Survey of Financial Security (SFS)

Summary of changes

Activity on this program started: 2016

Reference period of change - 2023

For the 2023 survey, the following content has been added:
- Languages spoken at home
- Population/visible minority group
- main reason for absence from work
- impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on your family's financial situation.

Sampling and collection
In 2023 the collection period was from the 21st of April 2023 to the end of August 2023.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, data collections methods used were self-response Electronic Questionnaire (rEQ), Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) and Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI).

Reference period of change - 2016

Sampling - Prior to 2016, the SFS had a stratified multi-stage dual frame design.
In 2012, the sample was selected as two independent samples from two overlapping frames: the Labour Force Survey (LFS) area frame and a frame constructed from the urban portion, that is Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs) and Census Agglomerations (CAs) of the T1 family file (T1FF).

Estimation - For SFS 2012, the use of an overlapping dual-frame design meant that a weight adjustment was necessary when combining the weights from the two frames after non-response adjustment. Because the two samples for SFS 2016 are drawn from non-overlapping frames, no weight adjustment is necessary to combine their weights after non-response adjustment.