Data sets

RDCs (The Research data centres) provide both short descriptions and detailed documentation about the data sets that are available for analysis in the RDC. The program also provides analytical and methodological research tools to assist researchers.

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New Release Information

National Population Health Survey (NPHS) -Household Component - Longitudinal -Cycle 8 (1994/1995 to 2008/2009)

Surveys available in the RDCs

The following data sets are or will be available at the RDCs. For additional sources of data please refer to Statistics Canada Products and Services.

To read a short description about a specific survey used at the RDCs, click on the survey details.

To access detailed documentation on a specific survey used at the RDCs, click on the appropriate cycle or year. 

• Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) 
  • Survey Details 
  • Rounding for APS 2001
• Adult Education and Training Survey (AETS) 
  • Survey Details
• Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS)
  • Survey Details
  • Healthy Aging
  • Cycle 3.1
  • Cycle 2.2 - Nutrition
  • Cycle 2.1
  • Cycle 1.2 - Mental Health and Well-being
  • Cycle 1.1
• Canadian Health Measures Survey(CHMS)
  • Survey Details
• Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey
  • Survey Details
• Census of Population
  • Census Reference Material
  • Documentation on Census data available in the RDCs
• Ethnic Diversity Survey (EDS)
  • Survey Details 
  • User Guide
  • Codebook
    
• Family Expenditures Survey (FES)
  • Survey Details
    
• Food Expenditures Survey
  • Survey Details
    
• General Social Survey (GSS)
  • Access to and Use of Information Communication Technology
  • Education, Work and Retirement
  • Family
  • Health
  • Social Engagement
  • Social Support and Aging
  • Time Use
  • Victimization
    
    Note that the links above relate to the latest cycles of esg-eng.htm.
• Labour Force Survey
  • User Guide
• Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC)
  • 2001 (Wave 1) Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC)
  • 2003 (Wave 2) Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC)
    
• National Survey of the Work and Health nurses (NSWHN) 
  • Survey Details
• National Graduates Survey (NGS)
  • Survey Details 
    
• National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY)
  • Survey Details
  • NLSCY codebook and user's guide
  • NLSCY Cycle 5 Overview
    
•  National Population Health Survey (NPHS)
  • Household Component - Cross-sectional
  • Household Component - Longitudinal
  • North Component
  • Health Institutions Component
• Ontario Material Deprivation Survey (OMDS)
  • Survey Details
• Participation
  • Participation and Activity Limitation Survey (PALS)
• Programme for International Student Assessment
  • Survey Details
• Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID)
  • Survey Details
  • SLID - Electronic Data Dictionary
  • Income Research Paper Series
    
• Survey on the Vitality of Offcial-Language minorities (SVOLM)
  • User Guide
  • Codebook Adult
  • Codebook Child
    
• Workplace and Employee Survey (WES)
  • Survey DetailsDetails
  • WES - Electronic Data Dictionary
• Youth in Transition Survey (YITS)
  • Survey Details
  • 15 year-olds (Mathematics Cohort)
  • 15 year-olds (Reading Cohort)
  • Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)

Research tools

The following presentations provide additional information to researchers about the contents of some of the surveys available for analysis at the RDCs as well as discussions on different methodological issues. Bootvar is a program composed of macros which allow for the computation of variance estimates using the bootstrap method. The program is generic, i.e., it is possible to use with data coming from any of Statistic Canada's surveys that release bootstrap weights.

Bootvar is a program composed of macros which allow for the computation of variance estimates using the bootstrap method. The program is generic, i.e., it is possible to use with data coming from any of Statistic Canada's surveys that release bootstrap weights.

Bootvar is available in SAS and SPSS formats.

Appendix C of the Bootvar documentation provides for many surveys the bootstrap information required to estimate variances and conduct hypothesis tests using Bootvar or other software.