Travel Survey of Residents of Canada, 2011: Person File, November (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. 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. 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: 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.; to provide information on travel incidence; to provide the socio-demographic profile of travellers and non-travellers. Estimates allow quarterly analysis at the national, provincial and tourism region level (with varying degrees of precision) on: 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. same-day and overnight visits in Canada main purpose of the trip/key activities done while on trip 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 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) nights spent in each location visited in Canada, in total and by type of accommodation used use of travel packages and associated spending and source of payment (household, public and private employer) demographics of adults that took or did not take any trips travel party composition There are three files for this survey - Trip File, Visit File, and Person File. 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.

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。在国民账户体系框架下，TSRC从需求端测算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）。本次调查引入多项定义调整与全新问卷设计，其测算的国内旅行数据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）制定的国际指南标准。关于CTS与TSRC的具体差异，请参阅附录D。2011年，TSRC进行了改版设计，关于2006-2010版TSRC与2011年改版后TSRC的差异，请参阅附录C。

TSRC由加拿大统计局（Statistics Canada）、加拿大旅游委员会、各省政府、两家联邦机构以及加拿大城市联盟联合发起。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、交通方式等维度，提供加拿大居民的旅行次数、到访频次与支出规模相关信息；
2. 提供旅行参与率相关信息；
3. 描绘旅行参与者与非参与者的社会人口统计特征。

该调查的测算结果支持在国家级、省级及旅游区域层面（精度程度存在差异）开展季度分析，分析范畴涵盖：
- 加拿大居民在加拿大境内或国际目的地旅行（且至少有一晚住宿在加拿大境内）的当日往返与过夜旅行总规模；
- 在加拿大境内的当日往返与过夜到访情况，以及旅行的主要目的/旅途中开展的核心活动；
- 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支出及按支出类别划分的支出情况，以及旅行中使用的主要/其他交通方式；
- 加拿大境内每个到访地点（到访地点定义为主要目的地，或停留1晚及以上的地点）的总到访量与按支出类别划分的支出情况；
- 加拿大境内每个到访地点的总停留夜数及按住宿类型划分的停留夜数；
- 旅行套餐的使用情况、相关支出及支付来源（家庭、公共与私人雇主）；
- 参与或未参与任何旅行的成年人的人口统计特征；
- 旅行团队的构成情况。

本次调查包含三类核心数据文件：旅行文件（Trip File）、到访文件（Visit File）与个人文件（Person File）。2013年1月发布的初步版本与2013年3月发布的最终版本的差异在于地理变量设置：最终版本移除了旅游区域变量。