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Canadian Community Health Survey - DLI

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Canadian Community Health Survey 2007 - Synthetic Files 

The central objective of the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) is to 
gather health-related data at sub-provincial levels of geography (health region 
or combined health regions). 

Effective starting this cycle, the CCHS team at Statistics Canada made a decision 
to drop the .1 in the naming convention and simply state the year- because CCHS 
has gone to continuous collection, the term CCHS 4.1 is not quite accurate anymore. 

Note: It is important to note that these synthethic files do not contain real 
data and should never be used for analytical purposes. Their only purpose is to 
assist users in developing and testing the computer programs that are to be 
submitted by remote job submission.

Abstract:
The public use microdata file from the Canadian Community Health Survey
(CCHS) provides data for health regions combined health regions across
Canada. It comes on CD-ROM, with a built-in Beyond 20/20 application,
and includes information on a wide range of topics, including alcohol
consumption, chronic health conditions, fruit and vegetable consumption,
general health, use of health services, height and weight, injuries,
physical activity, restriction of activities and smoking.

It also provides information on the socio-demographic characteristics,
the income and the labour force characteristics of the population. Data
were collected from over 130,000 respondents, aged 12 or older, residing
in households across all provinces and territories.


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