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, Families, Households and Housing, Health on Sep 22nd, 2010
Question A researcher here at York is interested in information on experiences of motherhood among adolescent girls in child welfare and or youth justice. Specifically, she is interested in recent survey data dealing with risks and health outcomes of early motherhood for this vulnerable population. We spent some time searching this morning, looking for these [...]
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 Health on Oct 5th, 2009
I received the following question off-list and am sharing it as it may be of interest to others. Question: “I have an upper undergrad looking for statistics on kidney diseases and/or hemodialysis on the provincial level. Have searched CANSIM and found Table 102-0563 Leading Causes of Death (prov), Table 102-0534 Diseases of the Genitourinary System [...]
Posted in Health on Nov 19th, 2008
Question Is there any information as to when the NPHS cycle 7 synthetic files may be released to DLI? Answer The NPHS team has indicated that they are hoping to get us the NPHS 7 Cycle 7 synthetic files towards the end of December.
Posted in Environment, Health, Updates on Dec 11th, 2007
National Population Health Survey (NPHS) Cycle 6, 2004-2005 – Synthetic Files The National Population Health Survey was designed to collect information on the health of the Canadian population and related socio-demographic information. It is important to note that these synthethic files do not contain real data and should never be used for analytical purposes. Their [...]
Posted in Health on Oct 12th, 2006
Question A UBC researcher is interested in the fact that the National Population Health Survey and the Canadian Community Health Survey both contain questions in the final administrative section as to whether respondents are willing to allow linking to their recorded use of provincial health services and whether they are willing to permit sharing the [...]
Posted in Health on Jun 2nd, 2006
Questions NPHS 1. The IMDB entry explains that “The NPHS Cycle 3 (1998-1999) cross-sectional sample contains all members of the NPHS longitudinal sample and 2 top-up samples.” So does this mean that the cross-sectional data from each cycle is gathered from the same “longitudinal” respondents each time (plus the top-up, and minus the longitudinal non-respondents, [...]
Posted in Health on Oct 25th, 2005
Question I have a grad student looking for the Nutrition Supplement Survey for thefollowing years: 1994-1995 1996-1997 1998-1999 2000-2001 2002-2003 2004-2005 In the StatCan online catalogue it lists supplements of NPHS as being available to DLI members. http://www.statcan.ca:8096/bsolc/english/bsolc?catno=82M0018S Is this still the case? If so, can we obtain these files for our student? I do [...]