In collaboration with the Department of Justice Canada, Statistics Canada developed a dataset integrating a 1997 birth cohort with the following criminal justice and social datasets through the Social Data Linkage Environment:

• Canadian Correctional Services Survey (CCSS, 2015-2021) 
• Integrated Criminal Courts Survey (ICCS, 2010 to 2021) 
• Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (UCR, 2010 to 2021) 
• Census of Population 2006, 2011, 2016 and 2021 
• National Household Survey 2011
• T1 Family File (T1FF, 1997-2021) 
• Discharge Abstracts Database (DAD, 1997-2022) 
• National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS, 2002-2022)
• Ontario Mental Health Reporting System (OMHRS, 2006 - 2021) 
• Canadian Vital Statistics Death Database (CVSD, 1997-2020)
• Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS, 2008-2020)
• Registered Apprenticeship Information System (RAIS, 2008-2021)
• Canadian Cancer Registry (CCR, 1997-2020) 

The cohort includes 345,450 individuals born in Canada (or to Canadian parents) in 1997.  The resulting police‑reported incident‑level file contains 454,572 records (i.e., there may be multiple records per person) spanning from 1997 to 2021. By combining event‑level criminal justice data with social data, the file provides a strong foundation for long‑term analyses. Researchers can use it to explore offending and re-offending patterns or conduct survival analyses to determine the “time to first event” —for example, examining time to first conviction or reconviction. Analyses can be stratified by a range of sociodemographic and economic characteristics, including Indigenous identity, racialized identity, and longitudinal family income.