As the leading and public sector survey organization in the country, Statistics Canada (Statcan) provides detailed information on all its survey activities. The Canadian Labour Force Survey (LFS), is carried out during the third week of the month and uses a sample size of about 54,000 households, which gives labour market information for about 100,000 individuals. Use the accompanying tables below to answer the following questions. What is the target population? Is any group of Canadians excluded? Click here to view the LFS description. Click here to view the LFS target population. Click here to view the data sources and methodology. Click here to view the data accuracy. What is the target population? O A. The target population is the civilian population of adults aged 15 and over that are not in one of the excluded groups. O B. The target population is persons living on Aboriginal settlements, full-time members of the Canadian Armed Forces, and the institutionalized population. O C. The target population is the civilian population of adults aged 15 and over. O D. The target population is the working civilian population aged 15 and over that are not in one of the excluded groups. Is any group of Canadians excluded? O A. The excluded groups are persons living on Aboriginal settlements, full-time members of the Canadian Armed Forces, and the institutionalized population. O B. The excluded groups are university students and persons who are incarcerated. O C. The excluded groups are persons living on Aboriginal settlements and full-time members of the Canadian Armed Forces.Is any group of Canadians excluded? O A. The excluded groups are persons living on Aboriginal settlements, full-time members of the Canadian Armed Forces, and the institutionalized population. O B. The excluded groups are university students and persons who are incarcerated. O C. The excluded groups are persons living on Aboriginal settlements and full-time members of the Canadian Armed Forces. O D. No group of the population is excluded.Data sources and methodology Responding to this survey is mandatory. Data are collected directly from survey respondents. Data collection for the LFS is carried out each month during the week following the LFS reference week. The reference week is normally the week containing the 15th day of the month. LFS interviews are conducted by telephone by interviewers working out of a regional office CATI (Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews) site or by personal visit from a field interviewer. Since 2004, dwellings new to the sample in urban areas are contacted by telephone if the telephone number is available from administrative files, otherwise the dwelling is contacted by a field interviewer. The interviewer first obtains socio-demographic information for each household member and then obtains labour force information for all members aged 15 and over who are not members of the regular armed forces. The majority of subsequent interviews are conducted by telephone. In subsequent monthly interviews the interviewer confirms the socio-demographic information collected in the first month and collects the labour force information for the current month. Persons aged 70 and over are not asked the labour force questions in subsequent interviews, but rather their labour force information is carried over from their first interview. In each dwelling, information about all household members is usually obtained from one knowledgeable household member. Such 'proxy" reporting, which accounts for approximately 65% of the information collected, is used to avoid the high cost and extended time requirements that would be involved in repeat visits or calls necessary to obtain information directly from each respondent.Data accuracy Since the LFS is a sample survey, all LFS estimates are subject to both sampling errors and non-sampling errors. Non-sampling errors can arise at any stage of the collection and processing of the survey data. These include coverage enors. non-response errors, response errors, interviewer errors, coding errors, and other types of processing errors. Non-response to the LFS tends to average about tilt-ti of eligible households. Interviewers are instructed to make all reasonable attempts to obtain LFS interviews with members of eligible households. Each month, after all attempts to obtain interviews have been made. a small number of nonresponding households remain. For households nonresponding to the LFS, a weight adjustment is applied to account for non-responding households. Sampling errors associated with surveyr estimates are measured using coefcients of variation for LFS estimates as a function of the size of the estimate and the geographic area. LFS target population The LFS covers the civilian, non-institutionalised population 15 yeals of age and over. It is conducted natiomoide, in both the provinces and the territories. Excluded from the survey's coverage are persons living on reserves and ether Aboriginal settlements in the provinces and full-time members of the Canadian Armed Forces and the institutionalized population. These groups together represent an exclusion of less than 2% of the Canadian population aged 15 and over. There are no questions in the LFS that aslt respondents whether they are temporary foreign workers. Therefore, it is not possible to produoe counts of, or employment numbers for, temporary foreign workers from the LFS. If contacted for the LFS, temporary foreign workers will be included only 'rfthey identify the selected dwelling as their usual place of residence. In addition, they cannot be separated from a larger group of respondents who were not born in Canada and who are not landed immigrants. In 2013. the 'other category represented 2% of the employed population and would therefore have a negligible impact on the overall employment numbers. Also included in this group are Canadian citizens by descent who were born elsewhere, foreign students with a study permit, claimants of refugee status, or family members of immigrants who are not landed immigrants themselves. National Labour Force Survey estimates are derived using the results of the LFS in the provinces. Tern'ton'al LFS results are not included in the national estimates, but are published separately. Description of the LFS The Labour Force Survey provides estimates of employment and unemployment, which are among the most timely and important measures of performance of the Canadian economy. With the release of the survey results only 13 days after the completion of data collection, the LFS estimates are the first of the major monthly economic data series to be released. The Canadian Labour Force Survey was developed following the Second World War to satisfy a need for reliable and timely data on the labour market. Information was urgently required on the massive labour market changes involved in the transition from a war to a peace-time economy. The main objective of the LFS is to divide the working-age population into three mutually exclusive classifications-employed, unemployed, and not in the labour force-and to provide descriptive and explanatory data on each of these. LFS data are used to produce the well-known unemployment rate as well as other standard labour market indicators such as the employment rate and the participation rate. The LFS also provides employment estimates by industry, occupation, public and private sector, hours worked, and much more, all cross-classifiable by a variety of demographic characteristics. Estimates are produced for Canada, the provinces, the territories, and a large number of sub-provincial regions. For employees, wage rates, union status, job permanency, and workplace size are also produced. For a full listing and description of LFS variables, see the Guide to the Labour Force Survey, available under Questionnaire(s) and reporting guide(s) above. These data are used by different levels of government for evaluation and planning of employment programs in Canada. Regional unemployment rates are used by Human Resources Development Canada to determine eligibility, level, and duration of insurance benefits for persons living within a