Systems has just installed a big batch.
We missed Exports by Commodity June 2007. It’s in my office if needed, on my bulletin board in a cd envelope.
Other bits and bobs: when you’re trying to get a title going, you may get some kind of error message. Just click again, this usually works.
Also, some of the icons in the folders are “missing”. To locate them click on “Start Here” and “Programs” and all icons will be displayed.
I hope this makes sense.
Patrick.

If a student comes in looking for digital census maps (geospatial data)–that they can analyze using ARCView software, they are available on the Data Services pages:
http://data.library.ubc.ca/java/jsp/database/production/search.jsp.
Anyone inquiring about this stuff probably knows how to use it. If not, refer to Mary or Paul.
Patrick.

The Survivors Guide to Sessional Papers of Canada 1867- 1925 currently gives the wrong location for the Index/ Journals of the House of Commons. [Cumulative indexes]
J 103.C2 as GP I&A.They are on the HSS office shelves. The handout will be corrected next week. Feel free to refer students to govpubs folks. There is also the online web guide to the Sessional Papers that Patrick and I did at http://toby.library.ubc.ca/webpage/webpage.cfm?id=536 which gives a bit more detail and picture examples of how to find Sessional Papers.
There are students looking for pre-confederation sessional papers as well.They seem to need material from the 1840s. For British material, refer them to the Irish University Press series of British parliamentary papers. Colonies: Canada. FC470 .I74 1968 on floor 1.
The Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada on microfilm, AW 1 R5143 contain sessional papers from 1841(?) -1859. The papers are in the Appendices at the end of each session. The table of contents is easily browseable, giving the location on the reels by letter. The students can do this fairly easily once shown.
Patrick.

Today in Gov pubs we loked at RG-10 files (RG =”Record Group”) from the Dept. of Indian Affairs. RG-10 contains records relating to the Indian peoples of British Columbia including School files.
The index is available online through ArchiviaNet
There are other RG files microforms which are listed on the Journals and Microform Collections page under “National Archives material on microfilm“, an inventory of UBC library holdings. The entry for RG-10 Archival records links to a description of Collection, reel numbers and guides.

Publication of these reports from Cambridge University Press is pending June 2007

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Elim Wong over at the Law Library has created a wonderful new infopage for LexisNexis Academic – Legal Research at http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?id=1317. LexisNexis Academic Legal Research has a number of different search forms for each type of information (patents, regulations, legal news, directories, etc), and these have all been linked directly off the information page, along with a description of types of materials.
Some of the search screens we might use in HSS include:

Contains population information in 31 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government (excluding that of Hong Kong S.A.R., Macao S.A.R. and Taiwan Province), and some cities, for example, population migration status, marital status, educational level and employment status, etc. All tables are in Excel. 3 discs.
Unfortunately, the designated cd rom workstation does not have current enough Windows to operate the discs. They are filed in the CD rom cabinet by title, with a note indicating this. They are easy enough to load on newer machines.
Patrick.

In today’s session (Feb. 14), Mary showed us some Statistics Canada surveys accessible from
The Data Services page–Online Tables and Analysis on the pull down menu.
Some titles of interest include Survey of Household Spending, Health Indicators, Justice Statistics. There is a lot of data here that’s very easy to forget when the reference heat of the moment strikes.
I have added a brief note on the Statistics Canada web page on the GovPubs web site.
Patrick.

In Mary’s gov pubs session today, we looked at statistical tables which are NOT in CANSIM, but which CAN be found online through the data services website (records for these tables are also in the catalogue, but you’d need to know the title to find them.)
On the data services site under “Choose a data product”, select the link called “online tables and analysis”. Mary lead us through these tables:
Inter-war Labour Database (1919 – 1944)

This is a key resource for ECON 490 students who need to find labour stats for the depression years.
Prior to 1945, some labour data existed, but it was fragmented (from a variety of sources, covering only some labour market segments, and using different statistical concepts). This source integrates this early data into a statistical series. See the abstract for more info.

Income Trends in Canada (1980- )

Contains more than 40 cross-classified income tables for Canada, the 10 provinces and 15 census metropolitan areas (CMAs). Major topics included are income distributions and inequality, earnings of men and women, income tax, government transfers, low income and sources of income.
Because we purchase the annual CD-ROM, we have online access- it is not otherwise freely available over the web.

Justice Statistics (1972- ?)

Tables on crime, police administration, adult and youth court activity, the correctional population and transition homes, as well as various issues such as criminal victimization and family violence, drawn from Stats Can surveys (see the abstract for a list of surveys).

Survey of Household Spending (1997-2005)

Detailed expenditures at the household level on a wide variety of goods and services. Also includes dwelling characteristics and possession of household equipment and services.

Health Indicators (1999 -)

Canadian health indicators at the health region and provincial/territorial levels. Maps available for selected indicators.

I thought it might be useful for us to post notes on Mary’s weekly gov pubs session for GAAs and those who couldn’t make the session, and also to serve as a rudimentary knowledge base of topics we’ve covered. We could add an entry post-session, and then anyone can edit or comment as necessary. (Thanks, Mary, for agreeing to this!)
In today’s session, we looked at the new interface for the World Bank’s World Development Indicators Online (WDI). WDI has statistical data for over 550 development indicators, and time series data from 1960- for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Mary notes that we continue to carry the WDI print volumes as they have a substantial amount of extra material NOT found in the online source, such as large bibliographies and extra resources.

WHEN SHOULD I USE THIS RESOURCE?
This is the first place to look for stats on developing countries. Recently, they have started adding social statistics and statistics on social projects.
The new interface is quite clear and easy to navigate. Users are presented with a series of screens from which to make their selections on three variables: Country; series; and time. A search box is also available on each screen to search for variables.
We selected 4 countries:(Canada, Cuba, China, and the US); searched for “vehicles” to retrieve two series on “Vehicles per 1,000 people”and “Vehicles per km of road”; and selected a range of years (1986-2006).
The table that is generated is manipulable; you can view and resort the data in a number of different ways (all series for a single country; a single series for all countries, etc.) The data can be presented in table or chart format or even a lovely colour map! To display the map, you need to select all countries for the series and dates.
In the new WDI interface, notes on data sources can be found by clicking the link for that entry to display the notes (rather than going to a separate “notes” section to view all notes at once.
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PLEASE leave comments on anything I missed (or misinterpreted!). As we add more, you’ll be able to browse topics from earlier sessions by clicking the “Gov pubs sessions” category in the left hand menu.