Posted in Aboriginal Peoples, Reference on Mar 30th, 2011
Question I am trying to locate the documentation for the Aboriginal Children’s Survey and the Survey of Northern Children. I found a page on which it said you could link to the questionnaire for ACS http://www.statcan.gc.ca/cgi-bin/af-fdr.cgi?l=eng&loc=http://www.statcan.gc.ca/imdb-bmdi/instrument/5108_Q2_V1_E-eng.pdf but when I tried that I got to a File Not Found page. I didn’t find the questionnaire or [...]
Posted in Health, Income, Pensions, Spending and Wealth on Mar 30th, 2011
Question A researcher here is interested in: “the start date of and number of prescriptions given out for inhaled corticosteroid medications for asthma and allergic rhinitis in North America”. Of particular interest are the specific medications: Fluticisone (Flovent, Flonase-GSK) and Budesonide (Pulmicort- Asta Zeneca) which came into use around 1990. There are commercial publications out [...]
Posted in Aboriginal Peoples, Crime and Justice on Mar 29th, 2011
Question Does anyone know where to find the number of aboriginal police officers in Canada? Answer I checked the Police Administration Survey and it does not provide this information. Our Census consultant confirmed that this figure could be provided as a custom tabulation. However, the detailed data tables in the following article provide you with [...]
Posted in Income, Pensions, Spending and Wealth on Mar 29th, 2011
Question I am not sure where to even start with this question from a researcher? “I’m trying to find recent data on Employment Equity in the Canadian Federal Public Service, specifically Health Canada. I heard you could be of some help in this regard – please advise.” Answer If you don’t have these already … [...]
Posted in Income, Pensions, Spending and Wealth, Population and Demography on Mar 29th, 2011
Question I have a PhD student looking for number of hours worked for 2 CSDs for 1986 and 1991 censuses. Based on the example for later censuses here: http://www.communityaccounts.ca/communityaccounts/onlinedata/display_table.asp?_=0bfAjIydpaWrnbSTh5-FvKRsxKFjXHe6uJS8u5mBi8nAXWiP#footanch0, I’m guessing it will be one of two variables: Last week, how many hours did you work? and/or During most of the reference period, did you [...]
Posted in Updates on Mar 23rd, 2011
Hello, We are pleased to inform you that the following product has been added to the DLI collection. It can be downloaded from the DLI FTP and website. Households and the Environment Survey: Public Use Microdata File (PUMF) – 2009 “The file provides data for Canada, the provinces and census metropolitan areas and includes information [...]
Posted in Updates on Mar 23rd, 2011
Hello, We are pleased to inform you that the following files are now available on the Statistics Canada Nesstar Webview Site (http://www62.statcan.ca). Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey (CTUMS) 2010: Cycle 1 – Household and Person files Anyone can view the metadata for these files on the Statistics Canada Nesstar site. Only DLI contacts however will [...]
Posted in Updates on Mar 23rd, 2011
We are pleased to inform you that the following product is now available to the DLI FTP and website. Aboriginal Children’s Survey 2006 – Synthetic Files Note: These synthetic files do not contain real data and should never be used for analytical purposes. Their only purpose is to assist users in developing and testing programs [...]
Posted in Education, Training and Learning on Mar 23rd, 2011
Question Hi all, This is a similar question to previously asked, but I thought I’d give it a shot to see if there might be a special publication or another source I might be missing. I have a researcher looking for data on student mobility between the Canadian provinces in the past 10 years. She’s [...]
Posted in Reference on Mar 22nd, 2011
Question Greetings: I have another hard-working Ag grad student working with IO tables. She is working with the 2006 Medium and Link Levels, and would like the “labour coefficient(s?)” and the “capital coefficient(s?). She is also asking if “land usage” enters into or is an element in the Tables. Answer Our contacts in the division [...]