Posted in Education, Training and Learning, Income, Pensions, Spending and Wealth on Apr 5th, 2011
Question We have another NGS question… Any help would be greatly appreciated – here is my student’s request: “I am looking into brain drain, and am interested to see the differences in wage earnings of individuals who moved to the US with how much they would have earned if they stayed back in Canada. My [...]
Posted in Education, Training and Learning, Reference on Apr 1st, 2011
Question Good afternoon everyone! Can someone please confirm that the name of the Institution for the respondents in NGS exists in the Master Files? I have a Graduate student looking to apply for RDC access but needs to know whether she will be able to identify the educational institutions in the file? Also would it [...]
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 Jan 14th, 2011
Question DLI has the NGS follow-up survey; class of 2000, but not the NGS 2000? Why is this? Thanks. We’ve had a request for it. Answer The DLI collection includes a public use microdata file (PUMF) for the Follow-up of Graduates Survey – Class of 2000 but we don’t have one for the National Graduate [...]
Posted in Culture and Leisure, Education, Training and Learning on Nov 13th, 2009
Question Can the DLI resources answer the following question: “the number of music majors who get jobs when they graduate?” Answer This may be available as a custom extraction (for a fee) from the National graduates Survey (NGS). The variables in the NGS survey PUMFs unfortunately wouldn’t allow you to answer the question as the [...]
Posted in Education, Training and Learning on Jan 30th, 2009
Question Looking back through the DLI-list emails – there was talk about a PUMF for the NGS2005 in June 2007 – then request for info regarding a joint 2000-2005 PUMF in January 2008. Wondering whether we could get an update on this file? I have a faculty member looking to use the 2005 data if [...]
Posted in Education, Training and Learning, Reference on Nov 5th, 2008
Question Could we get an update on when/if a pumf is likely, please? Researchers are starting to see publications based on the RDC data, and want to be able to verify/expand these analyses, but can’t, which is frustrating for both the researchers as well as us. If they can’t verify the results, they often won’t [...]
Posted in Education, Training and Learning on Mar 20th, 2007
Question I have a researcher interested in educational recycling which is obtaining and additional post secondary credentials at lower to equivalent levels. He is particularly interested in those who have either (a) diplomas or (b) degrees in engineering fields? Answer The first thing that came to mind was the National Graduate Survey. Granted the data [...]
Posted in Education, Training and Learning, Labour on Feb 2nd, 2007
Question I had thought that this would be an easy find–my mistake. If it should have been an easy find, my apologies. I think that the information is likely in ESIS (Enhanced Student Information System), but this doesn’t appear to be part of the DLI collection. Is there any way to get the following information [...]
Posted in Education, Training and Learning on Sep 12th, 2006
Question Any word on when the NGS 2000 will be released? Answer Production of the 2000 FOG (Class of 1995) PUMF and the 2002 NGS (Class of 2000) PUMF are currently on hold. Due to the workload of the NGS/FOG project team coupled with a lack of dedicated resources for the PUMFS there is no [...]