OttawaThe Commons: Verifiable data are no match for riddles and notionsA committee hearing on the long-form census spells out the epitaph for this whole sorry affair
OttawaYour National Household SurveyThe new NHS is now online . Mr. Clement’s lamented questions about the number of bedrooms, what time you leave for work and...
OttawaLet us now speak seriously about data collectionMore later on this morning, but early reviews are in from the Canadian Press , Globe , Star , Postmedia , CBC and CTV .
OttawaCensus dayThe industry committee commences a full day of hearings at 9am this morning. Tony Clement will testify first, but the witness list...
Ottawa’We have not been able to get a response’Before publicly tabling its proposal this morning, the National Statistics Council tried to speak directly with the Industry...
OttawaThe Scandinavian modelGustave Goldmann, formerly a senior official at Statistics Canada, considers (scroll down) the periodically cited European model...
Ottawa’Seeking solutions’The National Statistics Council, the government-appointed group that advises the chief statistician has stepped forward this...
OttawaScary hypotheticalsAs our John Geddes points out , one of the questions that most disturbs Tony Clement about the census has never actually been...
OttawaThe collection of numbers by the numbers (II)The Industry Minister has claimed that 160,000 Canadians "refused" to complete the long-form census in 2006. Statistics Canada now...