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Engage Nova Scotia (ENS) is a non-profit NGO that has collected data to help Nova Scotians understand our challenges and possibilities. In partnership with the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW), the Nova Scotia Quality of Life Survey recorded responses to more than 250 questions from close to 13,000 people across the province’s 10 functional economic regions. Dalhousie University has signed a Data Sharing Agreement (DSA) with ENS for Dalhousie researchers to use this dataset.

The survey measured areas of wellbeing and economic indicators that the CIW uses to portray eight domains of wellbeing. The data was collected in 2019 (pre-pandemic) for all of Nova Scotia and the domain variables describe community vitality, healthy populations, democratic engagement, environment, leisure and culture, education, living standards, and time use. Survey responses can be disaggregated based on personal characteristics, functional economic region of province, income, race and ethnicity, living arrangement, education, employment, marital status, languages spoken, and more. Survey weight comes with the dataset.

The joint initiative to promote research activities involved the Office of Research Services, Dalhousie Libraries and Engage Nova Scotia. Click here to get started.

Questions may be addressed to Gwen MacNairn at g.macnairn@dal.ca.