Friday, March 6, 2009

Nurses' Supplement to the Canadian Community Health Survey

Question

Right near the end of the questionnaire for the Canadian Community Health Survey, cycle 2.1, there is a Nurses' Supplement.  The data for this supplement does not appear to show up in either the PUMF or the documentation for the PUMF.  However, it does show up in the data dictionary for the Master File,
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/imdb-bmdi/document/3226_D3_T9_V2-eng.pdf pages 1031 through 1036 of 1044.  There doesn't appear to be any information about this previously on the dlilist.  I would assume that the data has been removed from the PUMF for confidentiality purposes, but thought that it might be appropriate to get a confirmation of this?  Thanks
in advance for any information you might shed on this matter.

Answer
I confirmed with Health Division that this data was suppressed from the PUMF.  Here is their response:


"The CCHS 2.1 Nurse's Supplement is not on the PUMF because the sample size was too small to include the supplement on the PUMF without risking the confidentiality of respondents."

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