Posted in Health on Dec 19th, 2006
Question A UBC hospital researcher is planning to use PALS, but her interest is in the children surveyed, not the adult population. This presents a problem because the PUMF in the DLI collection does not include children 5-14. To quote the User’s Guide: For purposes of the PUMF, analysts based themselves on the 28,908 persons [...]
Posted in Reference on Dec 19th, 2006
Question Does the Parliamentary website have an index to the Senate debates? If so, where is it tucked away? Answer Here is the link to it from the DSP: http://dsp-psd.communication.gc.ca/Collection-R/Senate/index-e.html
Posted in Labour on Dec 19th, 2006
Question We have a student looking for how many years of unpaid work that people have when they retire and what the reason for this unpaid work is. Answer Two possibilities: 1) We measure the amount of unpaid work through the Census. 2) The GSS Time Use cycle has some goodies in terms of unpaid [...]
Posted in Population and Demography on Dec 14th, 2006
Question A couple of students here have worked with U.S. General Social Survey data to look at attitudes toward homosexuality. There are a few variables in that survey that get at respondents’ attitudes: HOMOCHNG HOMOSEXUALITY: INHERENT OR CHOICE? HOMOSEX HOMOSEXUAL SEX RELATIONS HOMOSEX1 IS HOMOSEXUAL SEX WRONG? They are hoping to continue this work using [...]
Public Service Employee Opinion Survey – 2005 Data is available on the opinions of employees in their work environment, job satisfaction, career movement, equipment needs and special needs. Tabulations are available at the department level or at the Public Service level. FTP: /dli/pses/2005 WEB: http://www.statcan.ca/english/Dli/Data/Ftp/pses/pses2005.htm **** Changes in Employment Survey – Cohorts 1 to 10 [...]
Posted in Health on Dec 11th, 2006
Question There’s a curious difference between two income variables in CCHS 2.1; according to the codebook, for the total household income variable INCCGHH=1 represents ‘NO INCOME AND LESS THAN $15,000′, whereas for the personal income variable INCCGPER=1 represents ‘NO INCOME’ and INCCGPER=2 represents ‘LESS THAN $15,000′ A student currently using the PUMF was wondering why [...]
Posted in Income, Pensions, Spending and Wealth on Dec 8th, 2006
Question Can someone help me to find data on fish and/or seafood consumption (in Canada) by ethnic groups? Answer The Family food expenditure surveys 1992 and 1996 – summary files don’t have much, but they do have: – country of birth (more like continent of birth) and mother tongue (English, French, and other) – weekly [...]
Posted in Society and Community on Dec 4th, 2006
Question The weight variable for variable EPI677 is not stated – Would it be WGHT_PER? Answer Yes Question The Coverage is not stated for variables TCS_Q180 to TCS_Q200, VCG_Q300 – In all cases would it be all respondents? Answer Yes Question Is a weight variable supposed to be associated with variable INCMMEMC? None is defined. [...]