Posted in Statistical Methods, Updates on Feb 1st, 2012
On February 1, 2012, self-serve standard products available on the Statistics Canada website—including CANSIM and census data products—will become free of charge. Statistics Canada will maintain current pricing practices for products such as print publications, maps, CD-ROMs, and custom products and services. Licensing restrictions for the use of Statistics Canada data products will be removed. [...]
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Posted in Statistical Methods on Mar 16th, 2011
Question A research is trying to access DAs population centroids instead of geographic centroids based on DAs area boundaries. Can these be found in GeoSuite? I’ve looked but it seems to only cover geographic centroids. I guess he can somehow create them with the use of the block population data?? Any chance the Geography Division [...]
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Posted in Labour, Statistical Methods on Jan 21st, 2011
Question A researcher here would like to know if the visible minority variable, available in the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) master file, could be made available in the PUMF. If the main issue is sample size, could it at least be available at the national level? Answer The division that produces this [...]
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Question Good afternoon everyone! I have another PALS question. We’re looking at the PUMF file for 2006 and if I select ONLY those individuals with a disability (DISAB = 1) and those individuals whose income source is social assistance (AHUI_Q32F = 1).. then look at hours worked (HOURSP) – I’m left with 2130 respondents where [...]
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Question I am working with a researcher who needs historical census data going back 20 years (so essentially going back to and including the 1991 Census) for Laxgalts’ap (5949840). 2006 – According to the suppression lists at http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/ref/notes/sup_CSD2A-SDR2A-eng.cfm) and (http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/ref/notes/sup_CSD2B-SDR2B-eng.cfm), the data for Laxgalts’ap was suppressed. As there is data available for Laxgalts’ap in the [...]
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Posted in Statistical Methods on Nov 18th, 2010
Question I wonder if someone can help me with some terminology. I have a student who is interested in analyzing Canadian Health Measures Survey data at an RDC. I asked one of our regional RDC analysts when this data would be available. He said that the unstaged wave 4 data will be available sometime in [...]
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Question In the 2001 Census the following table was released by Census tract: Occupation – 2001 National Occupational Classification for Statistics (60), Age Groups (10) and Sex (3) for Labour Force 15 Years and Over (20% sample data) 95F0384XCB01002. Am I correct that NO tables that include occupation were released for 2006 at the Census [...]
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Posted in Reference, Statistical Methods on Oct 15th, 2010
Question A researcher has sent me a few more questions concerning the 2001 Census Individuals PUMF methodology. I have appended the entire text of the message below. The document referred to is the 2001 Census Public Use Microdata File: Individuals File: User Documentation, 2nd revision. The pages referred to are page 173-176 of 292 (page [...]
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Posted in Statistical Methods on Sep 23rd, 2010
Question I have received the following question regarding a few older Census Individuals PUMF methodology: “The Canadian Census documentation mentions non-sampling errors. One of the sources of non-sampling errors being imputation for non-response. However, I could not find any info regarding imputation methods used for any of the variables in the documentation for Canada census [...]
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Posted in Reference, Statistical Methods on Sep 17th, 2010
Question There is a researcher here who is looking for the Dissemination Area Representative Point File (2006). Is this a file that is available to us through DLI? I have not been successful in locating it on the Statistics Canada website. (I think the file might be in GIS shapefile format, but perhaps it’s an [...]
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