Data Services

LOCATION: Third Floor, Harriet Irving Library

DLI DATA FILES

The UNB Libraries provides access to DLI data files, suitable for use with statistical packages such as SPSS or SAS, in several different ways. Users can:

• download a survey (including documentation, where available) for analysis, and/or
• create subsets of various files through cooperative agreements with the University of Calgary and the University of Western Ontario; and/or
• use selected files available as CD-ROM Products.

The University of Western Ontario's Internet Data Library System, IDLS, provides access to many of the Beyond 20/20 tables and subsetting under the same license conditions. IDLS is also useful for finding specific variables, using the "variable description" search option.

Researchers who wish to explore further analysis using confidential (master) files from longitudinal surveys may contact the Research Data Centre to discuss eligibility for data use under the RDC program.

DOWNLOAD FILES:

The files listed below are available for downloading in their entirety. For more information on the survey, related documentation and data file availability, click on one of the following links. In addition to the files listed below, files listed on the DLI home page may be requested by authorized users of UNB Libraries through the DLI contact at UNB Libraries.

Aboriginal Peoples Survey (1991)
Adult Education Survey
Adult Education and Training Surveys
Adult Training Survey
Atlantic Fisheries "Catch and Effort" Data [DFO]

Business Integrated Database

Canada Health Survey (1978)
Canadian Alcohol and Drug Survey (1994)
Canadian Alcohol and Drug Use Monitoring Survey (2008)
Canada Survey on Giving, Volunteering and Participating (2004)
[see also National Survey on Giving, Volunteering and Participating]
Canadian Business Patterns
Canadian Community Health Survey
Canadian Internet Use Survey
Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey
Canadian Travel Survey
Pre-1996 Census Data
Census 1996 Data Files (Beyond 20/20 tables and microdata files)
Census Geography Files
Census 2001 Data Files (Beyond 20/20 tables and microdata files)

Employment Insurance Coverage Survey

Family Expenditures Survey (FAMEX)
Financial Performance Indicators for Canadian Business
General Social Surveys

Select a GSS File GSS GSS1 GSS2 GSS3 GSS4 GSS5 GSS6 GSS7 GSS8 GSS9 GSS10 GSS11 GSS12 GSS13 GSS14 GSS15 GSS16 GSS17 GSS18 GSS19

Health and Activities Limitations Survey (1991)
Health Indicators Database (1996)(Beyond 20/20 Tables)
Health Indicators Database (1997)(Beyond 20/20 Tables)
Health Promotion Survey (1985)
Health Promotion Survey (1990)
Household Internet Use Survey (HIUS)
Households and the Environment Survey (HES)
International Adult Literacy Survey (1994-1995)
International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey (IALSS), 2003
Interwar Labour Database
Justice Statistics [Beyond 20/20 format]

Labour Force Surveys

National Alcohol and Drug Survey (NADS) 1989
National Electronic Media Usage Survey (1996)
National Graduates Survey
National Longitudinal Survey on Children and Youth
National Population Health Survey (1994)
National Population Health Survey (1996)
National Population Health Survey (1998)
National Private Vehicle Use Survey
National Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating (1998)
National Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating (2000) [see also Canada Survey on Giving, Volunteering and Participating]

Participation and Activity Limitation Survey, 2001
Participation and Activity Limitation Survey, 2006
Public Service Employment Opinion Survey, 2005

School Leavers Survey
Social Policy Simulation Database and Model (SPSD/M], ver. 9.1
Social Policy Simulation Database and Model (SPSD/M], ver. 10
Social Policy Simulation Database and Model (SPSD/M], ver. 10.1
Social Policy Simulation Database and Model (SPSD/M], ver. 15
Sun Exposure Survey (1996)
Survey on Ageing and Independence (1991)
Survey of Consumer Finances
Survey of Family Expenditures (FAMEX)
Survey of Financial Security
Survey of Household Spending
Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics
Survey of Leisure Time Activities: Reading (1978)
Survey of Literacy Skills Used in Daily Activities (1989)
Survey of Smoking in Canada (1994)
Survey on the Importance of Nature to Canadians (1996)
Survey on the Value of Wildlife to Canadians (1982)
Survey of Volunteer Activity (1987)
Survey of Work Arrangements (1991)
Survey of Work Arrangements (1995)

Tuition and Living Accommodation Costs for Full-time Students (TLAC)

Violence Against Women Survey (1993)
Youth Smoking Survey (1994)
Youth Smoking Survey (2002)

Youth Smoking Survey (2004)

CREATE A SUBSET

Authorized users of UNB Libraries are able to create subsets for various DLI files through agreements with the University of Toronto, the University of Calgary, and the University of Western Ontario.

• Census Analyser (University of Toronto):
  The Census Analyser from the University of Toronto's Computing in the Social Sciences and Humanities (CHASS) allows users to subset variables from the Individual Microdata Files (public use microdata files) for the following census years: 1971, 1981,1985, 1991 and 1996.

• LANDRU (University of Calgary):
  The LANDRU extraction software at the University of Calgary provides the ability to search for files containing variables of interest, and to create a custom-designed subset, available for ftp'ing. The project has many of the high use files, such as the General Social Survey and the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, but does not yet have all the surveys available from Statistics Canada through the DLI.

• EQUINOX (University of Western Ontario):
  The Equinox System IDLS provides the ability to create subsets of most data from the DLI. There is a search engine to assist in finding surveys of interest.

Comments or questions regarding the surveys and their use should be directed to the UNB Libraries Data Librarian, rather than to the developers and providers of the software.