Readslid1997.txt

Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics               1997  (slid)
L'Enquete sur la dynamique du travail et du revenu 1997  (edtr)

Abstract:

The cross-sectional public-use microdata file for the Survey of Labour and
Income Dynamics (SLID) is a collection of income, labour and family variables
on persons in Canada and their families. This file includes many safeguards to
prevent the identification of any one person.

Although often referred to as a single file, the SLID public-use microdata
file is actually four separate files: key, person, economic family and
census family.

The person file contains identifier data, which allows a researcher to
group persons into households, economic families and census families, as
well as link each of these files together.

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SURVEY STRUCTURE FOR THE DLI COLLECTION
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File(s) Prefix

slid        : Survey of labour and income dynamics
    1997    : Survey Year............(1997)
      cf    : Census   Family file
      ef    : Economic Family file
      ke    : Key............ file
      pr    : Person......... file
        cbk : Codebook
        dat : Data
        gid : Documentation and User's guide (U.G.)
        que : Questionnaire

File(s) Suffix (extension)

.pdf  :  Adobe Acrobat
.wp   :  WordPerfect 6 and previous version
.wpd  :  Wordperfect 7
.xls  :  Microsoft Excel
.zip  :  WinZip compressed file(s)
.exe  :  self extract

.dat  :  Data file(s)
.sas  :  SAS  code
.sps  :  SPSS code
.txt  :  Text file(s)

NOTE: -file(s) with extension .pdf, .wp, .wpd, .xls, .zip, .exe are Binary and
      -file(s) with extension .dat, .sas, .sps, .txt            are Ascii

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DIRECTORY:  /dli/slid/1997
            /dli/slid/1997/data
            /dli/slid/1997/doc
            /dli/slid/1997/sascard
            /dli/slid/1997/spss
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DATA FILE(S):
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DIRECTORY:  /dli/slid/1997/data/

filename                       size      Description -

					 CROSS-SECTIONAL...
slid1997cf-dat.zip        2,251,630      CENSUS   FAMILY FILE (EC1997CF)
slid1997ef-dat.zip        2,105,744      ECONOMIC FAMILY FILE (EC1997EF)
slid1997pr-dat.zip        4,656,871      PERSON          FILE (EC1997PR)

filename             Number of            Maximum line   SIZE
		     records	          length

EC1997CF.DAT         35,991               316            11,445,138
EC1997EF.DAT         32,240               314            10,187,840
EC1997PR.DAT         61,497               416            25,705,746


NOTE: -file(s) with extension .pdf, .wp, .wpd, .xls, .zip, .exe are Binary and
      -file(s) with extension .dat, .sas, .sps, .txt            are Ascii
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DOCUMENTATION(S):
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DIRECTORY:  /dli/slid/1997/doc/


English                  French                  Description

slid1997gid.pdf          edtr1997gid.pdf         Guide.


English                  French         Description

75f0002mie97001.pdf  ...mif...pdf       Catalogue No. 97-01
                                        QUESTIONNAIRE FOR DEMOGRAPHICS AND
                                        CONTACT
                                        Product Registration Number 75F0002M

English                  French         Description

75f0002mie97005.pdf  ...mif...pdf       Catalogue No. 97-05
					PRELIMINARY INTERVIEW QUESTIONNAIRE
                                        Product Registration Number 75F0002M


English                  French         Description

75f0002mie97008.pdf  ...mif...pdf       Catalogue No. 97-08
					LABOUR INTERVIEW QUESTIONNAIRE
                                        Product Registration Number 75F0002M


English                  French         Description

75f0002mie98006.pdf  ...mif...pdf       Catalogue No. 98-06
                                        QUESTIONNAIRE AND COLLECTION PROCEDURES
					FOR SLID INCOME DATA COLLECTION
                                        Product Registration Number 75F0002MIE

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COMMAND FILE(S):  SPSS code and/or SAS
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DIRECTORY /dli/slid/1997/spss/

English                French                 Description

slid1997cf.sps         edtr1997cf.sps         SPSS - Census   Family file
slid1997ef.sps         edtr1997ef.sps         SPSS - Economic Family file
slid1997pr.sps         edtr1997pr.sps         SPSS - Person file

DIRECTORY /dli/slid/1997/sascard/

English                French                 Description

slid1997cf-sas.zip     edtr1997cf-sas.zip     SAS card - Census   Family file
slid1997ef-sas.zip     edtr1997ef-sas.zip     SAS card - Economic Family file
slid1997pr-sas.zip     edtr1997pr-sas.zip     SAS card - Person file


NOTE: -file(s) with extension .pdf, .wp, .wpd, .xls, .zip, .exe are Binary and
      -file(s) with extension .dat, .sas, .sps, .txt            are Ascii