Data Services

The Canada Health Survey was conducted in 1978-1979 to capture data on the lifestyle and health of Canadians, complementing existing administrative data bases. An extensive report was written on the findings of the survey; see Statistics Canada's The Health of Canadians: Report of the Canada Health Survey (STC 82-538).

The following files are available for use within the constraints of the DLI license to UNB Libraries users.

Documentation
• Canada Health Survey Codebook
• Canada Health Survey Interviewer's Questionnaire
• Canada Health Survey Self-administered questionnaire
• Canada Health Survey Physical measures questionnaire
• Canada Health Survey Sample Design and Estimation

  Data

• Canada Health Survey, provided as a zipped SPSS sav file
• Canada Health Survey data, provided as a raw ascii file
• Canada Health Survey SPSS syntax file, for use with raw ascii file above