Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Economic Performance of Ontario Graduates

Question:I have a Masters student who is interested in looking at how Ontario graduates perform economically pre 2003 and post 2003. She seems pretty wedded to using the Census and DoB to differentiate between pre/post graduates-- in addition to including place of origin, language, income and marital status.

Does Ontario have a suitably anonymized dataset that might meet her needs? Another option would be to apply to the RDC but I don't think her timeline would accommodate that.

Answer:“The National Graduates Survey (NGS) has data regarding students who graduated in 2000 and in 2005.

The following link provides a list of CANSIM tables that provide data from the survey:
http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/COR-COR/COR-COR/objList?lang=eng&srcObjType=SDDS&srcObjId=5012&tgtObjType=ARRAY

Please see the attached CANSIM table user guide. In each table, click the ‘Add/Remove data’ tab to uncheck ‘Canada’ and check ‘Ontario’. Scroll down and click ‘Apply’.”

The DLI has the NGS PUMFS from 1982-2013 available through Nesstar Webview. The following are direct links to the cycles that Subject Matter has referenced: National Graduate Survey, 2000 - Follow-up and National Graduate Survey, 2005.

If the student wanted to explore the variables available on the master file, they are also available through Nesstar. The following are direct links to the zero frequency master files: National Graduate Survey, 2002 - Follow-up and National Graduate Survey, 2005.

The NGS is also available on the EFT at: /MAD_PUMF_FMGD_DAM/Root/5012_NGS_END/