Posted in Families, Households and Housing, Population and Demography on Oct 13th, 2005
Question Where can I find an annual estimate of the number of households in Canada? (1990 – present) Answers 1. How close would CANSIM table 051-0003 come to satisfying your patrons needs? It provides estimates of the number of census families annually from 1986 to 2004. Census families are different from households. The STC definition [...]
Posted in Updates on Oct 13th, 2005
DLI “collection on the web” page is located at http://www.statcan.ca/cgi-bin/spider/dli_list.cgi.
Posted in Education, Training and Learning, Ethnic Diversity and Immigration on Oct 13th, 2005
Question I am looking for the information re: international students, by province and – university, number of, how many graduated, how many dropped out. Does such information exist? I was also wondering if we have some local (Atlantic) statistics. Answers 1. This might be helpful: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/monitor/issue07/04-students.html 2. I have had similar requests in the past [...]
Posted in Income, Pensions, Spending and Wealth, Reference on Oct 12th, 2005
Question I was wondering if anybody has put together the compete SPSS syntax files to the 2001 and 2002 SLID surveys, and would be willing to share? The DLI site presently offers the parts, but not the complete file. If not, perhaps I could get some advice on the parts of the syntax available for [...]
Posted in Income, Pensions, Spending and Wealth, Updates on Oct 6th, 2005
Currently: The new SLID-RET (Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics – Data Retrieval System) files were just loaded on the FTP at the following location ://ftp/dli/slid/SLIDRET-Ver-2_3. The website will be updated shortly.
Posted in Transportation, Updates on Oct 6th, 2005
The 2006 Census Dissemination Project is pleased to announce the official release of the 2005 Road Network File (92-500-XWE). The 2005 Road Network File (RNF) is the first official release from the 2006 Census Geography suite of products and services. The RNF is a digital representation of Canada’s national road network, containing information such as [...]
Posted in Updates on Oct 6th, 2005
Please note the updated products listed below and the path to access it via FTP. The web site will be updated shortly. Small Area and Administrative Data Canadian Capital Gains 1998 – 2003 Charitable Donors 1995 – 2003 Canadian Investment Income 1995 – 2003 Canadian Investors 1995 – 2003 Canadian Savers 1995 – 2003 Canadian [...]
Posted in Reference on Oct 6th, 2005
Question I am interesting in getting my hands on a dataset which summarizes advance and regular voting by candidate and riding in the 2000 and/or 2004 elections. I realize these data are available for the above elections aggregated at the provincial level, and disaggregated at the riding level by poll. However, I am interested in [...]
Posted in Updates on Oct 6th, 2005
Question Any chance of an update to the SAAD files, especially 13c0016: Families? The latest data available under DLI seem to be to 2000. Answer I am pleased to announce that our FTP site was just updated with 2003 SAAD tables. There remains some gaps in the collection, but the author division is working at [...]
Posted in Prices and Price Indexes, Retail and Wholesale on Oct 6th, 2005
Question There is a class of students doing business plans here, and one of them is looking at making energy drinks using 100% fruit juice as one of the ingredients. What he would like to find is the price that he would have to pay for fruit juice. This would be the wholesale price, not [...]