Abacus Data Network
Statistics Canada: Household Surveys Division
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2009-11-19
<p>Data gathered by SCF is used to produce cross-sectional income and work experience profiles of individuals, families and households. The five public use SCF files are: income of individuals aged 15 years and over (Product no. 13M0004XDB); income of census family units (Product no. 13M0001XDB); income of economic family units (Product no. 13M0002XDB); income of households (Product no. 64M0004XDB); and a link file (Product no. 13M0005XDB, 1987 and on only), permitting users to match records among the other four files. These fixed-format, flat files are composed of every record sampled in the survey, with each record containing a detailed array of demographic, labour and income variables. In order to protect the confidentiality of survey respondents, any information that could allow the identification of specific individuals, families or households is excluded.</p> <p>The SCF data set includes the complete set of LFS variables, consisting of demographic characteristics for all individuals (including children regardless of age) and detailed labour force characteristics of all persons aged 15 years and over. To this core set of LFS variables, the SCF adds detailed information on 23 sources of income and income tax for the preceding calendar year (the income reference year), as well as summarized work experience information for the reference year.</p> <p>From this consolidated SCF individual-level data set, cross-sectional summary statistics are produced for individuals, census families, economic families and households.</p>