Thanks & Appreciation

A big thank you to our IT support team (Wale Soyinka, Ginet Segui Lines and Alex D’Souza) from RHPCS for quickly solving a back-up issue and connecting our new server! 

Join us at the RDC Holiday Party!

Please join us at our annual RDC holiday party for some snacks and merry mingling.

It will be held at the Phoenix Bar & Grill from 4pm to 6pm on Tuesday, December 10th.

All are welcome! Hope to see you there.

Holiday Closures

This month we will have the following changes to our usual operating hours:

• No extended hours on Tuesday Dec. 17th and Thursday Dec. 19th.
• Closed for the University break, from NOON on Monday Dec. 23rd until after the new year.
• The RDC will reopen on Monday Jan. 6th, 2025.

We hope everybody has a safe, happy and healthy holiday season!

Saturday Hours - On Demand

Offered dates for Saturday hours this month are:

• Saturday, December 7th - 12pm to 4pm

Congrats & Kudos

There have been some recent publications by McMaster RDC researchers:

Congratulations to a team that includes McMaster RDC researcher Sawayra Owais on a recent publication in Child Development. This work used the 2006 Aboriginal Children's Survey. Sawayra also received a Canadian Research Data Centre Network Emerging Scholars Award previously to complete this study. 

📖Owais, S., M. Ospina, C. Ford, T. Hill, J. Lai, J. Krzeczkowski, J. Burack, and R. Van Lieshout. "Determinants of socioemotional and behavioral well-being among first nations children living off-reserve in Canada: A cross-sectional study." Child Development (2024).

And congratulations to a team that includes various McMaster RDC researchers - Roger Pizarro Milian, Gillian Parekh, David Walters, and Rob Brown - on a recent publication in the Journal of Further and Higher Education. Their work used the Toronto District School Board file within Statistics Canada's Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). 

📖Pizarro Milian, R., Reynolds, D., Jacob, N., Abdulkarim, F., Parekh, G., Brown, R., & Walters, D. (2024). Postsecondary pathways and graduate earnings: does transfer make cents? Journal of Further and Higher Education, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2024.2418905

 
Congratulations everyone!!!

New data sets at the RDC: 

ELMLP: Future to Discover (FTD) linked to T1FF AllYears

An update to the T1 Family File (T1FF) data for the Future to Discover (FTD) project is now available.  The FTD data can be integrated with other files from the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP).

The Future to Discover (FTD) project data file is a rich longitudinal database containing information on a cohort of secondary school students that has been followed for 6 years. The FTD Project randomly assigned these secondary school students to three program groups: no intervention; one intervention; or two interventions. The target population includes all Grade nine students in the province of New Brunswick and Manitoba who are Canadian citizens or landed immigrants to Canada.
 
Statistics Canada, in collaboration with the provincial and territorial ministries of education, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), and other stakeholders, has developed the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). The ELMLP allows longitudinal integration of administrative data related to education with other data sources to create anonymized, customized datasets for analytical purposes.

The update consists of:

• Three new years of T1FF outcomes for the FTD population, from the 2020 to 2022 tax year, as a single stacked file.
• Updated documentation for the tax data based on the newest ELMLP T1FF Dictionary.

If you would like more information on how to submit a proposal for access to this data see https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/microdata/data-centres/access.  For more information about the RDC program please contact your local RDC analyst. 

📃 For a list of all the most recent data releases, see https://crdcn.ca/publications-data/data/.