Absolutely. Thank you for asking.
Every four years, we run the national surveys. The last one was in 2016, and we did the 2020, but the fact is, the result was delayed, because many people—again, we are a team of volunteers in CAPS—were affected, so we could not process, and we wanted to have a longitudinal comparison with previous years.
What I can give as an update is that it's almost out. We are going to publish that in the next month. There are definitely comparisons with previous years in terms of the increment in the salaries; the change in the demographics, for instance; the immigration and citizenship situation we have observed in the post-docs compared with 2016 surveys; and, of course, the problem with benefits, as I've explained.
For some of the numbers that I was just talking about, for instance, if 18% of the post-docs do not have access to provincial health care—this is coming from our recent survey that is going to be published—or if we can say that only 20% of the post-docs are being supported by the tri-agencies, it means that 80% of the post-docs are supported internally, which means that the faculty member or the principal investigator of the project is supporting them. When it comes to that end, it becomes a bit tricky, because we don't know what's happening unless the university or the institution has a collective agreement that everything is clear there.