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RDC News: November 2023

Upcoming closures, researcher kudos, Saturday hours for November, and a new data set profile.

Oct 26, 2023

Upcoming closures

This month we will have the following changes to our usual operating hours:

  • Closed Tuesday Nov. 21st to Thursday Nov. 23rd for the annual CRDCN Conference

Saturday Hours - On Demand

We will be offering on-demand Saturday hours this month. We will be open on an 'appointment' basis, only if requested. Please sign up via the online booking system as usual. 

Offered dates for Saturday hours this month are:

  • Saturday, November 18th - 12pm to 4pm

 

Upcoming CRDCN conference 

The annual CRDCN conference is coming up!

CRDCN 2023: Leveraging Data, Research, and Policy Collaborations
November 21-23 in Hamilton, ON

For more information and to register, visit https://conferences.crdcn.ca/crdcn2023

 

Congrats & Kudos

Congratulations to Rabiul Islam on successfully defending his PhD in Economics!

Rabiul's disseration was titled "Three Papers on Physician Labour Supply in Canada", and used the Labour Force Survey (LFS) between 1987-2022. His supervisor was Arthur Sweetman. 

 

 

New data sets at the RDC: 

Mental Health and Access to Care Survey (MHACS)

The Mental Health and Access to Care Survey (MHACS) collects information about the mental health status of Canadians, as well as their access to and need for services and supports, whether formal or informal. This survey also intends to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on population health as well as evaluate changes in patterns of mental health, service use and functioning in the last ten years.

For more information on this survey, please see https://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p2SV.pl?Function=getSurvey&SDDS=5015.  

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.