Inquiry re Longitudinal & International Survey of Adults (LISA)

Question

I have a graduate student looking to access both waves 1 & 2 of the Longitudinal & International Survey of Adults (LISA) data.

I'm not seeing where there are PUMFs available, nor anything in the RDC. Are there data available, or plans to make them accessible either in PUMF or restricted access?

Answer

At this time because it is a longitudinal survey there will not be any PUMFs. All data is accessible via the RDCs

The data is available through the RDCs:
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/rdc/data

There is also a webinar on LISA that the DLI previously hosted, you may be interested in viewing the presentation materials available here
https://cudo.carleton.ca/dli-training/3746

Canadian / American survey equivalents

Question

I have been asked what the closest equivalent Statistics Canada survey would be compared to the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The user used to use Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID), but eventually stopped as it was available only in RDCs. (I think SLID is the closest equivalent.)

Answer

A few other data sources to consider would be the LAD (Longitudinal Administrative Databank) and LISA (Longitudinal and International Study of Adults). As well, you could look into the CIS (Canadian Income Survey) which is the official survey that followed SLID, however it is not longitudinal, but cross-sectional.