National Travel Survey, 2023: Person file [Canada]

<p>The National Travel Survey (NTS) was developed to fully replace the Travel Survey of Residents of Canada (TSRC record number 3810) and replace the Canadian resident component of the International Travel Survey (ITS record number 3152). The National Travel Survey collects information about the domestic and international travel of Canadian residents.</p>

<p>The National Travel Survey provides statistics on the activities of Canadian residents related to domestic and international tourism. It was developed to measure the volume, the characteristics and the economic impact of tourism. For the Canadian System of National Accounts, NTS measures the size of domestic travel in Canada from the demand side.</p>

<p>The person file provides information on travellers and non-travellers, a traveller being a person aged 18 and over who took at least one trip ending in the reference month and a non-traveller being someone who did not take a trip ending in the reference month. Each respondent to the NTS has one record on the person file whether they have travelled within the reference period or not. The person microdata file includes basic socio-demographic information on both travellers and non-travellers. It can be used to produce simple socio-demographic profiles and to calculate travel incidences. For example, what is the age or gender of travellers versus non-travellers? What percentage of the population 55 years of age and over travelled? 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 as a traveller only once. </p>