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Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) with multiple linkage

RDC News: September 2023

Holiday closures, researcher congrats and kudos, Saturday hours for September, and a new data set profile.

Aug 29, 2023

Holiday closures

This month we will have the following changes to our usual operating hours:

  • Closed for Labour Day on Monday September 4th

 

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, September 9th - 12pm to 4pm

 

Congrats & Kudos

Congratulations to Sawayra Owais for her recent PhD thesis defence in the prestigious Neuroscience MD/PhD program, on August 1st, 2023!

Thesis title: INDIGENOUS PARENT AND OFFSPRING MENTAL HEALTH

Dataset used: 2006 Aboriginal Children's Survey

 

New data sets at the RDC: 

Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) with multiple linkage

Statistics Canada and the Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) are pleased to announce the availability of new analytical files featuring information on the Emergency and Recovery Benefits (ERB) recipients’ records combined with administrative, census and survey data.
 
The available microdata contains de-identified client-level administrative information such as the amount of benefits received and the number of weeks of receiving benefits from the following ERB programs:

  • Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) – March 2020 to September 2020
  • Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB) – September 2020 to October 2021
  • Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit (CRSB) – September 2020 to May 2022
  • Canada Recovery Caregiver Benefit (CRCB) – September 2020 to May 2022

 
The following tax-derived and geographical variables are also available for the recipient and non-recipient population:

  • Income class;
  • NAICS industry code, employer size class;
  • Age, sex, disability status, marital status, presence of children; and
  • Geographical location

 
If required for approved analytical projects, subsequent linkage keys would allow mapping of the Emergency and Recovery Benefits records as described above to another source (e.g. Census, Canadian Survey on Disability, Longitudinal Immigration Database... with some restrictions).

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.