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