Group Viewing Room (GVR)
3rd Floor, Library
University of Guelph
Friday April 30, 2003
Beginning
at 10 a.m.
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 .
The SWORDC is an on-campus Statistics Canada outlet. Researchers with approved projects gain access to Statistics Canada data sets in master file format. That means, no suppressed variables or codes, and is especially useful for working with the longitudinal surveys such as the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth . SWORDC is a partnership between the University of Waterloo, University of Guelph, Wilfrid Laurier University, and Brock University. The computing lab is located at Waterloo, and the web site is run by Guelph. Brock University has a SWORDC-funded facility for running dummy data sets.
PROGRAM
Morning: Session on projects at the proposal stage, or work in progress
Afternoon: Session on works at or near completion
Chair of Morning Session: John Goyder, SWORDC Co-Director
10:00 am- Welcoming remarks, followed by a short session on how to apply to do an RDC project (if there is audience demand for this).
10:15-12:00 - Presentations on work at the proposal or early analysis stage.
1. Robert Swidinsky , Department of Economics, University of Guelph. “Literacy and economic performance.”
2. Mark George , Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo. “Do organizational characteristics moderate?”
3. Susan Askin , Department of Clinical Health Sciences (Nursing), McMaster University. “Human and social capital indices as predictors of health compromising behaviours in 14-15 year old youth.”
4. Hideki Ariizumi , Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario. “ The effect of unemployment on health status, using the NPHS.”
12:00-1:30 pm - Lunch.
1:30-4:30- Session on works at or near completion.
Chair of Afternoon Session: Keith Warriner, SWORDC Co-Director
1. Sarah Viehbeck , Department of Health Studies and Gerontology, University of Waterloo. “An examination of the impact of municipal smoking restrictions on the behaviour of current smokers.”
2. Hyuk-Sung Kwon , Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, The University of Western Ontario. "Modelling mortality allowing for various risk factors."
3. Jason Dean , Department of Economics, University of Guelph. “Tenant mobility: the role of transactions costs and economic variables in tight and loose markets."
4. Amanda Franceschini , Department of Family Relations , University of Guelph. “A longitud inal study of family relationships as mediators of children's schooling outcomes.”
5. Vinay Kanetkar , Department of Marketing and Consumer Studies, University of Guelph. “Diffusion of personal computers and digital divide: estimating demographic segment level diffusion parameters.”
Fees and Registration: NONE! There is no cost and no registration. This is a good opportunity for people, especially graduate students, with a potential interest in using Statistics Canada data for a thesis to gain a feel for how Research Data Centres work. All comers most welcome.
