There will be a travel subsidy covering a portion of transportation costs for DLI contacts attending the workshops. Until we have a firm idea of numbers, it is not possible to give exact amounts, but it should be no less than 50% of excursion (cheap) fares. For those travelling from the Toronto area, there is an express train daily except Saturday leaving Union Station at 5:00pm and arriving in Montreal at 8:59pm.

Please let us know whether you are planning on attending the workshop and/or conference. Reply to wwatkins@ccs.carleton.ca. Many thanks.

Using SPSS as scissors and paste: Putting together and pulling apart DLI surveys (Wendy Watkins)

Some surveys contain multiple units of observation, while others come in many parts. This workshop will give participants hands-on experience using both types of files. The General Social Survey, Cycle 8 and the Canadian Travel Surveys will be used as examples.

Seeing Beyond 20/20: making wider use of a data browser (Chuck Humphrey)

This session will explore some ways of using B2020 beyond the display of tables. Topics to be covered include the calculation of percentages in B2020, strategies for subsetting tables, export options for migrating tabular information to other systems, and the use of E-Stat to generate B2020 tables.

Details et informations sur les subventions pour le transport pour la région du Québec. (37 kb, MS Word)

Université de Montréal, in room 1024, Bibliothèque des lettres et sciences humaines, Pavillon Samuel-Bronfman

Program Updates
Program updates will consist of a brief report with time for questions and answers to follow.

- Research Data Centres (Montreal Research Data Centre -- Céline Lebordais and Jean Poirier)

- Census 2001 (Statistics Canada)

- CANSIM II (Statistics Canada)

- OECD (TBA)

Program Updates (continued)

- 2000 National Election Study (TBA)

- Polling data--the fate of Environics, Decima and CROP (TBA)

Developing a National Training Program: Is this a CISS and tell opportunity?

The Canadian Initiative on Social Statistics, a joint SSHRC/StatCan project will run its second annual summer programme this year. It states: "The Data Training Schools (DTS) will serve university researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, policy analysts and data librarians." Is this an opportunity for CAPDU and/or DLI to provide leadership in the provision of professional training for data librarians? (University of Alberta/Carleton)

Canadian Health Information sessions

WordPerfect - as provided by Bill Bradley

html - as edited at UWO

CAPDU Strategic (Business) Plan

http://www.ssc.uwo.ca/capdu/reports.html

CAPDU Business Meeting