SURVEY OF LABOUR AND INCOME DYNAMICS PUBLIC USE MICRODATA, 1999,
STATISTICS CANADA, PRODUCT NO. 75M0010XCB

FINAL VERSION, MAY 2003

TECHNICAL SUPPORT: 1-800-949-9491.

THE GUIDE FOR CROSS-SECTIONAL PUBLIC-USE MICRODATA FILE
ACCOMPANIES THE CD-ROM.

IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING PROBLEMS DISPLAYING FRENCH ACCENTED
CHARACTERS, MAKE SURE THE CODE PAGE ON YOUR COMPUTER 
IS SET TO 863 (FRENCH CANADIAN).

THE DATA ARE PROVIDED IN FOUR FILES:
- 1999 CROSS-SECTIONAL PERSON FILE (EC1999PR)
- 1999 CROSS-SECTIONAL ECONOMIC FAMILY FILE (EC1999EF)
- 1999 CROSS-SECTIONAL CENSUS FAMILY FILE (EC1999CF)
- 1999 CROSS-SECTIONAL KEY FILE (EC1999KE)

THE PERSON FILE CONTAINS ONE RECORD PER PERSON IN THE SAMPLE AGED 16
AND OVER. 
THE ECONOMIC FAMILY FILE CONTAINS ONE RECORD FOR EVERY ECONOMIC
FAMILY.
ECONOMIC FAMILY AND PERSON FILE ARE LINKED BY THE IDENTIFICATION
NUMBER PUCHID25 (CROSS-SECTIONAL HOUSEHOLD ID) AND D31FAM26
(ECONOMIC FAMILY ID).
THE CENSUS FAMILY FILE CONTAINS ONE RECORD FOR EVERY CENSUS FAMILY.
YOU CAN LINK ON THE CENSUS FAMILY FILE BY PUCHID25 
(CROSS-SECTIONAL HOUSEHOLD ID), D31FAM26 (ECONOMIC FAMILY ID) AND
D31CF26 (CENSUS FAMILY ID).
THE KEY FILE CONTAINS ONE RECORD PER PERSON IN THE SAMPLE.
YOU CAN LINK ON THE KEY FILE BY PERSONID.

BELOW ARE MORE DETAILS ON THE DATA FILES AND RELATED FILES
CONTAINED ON THIS CD-ROM.

1) SURVEY DATA FILES:
                NUMBER OF RECORDS   NUMBER OF VARIABLES  RECORD LENGTH
EC1999PR.DAT        58,096                  131                  500
EC1999EF.DAT        30,410                   73                  401
EC1999CF.DAT        33,845                   70                  398
EC1999KE.DAT        74,174                   13                   41

THE ASCII FILES ARE STORED IN SUB-DIRECTORY \DATA

2) DATA DICTIONARY FOR PERSON, ECONOMIC FAMILY, CENSUS FAMILY AND KEY
   FILES:

THE DATA DICTIONARY IS AVAILABLE IN THE MAIN DOCUMENTATION.
LINKS HAVE BEEN CREATED BY THEME TO ACCESS THE VARIABLES.

3) SAS AND SPSS CONTROL CARDS

THESE ARE PROVIDED IN ASCII FILES TO ASSIST USERS IN
CREATING SAS AND SPSS VERSIONS OF THE FILES FROM THE ASCII DATA
FILES.  THE SAS FILES ARE IN SUB-DIRECTORY SAS, WHILE THE SPSS
FILES ARE IN SUB-DIRECTORY SPSS.  FOR EACH OF THE THREE FILES,
THERE ARE SIX CONTROL CARD FILES FOR SAS AND SIX CONTROL CARD
FILES FOR SPSS.  ALTHOUGH THE DATA DICTIONARY DIFFERENTIATES
BETWEEN CHARACTER AND NUMERIC FIELDS, ALL FIELDS ARE DEFINED AS
TYPE NUMERIC IN THE SPSS CONTROL CARDS.

RECORD LAYOUT FILES: EC1999XX.LAY (EC1999XX REFERS TO ANY OF THE
FOUR DATA FILES AS DESCRIBED ABOVE) THESE FILES CONTAIN A 
LIST OF VARIABLES WITH: VARIABLE NAME, FORMAT AND FILE POSITION.

LABEL FILES: EC1999XX.LBE (ENGLISH) AND EC1999XX.LBF
(FRENCH).  THESE FILES CAN BE USED IN SAS STATEMENTS TO SHOW
OUTPUT WITH THE FULL VARIABLE LABELS (LONG VARIABLES NAMES)
INSTEAD OF THE 8-CHARACTER VARIABLE NAMES.

CODE FILES: EC1999XX.CDE (ENGLISH) AND EC1999XX.CDF
(FRENCH).  THESE FILES CAN BE USED IN SAS STATEMENTS TO SHOW
OUTPUT WITH THE CATEGORY LABELS INSTEAD OF CODES.

FORMAT FILES: EC1999XX.FMT.  IN THE SAS CONTROL CARDS, THESE FILES
LINK THE FORMATS PROVIDED IN THE CODE FILES TO THE VARIABLES
SPECIFIED IN THE RECORD LAYOUT FILES.  NO SUCH FILES ARE
NECESSARY IN SPSS.

MISSING VALUE FILES: EC1999XX.MVS.  THESE FILES DEFINE THE RESERVED
CODES FOR EACH VARIABLE.  ALTHOUGH THEY MAY NOT EXIST FOR EVERY
VARIABLE, THERE ARE FOUR RESERVED CODES ASSIGNED TO EACH
VARIABLE.  THEY ARE: NOT IN SLID SAMPLE, DON'T KNOW, REFUSAL,
NOT APPLICABLE.

4) THE GUIDE FOR CROSS-SECTIONAL PUBLIC-USE MICRODATA FILE 
AND ACROBAT SOFTWARE

THE CONTENTS OF THE GUIDE ARE READABLE WITH ACROBAT SOFTWARE
FROM THE MAIN MENU.

5) FREQUENCY STATISTICS

THE GUIDE FOR CROSS-SECTIONAL PUBLIC-USE MICRODATA FILE
READABLE IN ACROBAT CONTAINS THE FREQUENCY STATISTICS 
FOR EACH FIELD IN EACH OF THE FOUR FILES. 
FOR CONFIDENTIALITY REASONS, THE DATA ON THE PUBLIC-USE MICRODATA
FILES MAY BE DIFFERENT FROM THE CORRESPONDING VALUES ON THE
INTERNAL FILES. 

6) ACROBAT READER

IF YOU DON'T HAVE ACROBAT READER, YOU CAN GET IT FROM WWW.ADOBE.COM .

TO READ THE ACROBAT FILES CONTAINED IN THE CD-ROM (AFTER
INSTALLING THE ACROBAT READER)
1.   IN THE ENGLISH DIRECTORY, OPEN THE DOC SUBDIRECTORY AND
DOUBLE CLICK ON ANY .PDF FILE, IT WILL THEN LAUNCH THE ACROBAT
READER AND THE SELECTED FILE WILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN.