Survey of labour and income dynamics and Aboriginal Peoples or ethnicity

Question
The Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics appears to collect information on ethnicity and Aboriginal Peoples, but this information does not seem to be in the PUMF. Could someone confirm if this is a confidentiality issue, and if so, would this aspect of SLID be available in the RDCs? Thanks in advance for any information on this matter.

Answer

Here is the response from Income Division

We have a few variables on ethnicity and Aboriginal peoples available from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics. Due to confidentiality reasons, these variables are not available in the PUMFs. They are available in the SLID data master file in the Statistics Canada Research Data Centers. Your client can consult the SLID Data Dictionary (75F0026-XWE) to obtain more information on these variables (for example, abortg15 and etho1c15). Please note that the sample size is small for these variables so there is limited data available for cross-tabulations.