Travel Survey of Residents of Canada, 2011: Person File, May (Preliminary)

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. <p>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. </p> <p>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: <ul> <li> 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.;</li> <li> to provide information on travel incidence; </li> <li>to provide the socio-demographic profile of travellers and non-travellers. </li> </ul> </p> <p>Estimates allow quarterly analysis at the national, provincial and tourism region level (with varying degrees of precision) on: <ul> <li> 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. </li> <li>same-day and overnight visits in Canada </li> <li>main purpose of the trip/key activities done while on trip </li> <li>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 </li> <li>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) </li> <li>nights spent in each location visited in Canada, in total and by type of accommodation used </li> <li>use of travel packages and associated spending and source of payment (household, public and private employer) </li> <li> demographics of adults that took or did not take any trips </li> <li>travel party composition </li> </ul> </p> <p>There are three files for this survey - Trip File, Visit File, and Person File.</p> <p>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.</p>

加拿大居民旅行调查（Travel Survey of Residents of Canada, TSRC）是衡量加拿大旅游业规模与发展现状的核心数据来源。该调查旨在量化国内旅行的规模、特征与经济影响。在国民账户体系中，TSRC从需求侧视角衡量加拿大国内旅行的整体规模。

自2005年初起，TSRC取代了加拿大旅行调查（Canadian Travel Survey, CTS）。本次调查在定义上做出多处调整并采用了全新问卷，其给出的国内旅行估算结果更符合世界旅游组织（World Tourism Organization, WTO）与联合国统计委员会（United Nations Statistical Commission）推荐的国际规范。如需了解CTS与TSRC的差异，请参见附录D。2011年，TSRC进行了重新设计，如需了解2006-2010版TSRC与2011年重新设计版TSRC的区别，请参见附录C。

本调查由加拿大统计局（Statistics Canada）、加拿大旅游委员会（Canadian Tourism Commission）、各省政府、两家联邦机构以及加拿大城市联盟联合资助。本次调查的目标包括：
1. 按旅行出发地、目的地、时长、住宿类型、旅行目的、出行方式等维度，提供加拿大居民的旅行次数、到访频次与消费支出相关信息；
2. 提供旅行发生情况相关信息；
3. 呈现旅行者与非旅行者的社会人口学特征画像。

该调查的估算结果支持在国家、省级及旅游区域层面（精度各有不同）开展以下维度的季度分析：
1. 加拿大居民在加拿大境内开展，或目的地为境外但行程中至少有一晚在加拿大境内的当日往返与过夜旅行总规模；
2. 在加拿大境内的当日往返与过夜到访情况；
3. 旅行主要目的/行程中开展的核心活动；
4. 加拿大居民在加拿大境内开展的当日往返与过夜旅行的总消费及分类消费、行程中使用的主要/其他交通方式相关信息；
5. 加拿大境内各到访地点（定义为主要目的地或停留至少1晚的地点）的到访总次数与分类消费情况；
6. 加拿大境内各到访地点的总停留夜数及按住宿类型划分的停留夜数；
7. 旅行套餐使用情况、相关消费及支付来源（家庭、公共及私人雇主）；
8. 有/无旅行经历成年人的人口统计学特征；
9. 旅行随行人员构成。

本次调查包含三份数据文件：旅行档案（Trip File）、到访档案（Visit File）与个人档案（Person File）。

2013年1月发布的预览版与2013年3月发布的最终版之间的差异在于地理变量：最终版移除了旅游区域变量。