Survey of 1995 Graduates Who Moved to the United States (SGMUS)

Detailed information for 1997

The purpose of this survey was to collect information on the work and education experiences of 1995 postsecondary graduates who were living in the United States in 1997, and the factors that attracted them to the United States.

Data release - August 27, 1999

• Description
• Data sources and methodology
• Data accuracy

Description

The Survey of 1995 Graduates Who Moved to the United States (SGMUS) was commissioned by Human Resources Development Canada (HDRC) and conducted by Statistics Canada.

The purpose of this survey was to collect information on the work and education experiences of 1995 postsecondary graduates who were living in the United States in 1997, and the factors that attracted them to the United States.

Data for graduates who moved to the United States are collected as part of the National Graduates Survey (record number 5012), starting with the class of 1995 (follow up) in 2002.

Subjects

• Education, training and learning
• Globalization and the labour market
• Labour
• Labour mobility, turnover and work absences
• Outcomes of education

Data sources and methodology

Target population

The target population consisted of graduates of Canadian post-secondary institutions who received their certificate, diploma or degree, or completed their requirements in 1995 and had moved to the United States by the summer of 1997. Excluded were: those who were exclusively American citizens who had been studying in Canada and who had returned home to the U.S.; those who were not living in Canada or in the U.S. at the time of the survey; and graduates who may have moved to the U.S. but returned to Canada before the summer of 1997.

Sampling

This is a sample survey with a cross-sectional design.

While conducting the National Graduates Survey (NGS) of 1995 Graduates (record number 5012) in the summer of 1997, 1,060 graduates were found to be living in the United States, were considered to be out of scope for the NGS and were not interviewed. This group formed the sample for the Survey of 1995 Graduates Who Moved to the United States.

Using different sources of information, attempts were made to contact each of the 1,060 individuals in the original sample. Of those, 639 were successfully contacted but 108 were found to be out of scope. Eliminating these categories of people reduced the initial sample to 952.

Data sources

Data collection for this reference period: March 1999

Responding to this survey is voluntary.

Data are collected directly from survey respondents.

Data were collected in 15 minute, computer-assisted telephone interviews.

Disclosure control

Statistics Canada is prohibited by law from releasing any data which would divulge information obtained under the Statistics Act that relates to any identifiable person, business or organization without the prior knowledge or the consent in writing of that person, business or organization. The confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act override the provisions of any other Act, including the Access to Information Act, to guarantee the confidentiality of reported data of individual respondents. Various confidentiality rules are applied to all data that are released or published to prevent the publication or disclosure of any information deemed confidential. If necessary, data are suppressed to prevent direct or residual disclosure of identifiable data.

Revisions and seasonal adjustment

This methodology does not apply to this survey.

Data accuracy

Interviews were successfully completed with 531 in-scope resondents (including two partial interviews). Thus, the response rate excluding those known to have been out of scope was 55.8 percent.