QICSS-McGill University branch
The McGill-Concordia Laboratory of the Quebec Inter-University Centre for Social Statistics (QICSS) was made possible by a Canada Research Chair in Social Statistics and Family Change awarded to Céline Le Bourdais in the Fall of 2004 along with a grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). Céline Le Bourdais is professor in the Department of Sociology at McGill University. She has a long experience in the teaching and conduct of quantitative longitudinal analysis applied to the study of family. A research team working on family issues is currently working at the McGill-Concordia laboratory and the facilities found at Peterson Hall.
From the beginning, the Quebec academic community has opted for a "network approach" and decided to pool its resources and know-how in order to foster the development of social statistics. Comprised of seven universities, including its main infrastructure at Université de Montréal, QICSS is the only Research Data Centre (RDC) in Quebec. The opening of a branch laboratory on the McGill campus (others branches are located at Université du Québec à Montréal, Laval University,and Sherbrooke University) brings the data and resources closer to the researchers of both McGill and Concordia Universities. Furthermore, the laboratory also promotes statistical training and interdisciplinary dialogue across both campuses in order to ensure that studies conducted there make the best use of the data and have the widest impact possible on the academic community, societal organizations and policy makers.
