Sequential Identification Number
Survey reference year
Province or region
Sex of respondent
Age of respondent (groups)
Highest educational attainment
Survey type as determined for the EICS
Currently working at job or business
Respondent status (Mother or not)
Immigrant status
Last worked period (groups)
Full/part-time status of last/curr. job
Type of work arrangement
Union status
Job tenure (groups)
Industry based on NAICS 2012
Occupation based on NOC 2011
Respondent usually receives tips or commissions
Usual hourly earnings - derived
EI premiums deducted at job
Reason for EI premiums not deducted
Job leaver, job loser or unpaid absence
Reason stopped working at job
Received advanced notice or knew in advance
Weeks of advance notice (groups)
Receive record of empl. when stop. work.
Received pay when losing job
Expected to return to employer
Duration of the leave (Time ended or planned)
Duration of the leave (groups)
Made a claim in the last 12 months or since the month last worked
Received Employment Insurance benefits
Type of benefits received in reference week or reference month
Weeks of benefits since last applied
Amount of Employment Insurance benefits received
Reason not receive/claim benefits
Weeks worked during the reference year (groups)
Full/part-time status in reference year
Number of insurable hours in reference year
Insurable employment in past two years
Taxonomy of Employment Insurance coverage
EI eligibility status
Received maternity/parental benefits
Parental benefits claimed by spouse
Reason spouse not claiming parent. ben.
Received payments from employer, insurance or other benefits
Weeks of additional payments
Relied on parents for most day-to-day financial needs
Received wages/salaries from employment
Received child tax benefit or child benefit
Spouse/partner received emp. earnings
Main source funds used to meet hhd exp.
HHLD received social assistance payments
Months in receipt of social assistance
Sufficiency of household income to meet day-to-day expenses
Received financial assistance (friends)
Got a job/started busin./did odd jobs
Used up some savings/cash in investment
Had to sell property or belongings
Increased reliance on credit
Cut exp. to make up for shortfall in inc
Did anything find work dur. ref. week
Most import job search meth dur ref week
Hours spent looking for work during the reference week
Cost of job search activities
Looking within community or province
Chances find accep. job in next 3 mths
Would help most to find a job
Agreement with emp. to return to work
Returned/plan to return to the same emp.
Has worked since the birth or adoption
Planned or current child care arrangement
Working conditions after birth/adoption
Hlhd inc in month before birth/adoption
In/decreased in income after birth/adop
Change in income (per month)
Student status
Type of economic family grouped
No of persons in economic family grouped
Number of employed persons grouped