Schedule
May 5, 2025
13:00 ET : S1 | Research Databases for Studying Employment Standards & Precarious Work
This session introduces three comparative research databases: the Employment Standards Database (ESD), the Comparative Perspectives on Precarious Employment Database (CPD), and the Gender and Work Database (GWD).
15:45 ET : S2 | DLI Update
May 6, 2025
13:00 ET : S1 | Research Data Service (RDS)
14:00 ET : S2 | Labour Force Survey Supplement Overview
15:45 ET : S3 | Promoting Data Services for Busy People that Don’t Need More Work
What are some creative methods that you can use to promote your data services? And once you become a victim of your own success, can you solve that problem through… more promotion?
May 7, 2025
13:00 ET : S1 | Grasping Geography with GeoSearch - from Navigating Your Needs to Teaching the Tool
Practice navigating Statistics Canada’s GeoSearch with a hands-on exercise, learn and discuss the benefits and limitations of using GeoSearch to better understand Statistics Canada’s standard geography, and be inspired by – and share your own – teaching approaches to getting GeoSearch into the classroom.
14:00 ET : S2 | Beyond searching to teaching interpretation - A road map for librarians to teach statistical literacy
Descriptive and inferential statistics are taught to students in many disciplines. More classroom time is often spent on the theory behind different statistical methods that investigate relationships between variables rather than on how to interpret the results obtained to answer the research question that started the process.
15:20 ET : S3 | The Impact of the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) in Canadian Universities and Colleges
The impact of the DLI on the development of the professional roles of data specialist, data librarian in Canadian academic institutions is profound. This relationship is nearly 30 years strong, and the network of professionals that are either providing data reference, data services or Research Data Management services at Canadian academic institutions have often benefited from training within the DLI program, or membership in the Canadian data community.
15:40 ET : S4 | IPUMS - An Introduction
IPUMS is an organization that collects and harmonizes census and survey data from around the world (including Canada) allowing for the study of census and populations studies across time. Public microdata can be easily explored by variable.
16:00 ET : S5 | Pandora’s Box of Public Opinion Polls - Come and Be Amazed!
Are you a data enthusiast? Do you like the opinions of the public? Did you know of all the Public Opinion Polls (POPs) that are open to the world and are available in Odesi? These POPs from various government departments, Gallup Canada, International Social Survey Programme (and more!) have been rescued and preserved by Carleton University.
