Posted in Transportation on Nov 28th, 2008
Question I am dealing with another research request for motor vehicle information, this time for recent vehicle-kilometres data. There is a table showing estimates by province in the Canadian Vehicle Survey: Annual, 53-223-X. The researcher is looking for estimates of vehicle-kilometres driven in three major metropolitan areas, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. Is there any hope [...]
Posted in Aboriginal Peoples on Nov 28th, 2008
Question Is it possible to obtain the Aboriginal Population Profile for Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions for both the 1996 and 1991 Censuses? We were successful with this same request sometime ago when we were needing the 2001 data and are keeping our fingers crossed about this request. Answer According to [...]
Posted in Health on Nov 28th, 2008
Question My question: Will a user be able to obtain data on patient satisfaction and utilization questions by health region from CCHS 4.1? We are hopeful because the sample size has grown to 65,000 (this was a problem two years ago). See: Sampling This is a sample survey with a cross-sectional design. To provide reliable [...]
Posted in Health on Nov 28th, 2008
Question This question is in regards to the new synthetic files announced for the CCHS: Canadian Community Health Survey 2007 – Synthetic Files The central objective of the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) is to gather health-related data at sub-provincial levels of geography (health region or combined health regions). Note: It is important to note [...]
Posted in Aboriginal Peoples on Nov 28th, 2008
Question A health researcher at UBC has found everything he needs from the 2001 census except for one thing, the age structure of the total aboriginal identity population by forward sortation areas. I too have looked and have not been able to find a table with this level of detail. Is it possible to confirm [...]
Posted in Reference on Nov 26th, 2008
Question We currently encountered problems again in accessing the CANSIM (E-STAT) tables by subject. We got the following message: Error opening the file: F:\WWW\ROOT\CII\CII_SUBJ.TPF Could you please check the source of the problem? Answer The manager of E-STAT informed me that the redirects for some outdated links on the E-STAT site are not working at [...]
Question The DLI website does not seem to be available in the French and in the English version. http://www.statcan.ca/francais/Dli/dli_f.htm http://www.statcan.gc.ca/english/Dli/dli.htm Answer These two URLs will work if you take out “.gc” We will send out a general notice on URL in the near future. *** Official Announcement On November 24, 2008, the Data Liberation Initiative [...]
Posted in Science and Technology on Nov 26th, 2008
Question Will there be a PUMF for the 2005 Survey of Innovation, as there were for 1999 and 2003? In addition, will there be a PUMF for the 2007 Biotechnology Use and Development Survey? I noticed that all related CANSIM tables for these surveys have been terminated (with statistics up to 2005). Are there plans [...]
Posted in Children and Youth on Nov 24th, 2008
Question Is my understanding of the PUMFs available for the NLSCY correct? 1. PUMF’s available for cycles 1-3 only 2. data for cycles 4-6 only available through RDCs. Answer You are correct in saying that the DLI offers NLSCY PUMFs for Cycles 1-3 only. We also offer synthetic files for Cycles 1 to 6. I [...]
Posted in Aboriginal Peoples, Education, Training and Learning on Nov 24th, 2008
Question I’m looking at the figure for educational attainment of the Total Aboriginal identity population, 15 years and over, for the province of Ontario. If I look at the following topic-based tabulation, the figure for ‘University certificate, diploma or degree’ is 16,480: Aboriginal Identity (8), Highest Certificate, Diploma or Degree (14), Major Field of Study [...]