Evidence-based research in actionPresentation to the OCASI ED Forum

Maryse LemoineCoordinator

Toronto Immigrant Employment Data InitiativeYork University

Table of contents

• What is TIEDI?

• How does it work?

• Publications

• Challenges

• Future

What is TIEDI?

• Knowledge mobilization project

• Funded by SSHRC and York University, for the period of 2008-2011

• Steering committee: – faculty members from York and Ryerson– community representatives from OCASI,

TRIEC, WES

How does TIEDI work?

Forum October 2008 June 2010

Workshops Labour market outcomes Barriers to employment Workplace/career information Mapping

Circulate questionsWrite reports

TrainingRapid Data

TIEDI’s publications

• 13 analytical reports

• Labour market update (May 2010 – )

• 30+ fact sheets

Challenges in working with data

• Amount of information

• Datasets & getting access to them

• Reliability

• Availability

Challenges: Amount of information

• Census• Ethnic Diversity Survey (EDS)• International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey

(IALSS)• Labour Force Survey (LFS)• Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada

(LSIC)• Permanent Residents Data System / Landings

data• Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics• Workplace and Employee Survey (WES)

Challenges: Datasets

 

Statistics Canada data CICdataStatCan

websiteData Liberation

InitiativeResearch

Data CentreCustom

order

Census x x x    

Ethnic Diversity Survey (EDS)   x x    

International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey (IALSS)

  x x    

Labour Force Survey (LFS) x x x x

Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC)

    x    

Permanent Residents Data System / Landings (IMDB)

        x

Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID)

  x x    

Workplace and Employee Survey (WES)

    x    

Challenges: Reliability

• Sample size

• Definitions– Immigrants: permanent residents, naturalized

citizens (Census, LFS), temporary foreign workers, anyone who is not Canadian-born (WES)

Challenges: Availability

• Data not collected

• Data no longer collected– Census – data from long form questionnaire

won’t be comparable to earlier years– Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada– Workplace and Employee Survey

Future of TIEDI

• Funding ending in 2011

• Focusing on existing findings vs. creating new knowledge

Maryse Lemoine

mlemoine@yorku.ca

416-736-2100 ext. 22826

www.yorku.ca/tiedi