Readslid2002.txt

Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics               2002  (slid)
L'Enquete sur la dynamique du travail et du revenu 2002  (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
    2002    : Survey Year............(2002)
      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/2002
            /dli/slid/2002/data
            /dli/slid/2002/doc
            /dli/slid/2002/sascard
            /dli/slid/2002/spss
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DATA FILE(S):
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DIRECTORY:  /dli/slid/2002/data/

filename                       size      Description -

					 CROSS-SECTIONAL...
slid2002cf-dat.zip        2,161,271      CENSUS   FAMILY FILE (EC2002CF)
slid2002ef-dat.zip        2,065,463      ECONOMIC FAMILY FILE (EC2002EF)
slid2002ke-dat.zip          797,997      KEY             FILE (EC2002KE)
slid2002pr-dat.zip        4,795,512      PERSON          FILE (EC2002PR)

filename             Number of            Maximum line   SIZE
		     records	          length

EC2002CF.DAT         32,886               368            12,167,820
EC2002EF.DAT         29,436               371            10,979,628
EC2002KE.DAT         70,639                45             3,320,033
EC2002PR.DAT         56,216               491            27,714,488


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/2002/doc/

English              French              Description

slid2002gid.pdf      edtr2002gid.pdf     Documentation and User's Guide.
slid2002cbk.pdf      edtr2002cbk.pdf     Codebook.


75f0002mie2003004.pdf  ...mif...pdf     Entry Exit Component for Income.

75f0002mie2003005.pdf  ...mif...pdf	Entry Exit component for labour
                                        interview.

75f0002mie2003006.pdf  ...mif...pdf	Preliminary Interview Questionnaire

75f0002mie2003007.pdf  ...mif...pdf	SLID Labour Interview Questionnaire

75f0002mie2003008.pdf  ...mif...pdf	Income Interview Questionnaire

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COMMAND FILE(S):  SPSS code and/or SAS
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DIRECTORY /dli/slid/2002/spss/

English                French                 Description

slid2002cf.sps         edtr2002cf.sps         SPSS - Census   Family file
slid2002ef.sps         edtr2002ef.sps         SPSS - Economic Family file
slid2002ke.sps         edtr2002ke.sps         SPSS - Key    file
slid2002pr.sps         edtr2002pr.sps         SPSS - Person file

DIRECTORY /dli/slid/2002/sascard/

English                French                 Description

slid2002cf-sas.zip     edtr2002cf-sas.zip     SAS card - Census   Family file
slid2002ef-sas.zip     edtr2002ef-sas.zip     SAS card - Economic Family file
slid2002ke-sas.zip     edtr2002ke-sas.zip     SAS card - Key    file
slid2002pr-sas.zip     edtr2002pr-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