Readslid1998.txt

Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics               1998  (slid)
L'Enquete sur la dynamique du travail et du revenu 1998  (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
    1998    : Survey Year............(1998)
      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/1998
            /dli/slid/1998/data
            /dli/slid/1998/doc
            /dli/slid/1998/sascard
            /dli/slid/1998/spss
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DATA FILE(S):
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DIRECTORY:  /dli/slid/1998/data/

filename                       size      Description -

					 CROSS-SECTIONAL...
slid1998cf-dat.zip        2,275,409      CENSUS   FAMILY FILE (EC1998CF)
slid1998ef-dat.zip        2,128,278      ECONOMIC FAMILY FILE (EC1998EF)
slid1998pr-dat.zip        4,731,227      PERSON          FILE (EC1998PR)

filename             Number of            Maximum line   SIZE
		     records	          length

EC1998CF.DAT         36,482               316            11,601,276
EC1998EF.DAT         32,721               314            10,339,836
EC1998PR.DAT         62,211               417            26,066,409


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/1998/doc/


English                  French                  Description

slid1998gid.pdf          edtr1998gid.pdf         Guide.


English                  French           Description

75f0002mie1998003.pdf  ...mif...pdf         75F0002XIE -
                                          Questionnaire for Demographics and
					  Contact.

75f0002mie1998004.pdf  ...mif...pdf         75F0002XIE -
                                          Preliminary Interview Questionnaire


75f0002mie1998005.pdf  ...mif...pdf         75F0002XIE -
			       	          Labour Interview Questionnaire

75f0002mie00005.pdf  ...mif...pdf         75F0002MIE - 00005
			       	          Questionnaire and collection
                                          Procedures for SLID Income Data
					  Collection

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COMMAND FILE(S):  SPSS code and/or SAS
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DIRECTORY /dli/slid/1998/spss/

English                French                 Description

slid1998cf.sps         edtr1998cf.sps         SPSS - Census   Family file
slid1998ef.sps         edtr1998ef.sps         SPSS - Economic Family file
slid1998pr.sps         edtr1998pr.sps         SPSS - Person file

DIRECTORY /dli/slid/1998/sascard/

English                French                 Description

slid1998cf-sas.zip     edtr1998cf-sas.zip     SAS card - Census   Family file
slid1998ef-sas.zip     edtr1998ef-sas.zip     SAS card - Economic Family file
slid1998pr-sas.zip     edtr1998pr-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