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Employment Insurance Coverage Survey

1997 - 2023

Subjects

Employment insurance, social assistance and otherIncome, pensions, spending and wealthNon-wage benefits
Overview Related Publications Related Data

Overview

Summary

The Employment Insurance Coverage Survey provides a meaningful picture of who does or does not have access to EI benefits among the jobless and those in a situation of underemployment. The survey also covers access to maternity and parental benefits.

Available Cycles

Years Name
1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022,2023 Employment Insurance Coverage Survey

Documentation

  • StatsCan

Publication Note

All publications (e.g. scientific articles, reports, dissertations, theses) and presentations based on a dataset available in the RDCs should include an acknowledgement of the support provided by granting councils (SSHRC, CIHR, CFI), Statistics Canada and host university. See a sample

Related Publications

Catherine Haeck, Samuel Paré, Pierre Lefebvre, and Philip Merrigan (2019).

Paid parental leave: Leaner might be better

RGHC Working Paper Series

Catherine Haeck, Samuel Paré, Pierre Lefebvre, and Philip Merrigan (2019).

Paid parental leave: Leaner might be better

RGHC Working Paper Series

Nicholas-James Clavet, Nicolas Corneau-Tremblay, and Guy Lacroix (2017).

Les retombées économiques du Régime québécois d'assurance parentale

Nicholas-James Clavet, Nicolas Corneau-Tremblay, and Guy Lacroix (2017).

The economic impacts of the Quebec Parental Insurance Program

Guy Lacroix, Nicholas-James Clavet, and Nicolas Corneau-Tremblay (2017).

Le comportement des prestataires du RQAP

Nicholas-James Clavet, Nicolas Corneau-Tremblay, and Guy Lacroix (2016).

Évaluation des retombées du régime québécois d'assurance parentale

Étude économique

Guy Lacroix, Nicholas-James Clavet, and Nicolas Corneau-Tremblay (2016).

Les effets du RQAP sur la fécondité, la situation économique des parents et les congés parentaux

Catherine Haeck, Pierre Lefebvre, Philip Merrigan, and David Lapierre (2016).

Evidence on maternal health from two large Canadian parental leave expansions: When is enough too much?

Research Group on Human Capital's Working Papers Series

Xiao Feng (2014).

Heterogeneous relationships between employment insurance receipt and job search

Leah F. Vosko (2011).

The challenge of expanding EI coverage: Charting exclusions and partial exclusions on the bases of gender, immigration status, age, and place of residence and exploring avenues for inclusive policy redesign

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Cross-Sectional, Repeated

SSPD

Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics

Cross-Sectional, Repeated

SLID

Labour Force Survey

Cross-Sectional, Repeated

LFS

Extending the Relevance of the Longitudinal Files

Cross-Sectional, Repeated

ERLF

Survey of Household Spending

Cross-Sectional, Repeated

SHS

Canadian Income Survey

Cross-Sectional, Repeated

CIS

Longitudinal Immigration Statistical Environment

Cross-Sectional, Repeated

LISE

British-Columbia Income Assistance – Income Tax Administrative Files

Cross-Sectional, Repeated

BCIA

Survey of Family Expenditures

Cross-Sectional, Repeated

Famex

Employment Insurance Beneficiaries

Cross-Sectional, Repeated

EIB

Business Employee Analytical Microdata

Cross-Sectional, Repeated

BEAM

Canadian Income Survey – T1 Family File

Cross-Sectional, Repeated

CIS-T1FF

Longitudinal Administrative Databank – Discharge Administrative Databank linkage

Cross-Sectional, Repeated

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Longitudinal Worker File

Cross-Sectional, Repeated

LWF

Household Facilities by Income and Other Characteristics

Cross-Sectional, Repeated

HIFE

Food Expenditure Survey

Cross-Sectional, Repeated

FES

Canadian Financial Capability Survey

Cross-Sectional, Repeated

CFCS

Ontario Ministry of Children Community and Social Services – Social Assistance Data

Cross-Sectional, Repeated

MCSS

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Cross-Sectional, Repeated

WES

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