Job Vacancy Survey

Question

I have a grad student who is interested in using the Job Vacancy Survey data from the 1970's - are these files available to us?

Answer

After some digging we have learned that this survey was a business based survey that asked business to list vacant positions which they were actively looking to fill. As you know, business based survey do not produce a public use microdata file. This means that to get at these data the student will have to go through the custom table route for which there will be a cost. I can't even estimate what the cost might be but given the difficulty we had in finding out even this information I expect it might be high.

There were some publications produced out of this survey that might contain some data. Check out the information on the product description page of the online catalogue. (there is even a contact us link that may help).
http://www.statcan.ca:8096/bsolc/english/bsolc?catno=11F0019M2001176

The student might also want to look at accessing the WES data at the RDC's. Some of the job vacancy information is:
http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/71-221-XIE/tW0B40.htm.