Indigenous Peoples Survey-Nunavut Inuit Supplement (IPS-NIS)

Summary of changes

Activity on this program started: 2017

Reference period of change - 2022

The IPS-NIS was formerly called the Aboriginal Peoples Survey- Nunavut Inuit Supplement (APS-NIS). For the 2022 cycle, the name has been updated to the Indigenous Peoples Survey - Nunavut Inuit Supplement.

The questions in the 2022 IPS-NIS were designed with an Electronic Questionnaire (EQ) environment compared to previous cycles of this survey which had only been collected by Computer Assisted Interviewing (CAI) or on paper.

The control totals for the 2017 APS-NIS were defined by combining the Nunavut community and education group. As a single weighting (and therefore a single calibration) was carried out for the 2022 IPS and IPS-NIS (unlike the 2017 cycle), the education group was not included in defining the control totals for 2022.

Unlike in 2017 when there were two separate data files for the IPS and the IPS-NIS, there is now one Masterfile.

Another change between the 2017 and 2022 cycles concerns quality indicators. Before 2022, the coefficient of variation (CV) was used to report the quality of estimates in terms of their sampling error. For the 2022 IPS-NIS, the 95% confidence interval (CI) was used for this purpose.

The 2022 IPS and IPS-NIS has a Masterfile and a Restricted Masterfile. The Restricted Masterfile contains the variables sex at birth, three-category gender, and sexual orientation. A justification has to be written and approval granted to gain access to the Restricted file. After approval is granted, a Restricted Masterfile User Guide is available with more detailed instructions and rules regarding cross tabulation, analysis and dissemination of these sensitive variables.