Human Resources committee  They're a very difficult population to account for, that's for sure. I think that in our first slide we say that in the survey on mental health we have not captured the homeless population. This slide is from another survey and it was a retrospective question. I think the quest

Human Resources committee  We see that immigrants are in better health, not only in better mental health but also better physical health. I think that that can be explained in large part by the fact that those immigrants were selected. They underwent a health examination at the beginning. And so they are c

Human Resources committee  I will look into getting it for you, but I'm a bit pessimistic that we will be able to show any causality. The exploration we are doing with admin data is really new, ongoing, and innovative in a way, but the information from administrative is also limited. So, I don't think that

Human Resources committee  I don't think so. My colleague may. Again, this is a cross-sectional survey. Typically, cross-sectional surveys are good for association. We know that the people who answered their employment status as such-and-such and their answers to disorders are such-and-such, so we can do

Human Resources committee  Generally, it's the cost.

Human Resources committee  I agree, but the limitation is, I think, mostly cost. Launching those surveys is very costly. They are long-term. We have run a number of them in the past, where we follow people every second year or every year, and so forth, but right now I think we only have one left, and it's

Human Resources committee  I'm afraid it is the same answer. As much as it would be fantastic to follow someone to see if someone goes from married to divorced, divorced to married, or single to married, and if the disorder has then changed or is reported changed. Again, we only have cross-sectional survey

Human Resources committee  That's a very good question. Stats Canada is exploring administrative data as much as possible and linking that data. For instance, we would have discharge abstract data from hospitals. If someone has been in the hospital, we know the reason, so we can probably monitor something

Human Resources committee  I'm not sure. I'll confirm that with my colleagues.

Human Resources committee  Yes. Normally surveys come out about a year or so after the end of the reference period. There was a collection during 2015. Processing the data is not my area. Normally it takes around 12 to 15 months. I assume it will be soon, but I'll double-check.

Human Resources committee  I think it's a good question. My colleague had started to talk about the methodology. We have implemented the best methodology possible. We have also very good interviewers who are convincing people to answer the questions. Obviously, these are very sensitive questions. There's n

Human Resources committee  I'm afraid we don't.

Human Resources committee  Just to add to that, our surveys are cross-sectional. We ask people at the same time whether they are employed or not and we assess their mental health. On slide 9, you can see that a lower proportion of people who declare a disorder are employed, but the statistics don't allow u

Human Resources committee  Again, I think the question would be answered by what we call a longitudinal survey where we take a measurement at one point and then a measurement at the second point and try to disentangle what came first. These are very expensive surveys. I don't think we....

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My colleague Jennifer Ali, who is a mental health statistics expert, is going to do the presentation. It will be our pleasure to reply to questions in either official language.