Extending the Relevance of the Longitudinal Files (ERLF) –Youth in Transition Survey (YITS)

Dataset Information
Name  Extending the Relevance of the Longitudinal Files (ERLF) –Youth in Transition Survey (YITS)
UUID  43eac84e-5cb6-4b41-99e3-63b2929a1b62
Site  Statistics Canada - Research Data Centres
Region  Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon, Saskatchewan
Description  This survey was designed to examine the major transitions in the lives of youth, particularly between education, training and employment. The content included measurement of major transitions in young people’s lives including virtually all formal educational experiences and most labour market experiences, achievement, aspirations and expectations, and employment experiences.
Format  None
Purpose  The goal of the project is to add repeated measures for important outcome domains for each respondent to the five terminated longitudinal surveys to extend their analytical relevance. These linkages will allow researchers both inside Statistics Canada and through the Research Data Centres to analyze longer term outcomes for the cohorts in the five longitudinal surveys.
Scope  Canadian Citizens with the ages of 15 and ages of 18-20
Data Level  Individual
Collection Period  01/01/1993-12/31/2015
Last Updated 2023-11-28