Posted in Income, Pensions, Spending and Wealth on Sep 26th, 2005
Question I have a user who is looking to compare cost of living in France, New Zealand, Australia, Italy, Scotland, Japan, and Canada. She wants comparable figures for basic categories like food, housing, clothing, etc. The only things I could come up with were tables showing household final consumption figures (i.e., not per capita or [...]
Posted in Reference on Sep 19th, 2005
Question We have researchers working on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick. They would like to utilize 1971 Census data. In print, this is easy, as Grand Manan is a Census Subdivision on CD5 (Charlotte). However, as I interpret the BST files, they do not refer to CD’s or CSD’s. Is there a way to find [...]
Posted in Labour on Sep 14th, 2005
Question A graduate student is looking for census data about occupations in 1901, and I can’t find that information in our 4 volumes of the 1901 census. We’d really prefer aggregate data if it exists. I know the microdata is available through the Canadian Families project – and I see that there are fields for [...]
Posted in Health on Sep 13th, 2005
Question I am looking for total mortality rate for 2001, by cause of death, ideally by age group (mainly 15-24 years old + general population). Is Health Status in 2005 Health Indicator good for me (Mortality by selected causes => Total mortality) ? In Canadian Statistics the information is older – tables from 1996, 1997 [...]
Question A researcher at UBC is looking for health region boundary files dating back to 1994. I searched very thoroughly I think, and could find the 2000 CD-ROM and the 2003 Health regions boundaries and correspondence with census geography, available for free on the Statistics Canada website. Are there any more – did I miss [...]
Posted in Population and Demography on Sep 9th, 2005
Question Does anyone have any good places to look for homelessness data for Canada at any level and for Montreal in particular? As far as I can tell, the census does not really pick up citizens with no fixed address unless they have been living in a shelter for more than 6 months; and there [...]
Posted in Ethnic Diversity and Immigration on Sep 9th, 2005
Question My patron would like to have as much information as possible about the asian immigrants in New Brunswick for the last 10 years (who, when, why, where etc.) The tables that I could find contain only general numbers of immigrants, where should I go? Answer I found a great product that I think will [...]