Posted in Reference on Dec 22nd, 2008
Question A grad student here, at the University of Manitoba, has inquired about the General Social Survey Cycle 21. The DLI Product Release Dates page indicates that this was expected to be released in November 2008, but I don’t see this listed on the DLI Browse the Collection on the Web page. Could you please [...]
Posted in Labour on Dec 22nd, 2008
Question I have learned that the PUMFs for the Labour Force Survey do not include “immigrant status”, even though the question is now asked on the Survey. Is there anything that could be done to have this variable added? Answer The immigrant status has never been included on the LFS PUMFs even if the question [...]
Posted in Aboriginal Peoples, Education, Training and Learning on Dec 22nd, 2008
Question I was just looking at Table 97-560-X2006028 (Aboriginal Identity (8), Highest Certificate, Diploma or Degree (14), Major Field of Study – Classification of Instructional Programs, 2000 (14), Area of Residence (6), Age Groups (10A) and Sex (3) for the Population 15 Years and Over) with a researcher and would like to make sure we [...]
Posted in Agriculture on Dec 17th, 2008
Question On Tuesday December 4th, The Daily includes an article about the Agriculture-population linkage data for the 2006 Census. Some of this data is available on the Census website, for larger levels of geography. A researcher at the University of Manitoba is interested in finding out if this data for small levels of geography (Consolidated [...]
Posted in Business Performance and Ownership on Dec 16th, 2008
Question I have a faculty member here at University of Guelph who has traditionally worked with subprovincial tax data for Ontario. He’s noticed that the CRA website is no longer providing the data at the subprovincial level nor are they keeping (on the web) data beyond a 5 year period. As you can imagine this [...]
Posted in Society and Community on Dec 15th, 2008
Question I have a student looking for data of the Sexual Orientation of Respondent from GSS18. She is specifically looking for the data of question ?SOR_Q110 in Section 14 of the questionnaire. I checked the codebook and there are three questions in the Sexual Orientation of Respondent Module, but somehow I can’t find the any [...]
Posted in Education, Training and Learning, Information and Communications Technology on Dec 15th, 2008
Question I have a grad student who’s looking for data about the increased use of information and communications technology in post-secondary education, among students and instructors. I’ve found a some numbers from the U.S., but nothing specific to Canada. CIUS focuses on home users, and surveys like HERDS deal more with R&D spending. Answer I [...]
Posted in Reference on Dec 10th, 2008
Question I am part of a team looking at the National Survey of the Work and Health of Nurses (NSWHN) survey. At our initial meeting at the RDC in Toronto, we were told that the codebook (containing the data dictionary with frequencies for all variables) could not be made available to us outside the RDC. [...]
Posted in Education, Training and Learning on Dec 9th, 2008
Question A student here is looking for data that will allow her to find educational outcomes for all members of a family, even those who are no longer living within the same household. She wants to test the theory that the highest level of education achieved by each child depends in part on the number [...]
Posted in Education, Training and Learning on Dec 8th, 2008
Question I don’t think I have overlooked anything obvious but you never know! I have a faculty member who wants the number of degrees granted by field of study by province by gender for as recently as possible if not he can use Enrollment number by field of study by province by gender for as [...]