ELMLP: Canada Student Financial Assistance (CFSA)

New Canada Student Financial Assistance (CSFA) data linked to Census, IMDB, LAD and T1FF

The ELMLP has produced new cohort, concordance and integrated files:

• Cohort files:
  
  • CSFA AllYears
• Concordance files^[[1] To use these concordance files, researchers are to request access to (1) Cohort files (e.g. CSFA Allyears), (2) concordance file (e.g. CSFA-CEN 2016 Keys) and (3) Additional corresponding data source(s) (e.g. Census 2016). ^1] : 
  
  • Census linkage:
  • CSFA AllYears to Census 2016 and 2021
  • IMDB linkage
  • CSFA AllYears to IMDB AllYears
  • LAD linkage
  • CSFA AllYears to LAD AllYears
• Integrated files:
  
  • T1FF integrated with CSFA AllYears
• Administrative data for the Canada Student Financial Assistance (CSFA) Program for the period 2009 to 2021 are now available in the Research Data Centres (RDCs). The Canada Student Financial Assistance Program was formerly known as the Canada Student Loans Program (CSLP). Data made available as part of this update (“Wave 2”) include six additional loan years (2016-2017 to 2021-2022) compared with the previous CSLP data (“Wave 1”). However, the earliest eight years of data (2003-2004 to 2008-2009) have been removed from the new files by the data provider (Employment and Social Development Canada) due to structural differences. Please see codebook for more information on this restructuring. CSLP/Wave 1 data will remain available in the RDCs.