Generating and Downloading the BPS File

Prerequisites

You must carry out the configuration steps in the Business Payrolls Survey section of the Reporting and Statistics chapter of the Canada Payroll IMG.

Payroll results must exist for the employees in your selection.

Verify that the first nine characters of the employee subgroup texts adequately describe the group of employees. Employee subgroup description texts that contain more than nine characters will be truncated in the report output.

Procedure

1. From the main Payroll Canada menu, choose Subsequent activites → Period- independent → Reporting → Business Payrolls Survey.

2. On the subsequent screen, specify the appropriate entries in the Selection and Business Survey details sections of the report screen.

3. Execute the report.

4. An output screen appears, which displays the data extracted for the employees selected. To download this data to a text file for submission to Statistics Canada, choose Download Data .

5. On the subsequent dialog-box, specify the local file name and directory to which the text file should be saved.

6. Choose Transfer.

Result

The Business Payrolls Survey file is generated and downloaded to the chosen local directory.