Question
I have a student who is looking for Canadian data on "food safety outbreaks caused by imported food". I have offered 'Estimates of Food-borne illness in Canaada" and CFIAs list of non-compliant imported food but have not found data on food-borne illnesses or outbreaks caused by imported food.
Answer
I contacted subject matter and we don’t have this information unfortunately. As recommended by subject matter, PHAC does have information on food borne illnesses – it would not hurt to check their site.
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Interprovincial trade flows
Question
I have a student who’s looking for interprovincial trade flow statistics. Table 386-0003 covers 2007 – 2011, but he’s looking for figures dating back to 1980, or as near to that date as possible.
Answer
Our interprovincial trade flows only go back to 1997, which is the year we staring the provincial Input-Output programme. The trade flows back to 1997 can be found in CANSIM Table 386-0002.
I have a student who’s looking for interprovincial trade flow statistics. Table 386-0003 covers 2007 – 2011, but he’s looking for figures dating back to 1980, or as near to that date as possible.
Answer
Our interprovincial trade flows only go back to 1997, which is the year we staring the provincial Input-Output programme. The trade flows back to 1997 can be found in CANSIM Table 386-0002.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
LFS User Guide
Question
Will there be a 2015 LFS (Labour Force Survey) User Guide coming out?
Answer
We are expecting the 2015 LFS (Labour Force Survey) User Guide to be available by mid June 2015.
Will there be a 2015 LFS (Labour Force Survey) User Guide coming out?
Answer
We are expecting the 2015 LFS (Labour Force Survey) User Guide to be available by mid June 2015.
Canadian Income Survey inquiry
Question
I have a researcher inquiring about whether there is a PUMF for the Canadian Income Survey. Unless I have missed something, the appended message indicates that there were plans for a possible PUMF. However, I have checked the Tentative Release dates <http://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/dli/prod_date> and I do not see this survey listed, which leads me to suspect that any PUMF plans may have been cancelled? On a quick look, I do not see this on the RDC list of data sets, <http://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/rdc/data> so perhaps it is still being processed?
Answer
The subject matter has confirmed that - "There are no plans at present to release a PUMF for the Canadian Income Survey. This is a new survey and a PUMF is still sometime away. I would suggest that you get the client to read 'Note to Users of Data from the 2012 CIS' in the attached link.
<http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/75-513-x/75-513-x2014001-eng.htm>
It provides all the information regarding:
Methodology of CIS
Differences between CIS and SLID"
We would, however, need more detailed information about what the client needs.Would a custom tabulation be of interest? I can confirm with the RDCs when the file will be available.
I have a researcher inquiring about whether there is a PUMF for the Canadian Income Survey. Unless I have missed something, the appended message indicates that there were plans for a possible PUMF. However, I have checked the Tentative Release dates <http://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/dli/prod_date> and I do not see this survey listed, which leads me to suspect that any PUMF plans may have been cancelled? On a quick look, I do not see this on the RDC list of data sets, <http://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/rdc/data> so perhaps it is still being processed?
Answer
The subject matter has confirmed that - "There are no plans at present to release a PUMF for the Canadian Income Survey. This is a new survey and a PUMF is still sometime away. I would suggest that you get the client to read 'Note to Users of Data from the 2012 CIS' in the attached link.
<http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/75-513-x/75-513-x2014001-eng.htm>
It provides all the information regarding:
Methodology of CIS
Differences between CIS and SLID"
We would, however, need more detailed information about what the client needs.Would a custom tabulation be of interest? I can confirm with the RDCs when the file will be available.
Historical Release Dates for Economic Indicators
Question
A researcher is looking for historical (pre-2011 going back to 2002) release dates for a few economic indicators. Would these be the correct sources for release dates these indicators?
LFS releases in The Daily online going back to June 1995:
[LINK]
CPI releases in The Daily online from 2010, going back to June 1995:
[LINK]
Real GDP releases in The Daily online from 2010, going back to June 1995:
[LINK]
Answer
Yes your are correct those would be the correct sources for release dates of those indicators.
A researcher is looking for historical (pre-2011 going back to 2002) release dates for a few economic indicators. Would these be the correct sources for release dates these indicators?
LFS releases in The Daily online going back to June 1995:
[LINK]
CPI releases in The Daily online from 2010, going back to June 1995:
[LINK]
Real GDP releases in The Daily online from 2010, going back to June 1995:
[LINK]
Answer
Yes your are correct those would be the correct sources for release dates of those indicators.
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Public Service Employee Survey
Question
A PhD student is inquiring about the availability of the Public Service Employee Survey (PSES) through DLI. We have access to several cycles, the most recent being 2008. Is there a plan to produce a public file for the 2011 and 2014 cycles? I did not find anything on the listserv about this survey.
Answer
They did not create a PUMF for 2011. Detailed aggregate tables were released in the Open Data portal. The microdata file is available in the RDCs. For 2014, subject matter was looking at once again creating a PUMF, pending resources. Chris will follow up with subject matter to confirm. Once again detailed aggregate tables were released in the Open Data portal and the masterfile will be available in the RDCs.
A PhD student is inquiring about the availability of the Public Service Employee Survey (PSES) through DLI. We have access to several cycles, the most recent being 2008. Is there a plan to produce a public file for the 2011 and 2014 cycles? I did not find anything on the listserv about this survey.
Answer
They did not create a PUMF for 2011. Detailed aggregate tables were released in the Open Data portal. The microdata file is available in the RDCs. For 2014, subject matter was looking at once again creating a PUMF, pending resources. Chris will follow up with subject matter to confirm. Once again detailed aggregate tables were released in the Open Data portal and the masterfile will be available in the RDCs.
Monday, April 27, 2015
Ordering instructions for Survey of Financial Security on CD-ROM
Question
I have provided data from the most recent Survey of Financial Security to a faculty member. He mentioned that he is working with collaborators in the UK and in Uruguay – one or both of them are interested in receiving the data file in order that they may do some of the analysis.
Is there anywhere to direct them other than to the information about the SFS PUMF in the Daily - http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/150414/dq150414d-eng.htm? Clicking on http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/olc-cel/olc.action?ObjId=13M0006X&ObjType=2&lang=en&limit=0 (the link given to product 13M0006X from that page) takes me to a completely blank screen (in both firefox and chrome).
A couple of more general questions. Are Statistics Canada data free to overseas users as well as Canadians? Do non-Canadian institutions or individuals use the same order mechanism as Canadians?
Would sending a request for the file to be sent on CD to infostats@statcan.gc.ca work? They don’t really want more information – they want to order it.
Answer
Check the link again, I have tried it several times and only about 1/10 attempts failed to load in internet explorer but the other times I was successful without issue.
I have provided data from the most recent Survey of Financial Security to a faculty member. He mentioned that he is working with collaborators in the UK and in Uruguay – one or both of them are interested in receiving the data file in order that they may do some of the analysis.
Is there anywhere to direct them other than to the information about the SFS PUMF in the Daily - http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/150414/dq150414d-eng.htm? Clicking on http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/olc-cel/olc.action?ObjId=13M0006X&ObjType=2&lang=en&limit=0 (the link given to product 13M0006X from that page) takes me to a completely blank screen (in both firefox and chrome).
A couple of more general questions. Are Statistics Canada data free to overseas users as well as Canadians? Do non-Canadian institutions or individuals use the same order mechanism as Canadians?
Would sending a request for the file to be sent on CD to infostats@statcan.gc.ca work? They don’t really want more information – they want to order it.
Answer
Check the link again, I have tried it several times and only about 1/10 attempts failed to load in internet explorer but the other times I was successful without issue.
To address your other questions I confirmed that with regards to the PUMFs this Statistics Canada data is free to overseas users as well as Canadians and they would use the same order mechanism as Canadians. I believe sending the request for the file to be sent on CD to infostats@statcan.gc.ca would work.
International data users can contact Statcan with the information supplied. There is also the generic ordering form from the SFS PUMF product page. They will need to sign a licence agreement, which is counter signed by the director of the surveys division. I do believe they will then disseminate the product via the Electronic File Transfer (EFT) web portal.
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