Posted in Population and Demography, Seniors on Nov 29th, 2004
Question I have a grad student who is looking for Canadian stats on adults who have living grandparents. The only place I have found that deals with this is cycle 5 of the General Social Survey. Has anyone run across this kind of statistic elsewhere? Answer The National Population Health Survey has the following variables: [...]
Posted in Manufacturing on Nov 25th, 2004
Question I’ve been looking around for some historical information about the “Census of Manufacturers”. [1] Whatever happened to the “Census of Manufacturers”? I looked in the “Historical Statistics of Canada” and have read “Section R: Manufactures” which gives me very detailed information up to the ’70′s, of course. However, does anyone know if it is [...]
Posted in Population and Demography on Nov 23rd, 2004
Question We have a user looking for data on debit card (Interac) use in Canada. So far, I have searched the variable-level databases at UWO, Sherlock, and Queens, as well as the TST, with no luck. I have also searched the Roper database, but the content abstracts are so brief that I suspect they would [...]
Posted in Population and Demography on Nov 22nd, 2004
Question I’ve had a request from a faculty member for the following publication. It appears to be one that all would have to order, but I wanted to be sure that was the case. Could one of you please clarify that for me? It would be nice, of course, if it were available through DLI. [...]
Question A student who wants to use the PALS 2001 survey has asked me where or if there is a designation for province of residence. She could not find a variable relating to it. I have looked through the questionnaire, where I saw that province information was collected at the beginning and the end of [...]
Question A while ago, it was posted that the Food Insecurity supplement is not available in PUMF format (master & share only). Could you tell me what (master & share only) means? I have a student who would like the PUMF – can I assume that it will never be available as a PUMF? Do [...]
Posted in Population and Demography on Nov 17th, 2004
Question We have a faculty member who has used “Projections of visible minority population groups, Canada, provinces and regions, 1991-2016″ (Stats Can Pub no.: 91-541-XPE) which we have in our library. However, it did not have exactly what he needed regarding languages. I found in the Online Catalogue a publication entitled: “Detailed tables of projections [...]
Posted in Reference on Nov 16th, 2004
Question If a professor has DLI data, can he or she give it to his/her students directly? Assuming that the students are using it for a class project. Answer Yes, the use for class project is completely legitimate.
Posted in Government on Nov 11th, 2004
Question A student here wants to know what resource royalties were paid by the Nunavut territorial government to the federal government. From CANSIM, I can get the total royalties collected by the federal government, but I can’t seem to find it broken down by payee (as it were). Not being sure of the terminology, I [...]
Posted in Reference on Nov 10th, 2004
Question Is there any way to find out the average elevation (above sea level) of a census tract or dissemination area. I have a student who is trying to correlate socioeconomic status (from census data) with elevation for our city. The thesis is that the higher up one lives in the physical sense, the higher [...]