Canadian Data: Looking back, moving forward

The CRDCN 2013 Conference will take place in Waterloo, Ontario on October 3 & 4, 2013, with preconference workshops on the 2nd. This year’s conference will focus on the importance of having access to high quality data for academic research and policy analysis. Sessions will demonstrate the range of policy relevant questions that researchers have been able to answer by analysing detailed microdata available through Research Data Centres. Keynote speakers will review our successes and set out our challenges and hopes for the future. Workshops will provide the policy community and academics with tools needed to improve the flow of academic research to all Canadians.

Registration includes access to pre-conference workshops, opening reception the evening of October 2^nd, conference dinner on October 3^rd and lunch and nutrition breaks on October 3^rd and 4^th. Early bird registration is $125 ($75 for students) until August 30; afterwards it will be $250 ($150 for students). Subsidies for student are available: contact Lori Curtis to know more.

Keynote speakers are

• Dr. Michael Baker, Professor, University of Toronto
• Dr. Thomas Crossley, Professor, University of Essex and Institute for Fiscal Studies, UK
• Dr. Raymond Currie, Dean Emeritus, University of Manitoba

Preconference workshops

• Tools to assist with RDC research: from conception to publication
  Dave Haans, Research and Computing Consultant, Toronto RDC, University of Toronto

The workshop will introduce and familiarize researchers with the online tools developed through the CRDCN metadata project. The tools were developed specifically to assist researcher with all stages of their research from conceptualization to proposal writing, research within the RDC on to publication of the output.

• New Data Sources
  Statistics Canada

The workshop will introduce researchers to Statistics Canada surveys, administrative and linked data that have recently been or will shortly be available in the RDCs (e.g., the Longitudinal and International Study of Adults (LISA), CCHS – Mental Health, Canadian Disability Survey, Linked Health data sets (1991 cohort from Census – linked with mortality, cancer admin data and CCHS linked with hospitalization data). Content experts will provide detailed information on the data and be available for questions from researchers.

For more information visit http://www.rdc-cdr.ca/crdcn-2013-national-conference