Posted in Reference on Mar 28th, 2006
Question A student is requesting the following data file: “ArcGIS compatible data (preferably polygons) of municipal boundaries / urban landcover for Southern Vancouver Island”. Where can relevant data be found? Answer Check out the FTP site under the folder “geography,” select 2001 and then spatial. There one can find all the mapinfo and arcinfo files [...]
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Posted in Travel and Tourism on Mar 24th, 2006
Question Will the Travel Activity and Motivation Survey be made available through the DLI? Answer We verified with the author division and the Travel Activity and Motivation Survey was never released as a public use microdata file – unfortunately.
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Posted in Transportation on Mar 22nd, 2006
Question Our specialist in urban transportation has always used the ASCII Block-face Data Files in preparing his files for his research projects. He is now asking about Census 2001. So the questions are as follows: 1. Was such a file produced for 2001? 2. What is the substitute? Answer The DLI does not have access [...]
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Posted in Aboriginal Peoples, Labour on Mar 21st, 2006
Question A student is looking for annual data (1995 to 2005) on unemployment and employment rates for off-reserve and on-reserve Aboriginal Peoples in the Wood Buffalo-Cold Lake Economic Region. She also needs on-reserve unemployment and employment rate data for the Cold Lake First Nations – Cold Lake 149, 149A, 149B Reserve, annual rates from 1995-2005. [...]
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Posted in Labour, Reference on Mar 21st, 2006
Question I note that there are two SPSS syntax files for this year’s rebased Labour Force Survey data: one for the period Jan-Oct, and another for Nov-Dec. Since my aim is to create a single annual file, what would be the best way to do this? Is it, in fact, possible? Answer The reason that [...]
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Posted in Reference on Mar 21st, 2006
Question I have exported some date from GeoSuite at the Block level for all the blocks within DA 59290066. There is a field in there for UARA, which I assume is Urban Area/Rural Area. The data for this field mystifies me. I seem to get one of two values for these 48 blocks: 9959 or [...]
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Posted in Reference on Mar 20th, 2006
Question I have a master’s student looking for the following information, does anyone know where I might find this? “I am looking for either frost free days or growing degree days data for each census division in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Is this data readily available? If this is not readily available, is it easy [...]
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Posted in Reference on Mar 16th, 2006
Question Students in an urban geography course are interested in studying Montreal’s small “Chinatown” district. It occupies portions of CT’s 55-56-57. When we look at the CT level data for population, all of these census tracts have available data. We have looked under a number of other BST’s however (immigration, mother tongue, housing) and CT56 [...]
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Posted in Updates on Mar 16th, 2006
Question The August version of the PUMF of Individuals is still available on the DLI FTP site. Is there a revised release date for the version that will fix the problem with INCSTP? Answer The release dates for the Census PUMF have been postponed, there are no new dates planned for the release of this [...]
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Posted in Reference on Mar 16th, 2006
Question A student needs FED profile data from the 1986 census for the FED boundaries set in 1987. This is for FEDs in the Census Division of Toronto. The print volumes from the 1986 census are for the 1976 R.O. and the CD-ROM does not have FED data on it (and it would probably be [...]
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