Jewels Among the Stones:

User Guides and Reference Sources

Atlantic DLI Training 2006 Acadia University Wolfville, NS

April 19, 2006.

Elizabeth Hamilton

University of New Brunswick

What are they?

• More than this:

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Sightings

Global View of Surveys

Guide to Statistics Canada pension and wealth surveys

Publicly available data resources in the nonprofit sector in Canada

Guide to Transportation Data

Business Portal

System of National Economic Accounts

When Would You Use Them?

Got a question?

I need to know how the LICO are calculated. “20 percentage points more” of what? Is it gross income, disposable income, or total consumption?

I'm looking for something called "the real effective exchange rate".

Is output gap the same as potential GDP?

What surveys do you have that deal with labour topics?

Help! This doesn’t make sense!

What Do I Need to Know?

• Check the Codebook; read the footnotes

• Definitions, Data Sources and Methods: – Check individual surveys for sightings of “Additional Documentation”

and “Summary of Changes over Time”

• Online Catalogue: – “user guide, manual, handbook, sources, method*, concepts” plus the

subject or survey you need

• Browse Free Publications and Working Paper series

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Definitions, Data Sources and Methods

Changes over time

Publications

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System of National Economic Accounts

Canadian Community Health Survey Optional Content and Related Tables.

Definitions of Rural

[Major Data Sources of Statistics Canada . . . ]

Be Imaginative!

Don’t forget to think outside the box. At least two of the really interesting lists of health surveys come from Health

Canada and from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.