Talk:Statistics Canada

"Statistics Canada is thought to be the most unbiased government resource in the world."

This one jumped out at me. According to whom, exactly?
 * I took it out. It's kind of a bold claim to make, and needs some citation before being put back in. --Xanzzibar 08:51, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

StatCan or Statscan?

I use Statistics Canada data a lot in my field, and I know it by Statscan for short, not StatCan. --Spmarshall42 00:49, 19 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Given that their site is StatCan.ca, and a Google search turns up over a million results for StatCan and all of 92,000 for StatsCan, I think we should probably be using StatCan. --Xanzzibar 10:06, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

I'm an StatsCan/StatCan employee and honestly - it's two sides of the same coin. Everyone around here switched between the two without thinking. Xanzzibar's point about the website is well taken though, but that's got more to do with domain-squatting than anything (as I understand it). --AlexAnglin 21 July 2005

I changed it back to StatCan again. Again, the Google benchmark heavily favors StatCan StatCan (3.2 million) over StatsCan (208k), and the website itself is statcan.ca (statscan.ca redirects to statcan.ca). I did leave the note in the first paragraph about both uses, though. It seems the preferred term to me, even if both are perfectly acceptable. --Xanzzibar 18:37, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Agency, not Bureau - I updated this to reflect the more current term in use by the Federal government for those Federal entities that are not departments. Zeetherapist 01:15, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Actually, Statistics Canada is a 'department', one of about 30 in the Government of Canada organization structure. The Chief Statistician is a 'Deputy Minister', like the heads of other departments, and he participates fully in Deputy Minister committees and related functions. Use of the term 'agency' is inappropriate when applied to Statistics Canada, although it is common.

Controversy - I added this section with some citations but have kept this small as it is an ongoing issue. My thought is that this will either be a big issue that will later be expanded on or will be lost and forgotten but as I had the links I thought it worth starting now. I've tried to keep this strictly to the facts but the links are certainly partisan so if others have less biased versions you're welcome to update the citations. Feel free to leave me comments on my contributions (without political discussion please).
 * I've removed much of my previous comments and begun some cleanup on the main page, focusing first on cleaning the reference links to have extra metadata. Further references I plan to cite;
 * links removed now that they've been integrated into the article.
 * While I have been working to compile this section, I have found that an in depth version is listed on the 2011 Census page. I will attempt to reduce this section and provide a redirect.--Chris Latour (talk) 15:31, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay, just posted a massive update to this, been working on it the last couple days. I have made an effort to focus on the impact to the organization and the way in which the government instituted the changes to this agency on this page.  I think any debates on the actual systems, such as previous quotes on supporting examples should be kept to the main article to which I now link.  I will start working to expand that article next.  I've made a big effort to keep this impartial and list only the facts, I welcome comments/feedback.--Chris Latour (talk) 18:54, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
 * new info; http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/08/09/harper-long-form-census-scrapped.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chris Latour (talk • contribs) 02:53, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
 * new info; http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/08/10/census-bloc-duceppe.html --Chris Latour (talk) 19:12, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
 * new info: http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/08/10/census-government-emails.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chris Latour (talk • contribs) 00:18, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
 * older but needed; http://cthrc.ca/en/member_area/member_news/federal_government_census_changes_leads_to_future_lmi_data_reductions.aspx
 * older but needed; http://www.canada.com/story_print.html?id=3268332&sponsor=
 * older but needed; http://www.nationalpost.com/Critics+census+changes+could+result+biased+information/3268332/story.html
 * older but needed; http://afhimelfarb.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/give-me-back-my-compulsory-long-form-census-questionnaire/
 * older but needed; http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/06/29/census-longform-scrapped.html
 * older but needed; http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/ottawa-should-come-to-its-census-stop-dogging-statscan/article1632193/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chris Latour (talk • contribs) 01:16, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
 * older but needed; http://www.heritagesask.ca/news_and_events?n=246
 * older but needed; http://datalibre.ca/2010/06/30/2011-census-severely-slashed/
 * older but needed; http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/census/article/830206 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chris Latour (talk • contribs) 01:26, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Photo, Tunney's Pasture
Why don't we have a photo of the StatsCan HQ at Tunney's Pasture? I'm asking this because I notice that in the Wikipedia article about the Australian Bureau of Statistics, they have a photo of the HQ building in Canb'ra.

--Atikokan (talk) 02:34, 6 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Most likely, nobody has a picture readily available under a license that's Wiki-friendly. You're welcome to see if you can find something, of course. The the public domain image resources guide may be helpful. --Xanzzibar (talk) 09:33, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Will Canada also act to stop insider trading?
Looks like the United States is starting to take action: Talk:United_States_Congress Ottawahitech (talk) 17:49, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Census
In the census section a paragraph incorrectly states that the most recent census took place in 2016. The most recent census took place in 2021. Sink Cat (talk) 15:33, 19 September 2021 (UTC)