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, March 18th - 12pm to 4pm

Congrats & Kudos

On December 1, 2022, James Stutely (Department of Economics) successfully defended his PhD.  dissertation titled "Three papers on retirement and Canada's public pension system" using the Longitudinal Administrative Database (LAD), with Dr. Arthur Sweetman as supervisor.
 
James is now a senior economist at the Ontario Medical Association, working in the Economics, Research and Analytics division. Congratulations, Dr. Stutely!

We also have had multiple publications recently using RDC data. Congrats to Boris Kralj, Arthur Sweetman, Emmanuel Guindon, Elaine Guo, and their coauthors! The citations and links to the papers are here:

• Kralj, B., O'Toole, D., Vanstone, M., & Sweetman, A. (2022). The gender earnings gap in medicine: Evidence from Canada. Health Policy, 126(10), 1002-1009. --> using Census data linked to Canada Revenue Agency taxation records
• Guindon, E., Guo, E., Abbas, U., Ernest, P., & Sweetman, A. (2022). Inequity In Corrective Eyewear Insurance In Ontario: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study. McMaster University Journal of Public Health, 1(1). --> using data from the Canadian Community Health Survey 
• Ayodele, B., Guo, E. X., Sweetman, A., & Guindon, G. E. (2022). Inequity in insurance coverage for prescription drugs in New Brunswick, Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 113(4), 504-518. --> using data from the Canadian Community Health Survey 

Congratulations, all!

New data sets at the RDC: 

Nursing and Residential Care Facility Survey (NRCFS)

This survey data will be used to standardize national, provincial, and regional statistics on nursing and residential care facilities in Canada. This will allow governments and researchers to examine the correlation between facility operations and personnel, health outcomes of residents, and system-level performance during pandemics or other emergencies.

Questions were asked about the facility, its revenues and expenses, personnel and hours worked, the type of services offered on-site, the number of beds and the number of residents by their age and gender. Questions related to the COVID-19 pandemic covered infection prevention and control, changes made to the facility, the confirmed number of COVID-19 cases, and the proportion of residents and employees fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Data collected from businesses wereaggregated with information from other sources to produce official estimates of national and provincial economic production for this industry.

If you would like more information about this data set, please see https://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p2SV.pl?Function=getSurvey&SDDS=5342.

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.