Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics               2008  (slid)
L'Enquete sur la dynamique du travail et du revenu 2008  (edtr)

Abstract:

At the heart of the survey's objectives is the understanding of the 
economic well-being of Canadians: what economic shifts do individuals 
and families live through, and how does it vary with changes in their 
paid work, family make-up, receipt of government transfers or other 
factors? The survey's longitudinal dimension makes it possible to see 
such concurrent and often related events. 

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.


Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 3889


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      -file(s) with extension .dat, .sas, .sps, .txt            are Ascii

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DIRECTORY:  /data
            
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DATA FILE(S):
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filename                     uncompressed		Description

slid2008cf-dat.zip        (slid2008cf-dat.txt)		CROSS-SECTIONAL CENSUS FAMILY FILE	
slid2008ef-dat.zip        (slid2008ef-dat.txt)		CROSS-SECTIONAL ECONOMIC FAMILY FILE
slid2008ke-dat.zip        (slid2008ke-dat.txt) 		CROSS-SECTIONAL KEY FILE	 
slid2008pr-dat.zip        (slid2008pr-dat.txt)  	CROSS-SECTIONAL PERSON FILE      


                NUMBER OF RECORDS   NUMBER OF VARIABLES      RECORD LENGTH

slid2008cf-dat.txt        29,025                   71                  424
slid2008ef-dat.txt        26,068                   81                  463
slid2008ke-dat.txt        60,898                   14                   45
slid2008pr-dat.txt        49,683                  148                  584




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      -file(s) with extension .dat, .sas, .sps, .txt            are Ascii
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DOCUMENTATION(S):
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DIRECTORY:  /doc	


English              			French              		Description

slid2008gid.pdf      		edtr2008gid.pdf     			Documentation and User's Guide.
slid2008cbk.pdf      		edtr2008cbk.pdf     			Codebook.

slid2008que-entry-exit.pdf    edtr2008que-entrevue-entree.pdf		Entry Exit Component Interview Questionnaire
slid2008que-preliminary.pdf   edtr2008que-preliminaire.pdf		Preliminary, Labour and Income Interview Questionnaire


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COMMAND FILE(S):  SPSS code and/or SAS
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                              Description

2008cf-spss.zip         SAS card - Census   Family file
2008ef-spss.zip         SAS card - Economic Family file
2008ke-spss.zip         SAS card - Key    file
2008pr-spss.zip         SAS card - Person file

2008cf-sas.zip          SAS card - Census   Family file
2008ef-sas.zip          SAS card - Economic Family file
2008ke-sas.zip          SAS card - Key    file
2008pr-sas.zip          SAS card - Person file

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: EC2008XX.LAY (EC2008XX 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: EC2008XX.LBE (ENGLISH) AND EC2008XX.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: EC2008XX.CDE (ENGLISH) AND EC2008XX.CDF
(FRENCH).  THESE FILES CAN BE USED IN SAS STATEMENTS TO SHOW
OUTPUT WITH THE CATEGORY LABELS INSTEAD OF CODES.

FORMAT FILES: EC2008XX.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: EC2008XX.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.