Posted in Children and Youth, Health on Mar 16th, 2011
Question I received the following request for statistics/data today while I was away at a Conference. I am not sure how to find all the requested bits and pieces. The Canadian Community Health Survey, cycle 1.2, 2002 (Mental Health) has some data, but does not offer all the data requested. I am doing research on [...]
Posted in Children and Youth, Updates on Mar 15th, 2011
We are pleased to inform you that the following product is now available on the DLI FTP and website. National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY), 2008-2009 : Synthetic Files Note: These synthethic files do not contain real data and should never be used for analytical purposes. Their only purpose is to assist users [...]
Posted in Children and Youth, Science and Technology on Jan 14th, 2011
Question Does anyone know, offhand, if stats are collected on internet usage by children under 15? I can find all sorts of surveys, but the lowest age I can find is 15. Answer The National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) collected data on computer and internet use by children under 15. You can [...]
Posted in Children and Youth, Families, Households and Housing on Oct 14th, 2010
Question A researcher would like to know the percentage of mothers in Canada who bed-share with their infants (co-sleep). Answer The following (non-StatCan) literature review on the Public Health Agency of Canada website may be of interest to the researcher. It includes references to a few studies on this topic: The Practice of Bed Sharing: [...]
Posted in Children and Youth, Health on Sep 16th, 2010
Question I received the following request for statistics/data today while I was away at a Conference. I am not sure how to find all the requested bits and pieces. The Canadian Community Health Survey, cycle 1.2, 2002 (Mental Health) has some data, but does not offer all the data requested. “I am doing research on [...]
Posted in Families, Households and Housing on Apr 8th, 2010
Question A researcher at MRU mentioned that they were looking for a Canadian longitudinal food insecurity or food poverty survey… Does anyone know if such as survey exists, please? Or can the researcher use one of our already existing DLI surveys? Answer Variables related to food insecurity are available in the National Longitudinal Survey of [...]
Posted in Children and Youth on Feb 20th, 2009
Question We have a question about the NLSCY codebooks. This was discovered by Kevin Selbee, our other Data Specialist. Identifying Suppressed Variables in NLSCY Codebooks. Codebooks for Cycle 2 and Cycle 3 of the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) do not contain necessary information about the variables in the master files that [...]
Posted in Children and Youth on Feb 9th, 2009
Question I was just getting the NLSCY files for a graduate student here, and loading them into SPSS. As taught in the training sessions, I run a frequency with each file to see that it loaded correctly. In the course of doing this I encountered a couple of discrepancies. Cycle 2, 10-13 file: I run [...]
Posted in Children and Youth on Jan 30th, 2009
Question Our time was working on the KIDS Cycle 1, Primary file and discovered a problem. The Data List syntax for the primary file, cycle 1 contains an error for variable AD1CS06. The syntax locates this variable in column 1603. However, the variable is a two column variable and the correct location in the raw [...]
Posted in Children and Youth on Nov 24th, 2008
Question Is my understanding of the PUMFs available for the NLSCY correct? 1. PUMF’s available for cycles 1-3 only 2. data for cycles 4-6 only available through RDCs. Answer You are correct in saying that the DLI offers NLSCY PUMFs for Cycles 1-3 only. We also offer synthetic files for Cycles 1 to 6. I [...]