Holiday Hours 

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

• Closed all day Monday September 2nd for Labour Day.
• NO extended hours on Tuesday September 3rd and Thursday September 5th (i.e. closing at 5pm).

Saturday Hours - On Demand

We will be offering 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 14th - 12pm to 4pm

The CRDCN Emerging Scholars Grant

The Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN) is pleased to continue supporting the next generation of highly qualified personnel through the CRDCN Emerging Scholars Grant, a one-time, $1,200 grant to Ph.D. students who are undertaking thesis-related research in one of the 33 Research Data Centres (RDCs) at universities across the country. The grant is designed to support the development of emerging scholars’ skills and expertise in data analysis and research and to strengthen the career pathways for the next generation.

To be eligible, the applicant must be a Ph.D. student enrolled full-time at a Canadian university. The applicant must submit a package via the CRDCN website. Candidates can apply online any time during the year; applications will be processed three times per year: 

• Applications received from December 1 to March 31: grants will be awarded by May 15. 
• Applications received from April 1 to July 31: grants will be awarded by September 15. 
• Applications received from August 1 to November 30: grants will be awarded by January 15.

For more information, please see full details at https://crdcn.ca/initiatives/events-and-resources/the-crdcn-emerging-scholars-grant/.

Researcher Congrats & Kudos

Congratulations to a team that includes various McMaster RDC researchers - Roger Pizarro Milian, Gillian Parekh, David Walters, and Rob Brown - on a recent publication in the Canaidan Review of Sociology. Their work used the Toronto District School Board file within Statistics Canada's Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP), including the PSIS, the CSLP, and the 2017 T1 family tax file (T1FF). The open access article can be found in the citation below. 

📖 Pizarro Milian, R., Reynolds, D., Abdulkarim, F., Jacob, N., Parekh, G., Brown, R., & Walters, D. (2024). Disability and the stratification of post‐secondary pathways: Evidence from a large administrative linkage. Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie. https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.12475
 

New data sets at the RDC: 

Canadian Social Survey – Quality of Life, Health and Compassionate Communities

The Canadian Social Survey - Quality of Life, Health and Compassionate Communities (CSS-QLHCC) is now available for download and can be accessed by researchers with approved projects. The Canadian Social Survey (CSS) collects information on a variety of social topics such as health, well-being, impacts of COVID-19, activities, time-use, emergency preparedness, quality of life, energy use, virtual health care and trust. The CSS provides data at the national level (excluding the territories).

The purpose of the QLHCC component was to collect information about quality of life, health, compassionate communities, as well as positions held on non-profit boards of directors. Results from the survey will help decision makers develop programs and policies to better serve Canadians.

More information on the CSS-QLHCC can be found at https://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p2SV.pl?Function=getSurvey&Id=1535076. 

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. 

📃 For a list of all the most recent data releases, see https://crdcn.ca/publications-data/data/.