Hagey Hall 334
University of Waterloo
Thursday April 3, 2008
1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
All interested parties are cordially invited to attend all or part of the sessions for this year's Southwestern Ontario Research Data Centre (SWORDC) presentations.
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
Members of the Social and Aboriginal Statistics Division at Statistics Canada will provide a series of 20 minute presentations on some of our key data sets. These rich sources of social data are or will soon be available for researchers to use within Statistics Canada’s Research Data Centres Program. Additionally, a representative from one of Statistics Canada’s refereed journals, Perspectives on Labour and Income, will discuss publishing opportunities at Statistics Canada.
The presentations will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in the social sciences. Please feel free to attend one or more of the presentations. We will also be available to answer any questions you have on the surveys. A representative of the Southwestern Ontario Research Data Centre will also be on hand to answer any questions you might have on how to apply to the Research Data Centres Program.
Schedule:
1:00 – 1:10: Introductory Remarks
1:10 – 1:30: Participation and Activity Limitations Survey: is Canada’s principal national survey focusing on persons with disabilities.
1:30 – 1:50: Vitality of Official-Language Minorities Survey: is the first survey that pertains specifically to Canada’s official-language minorities. It contains a vast and rich source of data on these groups.
1:50 – 2:10: Aboriginal Children’s Survey: is a national survey of First Nations, Inuit and Métis
children under the age of 6 years which collects information on the development and well-being
of Aboriginal children.
2:10 – 2:30: Aboriginal People’s Survey: provides data on the social and economic conditions of
Aboriginal people in Canada. Its purpose is to identify the needs of Aboriginal people focusing
on issues such as health, language, employment, income, schooling, housing, and mobility.
2:30 – 2:50: Break: Feel free to talk with any of the representatives.
2:50 – 3:10: Statistics Canada Publication Opportunities: Statistics Canada provides a range of publishing options for RDC research. We encourage submissions on topics of relevance to
citizens and policy-makers.
3:10 – 3:30: General Social Survey: is an annual cross-sectional household survey that gathers information on the social conditions of Canadians.
3:30 – 3:50: General Social Survey 20th Anniversary Project: We are constructing a coherent, easily used historical database containing data from all the 20 annual cycles in harmonized form.
3:50 – 4:10: RDC Program: provides excellent opportunities for researchers to analyze data collected by Statistics Canada on their local campus.
4:10- ?: Discussion: Feel free to talk with any of the representatives.
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.
