Survey Data Related to Risks of Early Motherhood

Question

A researcher here at York is interested in information on experiences of motherhood among adolescent girls in child welfare and or youth justice. Specifically, she is interested in recent survey data dealing with risks and health outcomes of early motherhood for this vulnerable population. We spent some time searching this morning, looking for these kinds of data, and managed to find some elements of it in the CCHS and NPHS, but nothing quite like what she really wants. Since it's entirely possible we missed something, is there someone in STC with whom she could discuss this in greater detail?

Answer

To the best of my knowledge, StatCan hasn't published or collected data on this specific topic. We have a number of publications on teenage pregnancy and its outcomes but these aren't specifically on adolescent girls in child welfare and youth services. The following articles and reference guide are the closest matches as I know of and may be of interest to the researcher. If she has specific questions about these publications and the data on which they are based, I would be pleased to consult the authors and divisions that published these products to obtain additional information for her or refer her to them directly if this would be more helpful.

Teenage pregnancy: Guide to the latest information
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/search-recherche/bb/info/3000020-eng.htm

The reference guide includes links to these publications:

Life after teenage motherhood
Perspectives on Labour and Income, May 2008, Catalogue no. 75-001-XWE, Vol. 9, No. 5.

Second or subsequent births to teenagers
Health Reports, February 2007, Catalogue no. 82-003-XWE, Vol. 18, No. 1.

Teenage pregnancy
Health Reports, Winter 2000, Catalogue no. 82-003-XIE, Vol. 12, No. 1.

I will have a closer look at the documentation for a few more surveys to see if I can locate sources that would cover this specific topic and will follow up with more information shortly.

Educational Attainment

Question

I have a request from a grad student who wants educational attainment data for Saskatoon. I've shown him how to use the community profiles to extract data for the entire city, but he'd like to find data at the CT or neighbourhood level. Is education data available at that geographic level without his resorting to a custom tabulation?

Answer

The following topic-based tabulations on Highest certificate, level or degree may meet the student's needs. They are available at the Census Tract (CT) level online and at the Dissemination Area (DA) level on the DLI FTP site.

• Highest Certificate, Diploma or Degree (14), Location of Study (5), Major Field of Study - Classification of Instructional Programs, 2000 (14), Age Groups (10A) and Sex (3) for the Population 15 Years and Over of Census Metropolitan Areas, Tracted Census Agglomerations and Census Tracts, 2006 Census - 20% Sample Data 97-560-XCB2006016

(http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/tbt/Rp-eng.cfm?TABID=1&LANG=E&A=R&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=001&GID=759344&GK=10&GRP=1&O=D&PID=93620&PRID=0&PTYPE=88971,97154&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=755&Temporal=2006&THEME=75&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&D1=0&D2=0&D3=0&D4=0&D5=0&D6=0)

• Highest Certificate, Diploma or Degree (7), Location of Study (5), Major Field of Study - Classification of Instructional Programs, 2000 (14) and Sex (3) for the Population 15 Years and Over of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions, Census Subdivisions and Dissemination Areas, 2006 Census - 20% Sample Data - 97-560-XCB2006015

(http://www.statcan.gc.ca/bsolc/olc-cel/olc-cel?catno=97-560-X2006015&lang=eng - available on the DLI FTP)

• Attendance at School (3), Highest Certificate, Diploma or Degree (13), Age Groups (10A) and Sex (3) for the Population 15 Years and Over of Census Metropolitan Areas, Tracted Census Agglomerations and Census Tracts, 2006 Census - 20% Sample Data 97-560-XCB2006037

(http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/tbt/Rp-eng.cfm?TABID=1&LANG=E&A=R&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=001&GID=759344&GK=10&GRP=1&O=D&PID=97687&PRID=0&PTYPE=88971,97154&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=755&Temporal=2006&THEME=75&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&D1=0&D2=0&D3=0&D4=0&D5=0&D6=0)

Other education-related topic based tabulations are available at:

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/tbt/St-eng.cfm?LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=0&GK=0&GRP=1&PID=0&PRID=0&PTYPE=88971,97154&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2006&THEME=75&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF= (any DA level files described in this section are available on the DLI FTP site).

The education data in the 2006 Census CT and DA level cumulative profiles may also be of interest to the student:

• Profile for Census Metropolitan Areas, Tracted Census Agglomerations and Census Tracts, 2006 Census 94-581-XCB2006005

(http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/prof/rel/Rp-eng.cfm?TABID=1&LANG=E&A=R&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=001&GID=759344&GK=10&GRP=1&O=D&PID=94537&PRID=0&PTYPE=89103&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2006&THEME=81&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&D1=0&D2=0&D3=0&D4=0&D5=0&D6=0)

• Profile for Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions, Census Subdivisions and Dissemination Areas, 2006 Census 94-581-XCB2006002 (available on the DLI FTP - http://www.statcan.gc.ca/bsolc/olc-cel/olc-cel?catno=94-581-X2006002&lang=eng)

The student may also wish to refer to the Education Reference Guide, 2006 Census

(http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/ref/rp-guides/education-eng.cfm) which discusses changes to education-related concepts in the 2006 Census. These underwent important changes in 2006.

Education concepts are also defined in the 2006 Census dictionary: http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/ref/dict/index-eng.cfm

Release of the Health Profile, June 2010 (Internet Application)

Statistics Canada is pleased to announce the release of the Health Profile, June 2010 Internet application.

Health Statistics Division and the Census Internet Development team have updated the online product Health Profile, June 2010 (which was initially released in June of 2009) with the latest health data available, including the addition of the following indicators:

• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease;
• Injuries within the past 12 months causing limitation of normal activities;
• Injuries in the past 12 months, sought medical attention;
• Hospitalized stroke event rate;
• Hospitalized acute myocardial infarction event rate;
• Injury hospitalization;
• Bike helmet use;
• Functional health;
• Life satisfaction.

As well, changes and enhancements have been made to the presentation of the updated Internet application, which includes the removal of the left-hand side bar from the data presentation page. The functionality that was stored within the left-hand side bar has been moved into 'tabs', which are located at the top of the data table, thus maximizing the presentation view.

Other changes/enhancements include:

• Re-ordering the results that are presented following the selection of a Province/Territory or Peer Group from the product main page. The results are now presented at the top of the page instead of at the bottom;

• A new 'Previous issues' link has been added within the left-hand side bar on the main page to provide the comprehensive download file for previous vintage versions of the Health Profile data (i.e., June 2009).
This Internet application features updated health region level data from a number of sources. The application is designed to give quick access to the latest health-related data available for a selected health region, provides the corresponding provincial data by default, and users can easily select any region of choice for comparison.

There are different ways to access the Health Profile, June 2010 (Internet Application) from the Statistics Canada home page. Users can either click on the Health in Canada module or click on the 'Census' button in the right-hand navigation bar and enter through the 'Features' or 'Spotlight' section.

New Search Feautures

The Statistics Canada search team is continuing to make enhancements to the search function on the www.statcan.gc.ca internet site. Here are three examples of changes that will be made soon:

• The title link to search results will go directly to the html page. To access the catalogue page, select the Description link. To extend your search to a full text search of PDF documents, select the More results

• You can search within free Census cross-tabulations to find terms that are not found in the catalogue record.

• You can narrow your search by geographic level.

Please see http://www.statcan.gc.ca/search-recherche/nf-eng.htm for more detail.

Please let us know if you or your clients have any concerns when using these new features.

Dissemination Areas (DAs) Representative Points

Question

There is a researcher here who is looking for the Dissemination Area Representative Point File (2006). Is this a file that is available to us through DLI? I have not been successful in locating it on the Statistics Canada website. (I think the file might be in GIS shapefile format, but perhaps it's an ASCII file.)

Answer

Our geography consultants have indicated that the dissemination area representative points are available in GeoSuite 2006 (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/bsolc/olc-cel/olc-cel?lang=eng&catno=92-150-X -- available through the DLI). Here are the detailed instructions they provided:

"The DA Rep Points can be extracted using GeoSuite 2006.
Select Name Search
Select Level: CAN (Canada)
Click Next
Select DA (Dissemination Area)
Choose DAuid, DAlat, DAlong
Click Next - table will appear
Tools > Export"

I hope that this information is helpful. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or if this isn't what the researcher needs.

Release of Two Articles in CST

An article entitled Migration from Central to Surrounding Municipalities in Toronto, Montréal and Vancouver which looks at movements of persons aged 25 to 44 years between central municipalities and suburban municipalities in the country’s three largest metropolitan areas - Toronto, Montréal and Vancouver is released today in the Canadian Social Trends. The article presents socio-economic characteristics of persons most and least likely to leave the central municipality for a neighbouring municipality.

An article entitled Foreign Nationals Working Temporarily in Canada is also released today. This study examines the growing number of non-permanent residents who work temporarily in Canada. They are compared with permanent residents in terms of demographic characteristics, location, occupations and earnings. Census data show that while the numbers destined to skilled work has been increasing, most non-permanent residents are found in relatively unskilled occupations. Reflecting the occupations in which they work, foreign nationals working temporarily in Canada tend to be paid less than are comparable Canadian born and established immigrant workers.

Enclosed is the link to the Spotlight on the Census web page http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/index-eng.cfm

Use of Input-Output Multiplier in Research Analysis

Question

I have a researcher who has used provincial input-output multipliers as part of the analysis in a paper. The researcher wants to know if it's possible to have the multipliers in the paper as part of the equation to show that how the value is derived in the analysis. My understanding of the DLI license is that this would constitute raw data and couldn't directly be included in the paper. I've looked through the licensing cases on the web site and I don't find anything that exactly fits this case. The researcher would like a definite answer for this.

Answer

If like with most academic publications, the researcher needs to include a few figures from a provincial input-output multiplier Excel table to support his/her analysis and cites these, this is fine. The researcher couldn't include an entire table however as this would be redistributing the product.

I hope that this is helpful. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any other questions.