Technological change in the public sector, 2000-2002

The views expressed in the articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Statistics Canada. [...] In these same industries, measures are being made of the creation and the loss of jobs as part of understanding the impact of technological change. [...] A number of surveys have focused on the use and planned use of advanced technologies and practices: surveys of advanced manufacturing technologies were carried out in 1987, 1989, 1993 and 1998; and surveys of the use and planned use of information and communication technologies have been conducted annually since 1999. [...] Of interest, is how much more balanced the rates of using the more complex and expensive methods of acquiring significantly improved technologies become when the larger organisations in the public and private sector are compared. [...] Concluding Remarks Technology adoption is important to the public sector — overall the rate of technological adoption in the public sector stood at twice that of the private sector.