2018 submissions

Purpose: The linkage between PSPC procurement database (AIS) and Statistics Canada datasets will be used to examine the characteristics of firms involved in procurements (such as size, location, ownership) and the socio-economic outcomes of the procurement contracts.

The AIS dataset from PSPC database will be linked to Statistics Canada’s Business Register (2010-2017), National Accounts Longitudinal Microdata File (2010-2017), and Canadian Employee-Employer Dynamics Dataset (2010-2017).

Output: Security measures for the linking keys, identifiers and linked analysis file will conform to Statistics Canada’s policies and standards. All direct business and employee identifiers will be removed from the analysis file once linkage is complete. External researchers can only access the linked data in the Canadian Centre for Data Development and Economic Research, on Statistics Canada premises, and under the Directive on the Use of Deemed Employees. The linked file will be retained in accordance with the Directive on the Management of Statistical Microdata Files, until no longer required, at which time they will be destroyed.

Purpose: Repeat contact or re-contact with the justice system has been identified as a key justice priority by Deputy Ministers responsible for Justice and Public Safety as well as other policy makers and justice administrators. Until recently, the lack of information on the nature and extent of repeat contact with, and pathways through, the justice system represented one of the more conspicuous gaps in our understanding of crime in Canada.

In an effort to address this data gap, the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics (CCJS), in cooperation with representatives of the National Justice Statistics Initiative (NJSI), undertook a project aimed at the creation and ongoing delivery of high-quality indicators of re-contact with the justice system. Whereas a contact is defined as an official intervention by police, courts, or corrections, a re-contact is defined as a subsequent contact with the police, courts, or corrections signifying a new, official intervention.

The purpose of the project is to establish baseline information about individuals who have had contact with the Nova Scotia Justice system. This data will then be used to generate additional information about their involvement with Nova Scotia’s other social services, namely education, health and those in other social sectors.

Output: Only non-confidential aggregate statistics and analyses that will not result in the identification of an individual person, business or organization will be released outside of Statistics Canada. High-level findings may be reported in the form of presentations to various NJSI partners.

Purpose: The Survey of Maintenance Enforcement Programs will be linked to the T1 Family File. This linkage will allow researchers to understand the income, demographic and socio-economic characteristics of recipients, payors and beneficiaries of child and spousal support and allow for an understanding of the socio-economic situations of child and spousal support payors, recipients and beneficiaries. This information will support the development, enhancement and evaluation of policies, programs and procedures.

Output: All access to the linked microdata file will be restricted to Statistics Canada personnel (including Statistics Canada deemed employees) whose work activities require access. Only aggregate data that conform to the confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act will be released outside of Statistics Canada. Findings will be used in research papers and in presentations at workshops and conferences.

Purpose: The Saskatchewan Legal Aid Client Registry will be linked to the 2011 Census, 2011 National Household Survey (NHS), the 2016 Census, the T1 Family File (T1FF) and the Integrated Criminal Court Survey (ICCS) in order to develop an overview of the socio-demographic profile of individuals who did or did not receive legal representation, as well as the impact of legal aid within criminal court proceedings for legal aid policy and program development.

Outputs: All access to the linked microdata file will be restricted to Statistics Canada personnel (including Statistics Canada deemed employees) whose work activities require access. Only aggregate data that conform to the confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act will be released outside of Statistics Canada. Findings will be used in research reports and in presentations to various groups.

Purpose: The purpose of this linkage project is to estimate the 2016 uptake rate of the Canada Child Benefit (CCB) among key populations in Canada. To do this, this project will link administrative CCB program data on CCB payments to families in the 2016 Census.

Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) and the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) will use non-confidential aggregate statistics to better understand differences in CCB uptake rates across geographies and populations. This information will be used for program improvements such as targeted outreach to increase the uptake of the CCB.

Output: Only non-confidential aggregated tables, conforming to the confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act, will be released outside of Statistics Canada.

Purpose: The objective of this program is to fill a data gap in labour market information for the population living on reserve by calculating labour market indicators pertinent to the development of labour market policies and programs.

The linkage between the Census programs, the Longitudinal Workers File, the T4 Files and the T1 Family Files will be used to calculate yearly labour market indicators for those living on reserve as well as those living in adjacent communities. The linkage will also be used to perform research on specific issues related to labour market indicators.

Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) will use the non-confidential labour market estimates as well as the research results to develop labour market policies regarding Aboriginal persons and persons living on reserves.

Output: Only non-confidential aggregated data estimates, which conform to the confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act, will be released outside of Statistics Canada.

Purpose: The purpose of this project is to build the capacity for identifying the primary risk factors and the sub-populations at greatest risk of an overdose in Surrey BC. It will create a better understanding of the characteristics of those individuals at the heart of the opioid crisis-particularly for those individuals using and dying in their residence. This work is being conducted for Public Safety Canada and the city of Surrey to assist them in identifying the root of the illicit drug epidemic and the individuals most at risk of overdose, as well as deriving a typology for the classification of incidents and individuals at risk of opioid related overdose.

Output: Only non-confidential aggregate statistics and analyses that will not result in the identification of an individual person, business or organization will be released outside of Statistics Canada. High-level findings may be reported in the form of presentations to various Public Safety Canada partners.

Purpose: The purpose of this project is to create a series of outcome files resulting from the CCHS survey files (annual and theme) being linked to a health outcomes including hospitalizations, mortality and cancer. These linked files will faciliate the study of the impact of a broad range of social determinants of health (i.e. socioeconomic status, ethnicity, risk factors and disease states) on health outcomes at the population level. T1FF information for both the individual as well as the different family members will provide information on change of income over time to assess the ecomonic impact of health conditions on the population.

Output: Access to the linked microdata files will be restricted to Statistics Canada personnel (including Statistics Canada deemed employees) whose work activities require access. Only aggregate data that conform to the confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act will be released outside of Statistics Canada. Analytical datasets will be placed in the Research Data Centres (RDCs) and access will be granted following standard RDC approval process. The source datasets will be anonymized and will respect variable restrictions in effect for the source datasets (e.g., hospital, vital statistics, cancer, tax files). Major findings will be used to create research papers for publication in peer-reviewed journals and presentations at workshops and conferences.

Purpose: Understanding the characteristics of those who come in contact with the criminal court system is of importance to a variety of different individuals, including different levels of government, policy makers, legal professionals and the public. The proposed record linkage project will benefit Canadians by providing new data on the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of accused persons who are before the criminal courts, by examining them in relation to case/charge characteristics and outcomes. It will also provide new data related to the different health situations of these individuals (e.g. substance abuse, disability issues), including their interactions with the health care system, with a particular focus on mental health. This project will also allow Justice Canada to generate specific metrics of marginalization and overrepresentation across the criminal justice system that were identified in the framework endorsed by federal, provincial and territorial (FPT) Ministers responsible for Justice and Public Safety.

This study will link data from the Integrated Criminal Court Survey (ICCS) to the Census/National Household Survey (NHS), the Discharge Abstract database (DAD), the National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS), Ontario Mental Health Reporting System (OMHRS) and the T1 Family File (T1FF) in order to gain information on the socio-economic and demographic characteristics of accused persons involved in the criminal court system.

Output: All access to the linked microdata will be limited to Statistics Canada employees and Statistics Canada deemed employees whose work activities require access. Only aggregate data that conform to the confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act will be released outside of Statistics Canada. This will likely be in the form of analytical reports, or presentations to criminal justice stakeholders.

Purpose: The aim of this initiative is to create a database to facilitate research on topics related to financial literacy, financial choice and management, life-cycle saving and investing, and retirement preparedness. The proposed linkage will combine data on financial literacy, spending and budgeting strategies, sources of financial advice used, and wealth accumulation from the Canadian Financial Capability Survey (CFCS) with a wide set of longitudinal information on earnings and income dynamics, returns on investments, tax-planning performance, and life-cycle savings behaviour from taxation- and employment-based administrative files.

Output: Analytical findings from these linked datasets will be used to prepare research papers for publication and dissemination at research conferences and seminars. Only non-confidential aggregate statistics that cannot result in the identification of an individual, person, business, or organization will be released outside of Statistics Canada.

Purpose: Statistics Canada has created a record linkage environment for the New Brunswick Tobacco Litigation Project called the New Brunswick Smoking Record Linkage Environment (NBSRLE). This environment will hold de-identified Statistics Canada survey data and New Brunswick administrative health data.

The purpose of this project is to create analysis files from the de-identified files for use by litigant experts. There are two areas of study proposed by this record linkage project for the ongoing litigation. First, a study of the relationship between smoking behavior and the cost of health care in New Brunswick. Second, this file may be used to substantiate or refute evidence presented during the litigation process.

Description: Statistics Canada has removed all personal identifiable information and a unique anonymous identifier was assigned to the administrative records for each person during the development of the linkable files (RL-085-2016) for this project. Common linking keys based on the identifiers have been created for the share-link Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) and National Population Health Survey (NPHS) and de-identified versions of the administrative files and the survey files were placed in the Research Data Center (RDC) environment where they can be merged to create analytical datasets (RL-016-2017). The common linking key allows the litigant's experts to merge de-identified files within the NBSRLE to achieve their research objective.

Output: Outputs will be vetted for confidentiality prior to being released from the RDC.

No identifiable personal information will be released from the NBSRLE.

Furthermore, during a five-year period of exclusive access, which may be extended based on requirements of the litigation, use of these files may only be carried out as part of a research agenda initiated by the designated representatives (litigant experts) from the province of New Brunswick or the Signing Defendants under contract with Statistics Canada.

Purpose: The purpose of this project is to produce a research database that will allow researchers to analyse the characteristics of small–medium enterprises (SMEs) that have received support from risk capital such as angel and venture capital investors, as well as from government programs intended to support young and innovative technology-focused SMEs.

Output: A custom analytical report, based on the customized research database extracted from Statistics Canada's Linkable File Environment, will be produced by deemed employees of Statistics Canada.

Only non-confidential aggregate statistical outputs and analysis that conform to the confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act will be released outside of Statistics Canada.

Purpose: The purpose of the project is to evaluate the coverage, accuracy and currency of the National Register of Electors (the Register) maintained by Elections Canada. Certain data elements from the Register will be linked to Canadian Vital Statistics – Death records, Census of Population 2016 long-form respondent records and Labour Force Survey respondent records to conduct the evaluation and produce estimates at a variety of geographic levels (Canada, province/territory, electoral district). The results of the study will inform Elections Canada on the quality of the Register.

Output: Only non-confidential aggregated data and an analytical report that conform to the confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act and any applicable requirements of the Privacy Act will be released outside of Statistics Canada to Elections Canada.

Purpose: Repeat contact, or re-contact, with the justice system has been identified as a key justice priority by Deputy Ministers responsible for Justice and Public Safety, as well as other policy makers and justice administrators. Until recently, the lack of information on the nature and extent of repeat contact with, and pathways through, the justice system represented one of the more conspicuous gaps in our understanding of crime in Canada.

In an effort to address this data gap, the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics (CCJS), in cooperation with representatives of the National Justice Statistics Initiative (NJSI), undertook a project aimed at the creation and ongoing delivery of high-quality indicators of re-contact with the justice system. Whereas a contact is defined as an official intervention by police, courts, or corrections, a re-contact is defined as a subsequent contact with the police, courts, or corrections signifying a new, official intervention.

The purpose of the project is to establish baseline information about individuals who have had contact with the Ontario Justice system. This data will then be used to generate additional information about their involvement with Ontario's other social services, namely education, health and those in other social sectors.

Output: Only non-confidential aggregate statistics and analyses that will not result in the identification of an individual person, business or organization will be released outside of Statistics Canada. High-level findings may be reported in the form of presentations to various NJSI partners.

Purpose: Statistics Canada has created a record linkage environment for the British Columbia Tobacco Litigation Project called the British Columbia Smoking Record Linkage Environment (BCSRLE). This environment will be used to link Statistics Canada survey data to British Columbia administrative health data using a common unique, anonymized identifier, created as part of Record Linkage 024-2017.

The purpose of this linkage is to build analytical research files from the linkable survey and administrative files placed in the Research Data Centre (RDC) for the British Columbia Tobacco Litigation Project.

Description: Personal identifiers were removed and a unique anonymous identifier was assigned to the administrative records for each person. Furthermore, common linking keys based on the identifiers have been created for the share-link Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) and de-identified linkable versions of the administrative files and the survey files were placed in the RDC environment (RL-024-2017).

The purpose of this project is to allow the litigant experts to create de-identified analysis files for use in the litigation using the linkable files previously placed in the RDC. There are three areas of study proposed by this record linkage project. First, researchers will address the question of the comparability of smoking attributable fraction (SAF) estimates derived from the Public Use Microdata File of the CCHS to estimates derived from the share-link file of the CCHS. Second, this project seeks to extend the estimation model to additional aspects of health care utilization (i.e. beyond hospital and physician care) and to examine the comparability of SAFs derived from self-report versus 'administrative' measures of health care utilization. Third, these file may be used to substantiate or refute evidence presented during the litigation process.

Output: Linked analysis files, statistical models, tabulations, and other analytical products will be created as part of this record linkage. Output files will contain the anonymous BCSRLE identifier and analysis variables for the share-link CCHS and British Columbia administrative datasets previously linked to the BCSRLE (record linkage number RL-024-2017) will be used in the RDCs identified by the Province of British Columbia.

No identifiable personal information will be released from the BCSRLE.

Research projects to access and link the BCSRLE output files in the RDC will be approved on a study-by-study basis. Furthermore, during a five-year period of exclusive access, research using these files may only be carried out as part of a research agenda initiated by the designated representatives (litigant experts) from the province of British Columbia or the Signing Defendants under contract with Statistics Canada. A summary of each approved study will be posted on the Statistics Canada website.

Purpose: Budget 2018 announced a number of measures aimed at implementing Canada's Innovation and Skills Plan, of which Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) has been named one of four Flagship Platforms. One of these measures is an increase of threshold for eligible IRAP projects from $1 million to $10 million, widening the range of financial support available to Canadian small-medium enterprises (SMEs).

The objective of this project is to understand how NRC-IRAP will contribute assistance to the innovation of SMEs for projects between $1 million to $10 million.

Output: Customized tabulations for the National Research Council Canada (NRC) will be produced by Statistics Canada's Centre for Special Business Projects staff and the deemed employee from (NRC) based on the customized research database extracted from Statistics Canada's LFE.

Only non-confidential aggregate statistical outputs and analysis that conform to the confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act will be released outside of Statistics Canada.

Purpose: The purpose of the project is to assess the feasibility of using Linkable File Environment administrative data to replace survey data that has been collected by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) since 1935. A list of approximately 6,500 Canadian non-financial cooperative corporations for 2016, prepared by ISED, will be linked to the LFE.

Output: Variables from the Business Register (BR), tax and exporter databases available in the LFE will be used to produce 17 custom designed tables. The following variables for coops by industry will be used: revenues; assets; liabilities; equity; employment; salary and wage; employee benefits; business taxes; patronage dividends; grants and subsidies; exports; sales; general reserve amount; and R&D. Only non-confidential aggregate statistical outputs that conform to the confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act will be released outside of Statistics Canada.

Purpose: The purpose of the LISE is to comprehensively encapsulate the outcomes of immigrants to Canada using existing administrative and survey data. Using the Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB) as its base, the LISE will include health, labour, community, housing, social, and educational outcomes to the existing economic outcomes of the IMDB without incurring any additional response burden.

Output: The final series of keys will be made available in the Research Data Centre (RDC) for researchers, as well as any outcome files that are required for the linkage. No linked microdata files will be available in the RDC. All statistical tables and analytic outputs will be vetted, to ensure conformity to the confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act, by Statistics Canada employees before being removed from Statistics Canada premises. Users will require access to any and all databases required for the linkage, as well as the keys necessary to link them all. No direct identifiers will be included in any of the files. In accordance with the Directive on the Management of Statistical Microdata Files, the analysis file will be retained until no longer required, at which time it will be destroyed.

Non-confidential aggregate statistical tables will be produced for MCI yearly. On request, ad-hoc statistical tabulations may be produced for MCI.

Purpose: The purpose of the project is to understand the characteristics and outcomes of those participating in federal skills training programs. Understanding these characteristics will assist the federal government in the development of policies to support an adaptable and inclusive workforce capable of meeting labour market demands now and in the future.

Output: Only non-confidential aggregated statistics and analytical output that conform to the confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act and any applicable requirements of the Privacy Act will be released outside of Statistics Canada.

Purpose: The main objective of this project is to link the Enabling Commercialization and Adoption stream program to the Linkable File Environment (LFE) of Statistics Canada to produce custom design tables of non-confidential aggregate statistics for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC). The purpose of the tabulation is to compare the characteristics and the economic performance of firms before and after receiving financing support from AAFC. The comparison will be breakdown by industrial sector for the referred period 2004-2017.

This collaborative project between AAFC and the Centre for Special Business Projects will demonstrate how leveraging data linkage methods to create and analyze research datasets can support ongoing AAFC policy and program development.

Output: The output will be in the form of profiling tables which compare the economic performance of businesses that received AAFC financing support for pre-treatment and post-treatment performance. The linked AAFC list of businesses will be housed at Statistics Canada's Centre for Special Business Project (CSBP).

A research dataset will be produced and the full integrated database will be used by CSBP to produce a custom-designed table of non-confidential aggregate statistics for the client. The output of this project will not be sent to the Canadian Centre for Data Development and Economic Research (CDER).

Only non-confidential aggregate statistical outputs and analyses that conform to the confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act will be released outside of Statistics Canada.

Purpose: The researchers wish to examine the links between child birth and female worker job mobility, and ultimately the gender earnings gap. The study will have implications for the development of human resource policies and practices in firms that are seeking to reduce female representation gaps at different levels in their workforce.

Output: Security measures for the linking keys, identifiers and linked analysis file will conform to Statistics Canada's policies and standards. All direct business and employee identifiers will be removed from the analysis file once linkage is complete. External researchers can only access the linked data in the Canadian Centre for Data Development and Economic Research, on Statistics Canada premises, and under the Directive on the Use of Deemed Employees. The linked file will be retained in accordance with the Directive on the Management of Statistical Microdata Files, until no longer required, at which time it will be destroyed.

Purpose: Announced in Budget 2016, the government committed to developing a Performance Measurement Framework for Business Accelerators and Incubators (BAIs) in partnership with leading BAIs. As a core component of this measurement framework, this project proposes to link the firm data collected from BAIs to the LFE in order to enable the production of key performance indicators of the impact BAIs have on their client firms. Active partners from the BAI community have been heavily engaged in the development and execution of this initiative and expectations are high in terms of the value that will be added through this partnership with the Government.

The proposed project will link the 2017 firm data to Statistics Canada's Linkable File Environment to build a profile of BAIs client firms. To do so, researchers from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) Small Business Branch will arrange for BAIs firm data to be provided to Statistics Canada's Centre for Special Business Projects for the linkage.

Output: A custom analytical report, based on the customized research database extracted from Statistics Canada's Linkable File Environment, will be produced by deemed employees of Statistics Canada.

Only non-confidential aggregate statistical outputs and analysis that conform to the confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act will be released outside of Statistics Canada.

Purpose: The main objective of this project is to link Atlantic Indigenous Businesses to the Linkable File Environment (LFE) of Statistics Canada to produce custom design tables of non-confidential aggregate statistics for the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council (APEC). The Atlantic Provinces Economic Council (APEC) has been awarded the contract to conduct research on Successful Atlantic Indigenous Businesses: Improving Employment and Socio-economic Outcomes. This research project is being conducted on behalf of the Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs Secretariat (APC-FNC Secretariat).

APEC and its two co-investigators, which are Indigenous organizations, are in the process of developing the inventory of Atlantic Canada Indigenous businesses, which can be cross-matched with the Linked File Environment to find administrative and Statistics Canada survey data.

Output: The output will be in the form of a profiling table which presents some aggregate economic indicators such as the total revenue; sales; profits, exports and the number of employees by Atlantic province and by sector. The linked APEC list of businesses will be housed at Statistics Canada's Centre for Special Business Project (CSBP).

A research dataset will be produced and the full integrated database will be used by CSBP to produce a custom-designed table of non-confidential aggregate statistics for the client. The output of this project will not be sent to the Canadian Centre for Data Development and Economic Research (CDER).

Only non-confidential aggregate statistical outputs and analyses that conform to the confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act will be released outside of Statistics Canada.

Purpose: The purpose of this record linkage is to construct two microdata files that will be used by Statistics Canada's employees for the production of custom tabulations available to provincial and territorial managers of social and affordable housing programs and to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. These aggregated data will inform important topics related to the demographics and income of those living in social and affordable housing, as well as some characteristics of the dwellings as they relate to various social and affordable program parameters.

Output: Only non-confidential, aggregated tables, conforming to the confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act, will be released.