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DLI Atlantic Training 2006
Session 1.3: Product Highlights
Jewels Among the Stones
User Guides and Reference
Sources
What are they?
• More than this:
5
19
0
7
Sightings
Publicly available data resources
in the nonprofit sector in Canada
Guide to Transportation Data
Guide to Statistics Canada pension and wealth surveys
Business Portal
System of National Economic Accounts
Global View of Surveys
When Would You Use Them?
I need to know how the LICO are
calculated. “20 percentage
points more” of what? Is it gross
income, disposable income, or
total consumption?
What surveys do
you have that deal
with labour topics?
Got a
question?
I'm looking for
something called
"the real effective
exchange rate".
Is output gap the
same as potential
GDP?
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
Start here
Definitions, Data Sources and Methods
Changes
over time
Publications
My Favourites Today?
System of National Economic Accounts
[Major Data Sources of Statistics Canada . . . ]
Canadian Community Health Survey Optional Content and Related Tables.
Definitions of Rural
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.