Children and youth

Description: Number and percentage of children with long term conditions or disabilities aged 0 to 5 years by type of difficulty experienced by parents, guardians, and children in child care arrangements due to child's condition.

Description: Number and percent of children with long term conditions or disabilities aged 0 to 5 years by type of extra support needs at main child care arrangement.

Description: Number and percentage of children with long term conditions or disabilities, aged 0 to 5 years by consequences encountered by parents and guardians as a result of having difficulty finding an early learning and child care arrangement.

Description: Number and percentage of children with long-term conditions or disabilities, aged 0 to 5 years by parent and guardian in terms of reasons for using their main child care arrangement.

Description: Youth not in education, employment or training by visible minority and selected characteristics (age group, gender, first official language spoken, immigrant and generation status), for the population aged 15 to 29 years old in private households in Canada, geographical regions of Canada, provinces and territories and census metropolitan areas with parts.

Description: This Juristat article provides insight into the prevalence, characteristics and consequences of dating violence among teens aged 15 to 17 in Canada. Violence between dating partners can include criminal acts such as physical and sexual violence, as well as acts that may not reach the criminal threshold (e.g., emotional and psychological abuse) but which can nonetheless have negative consequences for victims. Teens’ attitudes towards violence and control in intimate relationships are also presented. Findings are based on self-reported data collected through the 2018 Survey of Safety in Public and Private Spaces and on police-reported data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey. Where possible, comparisons between genders, age groups and other populations of interest are presented.

Description: Average counts of young persons in provincial and territorial correctional services, five years of data.

Description: Youth custody and community services, initial entry status, five years of data.

Description: Youth custody and community services, admissions and releases to correctional services, five years of data.

Description: Youth releases from correctional services, provinces and territories.

Description: Unemployment rate, participation rate, and employment rate by type of student during school months, sex and age group, last 5 months.

Description: This public use microdata file (PUMF) contains non-aggregated data for a wide variety of variables collected from the Canadian Survey on Early Learning and Child Care (CSELCC).

CSELCC addresses child care in Canada for children younger than 6 years old and asks about the different types of child care arrangements that families use, the difficulties some families may face when looking for care, as well as reasons for not using child care. The survey also collects information on parents' labour market participation to better understand the interaction between work and the use of child care arrangements.

Description: Differences in the number and proportion of youth with disabilities who are not in employment, education, or training (NEET) by province or territory and gender.

Description: Number and percentage of children with long-term conditions or disabilities, aged 0 to 5 years, in child care arrangements, by type of child care arrangement (for example, daycare centers and family home child care), and by age group.

Description: Number and percentage of difficulties for parents and guardians in finding a child care arrangement, children with long term conditions or disabilities aged 0 to 5 years, by use of child care and by age group.

Description: Number and percentage of children with long term conditions or disabilities aged 0 to 5 years by type of difficulty encountered in finding child care arrangements.

Description: Number and percentage of children with long term conditions or disabilities aged 0 to 5 years by type of difficulty experienced by parents, guardians, and children in child care arrangements due to child's condition.

Description: Number and percent of children with long term conditions or disabilities aged 0 to 5 years by type of extra support needs at main child care arrangement.

Description: Number and percentage of children with long term conditions or disabilities, aged 0 to 5 years by consequences encountered by parents and guardians as a result of having difficulty finding an early learning and child care arrangement.

Description: Number and percentage of children with long-term conditions or disabilities, aged 0 to 5 years by parent and guardian in terms of reasons for using their main child care arrangement.

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This paper describes the design and adjustment methods for handling movers in the U.S. Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998/99 (ECLS-K). The paper also discusses how subsampling movers and adjusting for mover non-response affect the survey goal of accurately characterizing the academic growth and experiences of children.

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This study reweighted data from the Behavioural Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), an ongoing, state-based telephone survey in the United States, to produce more accurate child estimates.

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This article describes the well-being of off-reserve Aboriginal children aged 14 and under, using data from the 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) to focus on off-reserve Aboriginal children with respect to health and well-being, education, and learning and use of Aboriginal languages. It is adapted from A Portrait of Aboriginal Children Living in Non-reserve Areas: Results from the 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey (Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 89-597-XWE).

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This article examines recent evidence on the academic performance of children of people who immigrated to Canada during the 1990s.

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This study examines links between harsh, punitive parenting and aggressive child behaviour, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth. Children were studied of both sexes aged 2 to 3 years and 8 to 9 years, from various regions of Canada and from a range of income groups.

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This Juristat provides an overview of young offenders in correctional service programs in Canada in 2002/03. The data in the report represent the final year of youth corrections under the Young Offenders Act as the new Youth Criminal Justice Act came into effect on April 1, 2003.

The data are drawn from three sources: the Youth Key Indicator Report, the Youth Custody and Community Services Survey and the Alternative Measures Survey. Data from all these sources are analysed at the provincial/territorial and national levels.

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This multivariate statistical analysis, which captures the number of prior police contacts of young people apprehended by the police, uses longitudinally linked records from the Incident-Based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey for 1995 to 2001.

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Cannabis use has increased over the past decade.

Males, teenagers and young adults were most likely to have used cannabis in the past year.

Cocaine/Crack was the second most commonly used illicit drug.

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This report looks at high school completion, postsecondary participation and labour market activities of people aged 20 to 22 years. It uses data from the Youth in Transition Survey.

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This report examines the odds of 12- to 15-year-olds drinking to intoxication and using drugs. It uses data from the 1998/99 National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY).

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This fact sheet presents a data ecosystem comprised of a set of data sources that, together, provide information on children eligible for instruction in the minority official language.

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Dr. J. Douglas Willms, and his staff at the Canadian Research Institute for Social Policy (CRISP) at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton Campus), have developed a set of files for researchers interested in using Statistics Canada's National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) data sets. "The Files" consist of SPSS data and syntax, which are intended to assist researchers in conducting more efficient longitudinal analyses, using NLSCY data.

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As part of the processing of the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) cycle 4 data, historical revisions have been made to the data of the first 3 cycles, either to correct errors or to update the data. During processing, particular attention was given to the PERSRUK (Person Identifier) and the FIELDRUK (Household Identifier). The same level of attention has not been given to the other identifiers that are included in the data base, the CHILDID (Person identifier) and the _IDHD01 (Household identifier). These identifiers have been created for the public files and can also be found in the master files by default. The PERSRUK should be used to link records between files and the FIELDRUK to determine the household when using the master files.

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The National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) is the first Canada-wide survey of children. Starting in 1994, it will gather information on a sample of children and their life experiences. It will follow these children over time. The survey will collect information on children and their families, education, health, development, behaviour, friends, activities, etc. This document describes the survey instruments of cycle 4.

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The Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) is a longitudinal survey designed to provide policy-relevant information about school-work transitions and factors influencing pathways. YITS will provide vehicle for future research and analysis of major transitions in young people's lives, particularly those between education, training and work. Information obtained from, and research based on, the survey will help clarify the nature and causes of short and long-term challenges young people face in school-work transitions and support policy planning and decision making to help prevent or remedy these problems.

Objectives of the Youth in Transition Survey were developed after an extensive consultation with stakeholders with an interest in youth and school-work transitions. Content includes measurement of major transitions in young people's lives including virtually all formal educational experiences and most labour-market experiences. Factors influencing transitions are also included family background, school experiences, achievement, aspirations and expectations, and employment experiences.

The implementation plan encompasses a longitudinal survey for each of two age cohorts, to be surveyed every two years. Data from a cohort entering at age 15 will permit analysis of long-term school-work transition patterns. Data from a cohort entering at ages18-20 will provide more immediate, policy-relevant information on young adults in the labour market.

Cycle one for the cohort aged 15 will include information collected from youth, their parents, and school principals. The sample design is a school-based frame that allows the selection of schools, and then individuals within schools. This design will permit analysis of school effects, a research domain not currently addressed by other Statistics Canada surveys. Methods of data collection include a self-completed questionnaire for youth and school principals, a telephone interview with parents, and assessment of youth competency in reading, science and mathematics as using self-completed test booklets provided under the integration of YITS with the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). A pilot survey was conducted in April 1999 and the main survey took place in April-May 2000. Interviews were conducted with 30,000 students aged 15 from 1,000 schools in Canada. A telephone interview with parents of selected students took place in June 2000.

The sample design for the cohort aged 18-20 is similar to that of the Labour-Force survey. The method of data collection is computer-assisted telephone interviewing. The pilot survey was conducted in January 1999. In January-February 2000, 23, 000 youth participated in the main survey data collection.

Data from both cohorts is expected to be available in 2001. Following release of the first international report by the OECD/PISA project and the first national report, data will be publically available, permitting detailed exploration of content themes.

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The National Longitudinal Survey of Children (NLSC) is the first Canada-wide survey of children. Starting in 1994, it will gather information on a sample of children and their life experiences. It will follow these children over time, collecting information on the children and their families, education, health, development, behaviour, friends, activities, etc.

Description: The objective of the Youth Court Survey (YCS) is to develop and maintain a database of statistical information on appearances, charges, and cases in youth courts.

Description: The objective of the Integrated Criminal Court Survey (ICCS) is to develop and maintain a national database of statistical information on appearances, charges, and cases in youth courts and adult criminal courts. The survey is intended to be a census of pending and completed federal statute charges heard in provincial-territorial and superior courts in Canada. Appeal courts, federal courts (e.g., Tax Court of Canada) and the Supreme Court of Canada are not covered by the survey.

Description: The Corrections Key Indicator Report for Adults and Youth monitors trends in correctional populations and provides a basis for calculating incarceration rates based on the Canadian population. This survey describes average counts of adults and youth under custody and under community supervision, who are under the responsibility of provincial/territorial correctional services.

Description: The purpose of the Youth Custody and Community Services (YCCS) survey is to provide important indicators as to the nature and case characteristics of youth in correctional services and are of use to agencies responsible for the delivery of these services, the media and the public. The survey collects annual data on the delivery of youth correctional services from the provinces and territories.