2006 - 2005- 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001

December 21, 2006

TDR Nesstar Update

Tri-University Data Resources (TDR) has been offering the new NESSTAR web-retrieval service for the past year. Users were still able to access the original web-retrieval system although maintainance on the old site ceased as of January 2006. As of December 21, 2006, the link to the old web-retrieval system has been removed. The link to the RAW DATA files has also been removed. These files were part of the old web-retrieval system and therefore are no longer active.

All data must now be accessed using the Nesstar web-retrieval link from the TDR home page. User guides and on-line tutorials are available from the Nesstar site for those who require assistance.

Please contact your local data provider if you have questions or require assistance with the new system.

December 20, 2005

TDR Nesstar Project Update

Tri-University Data Resources (TDR) has installed a server upgrade to further enhance the features available using our NESSTAR web-retreival service.

NEW FEATURES:

• New datasets added to the collection will be highlighted
• Nesstar tutorials are now available from the top menu bar
• Links to on-line subscription databases are now located in the "Location" section of the "Study Description" section of the "Metadata" . It will no longer be linked from the bottom of the Metadata under the "Other Documentation" section.
• Links to B2020 files and Excel files have been relocated to the "Location" section of the "Study Description" section of the "Metadata" . They will no longer be linked from the bottom of the Metadata under the "Other Documentation" section.
• For assistance, "Contact us" links to your local service provider are available from the top menu bar or the bottom menu of each page.

Please note that as of January 2, 2006, the original TDR web-retrieval system will no longer be updated. Please begin using the Nesstar web-retrieval system for research and class demonstration purposes.

The original system will remain in place for the winter semester while users adjust to the new system.

Questions regarding this project can be directed to either Carol Perry (carolp@uoguelph.ca) or Michelle Edwards (edwardsm@uoguelph.ca).

SWORDC and the TDR present

DATA DAY

Friday, September 30, 2005 from 9:30am - 12 noon
University of Waterloo, Davis Centre Library Conference Room 1568

Hosted by the University of Waterloo.
Follow LINK for registration and conderence details.

TDR Website Unavailable Briefly, Thursday, June 23, 2005

The TDR website will be unavailable on Thursday June 23 from 6:30am to 8:00am due to maintenance operations. We apologize for the inconvenience..

Announcement of ICPSR Prize Competition: Best Instructional Module in the Social Sciences

The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) announces a prize competition for the best instructional module or instructional innovation in the social sciences and in social science history.

The competition is open to faculty and academic staff at member institutions of ICPSR.  The winner will receive a cash prize of $500; the winner's institution will receive a credit of $500 toward the next year's ICPSR membership dues; and the winner will be invited to present their work to the 2005 Official Representatives meeting of ICPSR, October 22, 2005. Follow link for details.

TDR Website Unavailable Thursday, May 26, 2005

The TDR website will be unavailable on Thursday May 26 from 6:00am to 8:00am due to hardware reconfiguration and regular maintenance. Services affected will include:

TDR service

- The CCS software Download site

- ArcIMS service

- ArcGIS license manager

- Matlab Classroom Edition license manager

- On-line Test-Scoring Service

- Library LIBGIS service

If you have any questions, please contact the CCS Help Centre at x58888

TriUniversity Data Resources and the Southwestern Ontario Research Data Centre
Welcome You to
Data Day

April 29, 2005
University of Guelph
3rd Floor, Library
Group View Room (GVR)
Beginning at 9 a.m.

Join us for an exciting day where you will learn more about the data available through the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) and the Southwestern Ontario Research Data Centre (SWORDC).

All interested parties are cordially invited to attend all or part of the sessions for this year's TDR/SWORDC Data Day

Coffee and refreshments will be served throughout the day

Please follow link to register.
Registration Deadline is April 22, 2005.

TDR Nesstar Service Interruption - March 29, 2005

The TDR Nesstar server will be temporarily unavailable Tuesday, March 29, 2005 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

March 14, 2005 - New ICPSR Website - Service disruption

On Monday, March 14, ICPSR will unveil a new version of its Web site. We
expect the site to be inaccessible between 1pm and 5pm EST, while we shut
down the server, move over new files, and make last-minute changes.

The new site includes some major changes, such as:

- a radically improved download interface
- tab-based navigation
- an update notification service
- a new versioning system to describe files
- new study-level documentation files
- a revised help system that provides the user with OR contact information
quickly and easily

A detailed explanation of these changes will be available as an
announcement on the front page on the new Web site.

If you have any questions, please contact us at
web-support@icpsr.umich.edu.

Summer 2005 Program at ICPSR

The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research is once again offering a summer program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research at the University of Michigan located in Ann Arbor. Course offerings range from two-day courses to four week credit courses. The summer program runs June to August, 2005. A limited amount of funding will be available for Ontario university applicants.

See website for details: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/training/summer/index.html

TDR Machine Unavailable Tuesday, January 25, 2005

The stats machine muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca will be unavailable on Tuesday
morning January 25th from 6:00am to 8:00am due to system maintenance.

During this time, the following services will be unavailable

1. All stats programs - SAS,SPSS, SPLUS, MATLAB (only Academic version),
MAPLE, STATA and others

2. Logins will be disabled

3. File Systems exported to the TDR machine will also be unavailable


Please do not initiate any long-running batch jobs before then.

If you have any questions, please contact the CCS Help Centre at x58888

Thank you

CCS

Summer 2005 Program in Data Analysis - SPIDA - York University

York's Summer Programme in Data Analysis (SPIDA), is an eight-day series of intensive lectures and workshops designed to train social science researchers to analyze complex surveys, especially longitudinal and multi-level data, plus a one-day symposium on an advanced topic pertinent to this analytical domain.

While the techniques are applicable widely, SPIDA aims to encourage analysis of Statistics Canada's longitudinal surveys, now available at the Research Data Centres in a number of universities across Canada.

The SPIDA programme is strongly oriented to the development of working skills in data analysis, as well as providing participants with the necessary statistical background for those skills.

Follow LINK for details .

November 4, 2004

TDR and SWORDC - DATA DAY - Friday November 19, 2004

All interested parties are cordially invited to attend the upcoming Southwestern Ontario Research Data Centre (SWORDC) and Tri-University Data Resources presentation. This is part of an ongoing series of seminars which are prepared for interested faculty, researchers, students and staff from the three universities. For details and registration see: DATA DAY.

Computing services to be interrupted - Tuesday November 9, 2004

Due to system maintenance, the following brief outage is scheduled for this
Tuesday, November 9th from 7:15 to 7:45am.

All  TDR datasets will be unavailable from 7:00am until 8:00am.

Computing services to be interrupted - Thursday September 16, 2004

Due to system maintenance, the following outages are scheduled for this
Thursday, Sept 16th from 6:45am to 8:00am.

All  TDR datasets will be unavailable from 7:00am until 8:00am.

Computing services to be interrupted - Thursday September 2, 2004

Most University e-mail and web services will be unavailable for about four hours starting at 8 p.m. Thursday.

Computing and Communications Services is upgrading the power supply to the University Computer Centre, which requires an electrical shutdown. Services will be affected until about 12 a.m. Friday September 3.

All University websites and central e-mail inboxes and folders will be unavailable during this time. Mail will be held for delivery until services resume.

People on campus during this period will continue to have access to the rest of the Internet.

UNIX MACHINE MAINTENANCE on Saturday August 14, 2004

The TDR website (tdr.uoguelph.ca) and all associated files will be unavailable on the morning of Saturday August 14, 2004, from 8:00 a.m. until late afternoon due to system maintenance. We apologize for the inconvenience.

UNIX MACHINE MAINTENANCE on Saturday August 7, 2004

The TDR website (tdr.uoguelph.ca) will be unavailable on the morning of Saturday August 7, 2004, from 6:00 a.m. until early evening due to system maintenance. We apologize for the inconvenience.

SWORDSC Mini-Conference - April 30,2004

All interested parties are cordially invited to attend all or part of the sessions for this year's Southwestern Ontario Research Data Centre (SWORDC) Mini-Conference

When? Friday, April 30 th , 2004, beginning at 10:00 am

Where? University of Guelph , McLaughlin Library, Group Viewing Room (3 rd floor)

Follow LINK for details.

STATS MACHINE MAINTENANCE on Saturday April 24, 2004

The stats machine stats.uoguelph.ca will be unavailable on the morning of Saturday April 24th from 7:00am until 9:00 am due to system maintenance.

In addition, all file systems mounted from the stats machine to the TDR server machine, (tdr.uoguelph.ca) will be offline and unavailable during this time. This will affect the availablity of some datsets required to perform extracts using the main DRC application.

Please contact the Stats HelpLine at x58002 if you have any questions.

Thank you,
CCS

Summer Programs in Quantitative Analysis at ICPSR - 2004

There are two four-week Summer Program sessions, with intensive seminars , special workshops that provide participants with opportunities to examine the impact of various methodologies on specific substantive issues, and workshops that address the practical objectives of providing technical support for computing specialists and data librarians. In addition, research scholars who have made important contributions to the development of social methodology present informal lectures focusing on their most recent research interests.

Follow LINK for details.

Summer Program in Data Analysis - SPIDA - York University

York's Summer Programme in Data Analysis (SPIDA), is a two-week series of intensive courses designed to train social researchers to analyze complex surveys, especially longitudinal and multi-level data. While the techniques are applicable widely, SPIDA aims to encourage analysis of Statistics Canada's longitudinal surveys, now available at the Research Data Centres in a number of universities across Canada. SPIDA courses provide the necessary statistical background, but they are strongly oriented to the development of working skills in data analysis. SPIDA is funded by the Canadian Initiative on Social Statistics, a co-operative project of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Statistics Canada

Follow LINK for details.

The stats machine stats.uoguelph.ca will be unavailable on the morning of Thursday March 18th from 7:15am until 7:45am due to system maintenance.

In addition, all file systems mounted from the stats machine to the TDR server machine, (tdr.uoguelph.ca) will be offline and unavailable during this time. This will affect the availablity of some datsets required to perform extracts using the main DRC application.

Please contact the Stats HelpLine at x58002 if you have any questions.

Thank you,
CCS

SWORDC SEMINAR

Title: Longitudinal Analysis for the Un-Initiated

Presented by: John Goyder and Keith Warriner

Date: Thursday, 27 November, 2003

Location: PAS 2063 (UW campus)

All comers welcome.

This is a repeat of a session from last winter, mainly for the benefit of new graduate students.

Pat Newcombe-Welch, instructor of the new course on longitudinal survey analysis (see under TRAINING, on the SWORDC web site) , will be there, and this will be a good opportunity to learn more about this winter 2004 term course. We are designing the presentation this year to be an entry point for people taking the new course as well, we hope, as having some stand-alone value.

September 18, 2003

TDR Web Retrieval will be unavailable Thursday, September 18, 2003 from 7:30 a.m. until 7:50 a.m. due to regular maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

July 30, 2003

Please note: TDR Web Retrieval will be unavailable Thursday, July 30 , 2003 from 7:30 a.m. until 7:50 a.m. due to regular maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

April 30, 2003

Please note: If you have bookmarked any page using the url: stats.uoguelph.ca, the url will not funtion after May 4, 2003. All pages on the TDR site will refer to tdr.tug-libraries.on.ca or tdr.uoguelph.ca.

If you have any questions, please call CCS at X580

February 13, 2003

PhD Stipend Program invites Applications

The Statistics Canada PhD Stipend program is accepting applications for the 2003/04 academic year. This program, now in its sixth year, offers support to PhD candidates working on their theses who are interested in using one of a variety of newly available micro data, including both longitudinal surveys and administrative data. Through this program students have the opportunity to work at the Ottawa headquarters of Statistics Canada and are offered limited financial support.

The program seeks not only to offer PhD students access to survey and administrative data to complete work associated with their theses, but also to promote awareness of the these data and the workings of Statistics Canada to a group of future Canadian researchers as well as to the general research community. The application deadline is April 15th.

For details see :

www.statcan.ca/english/edu/stipend.htm

Summer Programs 2003

Summer Program in Data Analysis - York University - Institute for Social Research

November 1, 2002

Census 2001 Update

Please be advised that the two Canadian Overview Tables which were scheduled to be released next Tuesday, November 5, 2002 have been cancelled. The catalogue numbers are: 97F0006XCB01003 and 97F0006XCB01004.

This is to confirm the new release date for the two Canadian Overview Tables will be
November 5th that were scheduled to be pre-released on Tuesday, October 8,
2002.

The two tables are:

97F0006XCB01003 - Type of Collective Dwelling (15), for
Canada, Provinces, Territories, CMAs and CAs, 2001 Census - 100% Data and

97F0006XCB01004 - Type of Collective Dwelling (15A), Age Group (8A), Institutional
Resident Indicator (3) and Sex (3) for Population in Collective Dwellings, for Canada,
Provinces, Territories, CMAs and CAs, 2001 Census, 100% Data. A data quality note
will accompany each table. The release will be announced in The Daily.

July, 2002

NEW CENSUS 2001 RELEASES

Topic-based Tabulations
Beginning July 16, 2002, this series of tables will paint a portrait of Canada based on various topics, that is on groups of variables on related subjects. They will be available for various levels of geography. Some tables will provide a simple overview of the country; others will consist of three or four cross-tabulated variables; and still others will be of special or analytic interest.

Profiles
These tables provide a statistical overview of various geographic areas based on a large number of detailed variables. Groups of variables, referred to as electronic components of profiles, will be made available in each of the eight major releases, beginning July 16, 2002 with the components of profiles for census divisions /
census subdivisions (CD /CSDs). Together, the electronic components of profiles will form a complete profile.

Public Use Microdata Files (PUMFs)
Beginning in the 3rd quarter of 2004, these files will provide access to non-aggregated data such that users can conduct their own research or analysis.

March 6, 2002

Statistics Canada Census 2001 Update

POPULATION, DWELLINGS AND GEOGRAPHY: FIRST DATA FROM 2001 CENSUS ON MARCH 12, 2002

On March 12, 2002, Statistics Canada starts painting a new statistical portrait of the nation with the first data from the 2001 Census. This release of data on population and dwelling counts will provide a comprehensive profile of where Canadians live.

Detailed analysis of new census data on the nation's population will be available March 12th by accessing on the Statistics Canada website (www.statcan.ca) a full-colour, on-line report titled "A profile of the Canadian population: where we live".

New Internet-based tools will provide quick access to a host of data, maps and supporting reference material. They will be available by visiting the Agency's website at www.statcan.ca, and clicking on "Census" on the blue bar across the top.

The 2001 Census Population, Dwellings and Geography module on the Agency's
website has been designed to provide user-friendly access to data on population and dwelling counts. This module will be available March 12, 2002, at 8.30 a.m. Eastern time.

Population and dwelling counts will be available for a wide range of geographic areas, from provinces and territories, down to the city blocks.

This module provides new electronic tools that put data at your fingertips. These include GeoSearch, population and dwelling counts tables and thematic maps.

Statistics Canada will release further data from the 2001 Census in announcements running from July 2002 through May 2003. The next release, covering data on age and sex, is scheduled for July 16, 2002. Two further releases are scheduled for later this year: marital status, common-law status, families and dwellings and households (October 22), and language, and mobility and migration (December 10).

Other Census Update Information:

CENSUS - Census of Population 2001 and Census of Agriculture 2001

Census of Agriculture 2001 Release Dates

January 16, 2002

CANSIM II

The link to CANSIM from the TDR Home Page now links to CANSIM II, the new revised site for accessing time series data. The first version of CANSIM is still available, however, series updates have been discontinued. CANSIM II provides a concordance between old CANSIM series and the CANSIM II equivilants.

January 14, 2002

CENSUS UPDATE

The following publication is the Product & Services Guide to the 2001 Census with updated information on the release dates and formats of Census Products.

2001 Census Preview of Product & Services [PDF]

Statistics Canada Census Information pages can be viewed through this link: CENSUS

May 10, 2002

ICPSR Summer Workshop Programme

The official opening of the Southwestern Ontario Research Data Centre (SWORDC) is scheduled for Friday, December 7, 2001.

Details are available from the SWORDC web site at: http://www.stats.uwaterloo.ca/Stats_Dept/SWORDC/swo_rdc.html

SPECIAL NOTICE:

November 23, 2001

Please be advised that in the coming weeks the Data Set Categories for the Web Retrieval system are being revised. These revisions are intended to simplify the process of locating data sets within the Web Retrieval system.

Borrowers are reminded that the "Search" function to assist in identifying data is accessible from all TDR web pages as well as from the main Web Retrieval page.

Subjects and Dates of Major Census Data Releases *

Population and Dwelling Counts
March 12, 2002

Age and Sex
July 16, 2002

Marital Status
Common-law Status
Families
Dwellings and Households
October 22, 2002

Languages
Mobility and Migration
December 10, 2002

Citizenship
Immigration
Place of Birth and Parents' Place of Birth
Ethnic Origin
Visible Minorities
January 21, 2003

Labour Market Activity
Occupation
Industry
Presence of Children
Place of Work
Mode of Transportation
Language of Work
Unpaid Work
February 11, 2003

Schooling
Field of Study
Highest Level of Schooling
Earnings
March 11, 2003

Aboriginal data
April 8, 2003

Religion
Total Income of Individuals, Families and Households
Income After Tax
Socio-economic Characteristics of Individuals, Families and Households
Housing Costs
May 13, 2003

* May be subject to change.

PhD Students take note: STATISTICS CANADA RESEARCH STIPEND OFFER

Statistics Canada is offering a research stipend to eligible Phd students using Stats Canada data. Please read the attached document for details. PDF

Summer 2001

Summer programmes in data analysis are offered at a variety of institutions.  The following are links to summer programs which may be of interest to users:

• Center for Spacial Integrated Social Science U California

• ICPSR

• University of Essex

November 24, 2000

NOTE: Watch for upcoming changes to this website.

November 2, 2000

NOTE: Today we have moved to a new UNIX machine. All data accessed through the web retrieval system now link to the new machine. You should not experience any change in service except for speedier retrievals. If you have placed bookmarks directly to a data set you will need to update these bookmarks.

October 1998:

The TriUniversity Group of Libraries (TUG -Guelph, Waterloo, Laurier) along with Computing and Communications Services (CCS - Guelph) and Information Technolgy Services (ITS - Waterloo) recently joined together to establish TriUniversity Data Resources (TDR).

This service provides TUG students, faculty and staff with quick and easy access to electronic data--statistical and geospatial-- from organizations such as Statistics Canada and ICPSR, and offers links to other relevant data sources on the Internet. The service was created jointly to take advantage of efficiencies in terms of both hardware, software and human resources. Service should be significantly improved for all those involved in accessing this information. This is an exciting and innovative approach to disseminating electronic data..