Posted in Education, Training and Learning, Income, Pensions, Spending and Wealth on Apr 5th, 2011
Question We have another NGS question… Any help would be greatly appreciated – here is my student’s request: “I am looking into brain drain, and am interested to see the differences in wage earnings of individuals who moved to the US with how much they would have earned if they stayed back in Canada. My [...]
Posted in Health, Income, Pensions, Spending and Wealth on Mar 30th, 2011
Question A researcher here is interested in: “the start date of and number of prescriptions given out for inhaled corticosteroid medications for asthma and allergic rhinitis in North America”. Of particular interest are the specific medications: Fluticisone (Flovent, Flonase-GSK) and Budesonide (Pulmicort- Asta Zeneca) which came into use around 1990. There are commercial publications out [...]
Posted in Income, Pensions, Spending and Wealth on Mar 29th, 2011
Question I am not sure where to even start with this question from a researcher? “I’m trying to find recent data on Employment Equity in the Canadian Federal Public Service, specifically Health Canada. I heard you could be of some help in this regard – please advise.” Answer If you don’t have these already … [...]
Posted in Income, Pensions, Spending and Wealth, Population and Demography on Mar 29th, 2011
Question I have a PhD student looking for number of hours worked for 2 CSDs for 1986 and 1991 censuses. Based on the example for later censuses here: http://www.communityaccounts.ca/communityaccounts/onlinedata/display_table.asp?_=0bfAjIydpaWrnbSTh5-FvKRsxKFjXHe6uJS8u5mBi8nAXWiP#footanch0, I’m guessing it will be one of two variables: Last week, how many hours did you work? and/or During most of the reference period, did you [...]
Posted in Income, Pensions, Spending and Wealth, Population and Demography on Mar 22nd, 2011
Question Are there any income data available at the postal code level. If yes, can you point me in the right direction? Thank you. Answer The Profile for Canada, Provinces, Territories and Forward Sortation Areas, 2006 Census (94-581-XCB2006003) provides income data at the FSA level (first three characters of the postal code). http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/prof/rel/Rp-eng.cfm?TABID=1&LANG=E&A=R&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=01&GID=841141&GK=1&GRP=1&O=D&PID=94535&PRID=0&PTYPE=89103&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2006&THEME=81&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&D1=0&D2=0&D3=0&D4=0&D5=0&D6=0 The 2006 [...]
Posted in Income, Pensions, Spending and Wealth on Mar 15th, 2011
Question I have a researcher looking for $ amounts of personal expenditures from 1930 – 2000. More recent data (1962-2010) has been downloaded from CANSIM table 380-0009. Data from 1926-1946 are available in CANSIM table 380-0054. Is there anything available that will cover the entire time period or fill in the gaps between 1947 and [...]
Posted in Health, Income, Pensions, Spending and Wealth on Mar 15th, 2011
Question Hi everyone, I have a student looking for the number of nurses (RNs) in Canada. Cansim has information going back to 1987. Do you know where I would find information for previous years. She would like to go back to 1900 if possible, but would be thrilled to have data back to the 1940s. [...]
Posted in Education, Training and Learning, Income, Pensions, Spending and Wealth on Mar 15th, 2011
Question I have the following research question: “I am looking for information (from 2006) about employment of elementary teachers in Ontario. More specifically, I’m looking to find out information about the distribution of gender across elementary school teachers at that time.” Any suggestions would be appreciated. Answer The following products may be of interest to [...]
Posted in Income, Pensions, Spending and Wealth, Updates on Jan 25th, 2011
Hello We are pleased to inform you that the following files are now available on the Statistics Canada Nesstar Webview site (http://www62.statcan.ca). Employment Insurance Coverage Survey (EICS), 2009 Anyone can view the metadata for these files on the Statistics Canada Nesstar site. Only DLI Contacts however will be able to access the data files on [...]
Posted in Families, Households and Housing, Income, Pensions, Spending and Wealth, Updates on Jan 21st, 2011
Survey of Household Spending (SHS) – 2009 standard tables The following products from the Survey of Household Spending for 2009 are now available on the DLI FTP and website. Detailed Average Household Expenditure for Canada, Provinces/Territories and Selected Metropolitan Areas 62F0031XDB Detailed Average Household Expenditure by Household Income Quintile for Canada and Provinces 62F0032XDB Detailed [...]