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

2. 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%

3. 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.

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

5. 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

6. 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.

7. 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 for the PCCF.

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. Questions? Comments?