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"Statistics Canada is thought to be the most unbiased government resource in the world."
This one jumped out at me. According to whom, exactly?
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)
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).
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.
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Looks like the United States is starting to take action: Talk:United_States_Congress#In_the_news Ottawahitech ( talk) 17:49, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
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)
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"Statistics Canada is thought to be the most unbiased government resource in the world."
This one jumped out at me. According to whom, exactly?
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)
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).
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)
Looks like the United States is starting to take action: Talk:United_States_Congress#In_the_news Ottawahitech ( talk) 17:49, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
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)