General Social Survey, Cycle 23: Victimization (gssc23) - 2009

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Abstract: 

The two primary objectives of the General Social Survey (GSS) are: to
gather data on social trends in order to monitor changes in the living
conditions and well being of Canadians over time; and to provide
information on specific social policy issues of current or emerging
interest. 

This survey collects information on the nature and extent of criminal
victimization in Canada. 
					
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SURVEY STRUCTURE FOR THE DLI COLLECTION
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File(s) Prefix

gss       :  General Social Survey
  c23     :  cycle 23.........Victimization
    dat   :  Data File
     gid  :  Documentation and User's Guide
     que  :  Questionnaire


File(s) Suffix (extension)

.pdf  :  Adobe Acrobat
.zip  :  WinZip compressed file(s)

.sas  :  SAS  code
.sps  :  SPSS code  

.txt  :  Text file(s)

NOTE:  - file(s) with extension
         ..pdf, .zip are Binary and .sas, .sps, .txt are Ascii
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Directory Structure:  /dli/gss/cycle23-2009
                      /dli/gss/cycle23-2009/data
                      /dli/gss/cycle23-2009/doc

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DATA FILE(S):
DIRECTORY:   /dli/gss/cycle23-2009/data



main-ascii.zip      (C23PUMFM.DAT)       Main Data File      (46,662,314 zip)  
(uncompressed 110,744,244) (record length 5,700) (number of records 19,422) 
incident-ascii.zip  (C23PUMFI.DAT)       Incident Data File  (12,304,015 zip)  
(uncompressed  37,459,784) (record length 5,277) (number of records 7,096) 

main-sas.zip        (c23pumfm.sas7bdat)  Main Data SAS File      
incident-sas.zip    (c23pumfi.sas7bdat)  Incident Data SAS File  

main-spss-eng.zip     (c23pumfm-eng.sav) Main Data File       
incident-spss-eng.zip (c23pumfi-eng.sav) Incident Data File   
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DOCUMENTATION:
DIRECTORY:  /dli/gss/cycle23-2009/doc

filename                 Format    Description

gssc-esgc23gid-eng.pdf     B	   User's Guide
gssc-esgc23que-eng.pdf     B	   Questionnaire

gssc-esgc23main-eng.sas    A       SAS File, principal (ascii)
gssc-esgc23inc-eng.sas     A       SAS File, incidents (ascii)

gssc-esgc23main-eng.sps    A       SPSS File, principal (ascii)
gssc-esgc23inc-eng.sps     A       SPSS File, incidents (ascii)

GSS Cycle 23 PUMF - May 2011 update 
	*Updated hate crime derived variable (HATECRIM) to be consistent with Cycle 18;
	*Added criminal code/non-criminal code hate crime variables (HTC_Q180A/HTC_Q180B);
	*Added previous marital status variable (CMR_Q120) to the PUMF;
	*Updated response categories for evening activity variables (PEO_Q110 to PEO_Q180);
	*Added section 8.4 (Rounding) to the user guide;
	*Added new Appendix H ("Estimating Variance with ADJWTVIC using SUDAAN or BootVar") to user guide.
	*The updates contained in the file were made to the datasets, user guide and data dictionary.