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Survey of Smoking in Canada, 2004

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

The main objective of the YSS is to provide benchmark data on national prevalence rates for students in grades 5 through 9. In addition to prevalence rates, the YSS also offers a detailed snapshot of purchasing behaviour, and information about the effect of continued tobacco marketing.

The YSS is a Health Canada sponsored survey of students in grades 5 through 9 and their parents. The YSS was first administered in 1994 and was repeated in 2002 and 2004 in order to track changes in the attitudes and behaviour of Canadian children and adolescents with respect to tobacco. A new version has been conducted but the public use microdata file is not available through the DLI program.

YSS 2004 Documentation

User Guide provided as a PDF document
Codebook as a provided as a PDF file
Frequency tables provided as a PDF file
Questionnaire, grades 5-6 provided as a PDF file
Questionnaire, grades 7-8-9 provided as a zipped ascii file, for use with the raw data file

YSS 2004 Data File

SPSS save file, provided as a zipped file for convenience.

STEPS TO OBTAIN DATA FILES:

Links to electronic versions of documentation and SPSS or SAS command files are provided where they exist.

1. Click on the file you require to download the datafile to your hard drive. This will take you to the Statistics Canada DLI license under which the files are provided to UNB Libraries. After entering your email account, an authorization screen will appear.

2. You must enter your PIN number and your email address to obtain the file. Only authorized users may download files from this site.

Document maintained by:
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E-mail address: Hamilton@unb.ca
Last update: 08/01/10

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