How to build a Robots! database / by Jay Dixon. : CS11-633/2020-28E-PDF
"Recent advances in artificial intelligence have rekindled ancient fears that robots will replace humans in the economy. Previous waves of automation changed but did not reduce labour’s role, but robots’ human-like flexibility could make this time different. Whether or not it will is an empirical question that has lacked suitable data to answer. This paper describes the creation of a dataset to fill the evidence gap in Canada. Robots! is firm-level panel data on robot adoption created using Canadian import data. The data identify a substantial amount of the robot investment in the Canadian economy from 1996 to 2017. Although many robots are imported by robotics wholesalers or programmers for resale, the majority of them can be attributed to their final (direct) adopting firm. The data can be used to study the impact of robot adoption at the economic region, industry or firm-level"--Abstract, page 5.
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| Ministère/Organisme | Statistics Canada, issuing body. |
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| Titre | How to build a Robots! database / by Jay Dixon. |
| Titre de la série | Analytical studies : methods and references, 2371-3429 ; no. 028 |
| Type de publication | Série - Voir l'enregistrement principal |
| Langue | [Anglais] |
| Autres langues publiées | [Français] |
| Format | Électronique |
| Document électronique | |
| Note(s) | Issued also in French under title: La création d’une base de données Robots! "Release date: November 2, 2020." "11-633-X No. 028." "2020004." Issued also in HTML format. Includes bibliographical references (page 19). |
| Information sur la publication | [Ottawa] : Statistics Canada = Statistique Canada, 2020. ©2020 |
| Auteur / Contributeur | Dixon, Jay, author. |
| Description | 1 online resource (19 pages) : maps, graphs. |
| ISBN | 9780660363301 |
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| Numéro de catalogue du ministère | 11-633-X |
| Descripteurs | Robots, Industrial -- Canada -- Databases. Robots, Industrial -- Canada -- Statistics. Automation -- Economic aspects -- Canada -- Statistics. |