Statistics Canada Cross-sectional Surveys
CROSS-SECTIONAL SURVEYS : over the years, Statistics Canada has carried out an extensive array of cross-sectional surveys. Individuals are interviewed at a particular point in time, and if the survey is repeated, it will usually include a different sample of respondents.
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General Social Survey (GSS)
The General Social Survey is an annual survey that tracks changes within Canadian society. Although the survey subject varies each year, topics may reappear at regular intervals in order to measure how they evolve over time
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Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS)
The CCHS gathers data at both the community and the regional levels on the correlations between health and economic, social, demographic, professional and environmental factors
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Other cross-sectional surveys
- Economics and labour market
- Labour Market Activity Survey (LMAS)
- Survey of Employment Insurance Coverage (EICS)
- Labour Force Survey (LFS)
- Survey of Displaced Workers (SDW)
- Community Employment Innovation Project (CEIP)
- Self Sufficiency Project (SSP)
- Public Service Employee Survey 2005 (PSES)
- National Survey of the Work and Health of Nurses (NSWHN)
- Literacy, education and the school system
- Adult Education and Training Survey (AETS)
- Ontario Adult Literacy Survey (OALS)
- Survey of Approaches to Educational Planning (SAEP)
- School Leavers Survey (SLS)
- School Leavers Follow-up Survey (SLFS)
- Survey of Literacy Skills Used in Daily Activities (LSUDA)
- International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey (IALSS)
- Post-Secondary Education Participation Survey (PEPS)
- Information and Communications Technologies in Schools Survey (ICTSS)
- Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
- Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED)
- Health and risk behaviours
- Canada's Alcohol and Other Drugs Survey (CAODS)
- Health Promotion Survey (HPS)
- Residential Care Facilities (RCF)
- Ontario Child Health Study (OCHS)
- Health and Activity Limitation Survey : Institutinal Component (HALS)
- Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey (CTUMS)
- Participation and Activity Limitation Survey (PALS)
- Health Services Access Survey (HSAS)
- National Survey of the Work and Health of Nurses (NSWHN)
- Canada Health Survey (CHS)
- Canadian Survey of Experience with Primary Health Care (CSE-PHC)
- Household characteristics
- Food Expenditure Survey (FES)
- Survey of Family Expenditures (FAMEX)
- Survey of Household Spending (SHS)
- Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF)
- National Private Vehicule Use Survey (NPVUS)
- Survey of Financial Security (SFS)
- Household Facilities by Income and Other Characteristics (HIFE)
- Family History Survey
- Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating (CSGVP)
- Self Sufficiency Project (SSP)
- Post-censal surveys on large sub-populations
- Children and youth
- Administrative Data
- Others
- Economics and labour market
***Information on the data sets available in the centres has been collated and updated by the QICSS, Quebec's Research Data Centre***