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- Statistics Canada produces statistical data and insights to help Canadians better understand their country's population, resources, economy, society and culture. In addition to conducting a Census every five years, there are about 350 active surveys on virtually all aspects of Canadian life.
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Statistics Canada produces statistical data and insights to help Canadians better understand their country's population, resources, economy, society and culture. In addition to conducting a Census every five years, there are about 350 active surveys on virtually all aspects of Canadian life.
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Statistics Canada Policy on the Use of Administrative Data...
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Statistics Canada produces statistical data and insights to...
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The Vital Statistics Council for Canada is an advisory group...
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- Using New and Existing Data for Official Statistics
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Statistics Canada is the national statistical office. The agency ensures Canadians have the key information on Canada's economy, society and environment that they require to function effectively as citizens and decision makers.
Statistics Canada produces statistical data and insights to help Canadians better understand their country. Learn more about our mission. More on About us... About us; Careers at Statistics Canada; Consulting Canadians; One Hundred Years and Counting; Statistics Canada organizational structure; Website traffic and satisfaction measurements
Statistics Canada (StatCan; French: Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture. It is headquartered in Ottawa.
- Early Censuses
- Early Birth and Death Records
- National Statistical Activities Before Confederation
- Confederation and The Beginning of National Statistics
- Creation of The Dominion Bureau of Statistics
- Early Activities of The Dominion Bureau of Statistics
- Challenge of The Great Depression
- Role During The Second World War
- Postwar Restructuring
- Creation of Statistics Canada: Background
Population censuseshave a long history. More than 2,000 years ago, Greek and Roman regimes counted their inhabitants, usually for military purposes (i.e., to see how many men could serve as soldiers) or for tax collection. These early censuses were primarily administrative activities for limited government purposes. They did not attempt to count ev...
The collection of birth and death records in Canada began in the 1600s. It was usually carried out by parish or church administrators. According to records from the first church in New France, the first child born in the colony was Eustache Martin, born in 1621 to Marguerite Langlois and Abraham Martin, a colonist after whom Quebec City’s Plains of...
The British Colonial Office (the government department responsible for administering colonies such as British North America) had no general statistical data collection procedures for Canada and its other colonies in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Colonies with larger populations, such as Canada, submitted reports from colonial governors, but were ...
With the Confederation of Canada in 1867, the British North America Act of that same year included a section titled “Decennial Census.” This called for the federal government to take a national census of Canada in 1871 and thereafter every 10 years. The Act also stated that provincial representation in the House of Commons should be reapportioned f...
The effects of uncoordinated federal statistics became increasingly apparent by the early 1900s. The need for change became clearer when the Census and Statistics Office was transferred from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Trade and Commerce in 1912. With the move to a different federal department, a commission was formed under t...
In the first years of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, the new unit worked to improve census work, take over and integrate many statistical functions from other departments, and develop relationships for the collection of new data. One of Coats’s first goals was to improve Canada’s vital statistics, which were collected by local and provincial au...
Canada experienced a major economic depression from 1929 to 1939. The Great Depressionhad severe repercussions on the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. In 1932, bureau salaries were reduced by 10 per cent and all unoccupied permanent positions were eliminated. The bureau managed to maintain activities during this period by increasing the number of tem...
On the eve of the Second World Warin 1939, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics had become a competent, well-organized central statistical office. It had an excellent Dominion statistician in R. H. Coats, it was staffed with trained personnel, and its statistical program ably covered a wide range of social and economic areas. Nevertheless, the wartime...
According to Herbert Marshall, Dominion statistician from 1945 to 1956, it was evident by the end of the war that the bureau needed “to prepare to meet greater demands in the post-war world.” The government’s growing role in economic policy planning required that it expand and improve statistical information. Better data were needed on employment a...
In the 1960s, the federal governmentbegan to consider changes to its organizational structure, which included the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. At the same time, two other forces for change emerged outside Canada’s central statistical office. First, some federal departments viewed the bureau as unresponsive to their increasing need for statistics....
Working collaboratively with stakeholders at the federal, provincial and municipal levels, Statistics Canada is using innovative methods to leverage existing administrative data, as well as creating new sources of data to deliver greater insights on this critical issue.
This survey conducted by Statistics Canada provides a statistical portrait of Canada and its people. The census is a reliable source designed to provide information about people and housing units in Canada by their demographic, social and economic characteristics.
