Resources

Exploration and Learning

• Demographic Divides: Where to Start: recommended questions to explore for each demographic group, with notable gaps between groups and how those gaps changed over time.
• Shifting Opinion: Where to Start: recommended questions for exploring how Canadian opinion has changed over time, including steady shifts, reversals, and sharp changes around particular events.

Teaching

• Sample Assignment: a sample assignment using the CVPA data, for instructors to adapt.
• Demographic Divides: Slides (PDF): simple slides showing one question for each demographic group over time, for presentations and teaching.
• Shifting Opinion: Slides (PDF): simple slides showing how Canadian opinion on several questions changed over time, for presentations and teaching.

Data Analysis

• CVPA R Package: Getting Started: install the cvpa R package, download data for a question, compute weighted responses by year and by group, and plot the results.
• Raw Data: Download, Open, and Use: download dataset.parquet from GitHub, open it in R, understand how it is organized, and pull out a single question for analysis.
• Adding Variables from the Original Surveys: add a question CVPA doesn’t include by downloading the original survey files and linking them to CVPA respondents with response_id.
• Rebuilding the Dataset from Scratch: for the (extremely rare and unlikely) case where you want to reproduce the entire CVPA dataset yourself by downloading the original survey files and running our build code.