Posted in Income, Pensions, Spending and Wealth on Oct 23rd, 2009
Question A group of students is looking for information on very high income Canadians – annual income of $2 million or more. Is there any resource (not necessarily StatCan based) which would provide access to this? I suggested that housing value might be used as a proxy – but even then, the StatCan data is [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Reference on Oct 23rd, 2009
Question A student is wondering why the cash receipts for blueberries is consistently recorded as 0 in the second quarter of each year in CANSIM table 002-0002. I have no explanation, other than that receipts might be tied to when the berries are produced. Any explanation would be welcomed. Answer We received the following explanation [...]
Posted in Business Performance and Ownership, Education, Training and Learning, Reference on Oct 23rd, 2009
Question A group of students is doing a project for a Business School course here at Western. The project consists of examining a business problem for an existing business, and offering data-based resolutions to the business. In this specific case, they wish to do market research. So, working through the flow chart: -I assume that [...]
Posted in Culture and Leisure, Manufacturing on Oct 9th, 2009
Question I have a student looking for the number of independent Canadian musicians who have released a CD in the last 10 years or so. She is looking for numbers of people who are not with a major record label, but essentially have created the CD on their own and may or may not have [...]
Posted in Health on Oct 5th, 2009
I received the following question off-list and am sharing it as it may be of interest to others. Question: “I have an upper undergrad looking for statistics on kidney diseases and/or hemodialysis on the provincial level. Have searched CANSIM and found Table 102-0563 Leading Causes of Death (prov), Table 102-0534 Diseases of the Genitourinary System [...]
Posted in Families, Households and Housing, Income, Pensions, Spending and Wealth, Reference on Oct 5th, 2009
Question Good morning, We would like to ask whether this product is available as a standard product through DLI (cross tabulating dwelling characteristics and household equipment and size of area of residence) http://www.statcan.gc.ca/bsolc/olc-cel/olc-cel?lang=eng&catno=62F0045X I was able to find the following which have one other of the variables, but not together. Summary tables: http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l01/cst01/famil09a-eng.htm CANSIM tables: [...]
Posted in Children and Youth, Crime and Justice on Oct 5th, 2009
Question I was able to download young offender statistics from the ftp for the years1991 to 2007. I’m looking for any young offender statistics from 1984 to1991 (even if they are not comparable to the 1991 to 2007 young offender statistics). Specifically I’m looking for sentencing patterns, gender/age distribution, comparison of violent crime. Basically anything [...]
Posted in Crime and Justice on Oct 5th, 2009
Question I have, unsuccessfully to this point, been looking for survey data that examines the relationship between citizen’s and the police. Specifically I am looking for data that examines the relationship between the public’s perception of the legitimacy of the police and their perceptions of personal and “vicarious” experiences with police use of coercive force. [...]
Posted in Children and Youth, Crime and Justice on Oct 5th, 2009
Question I have a researcher who is looking for the data file from the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect. Has anyone worked with this file before or know where we can get the dataset?? Answer This study doesn’t appear in our listing of surveys and statistical programs (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/imdb-bmdi/indexA-eng.htm) which leads me to [...]
Posted in Society and Community on Oct 5th, 2009
Question I’ve been asked for the number of charitable organizations in BC. The Canada Revenue Agency has a charities database at http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/chrts/menu-eng.html. If you click on Advanced Search, you can search by Charity Status (i.e., Canadian Registered Charities) and Province. The results list gives you the number of results (and the actual list of the [...]