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Archive for August, 2010

Taxpayers and the Census

My union was among many organizations listed in opposition to the senseless census decision in Wednesday’s Globe and Mail editorial. Three organizations were listed as supporting it. The Fraser Institute and National Citizens’ Coalition have understandable motives for wanting to eliminate the mandatory long form. First, there are libertarian “privacy” concerns. Second, depriving the government [...]

Posted by Erin Weir under Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Fraser Institute, media, StatCan.
August 6th, 2010
Comments: 6

Race and Earnings and the Census

I’ve blogged previously on this topic but it is worth revisiting in light of the Census debate.  The gold standard for looking at racial pay gaps is analysis of differences in earnings between Canadian born whites and visible minorities since this excludes differences between immigrants and non immigrants (most importantly country of education and work [...]

Posted by Andrew Jackson under race, StatCan, wages.
August 3rd, 2010
Comments: none

Employment Insurance and the Recovery

While the Canadian economy has begun to recover from the “Great Recession” in terms of the level of GDP and overall job growth, unemployment and under-employment still remain well above pre-recession levels. The national unemployment rate in June 2010 was 7.9%, well up from 6.0% two years earlier. The number of unemployed workers was, at [...]

Posted by Andrew Jackson under Employment Insurance.
August 3rd, 2010
Comments: none

We Don’t Need No Education

James Altucher posted an interesting article and video making the case against sending your children to university. I commend him for questioning the credo that everyone should go to university, regardless of interest or aptitude. But I am not totally convinced by his analysis. Altucher gives short shrift to the fact that many good jobs [...]

Posted by Erin Weir under investment, post-secondary education, US.
August 3rd, 2010
Comments: 3

Who We Are, Data Libre and Census Watch

A superb article in the Toronto Star by Antonia Zerbisias, entitled “Who Are You”, today features a fascinating interview with Dr Jan Kestle at Environics Analytics regarding their use of census data. In the print edition it has a data geek’s centrefold! Two pages of how census data is used to profile 66 different household/lifestyle [...]

Posted by Armine Yalnizyan under StatCan.
August 1st, 2010
Comments: 2

Calgary Stampede – Census related, of course

A research colleague from Calgary sent along news of the latest Calgary Herald editorial on the topic. I am copying the email with permission, on condition of anonymity. ********************** Here is a link to the lead editorial in yesterday’s Calgary Herald. This is the second editorial on this in the past 3 weeks. You know [...]

Posted by Armine Yalnizyan under StatCan.
August 1st, 2010
Comments: 1

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