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SCF  SLID Transition March 2000

STATISTICS STATISTIQUE CANADA CANADA. SCF  SLID Transition March 2000. Ontario DLI Training Philip Giles. SCF  SLID Transition. SLID objectives, design and contents Informing users about SCF SLID transition and its impact on data New product line

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SCF  SLID Transition March 2000

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  1. STATISTICS STATISTIQUE CANADA CANADA SCF  SLID TransitionMarch 2000 Ontario DLI Training Philip Giles

  2. SCF  SLID Transition • SLID objectives, design and contents • Informing users about SCFSLID transition and its impact on data • New product line • Results to be highlighted on release day

  3. SLID objectives • Information on longitudinal labour market and income flows, their determinants of change and the impact on the family • Labour and income data together • A wide variety of additional “explanatory” variables • Family make-up and changes are key • SLID is now the main source for cross-sectional income data

  4. SLID survey design

  5. Who is interviewed by SLID? • Longitudinal respondents are selected at the start of a panel • Cohabitants are also interviewed • Movers are followed • Labour data collected for persons 16 to 69 • Income data collected for persons 16+

  6. SLID content • Data currently available from 1993 to 1997 • Over 1000 variables • Database is organized into logically related groups of variables • For each person, four broad categories of variables • labour • income and wealth • education • personal characteristics • Each broad category is further subdivided . . .

  7. PERSON INCOME AND WEALTH PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS LABOUR EDUCATION LABOUR MARKET ACTIVITY PATTERNS INCOME SOURCES EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY DEMOGRAPHICS WORK EXPERIENCE MONTHLY RECEIPT OF UI/WC/SA LEVEL OF SCHOOLING ETHNO-CULTURAL DISABILITY JOBLESS PERIODS ASSETS & DEBTS INFORMATION ON PERSON’S CHILDREN JOB INFORMATION GEOGRAPHY JOB CHARACTERISTICS ABSENCES FROM WORK EMPLOYER ATTRIBUTES HOUSEHOLD/FAMILY INFORMATION

  8. More information on SLID • For more information: dynamics@statcan.ca • All SLID documentation available at no charge from Statistics Canada web site www.statcan.ca • Start with SLID Overview • http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/75F0011XIE/free.htm

  9. SCFSLID Transition: data comparison

  10. SCFSLID Transition: merged series

  11. SCF product line 1. Publications Income Distributions Earnings of Men and Women Census Family Income Dual-Earner Families Income After Tax LICOs LIMs Low Income Persons LICOs & LIMs After Tax Low Income After Tax 2. Microdata file 3. Custom retrievals

  12. SLID product line • Income in Canada: Annual report on income + electronic supplement (to provide geographic detail) • CD-ROM: Income Trends in Canada, 1980 - 1998 • Public-use microdata file modeled on SCF • On-premise & remote access to longitudinal (and cross-sectional) data • Custom retrievals • Research Data Centres

  13. Income in Canada: Thematic Organization • Analytical content, as well as tables • Print version + electronic version (with geographic detail) • Organized by theme • Earnings • Market Income • Government transfers • Total income • Income tax • Income after tax • Multiple income concepts • Low income

  14. Income Trends in Canada, 1980-1997 • Beyond 20/20 to access and manipulate tables • Most tables have Canada, 10 provinces and 15 CMAs • Organized by theme • Earnings • Market Income • Government transfers • Total income • Income tax • Income after tax • Multiple income concepts • Low income

  15. STC Research Data Centres • STC offices on university campuses • Full time STC employee, with a physical setup that meets confidentiality requirements • Gustave Goldman is coordinatorDoug Newson and Ian McKellar on steering committee • First wave • Mc Master University • University of Alberta (Edmonton) • Second wave • Dalhousie • Université de Montréal • University of Toronto • University of New Brunswick • University of Waterloo • University of Calgary • University of British Columbia

  16. SLID: release day • Data release 15 months after end of reference year • Everything - income before tax, income after tax, longitudinal and cross-sectional data - released at once • Issue: what to highlight on release day?

  17. Release highlights • Plan is to focus on recent trends in: • average market income, transfers and after-tax income • income quintiles for major income concepts • effective tax rates and shares of transfer payments • low income (after tax) • persistence and severity of low income • Analysis at level of economic families and unattached individuals

  18. Why shift focus to after-tax low income rates? • After-tax income is closer to “disposable income” • Recommendation resulting from 1989 consultation process • For the first time, before-tax and after-tax rates are simultaneously available • Same trends, though the levels are different

  19. Low income prevalence - All persons

  20. Low income prevalence - Children

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