Posted in Health on Jan 28th, 2005
Question One of our students discovered the Health Services Access Survey reference on the StatsCan website. When she showed the questionnaire to her Professor, he was very excited about the prospect of accessing the data. Any prospects? He suggested that she try to use this for her project this term. I would assume that this [...]
Posted in Reference on Jan 20th, 2005
Question Could anyone tell me if there is a DA / CT code concordance? If I have a specific DA code, found in an .ivt file, e.g. 35390360192, I can identify that it is a London DA from the CD and CSD codes, but is there a simple way of finding where in London that [...]
Posted in Income, Pensions, Spending and Wealth, Population and Demography on Jan 12th, 2005
Question A patron is looking for the following information by Census Division for 1950 to the present for the maritime provinces – NB, NS, and PEI – income per capita, unemployment, average wages, births deaths and population. She was referred to the Taxfiler Data files but they are only available for 1995-1999. Any ideas where [...]
Posted in Health on Jan 12th, 2005
Question I am looking for the codebook for the 1978 Canada Health Survey. I cannot find it on the website with the data but the StatsCan library catalogue says it exists. How can I get a copy? Answer You can find a copy at either: http://prod.library.utoronto.ca:8090/datalib/codebooks/cst/health or http://www.library.carleton.ca/ssdata/surveys/full.html