Readslid1999.txt

Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics               1999  (slid)
L'Enquete sur la dynamique du travail et du revenu 1999  (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
    1999    : Survey Year............(1999)
      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
        v#  : Version Number

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/1999
            /dli/slid/1999/data
            /dli/slid/1999/doc
            /dli/slid/1999/sascard
            /dli/slid/1999/spss
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DATA FILE(S):
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DIRECTORY:  /dli/slid/1999/data/

filename                       size      Description -

					 CROSS-SECTIONAL...
slid1999cf-datv2.zip        2,494,899      CENSUS   FAMILY FILE (EC1999CF)
slid1999ef-datv2.zip        2,368,251      ECONOMIC FAMILY FILE (EC1999EF)
slid1999ke-datv2.zip          805,201      KEY             FILE (EC1999KE)
slid1999pr-datv2.zip        4,897,782      PERSON          FILE (EC1999PR)

filename             Number of            Maximum line   SIZE
		     records	          length

EC1999CF.DAT         33,845               398            13,538,000
EC1999EF.DAT         30,410               401            12,255,230
EC1999KE.DAT         74,174                41             3,189,482
EC1999PR.DAT         58,096               500            29,164,192


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/1999/doc/


English                  French                  Description

slid1999gid.pdf, .htm    edtr1999gid.pdf, .htm   Documentation and User's Guide

slid1999cbk.pdf          edtr1999cbk.pdf         Codebook.


English                  French           Description

75f0002mie1999003.pdf  ...mif...pdf       75F0002XIE -
                                          Questionnaire for Demographics and
					  Contact.

75f0002mie1999004.pdf  ...mif...pdf       75F0002XIE -
                                          Preliminary Interview Questionnaire


75f0002mie1999005.pdf  ...mif...pdf       75F0002XIE -
			       	          Labour Interview Questionnaire

75f0002mie2000005.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/1999/spss/

English                French                 Description

slid1999cf.sps         edtr1999cf.sps         SPSS - Census   Family file
slid1999ef.sps         edtr1999ef.sps         SPSS - Economic Family file
slid1999ke.sps         edtr1999ke.sps         SPSS - Key    file
slid1999pr.sps         edtr1999pr.sps         SPSS - Person file

DIRECTORY /dli/slid/1999/sascard/

English                French                 Description

slid1999cf-sas.zip     edtr1999cf-sas.zip     SAS card - Census   Family file
slid1999ef-sas.zip     edtr1999ef-sas.zip     SAS card - Economic Family file
slid1999ke-sas.zip     edtr1999ke-sas.zip     SAS card - Key    file
slid1999pr-sas.zip     edtr1999pr-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