Data Sets and Research Tools

The RDC program provides both short descriptions and detailed documentation about the data sets that are available for analysis in the RDCs. The program also provides analytical and methodological research tools to assist researchers.

Data sets

To read a short description about a specific survey used at the RDCs, click on the survey title. 

To access detailed documentation on a specific survey used at the RDCs, click on the appropriate cycle or year. 

• Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) 
  
  • Rounding for APS 2001

• Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS), Cycle 2.1
  • Cycle 2.2 - Nutrition
  • Cycle 1.2 - Mental Health and Well-being
  • Cycle 1.1
    
    
• Ethnic Diversity Survey (EDS)
  • User Guide
  • Code Book
    
    
• General Social Survey (GSS)
  • Cycle 6 (1991) - Health (GSS)
  • Cycle 13 (1999) - Victimization (GSS)
  • Cycle 15 (2001) - Family (GSS)
  • Cycle 16 (2002) - Social Support and Aging (GSS)
    • GSS Cycle 16 (2002) - Social Support and Aging - User's Guide to the Public Use Microdata File
  • Cycle 17 (2003) - Social Engagement (GSS)
  • Cycle 18 (2004) - Victimization (GSS)

• Health Services Access Survey (HSAS)
  
  
• Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC)
  

  • 2001 (Wave 1) Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC)
  • 2003 (Wave 2) Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC)
    
    
• National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY)
  • NLSCY codebook and user's guide
    
    
•  National Population Health Survey (NPHS)
  • Household Component - Cross-sectional
  • Household Component - Longitudinal
  • North Component
  • Health Institutions Component
    
    
• Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID)
  • Electronic data dictionary
    
    
• Survey of Public Service Employees
  
  
• Workplace and Employee Survey (WES)
  
  
• Youth in Transition Survey (YITS)
  • 15 year-olds (Mathematics Cohort)
  • 15 year-olds (Reading Cohort)

Research tools

The Information and Technical Bulletin (ITB) provides a new forum for RDC researchers to exchange practical information and techniques for analyzing datasets available at the RDCs. It is released in the spring and autumn of each year.

The following presentations provide additional information to researchers about the contents of some of the surveys available for analysis at the RDCs as well as discussions on different methodological issues.

Bootvar is a program composed of macros which allow for the computation of variance estimates using the bootstrap method. The program is generic, i.e., it is possible to use with data coming from any of Statistic Canada's surveys that release bootstrap weights.

Bootvar is available in both SAS and SPSS formats.