2. How women drivers compare to men? MALE (Column %) FEMALE (Column %) Better Drivers9.521.5 As Good Drivers46.953.5 Worse Drivers36.013.2 Don’t Know7.611.7 In general, do you think women make better drivers than men, as good, Or worse drivers? Canadian Gallup Poll, September 1955, #244

3. Should women have equal job opportunity? MALE (Column %) FEMALE (Column %) Yes29.836.7 No, Men First65.256.3 Qualified5.07.0 Do you think married women should be given special opportunity with men to compete for jobs or do you think employers should give men first chance? Canadian Gallup Poll, May 1956, #248

4. What would you like for Christmas? MALE (Column %) FEMALE (Column %) Large Appliances9.323.3 Small Appliances3.511.1 Clothing11.623.9 Money13.43.3 Non-material things … 44.818.7 Canadian Gallup Poll, November 1953, #233

5. Nuclear War v Communism? MALE (Column %) FEMALE (Column %) Fight Nuclear War 85.086.8 Live under Communism 15.013.2 Suppose you had to make the decision between fighting an all-out Nuclear war, or living under communist rule – How would you decide? Canadian Gallup Poll, November 1961, #292

6. Where is this data? How can I access it? Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure Initiative

7. How did this come about? DDI – Data Documentation Initiative “Standard” for marking up metadata Guelph is leader in Canada – marking up files since 2000 Create an XML codebook for every datafile we house in the DRC

8. How did this come about? More players want to be involved in DDI: Carleton University Queen’s University University of Toronto University of Western Ontario Need for a unified and coordinated approach

9. Funding for Funding for Two primary sources of funding: Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) $250,000 Ontario Buys $750,000 In-kind contributions by partners $1.15 million over 3 years

10. Best Practices Document Document available for all interested in creating DDI documents: Lists recommended tags Highlights recommended format(s) Sharing is now possible

11. One Stop Shopping….. Several files scattered throughout the province Ideal – one stop to access the files for all OCUL universities Scholars Portal houses Nesstar server for all Ontario Universities

12. Where are we now? Best Practices document is complete website is up and running Data is being added daily – as of April 10 - there were 444 published studies

13. Next…. Statistics Canada files available through the Data Liberation Initiative Canadian Gallup Files - 1940s to 2000

14. Exciting new data…. IPSOS-REID – 1988 – 1995 National Angus Reid Polls Monthly polls 2006 Online polls for the Jan 23 Federal election 2007 online polls for the Oct 11 Ontario Provincial election

15. A voyage in data discovery…. opens many doors: To new and interesting data Students and faculty New partnerships