DLI UPDATE 2008-2009 Michel Séguin Statistics Canada April 24, 2008

DLI UPDATE 2008-2009

Michel SéguinStatistics Canada

April 24, 2008

Organizational update Changes in the DLI Community Changes in the EAC and

Education Committees Changes in the DLI Collection Present Projects – priorities

Annual report 2006/2007 Compleat Survival Kit DLI Interface and IMDB DDI DLI contacts and designates

survey

ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE

Ivan Fellegi, currently Chief Statistician

Chief Statistician Emeritus following his retirement, effective June 16, 2008. Dr. Ivan Fellegi

ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE

Currently Chief Statistician Designate, effective March 3, 2008

Chief Statistician, effective June 16, 2008.

Dr. Munir Sheikh

ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE

Vicki Crompton – Director General

Will retire in June 2008

ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE

Eric St. John is the new Director of Communications and Library Services Division since June 2007

ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE

Bernie Gloyn is the Assistant-Director of Communications and Library Services Division

ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE

Michel Seguin has replaced Mike Sivyer as Head of DLI Unit

ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE

Marie-Claire will be going on maternity leave as of August 2008

ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE

Jackie Godfrey Takes care of :

the FTP site the Web site the search tool registration on listserv passwords all of us

ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE

Linda Harding-Devries When Linda is not climbing the Kilimanjaro Works on DDI project Participate to the STC DDI Working Group Works with Standards Division on IMDB and

DDI standards Ensure DLI contacts have access to Nesstar –

Password for data

ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE

Renee Rocan

Renée occupies the administrative officer position since May 2008

She will confirmed in her position as of this week sometime

ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE

•Contract for Gaëtan Drolet has been renewed for this fiscal year

•Analysis of the DLI contacts and designates survey

•Continues to work on metrics showing the usage of the DLI collection

ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE

•Mike Sivyer

•Bookmarked through the Alumni Program at STC

•Works only a few hours a week for DLI

•Prepare the minutes from the EAC meeting

•Will help in the training of new DLI staff

•Remains well connected to the DLI

ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE

•Other staffing plans for the beginning of FY 08/09

•Eve Boyle – Technical Recruit to work on DDI for one year

•Another Marie-Claire

•Another André

Visited:Niagara CollegeDurham College

Nova Scotia College will be visited in Fall 2008

New colleges that have joined the DLIHumber College University of the Fraser ValleyThis brings the membership to 74

DLI MEMBERSHIP

Other institutions have made inquiries about joining DLI BCIT Olds College - December 2007 Justice Institute of BC - December 2007 Saskatchewan Institute of Applied

Science and Technology – December 2007

Lakeland College - February 2008 Northern Alberta Institute of Technology

(NAIT) Libraries - February 2008 Sheridan College - February 2008 Fleming College - February 2008

DLI MEMBERSHIP

EAC MEMBERSHIP Mary MacLeod from Acadia has resigned from EAC

and the Education Committee Jennifer Adams has been appointed at the EAC and

at the Education Committee Jean Poirier representing the research community

has been appointed to replace Chad Gaffield Ted Wannell, Assistant Director, Labour and

Household Surveys Analysis Division Nancy Darcovich, Assistant Director, Health

Statistics Division replaced Mario Bédard The executive will also look for another STC

representative to replace Jeffrey Smith Nicole Doyle has been invited to the last EAC as a

guest EAC will also look at changes to membership over

time since there will be quite a few changes in the next five years.

Minutes from the EAC committee

Education Committee Jennifer Adam has replaced Mary

McLeod on the Education Committee Sharon Neary has resigned from the

Education Committee and is replaced by Jean Blackburn

The committee met in September 2007 and will meet again in Fall 2008 to discuss needs related to Colleges

Minutes from the Education Committee

DLI COLLECTION

The regular updates to the collection for 2006 census Geography and 2006 Census, Postal codes files, CCHS files, etc…

1986 and 1981 census basic summary tables (BSTs) – 1971 and 1976 will be coming later.

Presently working with International Trade Division to identify what could be made available (presentation on this topic this afternoon)

Input-Output tables have been added to the collection

DLI COLLECTION

See additions and changes to the FTP collectionMirror site at the University of Albert

aPlus other surveys not from Statistics

CanadaDFO – Catch and Effort Data (Fisheries and

Oceans)Youth Smoking 2004Canadian Addiction Survey

DLI COLLECTION

Other initiative:Landings Data from Citizenship

and Immigration CanadaWorking group in Statistics

Canada is exploring access of PUMF from longitudinal files

PRESENT PRIORITIES Annual Reports

The 06/07 Annual Report has been sent to all Library Directors and to DLI contacts

Also distributed to all STC Directors The 07/08 Annual Report will be sent out

by end of June 2008

DLI Update Has been translated Should be released in May Looking for articles for the next one

PRESENT PRIORITIES DDI – Data Documentation Initiative

Nesstar and the best practice document on Web

Accessible at www62.statcan.ca Password required for accessing the data Now available on Nesstar:

CTUMS from 2001 - 2007 Census of Population 1996 Public Service Employee Opinion Survey, 2002

and 2005 Residential Telephone Service Survey, 2004-

2005 Youth Smoking Survey, 2002

Statistics Canada best practices document relating to tagging files based on DDI version 1-3

PRESENT PRIORITIES

Compleat Survival Kit

DLI Site Interface plus all documentation in background on IMDB

Bridging IMBD to DDI and DDI to IMDB

PRESENT PRIORITIES DLI Contacts and Designates Survey

Thanks to everyone that participated Gaëtan will be doing the analysis Results will be shared with everyone

Repsonse rates: English Contacts 52 French Contacts 14 Total 66

English Designates 24 French Designates 07 Total 31

Overall Response Rate: 82 % Contacts: 92% Designates: 67%

Great Announcement

COPUL is pleased to announced that two Outstanding Contribution Awards for 2008: Chuck Humphrey, University of Alberta

Many contributions through ACCOLEDS Gwen Bird, Simon Fraser University

For her services as the COPPUL representative on the CRKN Negotiations Resource Team