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Large volumes of health and social data are collected by national and international groups of researchers, as well as healthcare, governmental, and nongovernmental agencies. These data are obtained through regularly scheduled surveys of the general population (e.g. Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging, involving collection of data on a wide range of health indices from 30 000 persons, every five years; Healthy Aging and Retirement in Europe as mentioned by Hoffman et al., 2018); or routine assessment of health indices for clients using healthcare services, that is done in practice and compiled in administrative or claims data (e.g. Ammendolia et al., 2016). Electronic copies of these data are available for analysis aimed to describe the health problem and its associations with relevant determinants in the target client population and context. For instance, Sidani and Guruge (unpublished report) analyzed the first wave of data obtained by the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging to determine differences in the experience of insomnia between Canadian‐born and immigrant older adults. Preliminary findings showed variability in the experience and the determinants of insomnia. Canadian‐born older adults reported experiencing difficulty initiating sleep more frequently than immigrants, which was associated with having pain or discomfort and with lower level of education.