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]]>5th McMaster Statistics Canada Research Data Centre Showcase 2026
Thursday May 14, 2026 10AM to 3PM
Community Room, main floor L.R. Wilson Hall, McMaster University
The event is open at no cost to all McMaster students, staff and faculty. Please reserve your spot here via our Eventbrite page.
The Statistics Canada Research Data Centre (RDC), located in L.R. Wilson Hall, houses a large number of confidential micro-data files. These include the census, numerous surveys related to society, health and education, as well as business (including firm level), immigration, taxation, health and vital statistics administrative data. There are also numerous linked micro-data files including survey and administrative.
The showcase has two parts. The morning session will describe the RDC and its partnership with Data Services in the Mills Library, followed by other brief presentations on various data sets.
Following lunch (which will be provided), the afternoon session will consist of a series of brief presentations from current RDC researchers highlighting their work.
The event is open to all McMaster students, staff and faculty and will be of interest to those working in the RDC as well as potential researchers who are considering making use of Statistics Canada’s micro-data files. RDC staff will be available throughout the day to answer questions on the data files highlighted and others in our collection.
The McMaster RDC will be holding its 5th ‘Showcase’ on Thursday May 14, 2026 in the Community Room of L.R. Wilson Hall (main floor) – see announcement above.
The afternoon session (1PM to 3PM) will highlight the work of researchers. We have space for 4 to 5 presentations of about 20 minutes each.
The criteria are that presenters (students or faculty) be currently active in the centre, and be at a stage to discuss on-going or nearly completed work. The session is an opportunity for students to sharpen their presentation skills and get valuable feedback prior to the Spring 2026 conference season.
If you are interested, please send Peter a 150-word abstract (including title and name of the data-set(s) you are using) by Friday, April 3rd to [email protected].
This month we will have the following changes to our usual operating hours:
We will be offering Saturday hours this month, Saturday, March 21st – 12pm to 4pm. We will be open on an ‘appointment’ basis, only if requested. Please sign up via the online booking system.
Living with a Life-limiting Illness: Access to Care and Related Experiences (LLLI-ACRE)
The Canadian Food Environment Database (Can-FED) 2024 is now available for download and can be accessed by researchers with approved projects.
The Living with a Life-limiting Illness: Access to Care and Related Experiences (LLLI-ACRE) study aims to better understand the experiences and access to care for individuals with life-limiting illnesses and their unpaid caregivers.This data aims to provide information on the experiences and satisfaction with the care received, and any gaps and barriers to supportive care for those living with a life-limiting illness and their unpaid caregivers in the provinces and territories. This is the first time a study of this kind, on this topic is being conducted by Statistics Canada.
This study is conducted as a crowdsource, which is a non-probabilistic method of collecting data by inviting members of the target population to voluntarily participate in the study. The open nature of a crowdsource allows participation by those who would not otherwise be included in the frame for a probabilistic study.
The information collected and resulting analysis will help health care organizations and providers improve the development, planning and delivery of palliative care in Canada and ensure that those living with a life-limiting illness have access to high-quality care and support for their unpaid caregivers.
For more information about this data set, visit https://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p2SV.pl?Function=getSurvey&SDDS=5416
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/.
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]]>This month we will have the following changes to our usual operating hours:
We will be offering Saturday hours this month, Saturday, February 7th – 12pm to 4pm. We will be open on an ‘appointment’ basis, only if requested. Please sign up via the online booking system.
Congratulations to McMaster RDC researcher Oliver Li, who successfully defended his MSc thesis in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI) in December. The title of his thesis was “Investigating the Muscle-Bone Unit in Children and Adolescents using Jumping Mechanography and Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography“, supervised by Dr. Jinhui Ma. This work used cycles 5 and 6 of the Canadian Health Measures Survey.
And congratulations to McMaster RDC researcher Stephenson Strobel (Dept of Family Medicine and Dept of Economics), who was co-author on a paper in The Lancet Neurology, which used data from the Canadian Health Survey on Seniors (CHSS). The full citation is:
Herpes zoster vaccination and incident dementia in Canada: an analysis of natural experiments. (2026) Pomirchy, M., Chung, S., Bommer, C., Strobel, S., &?Geldsetzer, P. The Lancet Neurology, 25(2), 170 – 180.
Congrats, Oliver and Stephenson!
Canadian Food Environment Database (Can-FED) 2024
The Canadian Food Environment Database (Can-FED) 2024 is now available for download and can be accessed by researchers with approved projects.
The Canadian Food Environment Dataset (Can-FED) is a geographic-based set of measures that represents the food environment of Canadian communities. The primary envisioned use of the Can-FED is research and analysis of the relationship between the local food environment, dietary intake and health outcomes. By using geography conversion tools such as the Postal Code Conversion File (PCCF+), it is possible to link Can-FED measures to individual-level health data from national-level survey platforms (e.g., the Canadian Health Measures Survey and the Canadian Community Health Survey) or to investigator-led cohorts.
A diversity of food categories was chosen to represent an inclusive set of different and overarching food outlet types, such as healthy food retailers (e.g., supermarkets, grocery stores), convenient food options (e.g., corner stores, fast-food outlets), and independent and specialty retailers (e.g., bakeries, fish markets, coffee shops), amongst other options.
For more information about this data set, visit https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/catalogue/13200001.
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/.
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We will be offering Saturday hours this month, Saturday, January 17th – 12pm to 4pm. We will be open on an ‘appointment’ basis, only if requested. Please sign up via the online booking system.
Congratulations to McMaster RDC Analyst Peter Kitchen, who along with Mac RDC researcher Lisa Kaida have a new paper published in SN Business & Economics. Their work explored the characteristics of Canada Pension Plan (CPP) recipients, using data from the Longitudinal Administrative Databank (LAD).
The full citation is:
Survey on Social Connections – Well-being in Canada (SSC-WC)
The Survey on Social Connections – Well-being in Canada (SSC-WC) is a new survey, started in 2025. This project is collected as part of the Disaggregated Data Action Plan (DDAP) with the objective of producing detailed statistical information highlighting the lived experiences of specific population groups, as well as increased analytical insights on diverse groups of people.
Questionnaire content covers a variety of social topics. The frame of the survey is constructed using the 2021 Census Edit & Imputation database combined with a sample of recent immigrants from the Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB) file and recent files received from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). The SSC-WC was designed to provide estimates within racialized groups and immigration status categories.
More information on this dataset can be found at: https://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p2SV.pl?Function=getSurvey&SDDS=5418
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/.
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]]>Please join us at our annual RDC holiday party for some snacks and merry mingling!
All are welcome! Hope to see you there.
This month we will have the following changes to our usual operating hours:
Please note there will be no vetting during the holiday closure period.
We hope everybody has a safe, happy and healthy holiday season!
We will be offering Saturday hours this month. We will be open on an ‘appointment’ basis, only if requested. Please sign up via the online booking system as usual.
Offered Saturday hours slots will be:
Congratulations to RDC researcher Zichun Zhao, who successfully defended his PhD thesis at the end of October. The thesis, titled “Three Essays in Health Economics” (more details here), used various RDC datasets: CCHS, Survey of Household Spending – Cancer Cost linkage, Discharge Abstract Database, National Ambulatory Care Reporting System, Canadian Community Health Survey, and T1 Family File linkage. He was supervised by Michel Grignon, with committe members Katherine Cuff and Jonathan Zhang.
Congrats Zichun!
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Canadian Social Survey – Quality of Life, Climate Change and Trust
The Canadian Social Survey (CSS) collects information on a variety of social topics such as health, well-being, impacts of COVID-19, activities, time-use, emergency preparedness, quality of life, energy use, virtual health care and trust. The CSS provides data at the national level (excluding the territories).
The newest wave of data available is on the topics of Quality of Life, Climate Change and Trust.
More information on the CSS can be found HERE.
And information on this wave’s questionniare can be found HERE.
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/.
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]]>This month we will have the following changes to our usual operating hours:
We will be offering Saturday hours this month, Saturday, October 25th – 12pm to 4pm. We will be open on an ‘appointment’ basis, only if requested. Please sign up via the online booking system.
Congratulations to RDC researcher Sergei Filiasov, who successfully defended his PhD thesis recently. The thesis, titled “Three Essays on the Economics of Education” (more details here), draws on RDC datasets in Chapters 2 and 3.
He will be starting a postdoctoral position in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI) at McMaster University, where he will use electronic medical record (EMR) data within the OnSPARK platform, Canada’s largest long-term care data-sharing network, to advance research on improving long-term care in Canada.
Survey on Innovation in the Food Processing Industry (IFPI) 2023
The Survey on Innovation in the Food Processign Industry (IFPI) collects new statistical information on the nature and extent of product, process, marketing and organizational innovations in the Canadian food processing industry and on other emerging issues in the food processing industry.
Statistics Canada conducts this survey in collaboration with Agriculture and Agri-food Canada to collect new statistical information in the food processing industry. The data collection focuses on:
More information on this dataset can be found at: https://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p2SV.pl?Function=getSurvey&SDDS=5072
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/.
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We will be offering Saturday hours this month, Saturday, September 13th – 12pm to 4pm. We will be open on an ‘appointment’ basis, only if requested. Please sign up via the online booking system.
Congratulations to RDC researcher Joy Yang, who was accepted into the Master of Arts Program in Computational Social Science (MACSS) – Economics track at the Univeristy of Chicago!
Survey of Innovation and Business Strategy (SIBS)
The Survey of Innovation and Business Strategy (SIBS) collects information on the strategic decisions, innovation activities, operational tactics and global value chain activities of businesses in Canada.
It is a cross-economy survey of business enterprises and industrial non-profit organizations. The survey collects complementary qualitative business information, including market characteristics, use of advanced technologies, business strategy, business practices and participation in global value chains. The survey also collects quantitative information on total sales, innovation expenditures, purchase of goods and services and personnel, supplemented by percentage distributions by specified subgroups.
More information on this dataset can be found at: https://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p2SV.pl?Function=getSurvey&SDDS=5171
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/.
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Congratulations to RDC researchers Laura Anderson, Rabiul Islam, and Arthur Sweetman for their recent publication in CMAJ! This work, which used data from the CCHS, received considerable media attention. The article citation and link to the paper is below:
And congratulations to RDC researchers Boris Kralj and Arthur Sweetman, authors on a new publication uisng Labour Force Survey data. The article citation and link to the paper is:
Congratulations, everybody!
National Housing Strategy Linkage (NHS): AllYears
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation has engaged Statistics Canada to create new datasets to analyze the characteristics, housing needs and outcomes of households and persons living in housing constructed or renovated under the National Housing Strategy (NHS). The NHS datasets are created by matching a list of property addresses, to survey and administrative data sources. The microdata files allow the merging of variables at the household and person levels between files.
The NHS datasets available in the Research Data Centres (RDCs) consists of three types of files:
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/.
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]]>This month we will have the following changes to our usual operating hours:
There will be no extended hours from Tuesday July 22nd to Thursday July 31st. Extended hours will begin again on Tuesday August 5th.
We will be offering Saturday hours this month, Saturday, July 12th – 12pm to 4pm. We will be open on an ‘appointment’ basis, only if requested. Please sign up via the online booking system.
On May 31st at the meetings of the Canadian Economics Association in Montreal, it was announced that Dr. Adam Lavecchia of McMaster’s Department of Economics won the Robert Mundell Prize of $2000 for best paper by a young researcher published in the Canadian Journal of Economics in the previous two calendar years. The paper, “Family-level responses to Introduction of Tax-Free Savings Accounts”, was published in the February 2024 issue. The paper’s acknowledgments include thanks to the staff ot the McMaster RDC for their help in accessing the data.
Dr. Jinhui Ma and team have recently published a paper using Canadian Health Measures Survey data accesed in the RDC. The citation is:
Kim H, Ward LM, Thabane L, Papaioannou A, Wong AKO, Adachi JD, Ma J, Rauch F. Reference values for cross-linked C-telopeptide of type 1 collagen and pro-collagen type1 N-terminal propeptide in children and adolescents: Results from the Canadian Health Measures Survey. Bone. 2025 Jul;196:117487. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2025.117487. Epub 2025 Apr 10. PMID: 40220948.
Graduate student Angelina Baric and Dr. Anthea Christoforou also have a recent publication based on CHMS data, the citation is:
Baric, A., Malik, V.S. & Christoforou, A. Ultra-processed food consumption and cardiometabolic risk in Canada: a cross-sectional analysis of the Canadian health measures survey. Nutr Metab (Lond) 22, 37 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12986-025-00935-y
Finally, RDC researcher Dr. Yihong Bai will join the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba as an Assistant Professor in health economics in July 2025. He received his PhD in Economics from McMaster University under the supervision of Professor Michael Veal and used data including the CCHS and NHPS. Yihong has published 21 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Health Economics, Social Science & Medicine, and Preventive Medicine.
Congratulations, everyone!!!
(Remember to send us your news and we’re happy to share it!)
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]]>As you are aware, the McMaster RDC is transitioning to a virtual environment, with access determined by affiliation and data confidentiality. The options are in-office only (Level 1) and remote (Level 2).
If you have not already done so:
Other items:
Contact us if you have any other questions!
We will be offering Saturday hours this month, Saturday, June 14th – 12pm to 4pm. We will be open on an ‘appointment’ basis, only if requested. Please check the online booking system for offered the offered Saturday date this month.
A reminder that after the transition to the vRDC, we will be retaining our booking system for those working in the RDC (at either Level 1 or Level 2).
The Survey of Oral Health Care Providers (SOHCP) 2023 is now available for download and can be accessed by researchers with approved projects.
Statistics Canada is conducting the Survey of Oral Health Care Providers. Survey results will help assess the current state of the oral health care system in Canada while providing insight into the changes that could impact this sector, including implementation of the Canadian Dental Care Plan. In addition, the data will help governments develop policies that support access to dental care in order to improve oral health outcomes for Canadians, and ensure an effective work environment for oral health care workers. This survey is the result of a collaboration between Statistics Canada and Health Canada.
Learn more about the SOHCP on the Statistics Canada website.
If you would like more information on how to submit a proposal for access to this data, see link. For further inquires about the RDC program please contact your local RDC analyst.
Full list of all the most recent data releases.
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