Question A researcher is looking for demographic information on the residents living in the riding of Edmonton-Ellerslie. Edmonton-Ellerslie is a riding which is represented within the Alberta provincial government. A map of it can be found here: http://www.elections.ab.ca/public%20website/files/maps/ED33_EDMONTON_ELLERSLIE_400.pdf They are interested in knowing the residents’ demograpics (e.g. income, ethnic background, average age, etc.). Answer This [...]
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Question For my project I would like to correlate low-income individuals/families with social service locations (e.g. location of homeless shelters) to determine whether there are enough services in poor areas of Hamilton. – An ArcGIS compatible shapefile that has census tract divisions (would be ideal) – Shapefiles of (some or all): – Location [...]
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Posted in Society and Community on Nov 22nd, 2011
Question This is something I have not been previously asked about and now I have agreed to speak to a class about gender-desgregated data sources. There are some good web pages at Health Canada and DSP and a few others but I am wondering if I am overlooking something in DLI? Any suggestions about sources [...]
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Posted in Food, Society and Community on Nov 4th, 2011
Question I’m looking for stats related to alcohol consumption per capital (in litres of alcohol) in Canada between 1940 and 2005 (I’m not looking for the different types of drinks). If possible, I’m also looking for stats regarding higher quantities of alcohol consumption (5 glasses or more at least once a month for the last 12 months) between [...]
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Posted in Census, Society and Community on Nov 4th, 2011
Question Regarding activity limitation data in the Census, Question 8 refers to mental or physical health problems which reduce the type of activity that a person is able to do. I have started a search for the tables that include the data from this question and so far I have not been able to find it. Any clues? [...]
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Posted in Society and Community on Oct 28th, 2011
Question Does Stats Can have the percentage of overall Canadian sexual assaults that are reported to police from 1999 – 2009? For example, 36% of sexual assaults are reported to police, and 64% of them are not reported? I can only find stats on spousal sexual assaults in the GSS victimization surveys. Answer You will [...]
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Posted in Society and Community, Updates on Jan 21st, 2011
General Social Survey (GSS), Cycle 22: Public Use Microdata File (PUMF) – Revised files Revised .sav files (C22PUMF_ENG-rev2.SAV and C22PUMF_FRE-rev2.SAV) are now available for the General Social Survey, Cycle 22 PUMF on the DLI FTP and website. The changes described below apply to these files. Please delete the previous versions of these files (C22PUMF_ENG.SAV and [...]
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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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Posted in Health, Society and Community on Nov 18th, 2010
Question We have had a request from a researcher here for the data from the 1953 Canadian Weight Height Survey. This survey was conducted by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics (Statistics Canada’s predecessor) and one of the articles we found stated that the tables and the report were issued by the Department of National Health [...]
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Posted in Society and Community on Oct 28th, 2010
Question A professor has asked about a raw data file for the National Survey of Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations (2003). This survey is not listed as being in the DLI collection. I mentioned that the surveys for which pumfs end up in the DLI collection tend to be household surveys and not surveys of institutions [...]
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