September 2011 Intro to Data for Sociology SOC 3142D Susan Mowers Data Librarian

2 Library services : Data Services SPSS labs Data and Sociology: Survey data Data and data documentation for SOC3142D Going further? How to get data from Odesi and other data sources Today’s Agenda

Services at your Library (Research and) Data Support

Sociology Research – Literature reviews etc. Librarian Alain El Hofi Appointments: (7186) Office : Room 2010B FSS Building Click View then Header and Footer to change this text Forthcoming presentation!

5 Data Services in your Library We can … Help you to find, access and use Statistics Canada data, etc., Provide you with technical support relating to your data, Also … SPSS statistical and GIS Geographic,Statistical and Government – GSG Information Centre & help to find G overnment information and G eographic information Services to help you

6 Welcome to the GSG Centre Morisset Library on the 3 rd floor (309) Find the GSG Centre!

7 Computer lab provides SPSS access Morisset Library on the 3rd floor (308) SPSS in the Library

Where to get SPSS 8 Montpetit Hall – 125 University, room 140 (all students, open 24/7) Morisset Library – 65 University, room 308 (all students, hours here)hours here FSS Library – 120 University, room 2010 FSS, (all students, Mondays to Fridays: 7:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.) Vanier Hall – 136 Jean-Jacques Lussier, rooms 2008, 2015, 2025 (Faculty of Social Sciences, open 7:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m.) SPSS labs on campus

LOTS OF DATA AVAILABLE FOR SOCIOLOGY ! Click View then Header and Footer to change this text Originating from …

10 Access to Data at uOttawa Via the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) Partnership between 75 + Canadian universities / colleges & Statistics Canada. Funded and supported by your Library. All uses permitted (academic, commercial …) except cannot be redistributed outside the University of Ottawa Susan is your DLI Contact :

11 Research Guide for Data in this course and other courses

Statistics Canada Surveys Why Statistics Canada?

13 Not all survey data of equal quality Statistics Canada rigorous methodology standards in survey sampling design and data collection, and accountable: they publish methodological details for every survey, one example.one example What about other data collectors? What does their documentation say about their mandate, their research and survey methodology and who is sponsoring the data collection? ICPSR is an archive of reputable social science survey data and publishes extensive documentation for every survey, one example.one example or many other sources like civil society groups, one exampleone example

14 Quiz 1 What is Statistics Canada’s most important “survey”? HINTS … - It’s “so” big, it can only happen every 5 years! - It’s obligatory

May-August 2011 Between May and August 2011, Statistics Canada conducted the National Household Survey (NHS) for the first time. This voluntary, self- administered survey was introduced as a replacement for the long census questionnaire, more widely known as Census Form 2B. Short Census May 2011 AccessAccess past Census questionnaires

16 Census of Population then NHS For example, from your mailbox: May 2011 … and ongoing Through August … to statistics in the media SEPTEMBER 11, 2013 The make-up of the (top-over $191,000) 1- per-cent club is overwhelmingly male, most-likely over the age of 45 and tends to work in management jobs. Canada’s top earners are also more likely to make money through investments and self- employment income. …No public-use Census microdata (only National Household Survey)

IT ALL STARTS WITH THE QUESTIONS! 2011 Census questionnaire (short) and 2011 National Household Survey Questionnaire e.g., family relationship … questionnaireQuestionnaire …etc..

Census of Population 2011 Portal to Census 2011 statistics: Compare Census topics Click View then Header and Footer to change this text Age and sex Families, households and marital status Structural type of dwelling and collectives Language more info/stats tables more info/stats tables response rate: 68.6% ( see bottom of page)bottom of page Aboriginal peoples Age and sex Education Ethnic origin and visible minorities Families and households Housing and shelter costs Immigration and citizenship Income and earnings Labour Language Marital status Mobility and migration Place of work and commuting to work more info/stats tables more info/stats tables response rate: 93.5%

PUMF Unique: access to respondent-level data Public-use m icrodata file, public-use=anonymized Statistics Act , c. 15, as am., Stats Can cannot divulge individuals’ identities Researchers can use the data to group, analyse and manipulate the data using statistical software e.g., SPSS Geographic areas: limited to prov/territories and fairly large subprovincial areas like health regions (all across Canada) or census metropolitan areas. Anonymization / grouping of some responses, e.g., Born in Morocco becomes  Born in Northern Africa Haitian ethnic origin becomes  Other Caribbean ethnic origins

Two key Statistics Canada surveys General Social Survey (GSS) Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) 20

What is the GSS (General Social Survey)? Annual. Established in 1985, telephone surveys from representative samples from the 10 provinces Data collected over a 12 month period – population living in private households, in the 10 provinces Note also,

General Social Survey Original design: repeated cycles on key social issues usually every 5 years (family, victimization, life course: work or education, time-use, social networks and identity, etc.)

Professor E. Diem Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) 1.Largest health survey in Canada, Over 131,000 respondents for from more than approximately 140 health regions 2.Very detailed data on health status and health system (e.g., access/use), and correlates of health including economic, social, occupational, demographic and environmental indicators; 3.Statistics Canada publishes extensive CCHS statistics in various products including Health Indicators, a database of tables, maps etc.Health Indicators 4.Special CCHS topics now all included in one 5.Note also Health in Canada portalHealth in Canada

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Comparing data and statistics and How to access Odesi SOC3142D Course page

What is the difference ? Data : Digital – computer readable Raw data Not presentation-ready Require processing Statistics : May be computer readable. Summaries of data, e.g., x number of year olds in Saskatchewan in 2001 ? = 1,345 Presentation-ready Are often mapped (or graphed) for visual presentation

27 Statistics come from… … DATA ! Data are processed to become Statistics Person 1…2 … Status of Same-sex Couples (3), Sex (3) and Presence of Other Household Members (5) for the Same sex Couples in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, 2006 Census - 20% Sample Data

Odesi (Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure) Lots of data: Statistics Canada, public opinion polls, other survey and related data Lots of options: Explore data, cross-tabulate with weights and data-to-go: pick and choose variables and download ! Odesi: Go to my “Data and Statistics” research guideData and Statistics 28

Social Sciences Librarians at your service

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