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 Education, Training and Learning, Income, Pensions, Spending and Wealth on Mar 15th, 2011
Question I have the following research question: “I am looking for information (from 2006) about employment of elementary teachers in Ontario. More specifically, I’m looking to find out information about the distribution of gender across elementary school teachers at that time.” Any suggestions would be appreciated. Answer The following products may be of interest to [...]
Posted in Population and Demography on Mar 4th, 2011
Question Does anyone know if there is an equivalent product for 2006 down to CMA? 2001 Census: analysis series Collective dwellings http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/Products/Analytic/companion/coll/pdf/96F0030XIE2001004.pdf I am only finding down to province for 2006: http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/famil62a-eng.htm Specifically, our researcher needs shelter population for 2006 down to cma level. Answer The only 2006 topic based tabulation with information on population [...]
Posted in Population and Demography, Reference on Jan 26th, 2011
Question Can someone please help clarify access to dissemination block level data for the 2006 Census? I know we have access through GeoSuite (and Geosearch) to population and dwelling counts at the DB level; however, I have a researcher who is looking for characteristic (profile) data at the DB level. I know through DLI we [...]
Posted in Population and Demography, Reference on Jan 21st, 2011
Question The researcher was using the 2006 Census Complete Cumulative Profile at the DA level and the PCCF to map socio-economic indicators by postcode – something he´s done before for the 2001 census. He had no problem for most of the country, but for the Saskatchewan he came across an abnormally large number of DAs [...]
Posted in Population and Demography on Jan 14th, 2011
Question I am new to this service, so any help on the following will be greatly appreciated. I have a student looking for 2006 census data that will cover all of the following: • Sex (M/F) • Individual ages (15, 16, 17, – 64) • Employment (including self-employment) • Educational level • Individual income Answer [...]
Posted in Population and Demography, Statistical Methods on Nov 18th, 2010
Question In the 2001 Census the following table was released by Census tract: Occupation – 2001 National Occupational Classification for Statistics (60), Age Groups (10) and Sex (3) for Labour Force 15 Years and Over (20% sample data) 95F0384XCB01002. Am I correct that NO tables that include occupation were released for 2006 at the Census [...]
Posted in Aboriginal Peoples, Education, Training and Learning on Oct 21st, 2010
Question I was wondering whether any one has suggestions on possible sources for the following: 1. Number of Aboriginal Graduates by year [2005 - 2010] across universities in Canada. At the minimum, looking for figures for Medical/ Doctoral universities. 2. Number of faculty who identified themselves as Aboriginal by university. Would like to have the [...]
Posted in Ethnic Diversity and Immigration, Families, Households and Housing, Population and Demography on Oct 15th, 2010
Question A researcher is trying to find information on the amount of first-generation Canadians and their composition percentage of Canadian population as first generation immigrants. If possible, she would also like to see if we can find a percentage for Alberta and Edmonton (i.e. percentage of people in Alberta who are 1st generation Canadian and [...]
Posted in Education, Training and Learning on Sep 22nd, 2010
Question I have a request from a grad student who wants educational attainment data for Saskatoon. I’ve shown him how to use the community profiles to extract data for the entire city, but he’d like to find data at the CT or neighbourhood level. Is education data available at that geographic level without his resorting [...]