Congratulations to Mamadou Oury Sow, who will present his doctoral thesis, entitled "La qualité de l’emploi chez les immigrants : une analyse selon les parcours migratoires pré-Canada", on October 1st. His thesis was produced using data from the three waves of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC) carried out jointly by Statistics Canada and Citizenship and Immigration Canada between 2001 and 2005, and available in the CIQSS laboratories. Due to the pandemic, the thesis defense will be by invitation only.

L'axe Inégalités sociales de santé et équité (ISSE) du Réseau de recherche en santé des populations du Québec vous invite à participer au webinaire " Réaliser une analyse fondée sur le genre grâce à des données ne contenant pas de mesure du genre : Une innovation pour les utilisateurs des données de l’Enquête sur la santé dans les collectivités canadiennes " qui se tiendra le 9 septembre 2020, de 12h à 13h. La présentation visera à partager de récents travaux sur le développement et la validation d’un nouvel indice composite de genre grâce aux données de l’Enquête sur la santé dans les collectivités canadiennes (ESCC). Pour plus d'information et pour vous inscrire, cliquez ici.

• Longitudinal and International Study of Adults (LISA) 2018 (wave 4)
• Canadian Health Survey on Children and Youth (CHSCY) 2019
• Canadian Perspectives Survey Series 2 (CPSS) 2020: Monitoring the effects of COVID-19 
• General Social Survey - Giving, Volunteering and Participating (GSS GVP) 2018 - Cycle 33

• Employment Insurance Coverage Survey (EICS) -2018
• Canadian Housing Survey (CHS) 2018
• The British Columbia Ministry of Education Kindergarten to Grade 12 (BCK-12) file. The BCK-12 can be linked to T1 Family File (T1FF) and to Census 2016 - additional component produced contains parental tax outcome information

• Canadian Tobacco and Nicotine Survey (CTNS) - 2019
• Canadian Income Survey (CIS) - 2018 and revised CIS 2017
• Labour Force Survey (LFS) - COVID19 supplementary files 
• Vital Statistics 2018 Death Database (VSDD)
• Canadian Perspective Survey Series 1 Impacts of COVID 19 (CPSS-COVID)

• National Cannabis Survey (NCS) 2019  - Wave 4
• Healthy Aging Phase 2: New Canadian Community Health Survey data has been linked to the Canadian Cancer Registry, the T1 Family Files and to the Census (short form) data
• Update - 2011 Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort (CanCHEC) - Update
• Community Noise and Health Study (CNHS) 2013 - Update

CRDCN is proud to present a series of panel discussions related to COVID-19. This webinar series will engage CRDCN researchers, Statistics Canada subject matter experts and government policy-makers to:

• Identify emerging questions for COVID-19 related research and corresponding data needs
• Inform policy-making and program decisions in the immediate and mid-term
• Facilitate collaborative research and data development to inform Canada's COVID-19 response

Register for any upcoming sessions below or review those you missed. Following the introductory session on May 14th, four additional webinars will focus on one of our strategic research areas. 

Click here to view summaries and videos
 

May 14 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.  RESEARCH FOR POLICY - RESPONDING TO COVID-19

Panelists
Anil Arora, Statistics Canada, Chief Statistician of Canada
Andrew Bjerring, CRDCN, Chair of the Board
Rodney Ghali, Privy Council Office, Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet
Céline Le Bourdais, McGill University, Distinguished James McGill Professor of Sociology and Vice-Chair of the CRDCN Board

May 25 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.  INCOME AND EMPLOYMENT

Panelists
Andrew Heisz, Statistics Canada, Director - Centre for Income and Socioeconomic Wellbeing
Kevin Milligan, University of British Columbia, Professor of Economics
Louis Morel, Employment and Social Development Canada, Director General - Economic Policy
Mikal Skuterud, University of Waterloo, Professor of Economics

May 26 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.  EDUCATION AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Panelists
Alexandra Blair, Dalla Lana School of Public Health (University of Toronto), Postdoctoral Researcher
Marc Frenette, Statistics Canada, Assistant Director and Research Manager - Social Analysis and Modelling Division
Catherine Haeck, Université du Québec à Montréal, Associate Professor of Economics
Cindy Perry, Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services (Ontario), Director - Policy Research and Analysis Branch

 May 27 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.  IMMIGRATION AND SETTLEMENT

Panelists
Monica Boyd, University of Toronto, Professor of Sociology
Jeslyn Thibedeau, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, Assistant Director - Outcomes Analysis Unit
Ted McDonald, University of New Brunswick, Professor of Economics
Li Xue, Statistics Canada, Director - Social Analysis and Modelling Division

May 28 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.  POPULATION HEALTH AND HEALTH SERVICES

Panelists
Tracie Afifi, University of Manitoba, Professor of Community Health Sciences
Julie Bernier, Statistics Canada, Director - Health Analysis Division
David Green, University of British Columbia, Professor of Economics
Rhonda Kropp, Public Health Agency of Canada, Assistant Vice President - Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Branch

This event is presented in partnership with Statistics Canada

This webinar will be of particular interest to graduate students and faculty - please share widely within your institutions!

Recent physical distancing protocols pertaining to the COVID-19 Pandemic have meant that RDC researchers need to find alternative ways of carrying out their research. This webinar will be of interest to graduate students, librarians, faculty and researchers. The Real Time Remote Access (RTRA) program offers one alternative way to access confidential Statistics Canada data. Other options include using the Statistics Canada public use files and analyzing data from other sources.

The presenters will discuss the differences between the data that can be accessed through the RTRA vs. the RDC. RTRA data is a very useful option for some types of questions but also has some important limitations. In addition, they will highlight alternative sources of data from the U.S. and elsewhere that are similar to the Statistics Canada master datasets. These may be particularly useful for graduate students who may not be able to wait for the RDC to re-open but who need to conduct analyses that are more sophisticated than what the RTRA or public use files will permit.

Presenters:

Elizabeth Hill has been a data librarian at Western University since 1998. She has served as Chair of the Statistics Canada`'s Professional Development Committee of the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI), and is currently a member of the DLI External Advisory Committee, representing Ontario. She has also been a member of Portage Training Expert subgroups, RDM 101 and Repositories 101. She has presented at IASSIST on topics related to data access, data portals and training.

Kristi Thompson has been the research data management librarian at Western University since 2019, and previously held positions as data librarian at the University of Windsor and as a data specialist at Princeton University. Her involvement with Portage includes participating on the FRDR Policy and User Experience working groups and the Dataverse North Policy working group. She co-edited the book Databrarianship: the Academic Data Librarian in Theory and Practice for ACRL and has published on topics ranging from international data sources to aboriginal sports practices.

Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 / Time: 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM EDT

Register for this webinar

Statistics Canada is evaluating proposals to grant some researchers remote access to confidential data for COVID-19 research that will yield short-term deliverables for government policy and program decisions. Proposals must include at least one letter of support from a senior official responsible for COVID-19 policy or program making (e.g., provincial Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Health, etc.)

In order to be considered, the project outlined in the research proposal must:

1. clearly support COVID-19 decision-making in the immediate term; and

2. provide results in an appropriate form for policy and decision-making (e.g., journal article published next year is not appropriate for the proposal).

All proposals will be reviewed by a management review committee at Statistics Canada that will provide recommendations to the Chief Statistician of Canada. If your proposal meets the criteria described above, please submit a preliminary research proposal to Gabrielle Beaudoin, Director General, Data Access and Dissemination at Statistics Canada.

See the template for a proposal below:

Statistics Canada is aware of the impact of the closure of Research Data Centres. Therefore, some of the conditions of its Real-Time Remote Access System (RTDA) have been relaxed.

• A six month-free subscription is available for all researchers from all Quebec and Canadian universities.
• Requests for access will be processed faster than usual (within 2 to 4 days). (Generally, it can take up to two weeks to process a request.)
• Data requests directly related to the COVID-19 Pandemic will be considered (except for business data).

What is Real Time Remote Access?

The RTRA system allows users to run SAS programs, in real time, against microdata located in a central and secure location.

Researchers using the RTRA system do not gain direct access to the microdata and cannot view the content of the microdata file. Instead, users submit SAS programs to extract results in the form of frequency tables. RTRA users can calculate frequencies, means, percentiles, percent distribution, proportions, ratios, and shares.

The RTRA system uses an Electronic File Transfer (EFT) service to enable organizations outside of Statistics Canada to exchange electronic files in a secure manner using the Internet.

Which data are available?

RTRA was developed for social survey data and administrative data. Census data for example are not available through the RTRA system. The complete list of data sets available can be found here.

How to make an application?

Detailed instructions for gaining access are available on Statistics Canada website. For more information on the RTRA ‚ please email: [email protected]. Webinar to learn how to use the system can be offered. If you are interested in participating in a Webinar, please contact us at [email protected].