IASSIST/CAPDU '99 Pre-conference Workshops

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Using the 1996 PUMFs from the Canadian Census:
This workshop will focus on the recently-released 1996 Canadian Census of Population Individual Public-use Microdata File (PUMF). Participants will receive an overview of the Census PUMF project, including the individual, family and household files with a focus on what's new and what's the same. There will be a hands-on session using both Beyond 20/20 and SPSS for Windows. Learn to make tables on the fly, create subsets and answer research questions. Time will be reserved for a question and answer session at the end of the workshop.
Registration limited to a maximum of 19 persons.

• Michel Seguin -- Chief of Census Marketing, Statistics Canada
• Wendy Watkins -- Data Centre Co-ordinator, Carleton University

12noon - 1:30pm  Lunch Break

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Government and Social Sciences Data Librarian II: (see above)
Registration limited to a maximum of 18 persons.

• Susan Turkel -- Instructional Technology Coordinator for the Social Sciences and Reference Librarian - Computing Services, Bryn Mawr College
• Ronald Jantz -- Data Librarian, Scholarly Communications Centre, Alexander Library, Rutgers University

Working With Canadian Aggregate Census Files
A look into the aggregate files from 1971 to 1996; what to use them for, how to work with them, what are the geographic divisions and how are they related, how to manipulate the various files, how to link different years and different files and how to amalgamate them with other applications. This will be a hands on session using, SAS, SPSS and B2020. It will guide the user through the various files, the tools available, where to find them and examples of applications.
Registration limited to a maximum of 19 persons.

• Chuck Humphrey -- Data Library, University of Alberta
• Bo Wandschneider -- Data Resource Centre, University of Guelph

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9:00am - 12:00noon (IASSIST)
Location:
Multimedia Centre for Learning in the Humanities, 3rd Floor, Carr Hall, St. Michael's College, 100 St. Joseph Street (off Queen's Park Crescent East)

DDI and NESSTAR: Integrated tools for metadata-driven resource discovery I:
The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an international project to develop a standard for social science documentation. The DDI committee has prepared an XML Document Type Definition (DTD) for codebooks, which is currently being beta-tested. This workshop will present preliminary information on betatest findings and will demonstrate ways the DDI standard can be employed by both data archives and producers to develop new applications. This is part 1 of a 2 part series; part 2 takes place at 1:30pm today.
Registration limited to a maximum of 19 persons.

• Mary Vardigan, Peter Joftis and Peter Granda, ICPSR

9:00am - 12:00noon (CAPDU)
Location:
Room 2125, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street

GIS - using Canadian Census Data I:
The purpose of the workshop is to provide the conference participants with an opportunity to be introduced to the basic principles of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and to gain some experience using a GIS software. Previous experience in GIS is not a prerequisite. The workshop is divided into four sections as described. This is a two part workshop.
Registration limited to a maximum of 20 persons.

• Carl Drouin -- PhD candidate, Department of Geography, University of Toronto

12noon - 1:30pm  Lunch Break

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1. locate multiple data sources across national boundaries,
2. browse detailed metadata about these data
3. analyse and visualise these data online,
4. download the appropriate subsets of data in one of a number of formats for local use.

GIS - using Canadian Census Data II:
See brief description above.
Registration limited to a maximum of 20 persons.

• Carl Drouin -- PhD candidate, Department of Geography, University of Toronto