The Daily, Monday, December 5, 2005. Canadian Community Health Survey, Nutrition: Public Use Microdata File

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Canadian Community Health Survey, Nutrition: Public Use Microdata File

The public use microdata file from the 2004 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS), Nutrition: General Health Component is now available. This survey collected information from over 35,000 respondents of all ages residing in private households in all 10 provinces.

The public use microdata file provides provincial-level data on the general health of respondents, including chronic conditions, as well as health-related behaviours such as the consumption of fruits and vegetables, physical and sedentary activities, smoking and alcohol consumption. This component also provides the socio-demographic characteristics of respondents, along with their physical height and weight measurements, thus offering the only current pan-Canadian physical measurements of obesity.

The file comes on CD-ROM with complete documentation, including a user guide, data dictionary, and derived variables specifications. A built-in "Beyond 20/20" data browser is also included.

Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 5049.

To order a copy of the public use microdata file or custom tabulations from the 2004 CCHS, contact Client Services (613-951-1746; fax: 613-951-0792; hd-ds@statcan.gc.ca), Health Statistics Division. This product is available free of charge to non-profit organizations in the health sector for research and non-commercial purposes.

The initial results from the 2004 CCHS, Nutrition, General Health Component were released in The Daily on July 6, 2005. This release also featured two articles "Adult obesity in Canada" and "Measured height and weight and overweight Canadian children and youth," available for free online (82-620-MWE2005001). These articles were released in the Internet publication Nutrition: Findings from the Canadian Community Health Survey (82-620-MWE, free).

Further results including the detailed nutrition data that were collected by the survey will be released early in 2006. This second release will be followed, later in 2006, by the release of a second public use microdata file, which will incorporate both the general health component data and the detailed nutrition data.

For more information, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Mario Bédard (613-951-8933; fax: 613-613-4198; mario.bedard@statcan.gc.ca), Health Statistics Division.