Posted in Reference on Apr 30th, 2007
Question Is it possible to get a list of CANSIM series by geographical area? I am most interested in identifying those that are at the CMA/CA level. It was suggested that I search by keyword for the area e.g. Toronto but I was hoping for something a little easier than this. Answer If there is [...]
Posted in Reference on Apr 30th, 2007
Question One of our biologists is looking at birds and needs to map population density at the EA level from 1981 to 2001. He (and I) can only find CSD-level data for 1981. Do these data exist? I’ve checked the DLI ftp site and can’t find anything below CSD for 1981. Answer It turns out [...]
Posted in Ethnic Diversity and Immigration, Updates on Apr 27th, 2007
Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada – Wave 3 This survey was designed to provide information on how new immigrants adjust to life in Canada and to understand the factors that can help or hinder this adjustment. The data will be used to evaluate the current services available and help improve them. Format available: CD-ROM [...]
Posted in Children and Youth on Apr 25th, 2007
Question A student is asking why, in the primary PUMF files for the NLSCY, the numbers of variables are so different: cycle 1 – 1415 variables cycle 2 – 913 variables cycle 3 – 331 variables I’m guessing it’s because of the increasing need to drop variables to protect confidentiality as the survey continued, but [...]
Posted in Labour on Apr 20th, 2007
Question I am looking for the personal savings rate for people with specific income levels. If you know where I can find this, please let me know. Answer STC does not measure savings rate by income levels. We have it by province or for Canada as a whole.
Posted in Science and Technology on Apr 19th, 2007
Question Will there be a DLI release for the 2005 Survey of Innovation as in 2003? Answer As a result of the html requirements we have adjusted our diffusion strategy. We do not have the capacity to make the tables available in both Excel and html and so we decided to make use of CANSIM. [...]
Posted in Business Performance and Ownership, Labour, Society and Community, Updates on Apr 18th, 2007
Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating – 2004 The public use microdata file from the 2004 Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating (CSGVP) is now available. This file contains information collected from more than 20,000 respondents aged 15 and over residing in private households in the 10 provinces. The public use microdata file [...]
Posted in Reference on Apr 18th, 2007
Question In the PCCF+ 4h program – I know the longtitude and latitude format is xx.xxxxxx and -xxx.xxxxxx, respectively, but what Datum was used for the LONG and LAT? Options would be NAD83 or NAD27? Answer From the reference guide for the PCCF & PCCF+ (Statistics Canada Catalogue 4 no. 92F0153GIE): 2001 Census geography features [...]
Posted in Business Performance and Ownership on Apr 17th, 2007
Question A prof is looking for information on the amount of money spent by Canadian businesses to support sporting events in Canada. He’s just at the starting point for his research so he’s mainly wondering what’s available, but would ideally like some combination of the following variables over the past ten years: type of business [...]
Posted in Income, Pensions, Spending and Wealth on Apr 17th, 2007
Question With regard to the SLIDs 2003 persons file, what does code 10 mean for the variable ‘reawpt1′ (reason for part-time work)? According to the variable description, no such value should exist, but there are in fact quite a few observations with that value. Answer The code is defined in the data dictionary : http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/75F0026XIE/75F0026XIE2005001.htm [...]