Dalhousie University Libraries has recently made three datasets available via Scholars Portal Dataverse:
1. 2016 Census of Population ADA and DA PDF maps for Nova Scotia counties. The ADA reference maps were available for the first time with the 2016 Census via the Statistics Canada website. According to the Statistics Canada website, DA reference maps were not produced for the 2016 census. However, we were provided with Nova Scotia DA reference maps after we contacted the agency. These datasets have both ADA and DA PDF maps for Nova Scotia counties, with a readme file for corresponding DA to ADA:
https://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/dataverse/census2016maps/
2. Crime Severity Index values ranking for communities with population over 10000 (2009-2018). The principal behind the Crime Severity Index (CSI) was to measure the seriousness of crime reported to the police year to year by Statistics Canada. Data for Crime Severity Index for population over 10000 (CSI_over10000) was first published by Statistics Canada in 2009. However, CSI_over10000 data is not publicly available from Statistics Canada website. This dataset will be kept up-to-date as new tables are released:
https://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/dataverse/CSI/
3. Fisherman’s Work Survey (1982). This is a Southwestern Nova Scotian fisheries labour survey conducted by Dalhousie researchers. This dataset contains the Nova Scotia Fisherman’s Work survey data in SPSS (sav) and text (csv) format, coding of the variables, and selected literature. The survey data has 150 variables and 597 observations:
https://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/dataverse/fishermansworksurvey
Hopefully, these data will be useful for researchers at your institutions. The first two Statistics Canada datasets are licensed under the Statistics Canada Open License. The Fisherman’s Work Survey data is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The published article for “Work Satisfaction and Community Attachment among Fishermen in SW NS” is not licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, but is still openly available via Dataverse.
Showing posts with label crime statistics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crime statistics. Show all posts
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Monday, December 9, 2019
Prostitution Offences
Question:
I was helping a researcher who's looking for "the breakdown of the prostitution offences by each offence (e.i. incidents for s.213, s.286.1 etc)".
From this table:
35-10-0177-01 - Incident-based crime statistics, by detailed violations, Canada, provinces, territories and Census Metropolitan Areas
We can get the breakdown of the prostitution offences (classified under Total Commodification of sexual activity violations, and Total Prostitution) by types of offences.
Next, in order to map those types of offences to criminal codes (such as s.213, s.286.1 etc), we consulted the questionnaire and the reporting guide linked from this page: http://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p3Instr.pl?Function=getInstrumentList&Item_Id=55196&UL=1V&
Basically, we figured out that on the questionnaire(PDF), there is the code for "Prostitution Total" (046) as well as the more specific codes below it; and from the reporting guide (p. 86), it shows how that code is linked to criminal code (section 213 etc). Although the codes in the stats don't align with the codes on the questionnaire, for example, bawdy house 3110 vs. 047, we can just match them up by the same description (i.e. bawdy house).
However, there are still some critical problems -- the questions in the questionnaire don't entirely reflect the crime hierarchy of stats, for example, there's no "Total Commodification of sexual activity violations" and its breakdown on the questionnaire, and we suspect it's because the questionnaire/reporting guide on the website needs to be updated. Furthermore, since the researcher is interested in the impact of the 2014 legislation, it would be useful to get access to the questionnaires/reporting guide of different times, which are unavailable from the website.
Sorry for this rambling email. I'd appreciate it if you can shed some light on this.
Answer:
I’ve received the following response from subject matter:
“If your researcher hasn’t seen the tables of concordance contained in the 2019 UCR manual (attached), it could be very useful. It is a comprehensive lookup table that cross references all Criminal Code sections to their respective UCR2 violation codes.
The 3-digit UCR codes mentioned, such as ‘Prostitution Total (046)’, come for the old UCR1 Aggregate survey, which is no longer in use and has not been for a long time.
All of our current online CODR (new CANSIM) tables are based on the 4-digit UCR2 codes.”
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"... [data tables] are readily available via the website. These are customizable and downloadable. Below is the CAN/PROV/CMA table, there are also similar police service level tables that can be found on the site as well.
Incident-based crime statistics, by detailed violations, Canada, provinces, territories and Census Metropolitan Areas
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3510017701”
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"[The manual] is not available on the website, we distribute it to our partners, but also to anyone who requests it”
I was helping a researcher who's looking for "the breakdown of the prostitution offences by each offence (e.i. incidents for s.213, s.286.1 etc)".
From this table:
35-10-0177-01 - Incident-based crime statistics, by detailed violations, Canada, provinces, territories and Census Metropolitan Areas
We can get the breakdown of the prostitution offences (classified under Total Commodification of sexual activity violations, and Total Prostitution) by types of offences.
Next, in order to map those types of offences to criminal codes (such as s.213, s.286.1 etc), we consulted the questionnaire and the reporting guide linked from this page: http://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p3Instr.pl?Function=getInstrumentList&Item_Id=55196&UL=1V&
Basically, we figured out that on the questionnaire(PDF), there is the code for "Prostitution Total" (046) as well as the more specific codes below it; and from the reporting guide (p. 86), it shows how that code is linked to criminal code (section 213 etc). Although the codes in the stats don't align with the codes on the questionnaire, for example, bawdy house 3110 vs. 047, we can just match them up by the same description (i.e. bawdy house).
However, there are still some critical problems -- the questions in the questionnaire don't entirely reflect the crime hierarchy of stats, for example, there's no "Total Commodification of sexual activity violations" and its breakdown on the questionnaire, and we suspect it's because the questionnaire/reporting guide on the website needs to be updated. Furthermore, since the researcher is interested in the impact of the 2014 legislation, it would be useful to get access to the questionnaires/reporting guide of different times, which are unavailable from the website.
Sorry for this rambling email. I'd appreciate it if you can shed some light on this.
Answer:
I’ve received the following response from subject matter:
“If your researcher hasn’t seen the tables of concordance contained in the 2019 UCR manual (attached), it could be very useful. It is a comprehensive lookup table that cross references all Criminal Code sections to their respective UCR2 violation codes.
The 3-digit UCR codes mentioned, such as ‘Prostitution Total (046)’, come for the old UCR1 Aggregate survey, which is no longer in use and has not been for a long time.
All of our current online CODR (new CANSIM) tables are based on the 4-digit UCR2 codes.”
---
"... [data tables] are readily available via the website. These are customizable and downloadable. Below is the CAN/PROV/CMA table, there are also similar police service level tables that can be found on the site as well.
Incident-based crime statistics, by detailed violations, Canada, provinces, territories and Census Metropolitan Areas
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3510017701”
---
"[The manual] is not available on the website, we distribute it to our partners, but also to anyone who requests it”
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Number of Heroin Users Living in Newfoundland during the 1970s
Question
A graduate student is wanting to find out some information on the number of heroin users who lived in Newfoundland in any one year (or multiple years) in the 1970s.
Are there any prominent publications that Statistics Canada (or other agencies) that kept track of these sorts of drug statistics in Canada?
I am aware of the “Drug Users and Statistics” publication (which apparently started in 1977), but it seems our university library only has holdings for the 1980s. Are there any other sources available that I should consult?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Answer
Thank you for your question below.
We have asked the Statistics Canada Library reference team to confirm if they have a source for these historical statistics in their collection. They will be following up with you directly. You may also reach them at biblionet@statcan.gc.ca.
The following CANSIM tables include provincial crime statistics from the late 1970's related to heroin and may also be of interest to the student. The student can download them at not cost from CANSIM on E-STAT (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/estat/licence-eng.htm).
Table 252-0013 Crime statistics, by detailed offences, annual (number), *Terminated*
Table 252-0014 Adult and youth charged, by detailed offences, annual (number), *Terminated*
The student may also wish to look into the historical statistics which may be available from other federal and provincial government departments and organizations that conduct research and disseminate information on drug use in Canada.
Best regards.
A graduate student is wanting to find out some information on the number of heroin users who lived in Newfoundland in any one year (or multiple years) in the 1970s.
Are there any prominent publications that Statistics Canada (or other agencies) that kept track of these sorts of drug statistics in Canada?
I am aware of the “Drug Users and Statistics” publication (which apparently started in 1977), but it seems our university library only has holdings for the 1980s. Are there any other sources available that I should consult?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Answer
Thank you for your question below.
We have asked the Statistics Canada Library reference team to confirm if they have a source for these historical statistics in their collection. They will be following up with you directly. You may also reach them at biblionet@statcan.gc.ca.
The following CANSIM tables include provincial crime statistics from the late 1970's related to heroin and may also be of interest to the student. The student can download them at not cost from CANSIM on E-STAT (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/estat/licence-eng.htm).
Table 252-0013 Crime statistics, by detailed offences, annual (number), *Terminated*
Table 252-0014 Adult and youth charged, by detailed offences, annual (number), *Terminated*
The student may also wish to look into the historical statistics which may be available from other federal and provincial government departments and organizations that conduct research and disseminate information on drug use in Canada.
Best regards.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Prohibition Statistics
Question
I`d like to ask for your ideas please on a request we have received for historic statistical information. Has anyone researched this subject or know of any useful starting points that you could help us with?
This is for an undergraduate history paper, so of course it is a rush. The student has requested "numbers that were results of prohibition. When I say criminal charges I mean in all forms from murder, violence, bootlegging, possession and trafficking. And for numbers in death I am referring to the deaths that were due to organized crime and alcohol
poisoning (naturally due to deadly alcohol)".
Without having researched this before, I think the student is looking statistics which I think are fairly unfindable without some pretty big interpretation of historic crime and cause of death statistics around prohibition times (which is a "patchwork", longest in PEI at the turn of the century, and varying by municipality, and then later mandatory in Alberta and Ontario from 1916 to the mid 1920's and never made mandatory by the federal government).
Any ideas would be gratefully appreciated :).
Answer
As mentioned off-list, the Canada Year Book Historical Collection may contain some interesting prohibition-related facts (http://www65.statcan.gc.ca/acyb_r000-eng.htm; http://www65.statcan.gc.ca/acyb_r002-eng.htm).
The student may also wish to try searching periodical indexes, newspaper indexes and books on the topic to locate relevant statistics.
I`d like to ask for your ideas please on a request we have received for historic statistical information. Has anyone researched this subject or know of any useful starting points that you could help us with?
This is for an undergraduate history paper, so of course it is a rush. The student has requested "numbers that were results of prohibition. When I say criminal charges I mean in all forms from murder, violence, bootlegging, possession and trafficking. And for numbers in death I am referring to the deaths that were due to organized crime and alcohol
poisoning (naturally due to deadly alcohol)".
Without having researched this before, I think the student is looking statistics which I think are fairly unfindable without some pretty big interpretation of historic crime and cause of death statistics around prohibition times (which is a "patchwork", longest in PEI at the turn of the century, and varying by municipality, and then later mandatory in Alberta and Ontario from 1916 to the mid 1920's and never made mandatory by the federal government).
Any ideas would be gratefully appreciated :).
Answer
As mentioned off-list, the Canada Year Book Historical Collection may contain some interesting prohibition-related facts (http://www65.statcan.gc.ca/acyb_r000-eng.htm; http://www65.statcan.gc.ca/acyb_r002-eng.htm).
The student may also wish to try searching periodical indexes, newspaper indexes and books on the topic to locate relevant statistics.
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