Description/Contents: The Industrial Monitor is both an analytical tool and a compendium of industrial statistics. To facilitate industrial analysis it contains economic indicators that are grouped together into tables that reflect the major elements of supply, demand, and price/cost behaviour for each industry, as well as each industry's utilization of factors of production such as labour and capital. These tables are organized so that an industry's situation can be determined at a glance.

Getting started: There are two ways of accessing the Industrial Monitor on CD-ROM: using the Table Viewer to access the industry tables and definitions or using the Series Browser to access directly the time series in the database.

Navigation: Double click the Table Viewer icon to generate  the following screen.

Next, double click on the title "Industrial Monitor" on the right side to generate the following screen.

The Table Viewer provides an organized industry-by-industry analytical overview; table lookup and hotlinks to explanations about each variable in each table; hotlinks to the industry definitions of the Standard Industrial Classification Manual from within each table; and graphing, viewing, transforming or exporting of individual series that appear in a table.

The initial screen of the Table Viewer is divided into a left and right panes. The boundary between the left and right panes can be altered by positioning the pointer on the boundary, where it becomes  when correctly positioned, and dragging the boundary in the desired direction.
The left pane shows the hierarchical structure of the industries in the Industrial Monitor. An entry preceded by the icon  has more industry structure beneath it. Single clicking the icon  expands the underlying industry structure. When an entry's tree is fully expanded, the icon  appears beside it. Industries to which you have not subscribed are greyed out in the hierarchical structure of the industries. An industry in the structure is selected by clicking once on the entry's text. When an industry such as the Fruit and Vegetable Products are selected from within Food Products and Manufacturing the right pane shows all of its tables available in the Industrial Monitor as icons .

Double-clicking on an icon  on the right pane such as the Supply Levels brings up the following associated table that can be scrolled.

Unless otherwise specified dollar denominated data are in millions of dollars; person counts are in thousands of persons; data are seasonally adjusted; data are in current dollars, and the base year for indexed data is 1986. New industrial sectors in the Canadian economy will be added to the  Industrial Monitor as they become available.

If you are looking for a particular industry (or simply a word) across the  Industrial Monitor tables and the SIC Manual, make the following window active, and look for the Find area at its bottom. Click anywhere in the Find area, type in a word or expression, such as Textiles, that is part of the name of the industry you are looking for, and press the Enter key.

While the Table Viewer is designed to facilitate the access and perusal of the industries' analytical tables, the Series Browser was developed to provide easy access to all the individual time series in the Industrial Monitor. Double click the Series Browser icon to generate  the following screen.

While in the Warehouse, you can see all of the thousands of series available in the Industrial Monitor. The Search button allows you to define search criteria that will restrict the Warehouse to the series you are looking for.  Click the Search button to define your search criteria. The Search dialog is divided in three specific areas: Series Description, Industry and Other. The first time that you open the Search dialog, there are no search criteria specified.  When the Search dialog is called subsequently, the previous criteria specified in the three areas are restored in the window.

Every time you graph, view, or export data, the numbers you see are affected by the current data presentation settings.   The settings provides you with a convenient way of ensuring that data are easily comparable.  It is likely that you will often want to adjust these settings at the beginning of your Series Browser session.

Downloading: Select File Export from the menu bar. The Export to File dialog box appears. Using the Table of Contents in the Export to File dialog box, expand and collapse the section headings by clicking on the + and - signs, until you view the title of the section(s) that you want to export. Click on the title of the section(s) that you want to export.Note: You can deselect a section heading by clicking on it again. Pick an export fomat by clicking on the Export formats combo box and selecting the desired format. Enter a valid filename at the Export to File prompt. If you are not sure where you want to save the file, use the Browse button to search through your drives and directories for a filename and format. Click OK to export the sections specified or click Cancel to close the Export to File dialog box.

Printing: Select File Print from the menu bar. The Print dialog box appears. Using the Table of Contents in the Print dialog box, expand and collapse the section headings by clicking on the + and - signs, until you view the title of the section(s) that you want to print.  Click on the title of the section(s) that you want to print.Note: You can deselect a section heading simply by clicking on it again. Pick a print stylesheet by using the "Print formats" combo box and selecting the desired format. The title of the format should describe the kind of print format. Click on the Print notes check box if you want to print the book's notes along with the selected text. The printer to be used is displayed near the bottom of the Print dialog box. If you want to change this printer or print to a file instead, click on the Setup button. The Print Setup dialog box appears allowing you to select paper and printer characteristics. Click the Print button at the bottom of the dialog box for  DynaText to print the book as you specified or click  Cancel to close the Print dialog box. If you print to a file, DynaText asks you to enter a valid filename that you can send later to a printer for printing.

Exiting: Open the File dialogue box and select Exit.

Help: Click on Help and follow the on screen instructions.

Sources of other documentation: Data Library, University of Toronto.
Data Liberation Initiative (DLI).
Local DLI contact.
Statistics Canada IPS catalogue.

Alternative sources of these data: Located in Faculty of Management Library.

Cheat Sheet by: Daniel Warchow.
Data Library, University of Toronto.
Date: 26/08/99.