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PARTICIPATION AND ACTIVITY LIMITATION SURVEY (PALS) 2006
The 2006 Participation and Activity Limitation Survey (PALS) is a national survey of adults and children with disabilities whose everyday activities are limited because of a physical or mental condition or health problem. It was funded by Human Resources Development Canada and conducted by Statistics Canada. PALS provides information on the prevalence of various disabilities, the supports for persons with disabilities, their employment profile, their income, and their participation in society.
Data collection began October 30, 2006 and continued until February 28, 2007, Due to confidentiality concerns and overlap with other Public Use Microdata Files (PUMF), 43,971 adults had to be removed from the PALS PUMF, leaving 72,167 adults for analysis (17,423 with disabilities and 54,744 without disabilities). Also for confidentiality reasons, the provinces can’t be identified, which means that estimation using the PUMF may only be done at the Canada level.
NOTE: This survey does not provide provincial or sub-provincial data.
DOCUMENTATION:
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User guide, provided as a PDF file, for use with Adobe Acrobat viewer
Questionnaire, provided as a PDF file, for use with Adobe Acrobat viewer
Variance tables, provided as a zipped Excel table.
Small Area Estimation of Adult Disability Count and Rate , provided as a MS Word file.
The codebook is also available for consultation in print form in the Government Documents, Maps and Data Department on the third floor of the Harriet Irving Library.
DATA FILES:
- PALS 2006 sav file, provided as a zipped file for use with SPSS
Steps to Obtain Data Files Electronically:
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 A dialogue box will appear with the note: "unknown file type" at the top.
3. Click on SAVE FILE, and indicate where on your hard drive you wish the data file saved. For example, you may wish to save your file to c:\temp and you would indicate this in the dialogue box which will appear when you click on SAVE FILE.
- To unzip a file if you work with DOS, download pkz204g.exe
into the same directory as you are putting the file. After you leave Netscape
and are at the DOS prompt and have expanded the file, type: pkunzip filename
- To unzip a file if you work in Windows 95, download winzip95.exe
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Last update: 02/10/10
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