New Data Available

The Employment Insurance Coverage Survey (EICS) 2022 and 2023 is now available for download and can be accessed by researchers with approved projects.

The Employment Insurance Coverage Survey provides a meaningful picture of who does or does not have access to EI benefits among the jobless and those in a situation of underemployment. The survey also covers access to maternity and parental benefits.

The survey was designed to produce a series of precise measures to identify groups with low probability of receiving benefits, for instance, the long-term jobless, labour market entrants and students, people becoming unemployed after uninsured employment, people who have left jobs voluntarily and individuals who are eligible, given their employment history, but do not claim or otherwise receive benefits. The survey provides a detailed description of the characteristics of the last job held as well as reasons for not receiving benefits or for not claiming.

The Survey of Oral Health Care Providers (SOHCP) 2023 is now available for download and can be accessed by researchers with approved projects.

Statistics Canada is conducting the Survey of Oral Health Care Providers. Survey results will help assess the current state of the oral health care system in Canada while providing insight into the changes that could impact this sector, including implementation of the Canadian Dental Care Plan. In addition, the data will help governments develop policies that support access to dental care in order to improve oral health outcomes for Canadians, and ensure an effective work environment for oral health care workers. This survey is the result of a collaboration between Statistics Canada and Health Canada.

Statistics Canada, in collaboration with the provincial and territorial ministries of education, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), and other stakeholders, has developed the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP).

The ELMLP allows longitudinal integration of administrative data related to education with other data sources to create anonymized, customized datasets for analytical purposes.

The ELMLP has produced new cohort, concordance and updated alternative weight files:

Cohort files: 

• RAIS – 2023
• PSIS - 2022/2023 and RAIS – 2023 to Census 2016
• PSIS - 2022/2023 and RAIS – 2023 to Census 2021
• PSIS - 2022/2023 and RAIS – 2023 to IMDB
• PSIS - 2022/2023 and RAIS – 2023 to LAD
• PSIS - 2022/2023 and RAIS – 2023 to T1FF 2022
• PSIS - 2022/2023 and RAIS – 2023 to T1FF PI 2022
• PSIS - 2022/2023 and RAIS – 2023 to Census 2016 alternative weight
• PSIS - 2022/2023 and RAIS – 2023 to Census 2021 alternative weight
• PSIS - 2022/2023 and RAIS – 2023 to Census 2016-2021 pooled alternative weight
• ONT 9-12
• ONT 9-12 to T1FF

Concordance files: 

Alternative Weight files: 

Several data files and associated documentation within the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP) have been updated to reflect the most recent available reference years and are now available in the Research Data Centres (RDCs). These files, noted below, accompany the recently updated Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS; up to 2022/2023) files.

Users of concordance key files will also need approved access to associated data files and documentation. 

Further information on the ELMLP can be found in the ELMLP RDC User Guide and in the ELMLP Technical Reference Guide series.

Technical Reference Guides for the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP) (statcan.gc.ca) https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/catalogue/37200001

The ELMLP has produced new cohort and concordance files:

Cohort files: 

Concordance files^[1] :

An update to the Ontario Grade 9-12 (ON 9-12) administrative files, education data from the Ontario Ministry of Education, is now available in the Research Data Centres. The files are part of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform. The Ontario Grade 9-12 files consist of:

• One administrative file including anonymized secondary school records of students who entered grade 9 in the 2009/2010 to 2015/2016 school years. These records include information about grade 9 through graduation, combined into one record per individual, and cover demographics, academic achievement, course selection, graduation information, and more.
• One administrative file including anonymized secondary school records of grade 12 students from the 2013/2014 to 2021/2022 school years. These records cover demographics, academic achievement, course selection, graduation information for the student’s grade 12 year only.
• A T1 Family File (T1FF) outcome file, including T1FF tax records for secondary students present in either of the student data files, covering the 1992 to 2022 tax years.
• A codebook for the Ontario 9-12 secondary school data files.

An updated Canadian Coroner and Medical Examiner Database (CCMED) is now available for download and can be accessed by researchers with approved projects.

The CCMED is a database developed at Statistics Canada in collaboration with the provincial and territorial Chief Coroners and Chief Medical Examiners and the Public Health Agency of Canada. Currently, the CCMED combines information from 12 provincial and territorial databases to provide national level information on deaths reported to and investigated by coroners and medical examiners.

Data Contents: 

The CCMED contains the following datasets:

• CASES 2006-DEC2024
• SAFD 2006-DEC2024
• CIRC 2006-DEC2024

An updated National Graduates Survey (NGS) 2018 Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) 2021 is now available for download and can be accessed by researchers with approved projects.

The National Graduates Survey collected information from persons who graduated from public postsecondary educational institutions in Canada in 2015. The questions focused on academic path, funding for postsecondary education, including government-sponsored student loans, and transition into the labour market.

• The National Graduates Survey (NGS) Class of 2015 CIP master files are now available in Research Data Centers. In the CIP master file includes the program of study using the 2021 version of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada. The initial release used the CIP 2016 classification, which is also still available on the master file of NGS 2015.
• This data file is part of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). 

The master file consists of:

• The Class of 2015 CIP master file, a supplement that includes anonymized records of postsecondary students who graduated from a Canadian public postsecondary educational institution in 2015. These records include additional variables about the 2021 version of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) and the Level of study graduates 2015 with professional category.

Updates to the Canadian Community Health Survey - Annual Component (CCHS) linked to Canadian Vital Statistics Death Database (CVSD), Hospital Mental Health Database (HMHDB), Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS), T1 Family File (T1FF) are now available for download and can be accessed by researchers with approved projects.

The objective of this linkage is to examine the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated policy responses on mental health and substance use in the Canadian population. More specifically, using linkages of the annual Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) data to administrative health databases, we will assemble a pan-Canadian open cohort of adults followed for mental health and substance use outcomes over the study period from 2014-2021, as well as receipt of COVID-19 financial benefits from tax files. 

For the current release, CCHS-T1FF files are updated to include additional variables about the number of young children and the number of individuals aged 18 or over.

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The CCHS_COVID_LINKAGE will be released in two phases, this second phase includes the HMHDB and T1FF data.

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Updates to the Canadian Housing Statistics Program (CHSP) 2022 are now available for download and can be accessed by researchers with approved projects.

Today, the Canadian Housing Statistics Program is releasing new data on residential properties and property owners for the 2022 reference year in Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Yukon. 

The data cover a range of topics and include detailed information on residential property characteristics such as property type, period of construction and assessment value. They also provide insights into homeowner characteristics, including age, family type, immigrant status and income.

The data released today also include information on residential property sales and buyers in Yukon in 2021.

Corrections and updates to the Survey of Financial Security (SFS) 2023 are now available for download and can be accessed by researchers with approved projects.

Changes to the data files, layouts and codebooks for the 2023 Survey of Financial Security

Added a new variable CMA8 on the family file that identifies the 8 largest CMAs.

• EFMJSIF: Incorrect format assigned to the variable, new format applied
• EFPENGIV:              This variable length was changed from 13 characters to 12
• EFPENREC:             This variable length was changed from 14 characters to 12
• HHPENGIV:            This variable length was changed from 13 characters to 12
• HHPENREC:            This variable length was changed from 14 characters to 12

The changes in length for these variables have necessitated an updated to the layouts and codebooks.

Variables:  YR1AMT, YR2AMT, YR3AMT, YR4AMT, YR5AMT

• In the codebook, the five variables YR1AMT – YR5AMT, which report the dollar amount of inheritances received, incorrectly identified the amounts as being in 2019 constant dollars. These values are in fact expressed in 2023 constant dollars. This has now been corrected in the codebook.
• In the codebook, the variable GDRMIE & GENDER incorrectly used the French word gendre (son-in-law) instead of genre (gender). This has now been corrected in the codebook.

Variables GENDER & GDRMIE

Variable ADJARCST

In the codebook, the variable ADJARCST identified the amounts as being in 2019 constant dollars. The values are in fact expressed in 2023 constant dollars. This has now been corrected in the codebook.