DLI UPDATE 2008-2009

Michel SéguinStatistics CanadaMarch 02, 2008

Organizational changes 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 CHANGES

Ivan Fellegi, currently Chief Statistician

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

ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES

Currently Chief Statistician Designate, effective March 3, 2008

Chief Statistician, effective June 16, 2008.

Dr. Munir Sheikh

ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES

Vicki Crompton – Director General

Will retire in June 2008

ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES

Director of Communications and Library Services Division

Eric St. John

ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES

Assistant-Director of Communications and Library Services Division

Bernie Gloyn

ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES

Assistant-Director of Communications and Library Services Division

Bernie Gloyn

ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES

Will be going on leave as of August 2008

Marie-Claire Lauzon

ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES

Renée Rocan

Renée occupies the administrative officer position as acting since May 2008

We are completing a competition and hoping that she will qualify

ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES

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

Gaëtan Drôlet

ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES

•Bookmarked through the Alumni Program at STC

•Works only a few hours a week for DLI

•Prepare the minutes from the EAC meeting

•Other work such as the Strategy Document

•Remains well connected to the DLI

Mike Sivyer

ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES

•Since we bookmarked Mike – He went through quite a lot of changes

Mike Sivyer

ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES

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

•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

DLI MEMBERSHIP

Visit to new members: Niagara College

DLI MEMBERSHIP

Visit to new members: Durham College

EAC MEMBERSHIP

Nancy Darcovich from Health Statistics Division has join the EAC

The executive will also look for another STC representative to replace Jeffrey Smith

Nicole Doyle has been invited to the next EAC as a guest

EAC will also look at changes to membership over time

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 Minutes from the Education Committee I will propose at the next EAC that we

have another meeting in the Fall of 2008 to look at needs for services and support to Colleges

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 tomorrow)

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

Input – Output tables

PRESENT PRIORITIES

Annual Report 06/07 Has been sent to all Library Directors and

to DLI contacts Also distributed to all STC Directors

DLI Update Has been translated Should be released this month or latest in

May Looking for articles for the next one

PRESENT PRIORITIES DDI – Data Documentation Initiative

Nesstar and the best practice document on Web

CTUMS from 2001 - 2007 are now available

Coming soon: Youth Smoking Survey – 2002 Public Service Employee Opinion Survey

2002 and 2005 Residential Telephone Service Survey

2004 (May and December) 2005 and 2006

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

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%

PRESENT PRIORITIES

Compleat Survival Kit

DLI Site Interface plus all documentation in background on IMDB

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