Date:	Wednesday March 22, 2006
Location:	Vancouver - St. John's College at the University of British Columbia campus
Cost:	Free of charge, including reimbursement of the transportation expenses for graduate student participants who are nominated by one of the Metropolis centres across Canada
Register:	Registration is now closed.

Objectives:

• Describe the analytical potential of the LSIC
• Describe the file structure and various analysis tools
• Present a detailed example of analysis
• Answer questions from researchers/users of the LSIC microdata files

Target Audience

• Researchers/users of LSIC data in the Statistics Canada Research Data Centres
• Researchers interested in undertaking research using LSIC data

Trainers:

• Senior methodologist
• Processing manager
• Analyst

Proposed schedule:

9:00 to 10:15          Examples of research questions based on themes covered by the LSIC; discussion on how the LSIC could answer these questions.

Review of Wave 1 publication content (A Portrait of Early Settlement Experiences[1]) –  How Wave 2 data could be used to further Wave 1 analyses?

10:15 to 10:30        Break

10:30 to 12:00        Structure of the microdata file; analysis tools available; access.

12:00 to 13:30        Lunch break

13:30 to 15:00        Case study: description of the research question, analysis and results; review of techniques and tools that were used.

15:00 to 15:15        Break

15:15 to 16:30        Question and answer session – upon registration to the workshop, researchers/users will be invited to send questions, ahead of time, to the LSIC team.