Employment Insurance Coverage Survey (EICS) The main purpose of this survey is to study the coverage of the employment insurance program. It provides a meaningful picture of who does or does not have access to EI benefits among the jobless and those in a situation of underemployment. The Employment Insurance Coverage Survey also covers access to maternity and parental benefits. The survey was designed to produce a series of precise measures to identify groups with low probability of receiving benefits, for instance, the long-term jobless, labour market entrants and students, people becoming unemployed after uninsured employment, people who have left jobs voluntarily and individuals who are eligible, given their employment history, but do not claim or otherwise receive benefits. The survey provides a detailed description of the characteristics of the last job held as well as reasons for not receiving benefits or for not claiming. Through the survey data, analysts will also be able to observe the characteristics and situation of people not covered by EI and of those who exhausted EI benefits, the job search intensity of the unemployed, expectation of recall to a job, and alternate sources of income and funds. Survey data pertaining to maternity and parental benefits answer questions on the proportion of mothers of an infant who received maternity and parental benefits, the reason why some mothers do not receive benefits and about sharing parental benefits with their spouse. The survey also allows looking at the timing and circumstances related to the return to work, the income adequacy of households with young children and more. ====================================================== /2007 /2007/data eics2007dat.zip (eics2007_pumf.txt) compressed 322,124 eics2007_pumf.txt 131 line length 11,367 Records 1,511,811 Uncompressed /2007/doc ecae2007.sas French SAS Cards ecae2007.sps French SPSS Cards ecae2007cbk.doc .pdf French Codebook ecae2007que.doc .pdf French Questionnaire eics2007.sas SAS Cards eics2007.sps SPSS Cards eics2007cbk.doc .pdf Codebook eics2007que.doc .pdf Questionnaire ecae2007gid.doc .pdf French User's Guide ecae2007vt.doc .pdf French Variability Tables eics2007gid.doc .pdf User's Guide eics2007vt.doc .pdf Variability Tables