Survey of Household Spending (SHS), dwelling characteristics and household equipment, percentage of households reporting and estimated number of households reporting.

This table contains 63 series, with data for years 2015 - 2015 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 item: Canada) Salary characteristics (11 items: Less than 10.00, hourly wage, grouped (in dollars); 10.00 to 14.99, hourly wage, grouped (in dollars); 15.00 to 19.99,hourly wage, grouped (in dollars); 20.00 to 24.99, hourly wage, grouped (in dollars); ...) Apprentice status (3 items: Total, apprentices status; Completers; Discontinuers) Statistics (3 items: Percent; Standard error; Number).

Statistics on the labour force activity of postsecondary graduates at the time of the interview, including employed, employed full time, employed part time, not in the labour force and unemployed, are presented by the province of study, the level of study and gender. Estimates are available at five-year intervals.

National graduates survey, estimated gross annual earnings of graduates working full-time, by location of residence at interview, level of study and sex

Survey of Household Spending (SHS), dwelling characteristics and household equipment, percentage of households reporting and estimated number of households reporting.

National graduates survey, postsecondary graduates by location of residence at interview and level of study

Estimated gross annual earnings quartiles for postsecondary graduates working full time at the time of the interview are presented by the location of residence at the time of the interview, the level of study and gender. Estimates are available at five-year intervals.

Survey of household spending (SHS), dwelling characteristics and household equipment at time of interview, Canada, regions and provinces

Statistics on student debt, including the average debt at graduation, the percentage of graduates who owed large debt at graduation and the percentage of graduates with debt who had paid it off at the time of the interview, are presented by the location of residence at the time of the interview and the level of study. Estimates are available at five-year intervals.

Statistics on postsecondary graduates, including the number of graduates, the percentage of female graduates and age at graduation, are presented by the location of residence at the time of the interview and the level of study. Estimates are available at five-year intervals.

This table contains 2790 series, with data for years 1997 - 2009 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (31 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; Nova Scotia; ...); Statistics (2 items: Percent of households reporting; Estimated number of households reporting); Household equipment (45 items: Households having a washing machine; Households having a clothes dryer; Households having a dishwasher; Households having refrigerators; ...).

Statistics on the labour market outcomes of postsecondary graduates, including the employment status and estimated gross annual earnings, are presented by province of residence at interview, the level of study, the field of study, sex and work-integrated learning (WIL) participation.

Statistics on postsecondary graduates, including the number of graduates, age at graduation and percentage of those who pursued further postsecondary education between graduation and time of interview, are presented by the province of residence at interview, the level of study, the field of study and sex.

Abstract

In order to develop various methods of comparable data collection on health and health system responsiveness WHO started a scientific survey study in 2000-2001. This study has used a common survey instrument in nationally representative populations with modular structure for assessing health of indviduals in various domains, health system responsiveness, household health care expenditures, and additional modules in other areas such as adult mortality and health state valuations.

The health module of the survey instrument was based on selected domains of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and was developed after a rigorous scientific review of various existing assessment instruments. The responsiveness module has been the result of ongoing work over the last 2 years that has involved international consultations with experts and key informants and has been informed by the scientific literature and pilot studies.

Questions on household expenditure and proportionate expenditure on health have been borrowed from existing surveys. The survey instrument has been developed in multiple languages using cognitive interviews and cultural applicability tests, stringent psychometric tests for reliability (i.e. test-retest reliability to demonstrate the stability of application) and most importantly, utilizing novel psychometric techniques for cross-population comparability.

The study was carried out in 61 countries completing 71 surveys because two different modes were intentionally used for comparison purposes in 10 countries. Surveys were conducted in different modes of in- person household 90 minute interviews in 14 countries; brief face-to-face interviews in 27 countries and computerized telephone interviews in 2 countries; and postal surveys in 28 countries. All samples were selected from nationally representative sampling frames with a known probability so as to make estimates based on general population parameters.

The survey study tested novel techniques to control the reporting bias between different groups of people in different cultures or demographic groups ( i.e. differential item functioning) so as to produce comparable estimates across cultures and groups. To achieve comparability, the selfreports of individuals of their own health were calibrated against well-known performance tests (i.e. self-report vision was measured against standard Snellen's visual acuity test) or against short descriptions in vignettes that marked known anchor points of difficulty (e.g. people with different levels of mobility such as a paraplegic person or an athlete who runs 4 km each day) so as to adjust the responses for comparability . The same method was also used for self-reports of individuals assessing responsiveness of their health systems where vignettes on different responsiveness domains describing different levels of responsiveness were used to calibrate the individual responses.

This data are useful in their own right to standardize indicators for different domains of health (such as cognition, mobility, self care, affect, usual activities, pain, social participation, etc.) but also provide a better measurement basis for assessing health of the populations in a comparable manner. The data from the surveys can be fed into composite measures such as "Healthy Life Expectancy" and improve the empirical data input for health information systems in different regions of the world. Data from the surveys were also useful to improve the measurement of the responsiveness of different health systems to the legitimate expectations of the population.

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

POSTAL

1,487 named individuals were selected from the Karom Group of Companies, Dialogue Canada household mail panel. This mail panel includes a cross-section of Canadians, with the exception of those living in the Yukon, Northwest Territories or Nunavut, from which a sample can be obtained to represent the Canadian population according to the most recent Statistics Canada data. The panel file was stratified by regions in Canada: city size, French Quebec and rest of Canada and ordered by postcode. The 1,487 named individuals were selected from the Dialogue Mail panel file, using a random method on the sample sorted by postcode.

Individual members of each household who were asked to complete the survey were identified by birth date and gender with this identifying information.

From the initial 1,487 mailed out, 816 questionnaires came back hence reaching a response rate of 55%.

CATI

The sample was drawn in such a way that it represented the Canadian population with the exception of the Canadians living in the Yukon, Northwest Territories or Nunavut.

The sampling model relied on the stratification of the population by ten provinces and by six community sizes. Telephone numbers were selected from the most recently published telephone directories. These numbers acted as "seeds" from which the sample was actually generated. The original "seed" telephone numbers were not used in the sample. Both unlisted numbers and numbers listed after the directory publication are included in the sample.

From within each household contacted, respondents 18 years of age and older were screened for random selection using the most recent birthday method.

From the 12,350 total calls made, 778 calls completed the interview. Among the 12,350 calls, 8,466 were ineligibles and from the latter, 5,305 calls for which the respondent was unavailable. The net response rate is therefore 24.6%.

Mode of data collection

Mail Questionnaire [mail]

Cleaning operations

Data Coding At each site the data was coded by investigators to indicate the respondent status and the selection of the modules for each respondent within the survey design. After the interview was edited by the supervisor and considered adequate it was entered locally.

Data Entry Program A data entry program was developed in WHO specifically for the survey study and provided to the sites. It was developed using a database program called the I-Shell (short for Interview Shell), a tool designed for easy development of computerized questionnaires and data entry (34). This program allows for easy data cleaning and processing.

The data entry program checked for inconsistencies and validated the entries in each field by checking for valid response categories and range checks. For example, the program didn’t accept an age greater than 120. For almost all of the variables there existed a range or a list of possible values that the program checked for.

In addition, the data was entered twice to capture other data entry errors. The data entry program was able to warn the user whenever a value that did not match the first entry was entered at the second data entry. In this case the program asked the user to resolve the conflict by choosing either the 1st or the 2nd data entry value to be able to continue. After the second data entry was completed successfully, the data entry program placed a mark in the database in order to enable the checking of whether this process had been completed for each and every case.

Data Transfer The data entry program was capable of exporting the data that was entered into one compressed database file which could be easily sent to WHO using email attachments or a file transfer program onto a secure server no matter how many cases were in the file. The sites were allowed the use of as many computers and as many data entry personnel as they wanted. Each computer used for this purpose produced one file and they were merged once they were delivered to WHO with the help of other programs that were built for automating the process. The sites sent the data periodically as they collected it enabling the checking procedures and preliminary analyses in the early stages of the data collection.

Data quality checks Once the data was received it was analyzed for missing information, invalid responses and representativeness. Inconsistencies were also noted and reported back to sites.

Data Cleaning and Feedback After receipt of cleaned data from sites, another program was run to check for missing information, incorrect information (e.g. wrong use of center codes), duplicated data, etc. The output of this program was fed back to sites regularly. Mainly, this consisted of cases with duplicate IDs, duplicate cases (where the data for two respondents with different IDs were identical), wrong country codes, missing age, sex, education and some other important variables.

Statistics on postsecondary graduates participation in work-integrated learning (WIL), including whether or not the participation was mandatory or paid, are presented by the province of residence at interview, the level of study, the field of study and sex.

Statistics on the labour force activity of postsecondary graduates at the time of the interview, including employed, employed full time, employed part time, not in the labour force and unemployed, are presented by the province of study, the level of study and gender. Estimates are available at five-year intervals.

The Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating is the latest iteration of a series of surveys that began with the National Survey of Giving, Volunteering and participating. It was conducted by Statistics Canada in 1997 as a supplement to the Labour Force Survey, and was repeated in the fall of 2000. In 2001, the federal government provided funding to establish a permanent survey program on charitable giving, volunteering and participating within Statistics Canada. The survey itself was renamed the Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating (CSGVP). The CSGVP was developed through a partnership of federal government departments and voluntary sector organizations. These include Canadian Heritage, Health Canada, Human Resources and Social Development Canada, Imagine Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada, Statistics Canada and Volunteer Canada. Because the 2004 CSGVP employs a different survey approach and because it uses a somewhat different questionnaire than did the previous surveys, it is not appropriate to compare results from the 2004 CSGVP with the two previous surveys. There are two data files for the 2004 Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating (CSGVP): the main answer file (MAIN.TXT), and the giving file (GS.TXT). To link between the MAIN and GS Public Use Microdata Files use the variable PUMFID. This is the main answer file and contains one record per respondent. All questions except for those on the GS file are located here. In addition, summary derived variables have been created from the GS file and placed on the MAIN file.

Interview data on speed skating in Canada

This microdata file is part of a series from Statistics Canada's Survey of Consumer Finances which contain income as well as personal and labour-related characteristics of individuals aged 15 years and over. A limited number of characteristics of the individual's economic and census families are also included on the file. The sample is designed to represent approximately 98% of the population. Excluded population groups are residents of the Yukon and Northwest Territories; residents of Indian reserves; residents of military barracks; and inmates of institutions such as prisons, penitentiaries, jails, reformatories, mental hospitals, tuberculosis hospitals, sanitoria, orphanages and homes for the aged.Statistics Canada interviewers contact each of the households in the sample through personal and/or telephone interviews to obtain information needed to produce the labour force data. The sample is based on dwellings. A dwelling may include more than one household. Once a dwelling is selected, it remains in the sample for a period of six months. Each interviewer contacts approximately 65 dwellings and conducts a personal interview in all dwellings where interviews are being held for the first time. In most areas, provided the respondent agrees, subsequent interviews are conducted by telephone. The sample employed for the Survey of Consumer Finances is the Labour Force Survey sample. .

Statistics on postsecondary graduates, including the number of graduates, the percentage of female graduates and age at graduation, are presented by the location of residence at the time of the interview and the level of study. Estimates are available at five-year intervals.