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Statistics Canada

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Statistics Canada (Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the Government of Canada government agency commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture. [1]

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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

The Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food, also referred to as Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) (Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada), is the department of the government of Canada with responsibility for policies governing agriculture production, farming income, research and development, inspection, and the regulation of animals and plants.

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Anil Arora

Anil Arora is the currently serving Chief Statistician of Canada, in office since 19 September 2016.

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Austerity

Austerity is a political-economic term referring to policies that aim to reduce government budget deficits through spending cuts, tax increases, or a combination of both.

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Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American writer and philosopher.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Canada 2006 Census

The Canada 2006 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population.

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Canada 2011 Census

The Canada 2011 Census is a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population on May 10, 2011.

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Canada 2016 Census

The Canada 2016 Census is the most recent detailed enumeration of the Canadian residents, which counted a population of 35,151,728, a change from its 2011 population of 33,476,688.

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Canada Gazette

The Canada Gazette (Gazette du Canada) is the official newspaper of the Government of Canada.

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Canadian Economics Association

The Canadian Economics Association (CEA) is the academic association of Canadian economists.

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Canadian Federation of Independent Business

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.

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Census division

Census division is an official term in Canada and the United States.

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Census geographic units of Canada

The census geographic units of Canada are the administrative divisions defined and used by Canada's federal government statistics bureau Statistics Canada to conduct the country's five-yearly census.

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Census in Canada

A national census in Canada is conducted every five years by Statistics Canada.

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Census tract

A census tract, census area, census district or meshblock is a geographic region defined for the purpose of taking a census.

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Chief Statistician of Canada

The Chief Statistician of Canada is a deputy of the Minister responsible for Statistics Canada - the Minister of Industry.

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City

A city is a large human settlement.

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Community

A community is a small or large social unit (a group of living things) that has something in common, such as norms, religion, values, or identity.

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Crown colony

Crown colony, dependent territory and royal colony are terms used to describe the administration of United Kingdom overseas territories that are controlled by the British Government.

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Culture of Canada

The culture of Canada embodies the artistic, culinary, literary, humour, musical, political and social elements that are representative of Canada and Canadians.

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Department of Finance Canada

Department of Finance Canada (Ministère des Finances Canada) operates under the Minister of Finance.

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Designated place

A designated place (DPL) is a type of community or populated area identified by Statistics Canada for statistical purposes.

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District municipality

A district municipality is a designation for a class of municipalities found in several locations, including Canada, Lithuania, and South Africa.

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Districts of England

The districts of England (also known as local authority districts or local government districts to distinguish from unofficial city districts) are a level of subnational division of England used for the purposes of local government.

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Dominion Bureau of Statistics

The Dominion Bureau of Statistics was a Canadian government organization responsible for censuses.

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Economic impact of immigration to Canada

The economic impact of immigration is an important topic in Canada.

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Economy of Canada

The economy of Canada is a highly developed mixed economy with 10th largest GDP by nominal and 17th largest GDP by PPP in the world.

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Facebook

Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.

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Freedom Party of Ontario

The Freedom Party of Ontario (FPO or FpO; Parti de la Liberté - Ontario) is a provincial political party in Ontario, Canada.

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Government agency

A government or state agency, sometimes an appointed commission, is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, such as an intelligence agency.

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Government of Canada

The Government of Canada (Gouvernement du Canada), formally Her Majesty's Government (Gouvernement de Sa Majesté), is the federal administration of Canada.

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Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is a small human settlement.

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Healthcare in Canada

Healthcare in Canada is delivered through thirteen provincial and territorial systems of publicly funded health care, informally called Medicare.

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Herbert Marshall (statistician)

Herbert Marshall (1888–1977), was a Canadian academic, statistician, and third Dominion Statistician from 1945 until his retirement in 1956.

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Indian reserve

In Canada, an Indian reserve (réserve indienne) is specified by the Indian Act as a "tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty, that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band." First Nations reserves are the areas set aside for First Nations people after a contract with the Canadian state ("the Crown"), and are not to be confused with land claims areas, which involve all of that First Nations' traditional lands: a much larger territory than any other reserve.

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Indian settlement

An Indian settlement is a census subdivision outlined by the Canadian government Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada for census purposes.

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Ivan Fellegi

Ivan Peter Fellegi, (Fellegi Péter Iván; born June 22, 1935) is a Hungarian-Canadian statistician and was the Chief Statistician of Canada from 1985 to 2008.

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Library and Archives Canada

Library and Archives Canada (LAC) (in Bibliothèque et Archives Canada) is a federal institution tasked with acquiring, preserving and making Canada's documentary heritage accessible.

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List of communities in Alberta

The province of Alberta, Canada, is divided into 10 different types of local governments – urban municipalities (including cities, towns, villages and summer villages), specialized municipalities, rural municipalities (including municipal districts/counties, improvement districts and special areas), Métis settlements, and Indian reserves.

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List of hamlets in Saskatchewan

In most cases in Saskatchewan, a hamlet is an unincorporated community with at least five occupied dwellings situated on separate lots and at least 10 separate lots, the majority of which are an average size of less than one acre.

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List of municipalities in British Columbia

British Columbia is the third-most populous province in Canada with 4,648,055 residents as of 2016 and is the second-largest in land area at.

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List of municipalities in the Northwest Territories

Northwest Territories is the most populous of Canada's three territories with 41,786 residents as of 2016 and is the second-largest territory in land area at.

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List of national and international statistical services

The following is a list of national and international statistical services.

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List of regional district electoral areas in British Columbia

This is a list of Regional District Electoral Areas in the province of British Columbia, Canada, sorted by regional district.

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List of resort villages in Saskatchewan

A resort village is a type of incorporated urban municipality in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

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List of specialized municipalities in Alberta

A specialized municipality is a type of municipal status used in the Canadian province of Alberta.

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List of statistics journals

This is a list of scientific journals published in the field of statistics.

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List of summer villages in Alberta

Summer villages in Alberta are incorporated communities that have permanent populations generally less than 300 permanent inhabitants, as well as seasonal (non-permanent) inhabitants.

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List of township municipalities in Quebec

This is the list of communities in Quebec that have the legal status of township municipalities (canton, code.

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List of townships in Prince Edward Island

This is a list of townships, known as "lots", for the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, some of which also act as Prince Edward Island's census subdivisions.

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Martin Wilk

Martin Bradbury Wilk, (18 December 1922 – 19 February 2013) was a Canadian statistician, academic, and the former Chief Statistician of Canada.

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Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development

The Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development is the Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for overseeing the federal government's economic development and corporate affairs department, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada.

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Municipal district

A municipal district is an administrative entity comprising a clearly defined territory and its population.

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Municipality

A municipality is usually a single urban or administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and state laws to which it is subordinate.

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Munir Sheikh

Born in Pakistan in 1947, Sheikh received a Master of Arts in economics from McMaster University in 1970, and earned his doctorate in economics from the University of Western Ontario in 1973.

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National Post

The National Post is a conservative Canadian English-language newspaper.

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Northern village

Northern village may refer to.

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Official statistics

Official statistics are statistics published by government agencies or other public bodies such as international organizations as a public good.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Open data

Open data is the idea that some data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control.

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Order in Council

An Order in Council is a type of legislation in many countries, especially the Commonwealth realms.

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Ottawa

Ottawa is the capital city of Canada.

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Parish

A parish is a church territorial entity constituting a division within a diocese.

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Peer review

Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people of similar competence to the producers of the work (peers).

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Postal codes in Canada

A Canadian postal code is a six-character string that forms part of a postal address in Canada.

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Poverty in Canada

Poverty in Canada remains prevalent within some segments of society and according to a 2008 report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the rate of poverty in Canada, is among the highest of the OECD member nations, the world's wealthiest industrialized nations.

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Privacy Commissioner of Canada

The Privacy Commissioner of Canada is a non-partisan ombudsman and officer of the Parliament of Canada that investigates complaints filed by Canadians who feel their privacy rights have been violated and reports to Parliament on whether there has been a violation of the Privacy Act, which deals with personal information held by the Government of Canada, or the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), which deals with personal information held in federally regulated private sector industries.

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Province

A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state.

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Provinces and territories of Canada

The provinces and territories of Canada are the sub-national governments within the geographical areas of Canada under the authority of the Canadian Constitution.

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Public Policy Forum

The Public Policy Forum (PPF) is an independent, non-profit Canadian think tank for public-private dialogue.

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Regional municipality

A regional municipality (or region) is a type of Canadian municipal government similar to and at the same municipal government level as a county, although the specific structure and servicing responsibilities may vary from place to place.

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Robert H. Coats

Robert Hamilton Coats (July 25, 1874 – February 7, 1960) was Canada's first Dominion Statistician.

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Rotman School of Management

The Joseph L. Rotman School of Management commonly known as the Rotman School of Management, the Rotman School or just Rotman, is the University of Toronto's graduate business school, located in Downtown Toronto.

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Rural municipality

A rural municipality, often abbreviated RM, is a type of municipal status in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, to be called rural municipalities and soon to be Prince Edward Island, or a group of municipal status types in the provinces of Alberta and Nova Scotia.

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Sedley Cudmore

Sedley Anthony Cudmore (November 27, 1878 to October 17, 1945) was a Canadian economist, academic, civil servant and Canada's second Dominion Statistician.

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Self-governance

Self-governance, self-government, or autonomy, is an abstract concept that applies to several scales of organization.

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Special Areas Board

The Special Areas Board is the governing body of Alberta's special areas.

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Statistics

Statistics is a branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and organization of data.

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Statistics Act

The Statistics Act is an Act of the Parliament of Canada passed in 1918 which created the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, now called Statistics Canada since 1971.

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Survey methodology

A field of applied statistics of human research surveys, survey methodology studies the sampling of individual units from a population and associated techniques of survey data collection, such as questionnaire construction and methods for improving the number and accuracy of responses to surveys.

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Survey Methodology

Survey Methodology is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal that publishes papers related to the development and application of survey techniques.

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Sylvia Ostry

Sylvia Ostry, (born June 3, 1927) is a high-ranking Canadian economist and public servant.

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Territory

A territory is an administrative division, usually an area that is under the jurisdiction of a state.

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The Economist

The Economist is an English-language weekly magazine-format newspaper owned by the Economist Group and edited at offices in London.

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The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.

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The Tyee

The Tyee is an independent online Canadian news magazine that primarily covers British Columbia.

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Time series

A time series is a series of data points indexed (or listed or graphed) in time order.

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Tony Clement

Tony Peter Clement, (born January 27, 1961) is a Canadian federal politician and Member of Parliament of the Conservative Party of Canada.

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Toronto Region Board of Trade

The Toronto Region Board of Trade is one of the largest and most influential chambers of commerce.

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Town

A town is a human settlement.

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Township (Canada)

The term township generally means the district or area associated with a town.

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Types of municipalities in Quebec

The following is a list of the types of local and supralocal territorial units in Quebec, including those used solely for statistical purposes, as defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy and compiled by the Institut de la statistique du Québec.

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Types of rural communities

Sociologists have identified a number of different types of rural communities, which have arisen as a result of changing economic trends within rural regions of industrial nations.

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Unorganized area

An unorganized area or unorganized territory is any geographic region in Canada that does not form part of a municipality or Indian reserve.

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Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town, with a population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand.

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Ville

Ville is the modern French word of Latin origin now meaning "city" or "town", but the first meaning in the Middle Ages was "farm" (from Gallo-Romance VILLA.

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Wayne Smith (statistician)

Wayne R. Smith was the Chief Statistician of Canada from 2010 to 16 September 2016.

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2012 Canadian federal budget

The Canadian federal budget for fiscal year 2012–13 was presented to the House of Commons of Canada by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty on 29 March 2012.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics_Canada

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