Software Availability Update 

Please note that starting January 30th, SPSS will be available on computer stations 1, 3, 5, and 9 only.

 

Saturday Hours - On Demand

Offered dates for Saturday hours this month are:

• Saturday, January 28th - 12pm to 4pm

 

Congrats & Kudos

Sophiya Garasia recently completed her PhD in the Health Policy program at McMaster University, specializing in health economics. Her thesis was on the health, health care, and economic experiences of immigrants in Canada, and utilized two datasets held at the RDC. She used the 2014 Ontario Child Health Study dataset to investigate the combined effect of immigrant status and neighbourhood immigration concentration on mental health problems and mental health service use. She also used the linked IMDB-DAD dataset to study the causal impact of a health shock on various income variables.

Sophiya is now completing her embedded post-doctoral fellowship with the University of Toronto and the Central West Ontario Health Team as a part of her 1-year OHT Impact Fellowship, where she is mostly focusing in the area of mental health.

Congrats, Sophiya!

New data sets at the RDC: 

Survey on Before and After School Care in Canada (SBASCC)

 

Statistics Canada is gathering information from families who use before and after school care as well as those who do not. The survey, which addresses before and after school care in Canada for children who are attending school (i.e. ages 4 to 12 years old), asks about the different types of before and after school care arrangements that families use, difficulties some families may face when looking for care, as well as reasons for not using before and after school care. The survey will also cover the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on before and after school care.

If you would like more information about this data set, please see https://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p2SV.pl?Function=getSurvey&SDDS=5343.

If you would like more information on how to submit a proposal for access to this data see https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/microdata/data-centres/access.  For more information about the RDC program please contact your local RDC analyst.