onwards)? How important to convert older versions to trace history?