Holiday Closures 

Please note that the RDC will be closed all day on the upcoming statutory holiday:

• Monday, February 20th for Family Day

Saturday Hours - On Demand

We will be offering on-demand Saturday hours this month. We will be open on an 'appointment' basis, only if requested. Please sign up via the online booking system as usual. 

Offered dates for Saturday hours this month are:

• Saturday, February 11th - 12pm to 4pm

Congrats & Kudos

Yihong Bai, a PhD candidate in the Economics Department at McMaster University,recently had two papers accepted for publication!

The first, co-authored with Michael Veall, is titled “Minimum wage and mental health: evidence from Canada” and will be published in Social Science and Medicine - Mental Health. It used data from the NPHS. 

The second, co-authored with Michel Grignon, is titled “A cross-sectional analysis of the effect of social capital on self-reported mental health and willingness to get Covid-19 vaccine in Ontario, Canada” and will be published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health. It used data from the CCHS 2021.

New data sets at the RDC: 

Canadian COVID-19 Antibody and Health Survey (CCAHS)

The Canadian COVID-19 Antibody and Health Survey (CCAHS), is collecting key information relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic to learn as much as possible about the virus, how it affects overall health, how it spreads, and whether Canadians are developing antibodies against it.

The CCAHS will collect information in two parts. The first part is an electronic questionnaire about general health and exposure to COVID-19. The second part is two self-administered tests; an at-home finger-prick dried blood spot test, which will be used to measure the presence of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 from vaccination or prior infection, and an at-home a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) saliva test which will determine if there is an active SARS-CoV-2 infection. By using each participant's DBS samples combined with their survey responses, we will also have a better idea of how many Canadians have antibodies against COVID-19 due to infection, vaccination or both.

If you would like more information about this data set, please see https://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p2SV.pl?Function=getSurvey&SDDS=5339.

If you would like more information on how to submit a proposal for access to this data see https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/microdata/data-centres/access.  For more information about the RDC program please contact your local RDC analyst.