Data sets

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

Data sets

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
  • Cycle 3.1
  • Cycle 2.2 - Nutrition
  • Cycle 2.1
  • Cycle 1.2 - Mental Health and Well-being
  • Cycle 1.1
    
• 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 GSS which has repeated topics. General information on all cycles can be found on the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) page of the Statistics Canada Web site: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/dli-ild/data-donnees/ftp/gss-esg-eng.htm.
    
• 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
    
• Participation and Activity Limitation Survey (PALS)
  • Survey Details
    
• Programme for International Student Assessment  
  • Survey Details
    
• Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID)
  • Survey Details
  • SLID - Electronic Data Dictionary
    
• Survey on the Vitality of Offcial-Language minorities (SVOLM) 
  • User guide
  • Codebook Adult
  • Codebook Child
    
• Workplace and Employee Survey (WES)
  • Survey Details
  • 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 available in both SAS and SPSS formats.