Query about CRIC

Question

The current government has dismantled the Centre for Research and Information on Canada (CRIC), which used to do regular public opinion surveys as well as collecting other kinds of data. It all used to be available to Canadians through their website (including the data sets), until just the last couple of days when their website disappeared as well. Do you know who might have received it?

Answer

Both CORA at Kingston and Carleton University have received some of the data files. I'm about to contact Bob Burge at Queen's to see if we can share what we have that they don't and vice versa. We have a mandate from the Canadian Unity Council to try to track down what we can.

You can get the metadata from the CRIC collection that we house if you go to
http://www.library.carleton.ca/ssdata/surveys/pop_cric.html

Click on Carleton University Data Centre and then CRIC. We don't have security in place at the individual file level to allow access at this time, but we will be moving the files to a more open server in the future.