I’ll bet I was one of the few people in British Columbia that was a little excited that last Wednesday was set aside to honour statistics. The United Nations General Assembly declared October 20th World Statistics Day. The Under-Secretary for Economic and Social Affairs issued a statement saying: Reliable, timely data are crucial for economic [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Census'
On average, who knew Wednesday was World Statistics Day?
October 22nd, 2010 · Keith Reynolds · 2 Comments · Transparency & accountability
Tags: Census·statistics·United Nations
The Census: Evidence based decisions better than decision based evidence
July 14th, 2010 · Keith Reynolds · 8 Comments · Transparency & accountability
There is beginning to be a lot of discussion about the decision by the Federal government two weeks ago to drop the compulsory long form census. Armine Yalnizyan, a senior economist with the CCPA was one of the first people to raise the issue in an open letter to the Minister of Industry who is [...]
Tags: Census·long form census
