This study compares administrative and survey data on BC welfare (social assistance) recipients, to test whether survey data is sufficiently accurate for use in policy-oriented research. BC welfare and education data is compared to the 1994 Public Use Microdata (BC sample) of Statistics Canada's...

Full day kindergarten (FDK) is expanding across North America, but program impacts remain poorly understood. Using administrative data, this paper reports impacts from a targeted program in British Columbia for Aboriginal and English as a Second Language (ESL) students. Staged implementation of...