DLI Annual Report Spring 2019 Microdata Access Division Statistics Canada April 2019

Status of the DLI External Advisory Committee changes in membership DLI community membership has increased by 2 so far this year with more inquiries An increase in requests for information Staffing changes Statistics Canada’s cost recovery rate remains at 31%

DLI Activities There were almost 1,800 posts on the list this year. Topics included everything from requests for data to licencing questions to specific data questions.

DLI Activities The DLI team has responded to around 600 requests from the DLI listserv and the team email address.

Training and Outreach Training Sessions Webinars National Training Day and Boot camp: May 2,3 2018 Western Training: Nov 27-29, 2018 Ontario Training: Dec 3-4, 2018 Webinars For new members and potential clients

Managing the DLI Collection The PUMF collection in the DLI continues to grow year over year. There were 11 new PUMFs released this year including the Census Long Form. These accounted for 24 datasets.

Managing the DLI Collection   DLI PUMF CIHI PCCF SPSDM Total Number of downloads 2016 28,192 Included in DLI safe  619 3,877 Did not exist 32,688 2017 31,034 1,100 348 9,178 250 41,910 2018/19 6,631 13,689 194 10,834 1,140 32,488 Monthly 2018/19 April 2018 2,571 674 3,672 6,917 May 224 26 1,746 135 2,131 June 165 624 430 3 1,222 July 149 777 39 7 1,137 August 71 385 19 741 28 1,244 September 413 509 79 483 12 1,496 October 76 1 306 NA 402 November 323 1,437 44 1,807 December 439 141 48 418 1,046 January 2019 1,106 6,343 540 7,999 February 734 2,239 2 1,563 941 5,479 March 360 515 726 1,608 Managing the DLI Collection DLI Contacts downloaded over 32,000 files this fiscal including over 10 000 for the PCCF.

Managing the DLI Collection The DDI Gap coding project target for this fiscal year was 75 PUMFs and 75 Masterfiles published to Nesstar. We surpassed this despite many technical issues encountered.

Managing the DLI Collection Downloads of DLI products on secondary data distributers Abacus Dataverse Network – 10,941 downloads CHASS – 1,450,804 downloads ODESI – 25,278 downloads

Priorities for 2019/20 Inventory of datasets at risk of obsolescence PUMF Discoverability = Search Tool Housed in Picasso (new IMDB) Adoption of Data Object Identifiers (DOI) GAP coding automation DLI newsletter Sharing of internal newsletters (Modernization- applying for ISSN, Library bulletin) Licence/website updates Linkages with Regional Services Development of a banding system for membership cost Communication material development for DLI membership benefits

Real Time Remote Access (RTRA) Online Application to run data analysis in a secure location Increasing number of surveys available 14 datasets added this fiscal Statistics available: frequency, mean, percentile, percentage distribution, proportion, ratio and share (relationship between two continuous variables), level change, percent change, significance test GUI interface Create environment to select datasets, variables, and data steps, by providing a platform that is accessible via Web Browser and write SAS code based on selections Should increase successful submissions

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