Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, 1994 [Canada] : Cross-Sectional Job File

The Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) is a Statistics Canada survey intended for use in research on changes over time in Canadians labour force activity status and economic well-being. Although the survey is primarily longitudinal, it also generates cross-sectional data including job status, periods of unemployment and annual wage distributions. The Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) is a longitudinal household survey conducted by Statistics Canada. It is designed to capture changes in the economic well-being of individuals and families over time and the determinants of their well-being. Individuals originally selected for the survey are interviewed once or twice per year for six years to collect information about their labour market experiences, income and family circumstances. In order to obtain complete information on families and to obtain cross-sectional data, people who live with the original respondents at any time during the six years are also interviewed during the time of cohabitation. The data are provided in six files: Two-year (1993-94) Longitudinal person file (LGP); Two-year (1993-94) Longitudinal job file (LGJ); 1994 cross-sectional person file (CSP94); 1994 cross-sectional job file (CSJ94); 1993 cross-sectional person file (CSP93); 1993 cross-sectional job file (CSJ93). Substantial differences between the Wave 1 and Wave 2 releases are mainly due to having an extra year of data. There is very little change at the variable level: essentially, the variables from Wave 1 have been kept, with only a few ones added. With one major exception, no changes to variables on the previous file are still suppressed and variable is now included on the public-use file: age in single years. A total of six files are included as compared to two last year: at both the person and job levels, there will be a 1993 cross-sectional file, a 1994 cross-sectional file, and a two-year longitudinal file. Cross-sectional files can be considered final. The longitudinal files will be superseded by the three-year longitudinal files contained in the next release of public-use microdata.