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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
Start here
Definitions, Data Sources and Methods
Changes over time
Publications
My Favourites Today?
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.
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