Use of Youth Smoking Survey

Question

One of our faculty members has called to see if he can give a school which was part of the Youth Smoking Survey access to the PUMF under our DLI licence. I am pretty sure the answer is no, but wanted to be sure. Should I just direct him to the Special Surveys Division or can you provide a contact?

Answer

You are absolutely correct! The students do not have access to the data through the DLI licence.

In order to qualify as users under the DLI licence, they must be registered students in good standing in a DLI institution. As the students do not meet this first criteria, they can not use the data under the licence.

Your professor should follow-up with Special Surveys Division at ssd@statcan.ca and ask them for written permission to use the data.