Posted in Reference, Transportation on Oct 21st, 2010
Question A Student Association is trying to determine how many students do not have convenient access to transit, which it defines as being more than a 15-minute walk from a transit station or bus stop. It is in negotiations with the local transit company about a proposed student transit pass. I have a couple of [...]
Posted in Reference on Sep 17th, 2010
Question I have a researcher who has used provincial input-output multipliers as part of the analysis in a paper. The researcher wants to know if it’s possible to have the multipliers in the paper as part of the equation to show that how the value is derived in the analysis. My understanding of the DLI [...]
Posted in Reference on Feb 26th, 2010
Question An instructor would like to use the GSS Cycle 19 pumf from the DLI for a research paper he is writing. A member of the public is paying him a stipend to write the research paper. The research within the paper may be used to find the correct location for a radio station in [...]
Posted in Reference on Nov 13th, 2009
Question We are assisting a local non-profit heritage conservancy group with a GIS project. This group works closely with a number of researchers at Trent University and hopes to eventually publish a map which would provide data about our local region. At the moment, they are particularly interested in information about Number of Farms and [...]
Posted in Reference on Nov 6th, 2009
Question One our students is studying abroad: “I am a Killam Fellow at American University in DC for the fall semester, so I cannot get to the library… I am back after Christmas.” Two questions: 1. There is any problem with giving him access to DLI content. He wants three cycles of the GSS: 2000, [...]
Posted in Statistical Methods, Updates on Oct 2nd, 2009
Question I have been trying to access the Canadian Alcohol and Drug Use Monitoring Survey 2008 on the DLI mirror site at UAlberta and cannot seem to connect; I am using Filezilla. Any suggestions on what to do next? Answer Filezilla and Winscp can both be used to download from stcftp and the DLI mirror [...]
Posted in Business Performance and Ownership on Mar 27th, 2009
Question As you probably recall, this CD title is received through both DSP and DLI. Specifically, only the 4th (quarterly) issue is available from the DSP and can be used by the general public as well. Does this pose problems in turns of location (do you keep the first 3 CDs in one area and [...]
Posted in Business Performance and Ownership, Reference on Jan 30th, 2009
Question I have received a request to access the Financial Performance Indicators for Canadian Business from an external user from the business sector. Normally, for a DLI product, I would simply turn down the request as this person is not associated with Concordia. But in this case the product is both a DLI and DSP [...]
Posted in Agriculture on Nov 21st, 2008
Question 1) Does the DLI community have access to the Agriculture-Population Linkage Database as described at: http://www.statcan.ca/english/agcensus2001/faq/faq7.htm How about through the RDC’s? 2) My student really needs access to the raw data, the published tables are not adequate for her research on “farm women” – different from female farm operators. Answer 1) Data from the [...]
Posted in Reference on Sep 27th, 2007
Question What are the access rights to the DLI data for retired, sessional faculty? Answer That depends on a few variables. Is your faculty member currently retired AND a sessional? If so, the answer is yes. If the retired faculty member has emeritus status, the answer is also yes. But if he’s a retired-sessional and [...]