Readslid2001.txt

Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics               2001  (slid)
L'Enquete sur la dynamique du travail et du revenu 2001  (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
    2001    : Survey Year............(2001)
      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/2001
            /dli/slid/2001/data
            /dli/slid/2001/doc
            /dli/slid/2001/sascard
            /dli/slid/2001/spss
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DATA FILE(S):
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DIRECTORY:  /dli/slid/2001/data/

filename                       size      Description -

					 CROSS-SECTIONAL...
slid2001cf-dat.zip        2,331,274      CENSUS   FAMILY FILE (EC2001CF)
slid2001ef-dat.zip        2,228,202      ECONOMIC FAMILY FILE (EC2001EF)
slid2001ke-dat.zip          870,790      KEY             FILE (EC2001KE)
slid2001pr-dat.zip        5,117,621      PERSON          FILE (EC2001PR)

filename             Number of            Maximum line   SIZE
		     records	          length

EC2001CF.DAT         34,615               368            12,807,550
EC2001EF.DAT         30,928               371            11,536,144
EC2001KE.DAT         74,398                45             3,496,706
EC2001PR.DAT         59,136               489            29,035,776


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/2001/doc/


English              French              Description

slid2001gid.pdf      edtr2001gid.pdf     Documentation and User's Guide.
slid2001cbk.pdf      edtr2001cbk.pdf     Codebook.

75f0002mie2002002.pdf  ...mif...pdf     Labour Interview Questionnaire

75f0002mie2002003.pdf  ...mif...pdf     Preliminary Interview Questionnaire

75f0002mie2002004.pdf  ...mif...pdf     Entry Exit Component for Labour
					Interview

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COMMAND FILE(S):  SPSS code and/or SAS
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DIRECTORY /dli/slid/2001/spss/

English                French                 Description

slid2001cf.sps         edtr2001cf.sps         SPSS - Census   Family file
slid2001ef.sps         edtr2001ef.sps         SPSS - Economic Family file
slid2001ke.sps         edtr2001ke.sps         SPSS - Key    file
slid2001pr.sps         edtr2001pr.sps         SPSS - Person file

DIRECTORY /dli/slid/2001/sascard/

English                French                 Description

slid2001cf-sas.zip     edtr2001cf-sas.zip     SAS card - Census   Family file
slid2001ef-sas.zip     edtr2001ef-sas.zip     SAS card - Economic Family file
slid2001ke-sas.zip     edtr2001ke-sas.zip     SAS card - Key    file
slid2001pr-sas.zip     edtr2001pr-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