DOI: 10.5683/sp3/ltoomp
title: Travel Survey of Residents of Canada, 2011: Person File, March (Preliminary)
title: Person File, March
title: TSRC 2011: Person File, March

description: The Travel Survey of Residents of Canada (TSRC) is a major source of data used to measure the size and status of Canada's tourism industry. It was developed to quantify the volume, the characteristics and the economic impact of domestic travel. For the system of national accounts, TSRC measures the size of domestic travel in Canada from the demand side. &lt;p&gt;Since the beginning of 2005, the TRSC replaces the Canadian Travel Survey (CTS). Featuring several definitional changes and a new questionnaire, this survey provides estimates of domestic travel that are more in line with the international guidelines recommended by the World Tourism Organization (WTO) and the United Nations Statistical Commission. Please see Appendix D for differences between the CTS and the TSRC. In 2011, the TRSC underwent a redesign. Please see Appendix C for the differences between the 2006-2010 TSRC and the redesign 2011 TSRC. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The TSRC is sponsored by Statistics Canada, the Canadian Tourism Commission, the provincial governments, two federal organizations and a consortium of Canadian cities. The objectives of the survey are: &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt; to provide information about the volume of trips, visits and expenditures for Canadian residents by trip origin, destination, duration, type of accommodation used, trip reason, mode of travel, etc.;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; to provide information on travel incidence; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;to provide the socio-demographic profile of travellers and non-travellers. &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Estimates allow quarterly analysis at the national, provincial and tourism region level (with varying degrees of precision) on: &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt; total volume of same-day and overnight trips taken by Canadians in Canada or with an international destination where at least one night of the trip was spent in Canada. &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;same-day and overnight visits in Canada &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;main purpose of the trip/key activities done while on trip &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;spending on same-day and overnight trips taken in Canada by Canadian residents in total and by category of expenditure, modes of transportation (main/other) used on the trip &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;visits and spending in total and by expense category for each location visited in Canada (a location is defined as either the main destination, or a place where 1 or more nights was spent) &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;nights spent in each location visited in Canada, in total and by type of accommodation used &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;use of travel packages and associated spending and source of payment (household, public and private employer) &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; demographics of adults that took or did not take any trips &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;travel party composition &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;There are three files for this survey - Trip File, Visit File, and Person File.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The difference between the Preliminary version (released January 2013) and the Final version (released March 2013) is the geography variables: the Tourism Region variable was removed from the Final version.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Travel Survey of Residents of Canada
description: Migration from Nesstar
description: Notes: The person file provides information on travellers and non-travellers, a traveller being a person aged 18 and over who takes at least one trip ending in the reference month and a non-traveller being someone who does not take a trip ending in the reference month. Each respondent to the TSRC has one record on the person file. The sum of all travellers and non-travellers adds up to the Canadian population aged 18 and over on each monthly file, minus the exclusions specified in Section 3.1 of the user guide. The person microdata file includes socio-demographic information on both travellers and non-travellers. It can be used to produce socio-demographic profiles and to calculate travel incidences. The person microdata file does not provide information on the volume of trips or person-trips taken but rather on the volume of travellers and non-travellers. If a person travelled more than once during the reference period, that person will be counted only once as a traveller. ;