Two years ago I saw that Richard Florida and Andrew Sullivan had re-posted a map created by calorielab that color-coded US states by weight. As I found it interesting I created a North America wide map the included Canadian data (knowing that it probably would be a perfect apple to apple comparisons). The map and [...]
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Fatness Index 2 years on: the good, the bad, the ugly
Good Statistical Data: We fund it in Africa, but not in Canada
It turns out that the Canadian government is a supporter of collecting good statistical data – especially data that can be used to alleviate poverty and address disease. There’s only one catch. It can’t help Canadians. As the fall out from the canceling of the mandatory long form census continues to grow – today the [...]
The Government admits the voluntary Long Form is bunk
Yesterday, in response to a legal challenge from the Federation of Francophone and Acadian Communities of Canada Minister Clement announced the government would shift questions regarding the French language from the voluntary long form to the mandatory short form of the census. Specifically these questions would move: 1) Can this person speak English or French [...]
More evidence that StatsCan disagreed with Clement (aka Helping @kady out)
Over at the CBC the ever resourceful Kady O’Malley has posted documents from Statistics Canada surrounding the decision to make the long form of the census voluntary. She’s starting to notice some interesting bits, here’s two I saw that she might want to add to the list. First, there are two lines written by public [...]
Your Government *did* just get dumber… (that was fast)
Want to know who the biggest user of census data is? Government. To understand what services are needed, where problems or opportunities arise, or how a region is changing depends on having accurate data. The federal government, but also the provincial and, most importantly, local governments use Statistics Canada’s data every day to find ways [...]
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