Posted in Crime and Justice on Mar 25th, 2010
Question I`d like to ask for your ideas please on a request we have received for historic statistical information. Has anyone researched this subject or know of any useful starting points that you could help us with? This is for an undergraduate history paper, so of course it is a rush. The student has requested [...]
Posted in Education, Training and Learning on Mar 25th, 2010
Question Could someone tell me where I get current numbers of international students in Canada and the countries of origin? Thanks. Answer A Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) table showing the number of international students in Canada in colleges and universities has also just been added to the DLI Collection (please see: 10. University enrolments, by [...]
Posted in Children and Youth, Reference on Mar 25th, 2010
Question A researcher here has been looking at the number of individuals living with children. She compared PKIDHH to the count obtained for PKID0_1 through PKID25, and found a discrepancy, finding about 21,000 fewer in the sum than in PKIDHH. Should these figures match? She can’t figure out what the problem is and hopes for [...]
Posted in Environment on Mar 25th, 2010
Question A student working for a faculty member in Engineering was in touch with the Statistics Canada information number (1-800-263-1136). He is looking for data on the number of municipal waste water treatment plants in Canada. He is also interested in obtaining data on the amount of primary and secondary sludge produced by the plants, [...]
Posted in Updates on Mar 25th, 2010
Data for the Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) have been added to the DLI collection. A list of the PSIS tables that are now available follows. “The Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) is a national survey that enables Statistics Canada to provide detailed information on enrolments and graduates of Canadian postsecondary education institutions in order [...]
Posted in Updates on Mar 25th, 2010
The bootstrap file and the bootstrap SAS file for the 2007 Residential Telephone Service Survey (RTSS) that were recently removed from the DLI FTP and website have been re-loaded on to these sites are are once again available for download. Management in the division that produces these bootstrap files has approved their release. We apologize [...]
Posted in Updates on Mar 25th, 2010
March 9, 2010 RELEASE: Education updates to the 2006 Census Dictionary and the Education Reference Guide, 2006 Census As a follow-up to the March 4, 2008 release of education data, the 2006 Census Dissemination Project is pleased to announce that updates have been made to the education content in the 2006 Census Dictionary and the [...]
Posted in Children and Youth, Families, Households and Housing, Population and Demography on Mar 25th, 2010
Question I have a request from a grad student who’s looking for SK birth stats by census division. She’s been able to find CANSIM tables containing that data, but they’re based on a July to June (half of one year and half of the following year) time frame and she’d like to find data that’s based [...]
Posted in Updates on Mar 3rd, 2010
Survey of Older Workers (SOW) 2008 – bootstrap files removed The bootstrap file and the bootstrap SAS file for the 2008 Survey of Older Workers have been removed from the DLI FTP and website. The bootstrap files were not approved by the Microdata Release Committee for release. Please remove these files from your local collections.
Posted in Updates on Mar 3rd, 2010
The 2006 Census Individuals File – Public Use Microdata File is scheduled to be released on March 4, 2010. For additional information, please see the message below. We will send out an announcement to the dlilist as soon as this product is available on the DLI FTP site. In preparation for the March 4, 2010 [...]