The economic impact assessment of the FIFA U-20 World Cup Canada 2007 was recently released by the Canadian Sport Tourism Alliance (CSTA). The tournament was conducted from June 30th to July 22nd in six Canadian cities, including Victoria, Burnaby, Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal.

The CSTA conducted the study in partnership with Canadian Heritage (Sport Canada), Canadian Soccer Association, FIFA U-20 World Cup Canada 2007 National Organizing Committee, City of Toronto, Economic Development Edmonton, Tourism Burnaby, and Tourism Vancouver. To conduct the assessment, the CSTA used STEAM PRO (Sport Tourism Economic Assessment Model - Professional version), which measures the economic impact of a sport event on a community.

A total of 6,714 valid on-site surveys were conducted and collated at the game venues, providing the survey results with a confidence interval of +/- 1.5%, 19 times out of 20. The survey was conducted using the Techneos^® Entryware™ Pro System, which features the Entryware Designer software program for preparing the questionnaires as well as Entryware for Palm OS^® running on handheld PDA's for data collection.