RDC projects and publications

The RDC program strives to maintain an up-to-date list of the projects currently being conducted at the various centres. We also post the abstracts and citation details of research papers published by researchers involved in the program.

RDC projects

The following list of projects is intended to provide an overview of the range of activity ongoing in the RDCs. The projects are listed according to primary data set used in the analysis. Readers are invited to contact the principal investigators if they wish to obtain more complete information about the project. This list is updated the first week of every month. 

• Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS)
• Ethnic Diversity Survey (EDS)
• Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC)
• National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY)
• National Population Health Survey (NPHS)
• Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)
• Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID)
• Workplace and Employee Survey (WES)
• Youth in Transition Survey (YITS)
• Other Surveys

Research papers from the RDCs

The following list of titles links to the summaries of all the research papers from projects completed at the RDCs. In most instances, full copies of these research papers are available, at the RDC web site where the research was conducted. In cases where the papers are only available from a recognized academic journal, citation details are provided at the end of each paper's summaries on this web site.

• Differences in Benefits within Non-standard Employment Contracts
  (Summary)  (Full Copy)

• Gender Differences in Vulnerability to Social Determinants of Health in Later-Life
  (Summary)  (Full Copy)

• Improving the Mental Health of Young Children in Toronto: Needs Assessment and Literature Review.
  (Summary) 

• Uses of the NPHS in Examining Health Behaviour Changes, with Particular Reference to Smoking Cessation.
  (Summary)  (Full Copy)

• A Cohort and Gender Comparison of Mid-life Characteristics associated with Residential Mobility upon Retirement
  (Summary)  (Full Copy)

• Wages in Canada: SCF, SLID, LFS and the Skill Premium
  (Summary)  (Full Copy)

• “Recycling:” The Economic Implications of Obtaining Additional Postsecondary Credentials at Lower or Equivalent Levels
  (Summary)  (Full Copy)

• Out-of-Pocket Prescription Drug Expenditures and Public Prescription Drug Programs: Provincial Evidence from Canada
  (Summary)  (Full Copy)

• Antecedent-Consequence Conditions in Maternal Mood and Child Adjustment: A Four-Year Cross-Lagged Study
  (Summary)

• Parental Work, Child-Care Use and Young Children’s Cognitive Outcomes
  (Summary)  (Full Copy)

• The Digital Divide in Canadian Schools: Factors Affecting Student Access to and Use of Information Technology
  (Summary)   (Full Copy)

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