Statistics Canada Data Products

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Statistics Canada Data Products

• An Overview for ADMN 502A November 25, 2009
• Presented by Kathleen Matthews, Data Services
  Librarian
• [phone] kmatthew_at_uvic.ca.

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The Scenario The Data Sought

• You have been asked to find out
• How many youth live in Victoria,
• Some demographic information about these youth
  (i.e. income.)
• The volunteer participation rate of the youth
  population in Victoria.
• Step one Specify the parameters in terms of
  StatCans Categories
• Youth 15 24 year olds
• Victoria (City) CSD (Census Subdivision
  Municipality)
• Victoria (CRD) CMA (Census Metropolitan Area)
• Step two Determine the StatCan Products that
  might provide this information.
• from the Census
• from the Surveys

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StatCan Products

• For a Demographic Profile of Victoria (15 24
  year olds)
• Community Profiles (2006 Census) subset of 200
  Census variables/characteristics
• E-STAT (2006 Census) gt 2000 Census
  characteristics/variables
• Topic Based Tabulations (2006 Census) CrossTabs
  (Income/Age/Geographies)
• For Participation Rates of Volunteers (15 24
  year olds)
• Canadian Survey of Giving, Volunteering and
  Participating 2007  (csgvp)
• General Social Survey 2005. Cycle 19. Time Use
  (gss)
• Accessing Survey Data
• E-STAT (for CANSIM Tables from CSGVP or GSS
  Surveys)
• SDA (Survey Documentation Analysis) Service
• StatCan Product Main Page (for Analytical Studies
  other Published Statistics)
• Access to Survey Master Files at the UVic
  Research Data Centre (RDC)
• Citing Statistics Canada Products
  BUT FIRST AN OVERVIEW

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Statistics Canada Data Storyboardby Kathleen
Matthews, Research, Development Data Services
Librarian.
StatCan Website The Daily Highlight
Tables Statistics by Subject Census Community
profiles Topic Based Tabulations E-STAT (E-STAT
gt Census CANSIM) Analytical StudiesMaps
Geography Search
DLI Program(DLI license) Public Use Microdata
Files (PUMF) (anonymized, aggregated)
Documentation Codebooks User Guides SAS/SPSS
SyntaxBeyond 20/20 tables Geospatial Products
(Census) DLI FTP Site (FTP site is pswd
protected) DLI Web Collection(Data files are
pswd protected) DLI Citation Guide
UVic (DAS) Data Acquisition Service (DLI
Collection)
PUMFData
UVic
SDA UTDLS Microdata Analysis Subsetting
(DLI Collection)
U of T
CANSIM II
CCA CanadianCensusAnalyzer
LANDRU Subsetting (DLI data) Variable Search
U of C
UBC Data Services NESSTAR (in development)
UBC
StatCan Divisions Surveys Census Survey
Questionnaires
Research Data Centre Program BC Inter-University
RDC UVic Branch RDC Survey Data Master Files
(individual responses)security clearance STC
employee
Master File Data
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DEMO

• Connect via the Library web pages
• Start at the Library web page
• http//library.uvic.ca
• Select About the Libraries gt McPherson Library
• http//library.uvic.ca/site/about/index.html
• Libraries Data Acquisition Service
• http//library.uvic.ca/site/data/default.html

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Where does that leave us?

• Youth of Victoria (15 -24)
• Community Profiles 2006 Population counts for 15
  -19 20 - 24 for Victoria (City or CRD)
• E-STAT 2006 Population Counts Employment
  counts for City of Victoria CRD
• 2006 Topic Based Tabulations allowed us to see
  many different census characteristics for the 15
  -25 year old segment of Victoria (City or CRD)
  population.. And export tables to Excel (or
  Beyond 20/20)
• Volunteering by Youth of Victoria
• SDA to access pumf data volunteer activity for
  15 - 24 year group, by sex from..
• General Social Survey (Time Use)
• Canadian Survey of Volunteering Giving
  Participating
• pumf based data, lowest level of geography is
  province (BC)
• Master Files in the RDC may provide Victoria data
  from these surveys
• Survey related StatCan Publications (Analytical
  Studies) via StatCan or Google Search