Answer the questions below using the secondary data sources indicated.
1) Use the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters (CME) and then go to the following links within the site: Advocacy & Research > Business Intelligence Data. Scroll down to Economic Data & Reports. Use the filters to extract Manufacturing Sales for September 2020. Scroll down to the Mfg Sales by Industry, September 2020 graph. Using this graph as a reference: (23 points)
a. what top three manufacturing industries has the highest growth rates and what were the growth rates?
b. What three manufacturing industry had the three lowest growth rates. What were these rates?
Scroll down to the graph, Mfg Sales by Province, September 2020:
c. What were the growth rates for the four Atlantic Provinces? How did these growth rates compare to the other six provinces?
d. Which province had the lowest growth rate and what was the rate?
2) Go to Statistics Canada and then click on Census. Scroll down to the “Place name:” search bar. Enter “Truro” in the bar. Make sure that you have the Census Profile, 2016 Census table, with All data and Counts (this table should come up automatically). Then provide answers to the following questions:
a. What was the population of the town of Truro in 2016? How much did the population change since the 2011 census (%)?
b. Which had the higher growth rate in population since 2011, Truro or Nova Scotia as a whole?
c. How many private dwellings (households) were in Truro in 2016?
d. How many adults in Truro in 2016 were 65 years of age or older?
e. How many children in Truro in 2016 were under the age of 15?
f. How many single parent families were there in 2016 that wee headed by women? By men?
g. What was the median total household income in Truro in 2015?
h. How did the median total household income in Truro in 2015 compare to the median household income for Nova Scotia?