Impact of Covid-19 on K-12 Education

July 7, 2020

Question

I have a researcher looking for data on the impact of covid-19 on K-12 students' education. If possible she'd also like to see comparisons based on race/ethnicity or socioeconomic status. Anyone have suggestions? Please advise. Thanks!

Answer

There are a few articles on children, schooling and COVID-19 on the Data to Insights for a Better Canada page. It includes online preparedness of children, academic and financial impacts on postsecondary students,  and impacts on the work placements of postsecondary students. This may not be exactly what the researcher is looking for, but may be a start.

Public washrooms and COVID

February 24, 2021

Question
“What special considerations have been made for the increased need/demand for public washrooms during COVID in Canada? Specifically, what data sources/methods would you recommend for us to be able to capture what is happening in municipal pockets across Ontario/Canada?”

 

Does anyone have any ideas where to find this sort of thing. Are there associations of municipalities provincially or nationally that would be a good place to start? I would like to avoid suggesting that she contact individual public health agencies or municipalities.

 

The student mentioned Muniscope which seems to be a national resource for municipalities and agencies that deal with municipal matters. You have to be a member to access any of their resources. Does anyone have any experience dealing with Muniscope and getting help and/or resources from them? Do they share resources; do they charge?

Contributor 1

1. Municipal open data portals sometimes have public washrooms, but they’re often incomplete or out of date – still, they might be a start. E.g. for Toronto, refreshed this week: https://open.toronto.ca/dataset/street-furniture-public-washroom/ (and this particular dataset seems limited to one company’s contracts with the city)
2. Your patron might also have luck with some of the crowdsourced public washroom apps, like https://www.restroommap.com/ or https://www.refugerestrooms.org/ though these a) might not have the dates when specific items were created (just added, if that) and b) sometimes have specific themes, like non-gendered washrooms (very useful for people who need them, of course, but it seems like your patron has a different need).

Contributor 2
For BC, it might be worth checking CivicInfoBC to see if it includes any municipal reports. From the menu options on the left side, I'd suggest looking in the Documents section and/or COVID-19 Resources section. The Annual Surveys don't seem to cover this topic and wouldn't be current enough anyway.

https://www.civicinfo.bc.ca/researchtools

At the time of publication, no contributors have come forward with working knowledge of Muniscope.

CPSS-COVID - Information Sources Consulted During the Pandemic, 2020 PUMF

November 2, 2020

We are pleased to inform you that the following product is now available:

Canadian Perspective Survey Series 4 - Information Sources Consulted During the Pandemic (CPSS-COVID), 2020 PUMF

 

In order to implement this survey rapidly, it will be conducted online only, among those who volunteered to participate in the Canadian Perspectives Survey Series (CPSS). Each survey in the series will take place approximately every month, with collection lasting approximately a week. Each respondent will participate in several short online surveys over the period of about a year. The CPSS is designed to produce data at a national level (excluding the territories).

Initially, the CPSS focused on topics related to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Canadians. Other topics will also be added to the series to meet the emerging data needs of a variety of users.

Information collected may be used by government organizations at all levels, as well as other types of organizations, to inform the delivery of services and support to Canadians, during and after the pandemic and to inform policy on a wide variety of other social and economic issues.

 

EFT: /MAD_PUMF_FMGD_DAM/Root/5311_CPSS-SEPC/Series 4 

New RDM Guidance from the Portage COVID-19 Working Group

 September 30, 2020

The Portage Network is very pleased to announce the publication of five new guidance documents from the Portage COVID-19 Working Group. These guidance documents were developed to help support research data management in accordance with the RDA COVID-19 Guidelines and Recommendations. 

• Guide to COVID-19 Rapid Response Data Sharing and Deposit for Canadian Researchers
  This guidance is for researchers who need to prepare data for deposit in accordance with the Joint statement on sharing research data and findings relevant to the novel coronavirus (nCoV) outbreak.
• Can I Share My Data?
  This decision tree is designed to help alert researchers to situations where human participant data would need to be anonymized or de-identified before being deposited into a repository. It relies heavily on the Canadian Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans – TCPS 2 (2018) which addresses consent and secondary use of information for research purposes.
• De-identification Guidance
  This guidance is intended to help researchers minimize disclosure risk when sharing data collected from human participants.
• Documentation and Supporting Material Required for Deposit
  A brief guide outlining key materials for depositing data in a repository.
• Recommended Repositories for COVID-19 Research Data
  This document is designed to help researchers select a repository that will provide immediate and long-term access to their COVID-19 data.

Portage will be hosting a community call to discuss how these new resources can help researchers, librarians, and others better manage COVID-19 related research data. More information, including date and registration, will be announced shortly.

The Portage COVID-19 Working Group was initiated in late March 2020 to create guidance for Canadian researchers who are generating or working with COVID-19 related data, and for librarians and others who support them. Membership in the Group spanned institutions from across Canada, and was led by Portage Curation Coordinator Erin Clary, Preservation Coordinator Beth Knazook, and former Training Coordinator Melanie Parlette-Stewart.

In addition to the publications above, the Group also collaborated with the broader data management community to gather Canadian COVID-19 related resources — including sources of data or statistics on COVID-19 and RDM-related resources and links — for inclusion in the international  OpenAIRE COVID-19 Gateway. 

For more information about the Portage COVID-19 Working Group or its initiatives, please contact erin.clary@carl-abrc.ca.

New file on Statistics Canada Nesstar

 September 14, 2020

We are pleased to inform you that the following is now available on the Statistics Canada Nesstar WebView site.

• Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians – Living with Long-term Conditions and Disabilities (ICC-LLTCD) 2020, Crowdsource file, PUMF

New Release - ICC Version 6- Living with Long-term Conditions and Disabilities 2020

September 8, 2020

We are pleased to inform you that the following product is now available.

 

Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians – Living with Long-term Conditions and Disabilities (ICC-LLTCD) 2020, Crowdsource file, PUMF

 

Starting April 3, 2020, Statistics Canada will conduct a collection series on the Impacts of the COVID-19 on Canadians.

The COVID-19 pandemic is currently disrupting the lives and habits of all Canadians. It is therefore necessary to quickly gather information to help understand its impacts on the physical and mental health of individuals, as well as on their social and employment circumstances.

This information will be used by government organizations, such as the Public Health Agency of Canada and Employment and Social Development Canada, and other types of organizations to evaluate the need for health and social services, as well as economic support during and after the pandemic.

 

EFT: /MAD_PUMF_FMGD_DAM/Root/5323_ICC-RCC/Version 6

New Release - ICC Version 5: Parenting During the Pandemic 2020

August 18, 2020

Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians – Parenting During the Pandemic (ICC-PDP) 2020, Crowdsource file PUMF

 

Starting April 3, 2020, Statistics Canada will conduct a collection series on the Impacts of the COVID-19 on Canadians.

The COVID-19 pandemic is currently disrupting the lives and habits of all Canadians. It is therefore necessary to quickly gather information to help understand its impacts on the physical and mental health of individuals, as well as on their social and employment circumstances.

This information will be used by government organizations, such as the Public Health Agency of Canada and Employment and Social Development Canada, and other types of organizations to evaluate the need for health and social services, as well as economic support during and after the pandemic.

 

EFT:  /MAD_PUMF_FMGD_DAM/Root/5323_ICC-RCC/Version 5

New file on Statistics Canada Nesstar

August 18, 2020

We are pleased to inform you that the following is now available on the Statistics Canada Nesstar WebView site.

 

• Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians – Parenting During the Pandemic (ICC-PDP) 2020, Crowdsource file, PUMF, Version 5

Definition of Essential Worker

August 20, 2020

Question:
I have a query from a researcher working on the impact of COVID-19 on women: 

Does Statistics Canada had a standard definition of "frontline" or "essential" workers during this pandemic, or of the "caring economy"? If yes, what are the accompanying NAICS codes used in that data collection?

Answer:
We have no formal definition but here is what is being collected through the Survey of COVID-19 and Mental Health (which will be in collection in late fall):

• During the reference week, we asked the question, “were you considered an essential worker?”
• An essential worker is defined as an individual who works in a service, facility or in an activity that is necessary to preserving life, health, public safety and basic societal functions of Canadians.

However, this question does not necessarily connect to a specific set of industry codes according to NAICS.

New Release - CPSS Series 3

July 30, 2020

Canadian Perspective Survey Series 3 - Resuming Economic and Social Activities During COVID-19 (CPSS-COVID), 2020 PUMF

 

In order to implement this survey rapidly, it will be conducted online only, among those who volunteered to participate in the Canadian Perspectives Survey Series (CPSS). Each survey in the series will take place approximately every month, with collection lasting approximately a week. Each respondent will participate in several short online surveys over the period of about a year. The CPSS is designed to produce data at a national level (excluding the territories).

Initially, the CPSS focused on topics related to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Canadians. Other topics will also be added to the series to meet the emerging data needs of a variety of users.

Information collected may be used by government organizations at all levels, as well as other types of organizations, to inform the delivery of services and support to Canadians, during and after the pandemic and to inform policy on a wide variety of other social and economic issues.

 

 

EFT: /MAD_PUMF_FMGD_DAM/Root/5311_CPSS-SEPC/Series 3

New Release: ICC Version 4 - Trust in Others 2020

July 16, 2020

Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians – Trust in Others (ICC-TIO) 2020, Crowdsource file PUMF

 

Starting April 3, 2020, Statistics Canada will conduct a collection series on the Impacts of the COVID-19 on Canadians.

The COVID-19 pandemic is currently disrupting the lives and habits of all Canadians. It is therefore necessary to quickly gather information to help understand its impacts on the physical and mental health of individuals, as well as on their social and employment circumstances.

This information will be used by government organizations, such as the Public Health Agency of Canada and Employment and Social Development Canada, and other types of organizations to evaluate the need for health and social services, as well as economic support during and after the pandemic.

 

EFT:  /MAD_PUMF_FMGD_DAM/Root/5323_ICC-RCC/Version 4

New file on Statistics Canada Nesstar

July 13, 2020

We are pleased to inform you that the following is now available on the Statistics Canada Nesstar WebView site.

 

• Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians – Perceptions of Safety (ICC-PS) 2020, Crowdsource file, PUMF, Version 3

New files on Statistics Canada Nesstar

 July 3, 2020

We are pleased to inform you that the following is now available on the Statistics Canada Nesstar WebView site.

• Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on postsecondary students (ICPPS) 2020, Crowdsource file, PUMF

Impact of COVID-19 on Home Life

Question:

I have a researcher who is looking to write a gendered analysis of work and home life during the covid19 pandemic and how people’s home and work lives are affected by the shift to work at home, no school, no daycare, etc. She has seen Canadian Perspectives Survey Series 1: COVID-19 and working from home, 2020 (https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/200417/dq200417a-eng.htm?CMP=mstatcan) and is wondering if there is any other related data to the topic of how lives are being affected by the shift to work at home. Most of the data I am finding is related to testing, cases, and deaths, and economic and labour force impacts. Does anyone know of any other sources for data on impacts of home life? 

Answer:

I would be interested to know what is out there from others.  I wish there were more current data on gender and home life during the COVID-19 pandemic.

I noted this libguide: COVID-19 and child welfare > tab “Journals and academic research”.

The gendered COVID-19 data that comes to mind is care workers in long term care (LTC) homes, where there were plenty of pre-existing issues (like pay and working conditions). 

To take the example of Ontario,

Data:

March 31 update, April 2nd update, April 7th update (Ontario).

“Hospital and Long-Term Care Health Care Workers & Long-Term Care Residents Infected with COVID-19”

• Three dire reports on COVID-19 cases among LTC seniors and workers. 

Ontario conditions and protections:

April 9th critique

April 15th Action plan of the Ontario government and follow-up critique.

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