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Federal Government Expenditures and Personnel

This paper was prepared and released by Science and Technology Section, Science and Technology Redesign Project, Statistics Canada in Sept 1998. The purpose of the project was to develop useful indicators of activity and a framework to tie them together into a coherent picture of a science and technology in Canada.

Historical tables displaying Federal Government Expenditures and personnel applied to activities in science and technology are presented. The figures for each fiscal year to 1996-97 are actual while the data for 1997-98 and 1998-99 are forecasts and estimates respectively. The expenditure data for scientific activities controlled by federal departments and agencies provided correspond to the budgetary expenditures by program presented in Main Estimates for approval of Parliament. Hence the following types of costs or expenditures are not included:

• expenditures by federal agencies which do not receive budgetary appropriations e.g. Petrocan, Canadian National Railways, Air Canada
• Non-budgetary expenditures for advances, loans etc.

The definitions used in collecting the data for this report are essentially the same as those used by the OECD in its Frascati Manual and by UNESCO in its "Manual for Statistics on Scientific and Technological Activities".

The term, Natural and Social Sciences include physical sciences, life sciences, anthropology, demography, economics, geography, history, languages, literature and linguistics, law, library science, philosophy, political science, psychology, religious studies, social work, sociology and urban and regional studies.

Table: Federal Government Expenditures on Science and Technology Activities (S&T), by activity and science type, 1996-97r to 1998-99e

Year	Natural Sciences			Social Sciences			Total
	R&D %	RSA %	Total %	R&D %	RSA %	Total %	R&D %	RSA %	Total $ 000,000
1996-97r	56	19	75	3	22	25	59	41	5684
1997-98p	55	21	76	3	21	24	58	42	5449
1998-99e	58	19	77	3	20	23	61	39	5481

R&D Research & Development; RSA Related Scientific Activities

r – revised ; p – preliminary; e- estimate

Table: Federal Government Expenditures on Research & Development (R&D), by Type of Science and by Performer, 1996-97r to 1998-99e Unit: $ 000,000

Year	Natural Sciences			Social Sciences			Total
	Local	Foreign	Total	Local	Foreign	Total	Local	Foreign	Total
1996-97r	3064	98	3162	162	7	169	3226	105	3331
1997-98p	2910	103	3013	174	7	181	3084	110	3194
1998-99e	3056	91	3147	168	7	175	3224	98	3322

r – revised ; p – preliminary; e- estimate