Posted in Reference on Sep 27th, 2007
Question What are the access rights to the DLI data for retired, sessional faculty? Answer That depends on a few variables. Is your faculty member currently retired AND a sessional? If so, the answer is yes. If the retired faculty member has emeritus status, the answer is also yes. But if he’s a retired-sessional and [...]
Posted in Agriculture on Sep 25th, 2007
Question I have a user looking for soybean and canola crushings. The data is available for 1971 to 1992 but after that date there are no data points. Confidentiality is stated as the reason. Could you explain why? The cansim series are V383415 and V1459122. Answer The data has been suppressed to meet the confidentiality [...]
Posted in Ethnic Diversity and Immigration, Population and Demography on Sep 25th, 2007
Question A student is doing a research on the topic of emigration or return migration of foreign-born professionals in Canada, 1990 to 2003 for her graduate research methods course. Is there an appropriate data set to address this topic? Answer This data doesn’t appear to be available in a DLI product. Our Demography Division has [...]
Posted in Population and Demography on Sep 24th, 2007
Question I can’t find Gimli (Town) in the 2006 Profiles, although Gimli (Rural Municipality) is there. Is the profile hiding somewhere? Answer Gimli (Town) was amalgamated with and is now part of Gimli (Rural Municipality). (Source: Manitoba Community Profiles http://www.communityprofiles.mb.ca/cgi-bin/csd/index.cgi?id=4618031) As the town has been amalgamated into the rural municipality, there is no 2006 Community [...]
Posted in Society and Community on Sep 24th, 2007
Question I have been looking at the 2006 Community Profiles and I am sort of upset and disappointed by them. I suppose I should have realized that the wave of amalgamation/ “dissolving” of communities would have significant impact on the easy of use of Census data but it is only recently I have realized the [...]