Thursday, September 30, 2004

Pre-1971 Census PUMFs

Question

A researcher would like to know if any of the censuses before 1971 had PUMFs.

Answer

At present, no. The CCRI project is working on that, however, and now there are, from various sources, 1901, 1881, and 1871 microdata files available. I understand there is also a preliminary version of a 1911 file out, but it's restricted access right now. Stats Can is proposing to do a 1961 pumf, and CCRI is doing 1911-1951.
http://www.canada.uottawa.ca/ccri/index-eng.htm

Survey of Financial Security PUMF

Question

Can we access the 1984 Survey of Financial Security PUMF under DLI?

Answer

Presuming you mean the Income, assets and debts of economic families and unattached individuals, 1984 (there's also a 1976 file), the reference year is 1983, and it's on the DLI ftp site and web site
http://www.statcan.ca/english/Dli/Data/Ftp/scf/scf1984.htm

Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Life tables, life expectancy

Question

A student is looking for:

Life expectancy at birth for 1960, Both sexes and male and female, Canada and Provinces
and
Life tables for 2001, Both sexes and male and female, Canada and Provinces

Answer

Life tables (which are very comprehensive tables looking at Life Expectancy at different ages, ie. The life expectancy of a one year old, a two year old etc.-these are often used by insurance companies) were not produced back in 1960. Life Tables are centred around a Census year and also require three years of mortality data. So, the next tables will be centred around the 2001 Census and require death data from 2000, 2001, and 2002. We now have a complete file for 2002, and so are beginning work on the Life
Tables. They will not be released until 2005 (they are extremely complex tables). The earliest I have is 1985-1987 (paper publication). The following link will take you to the most recent. As I said, they are fairly complex tables. Now in terms of life expectancy at birth (as opposed to life expectancy of one year olds, etc), we do produce that annually. It is included in our annual 'Deaths' publication (catalogue #84F0211). It is also usually included in the 'Daily' so if you do a Daily search under 'Deaths' it will
give you that info. The second link will take you there. We have also just released 2002 data, which is in the third link.

http://www.statcan.ca:8096/bsolc/english/bsolc?catno=84-537-X

http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/030925/d030925c.htm

http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/today/d040927a.htm

Friday, September 10, 2004

CCHS and the HUI

Question

I am trying to find out which version of the HUI (health utilities index) is being used in the CCHS 1.1. From the documentation it states HUI is used and looks like version 3 but I cannot find anywhere where that is definitively stated. I am also assuming that the same is being used for 1.2 but again, I am not sure.

Answer

Yes it is. According to Health Statistics HUI-3 has been the standard since NPHS cycle 2.