Posted in Construction, Population and Demography on Oct 2nd, 2009
Question Is it possible to purchase block-face data? There is an area of Montreal which is currently “gentrifying” – but it is part of an former industrial area and the DA is almost the entire CT – so the students from Urban Planning are hoping to get shape-files and block face data since 1996. Possible? [...]
Posted in Education, Training and Learning on Oct 2nd, 2009
Question Some student assignments in our Business School involve developing marketing (or other) plans for actual companies and organizations, in order to give students real-world experience. These reports are often shared with the organization at the end of the project. Instructors have asked whether students can use DLI resources in their assignments, if the results [...]
Posted in Education, Training and Learning on Mar 13th, 2009
Question I am wondering if there is an easy answer to this question of “average age of schooling for Canadians”. Although not conveyed in the email from the Grad student, the key to this request (communicated during a phone chat) is the desire to have annual data on this topic, back to the 1970’s. Also, [...]
Posted in Education, Training and Learning on Feb 13th, 2009
Question A Social Work MA student researching high school drop out rates saw this article in the Globe and Mail, and we are trying to determine what “new data” might have prompted it: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090209.NATS09-1/TPStory/National When I search “high school dropout” on the Statscan website, I do not find anything more recent than 2006. The article [...]
Posted in Education, Training and Learning on Jan 9th, 2009
Question I have a researcher wondering about the following: Table 2.2 in the 2003/2004 files – do these numbers exclude foreign students? or are they included? In some of the following tables foreign is listed separately. Answer My contact in the Education Division confirmed that foreign students are included in the numbers for Table 2.2 [...]
Posted in Education, Training and Learning on Jan 9th, 2009
Question I am trying to determine if we have access through the DLI to university enrollments (by institution) and faculty numbers (by institution). We do have access to the Financial Information of Universities and Colleges (FIUC) by institution. The Enhanced Student Information System (ESIS) should be the source for the enrolment data by institution but [...]
Posted in Education, Training and Learning, Ethnic Diversity and Immigration on Nov 12th, 2008
Question I received the following request: “I am interested in gaining access to Stats Can info through the Data Liberation Initiative, especially as concerns statistics for international education. Can you please tell me how I may search/access this data? For example, we are currently in need of the most up-to-date stats on country of origin [...]
Posted in Education, Training and Learning on Oct 17th, 2008
Question I have a request for statistics on ‘first generation students’ (i.e. students who are the first in their family to pursue post-secondary education) in London, either current or future. I haven’t found anything that specific, so I have been trying to find data that links education with family size. The only statistics I’ve come [...]
Posted in Education, Training and Learning on Feb 12th, 2008
Question I have a few students who are working on an academic project where they want to get data on students (in most cases, postsecondary, but also secondary). They have found NELS from ICPSR and this seems to answer a lot of the questions they’re looking at (they’re investigating things like dropout rates, impact of [...]
Posted in Education, Training and Learning on Jul 31st, 2006
Question I have been asked for the number of new 1st year students in Canadian universities by gender. Does anyone know where to get this information? Cansim provides overall enrollment, but not by year. Answer I just confirmed with the author division and this information is not available from Statistics Canada. Apparently we once did [...]