Statistics

Statistics is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a scientific, industrial, or social problem, it is conventional to begin with a statistical population or a statistical model to be studied. Populations can be diverse groups of people or objects such as "all people living in a country" or "every atom composing a crystal". Statistics deals with every aspect of data, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments.When census data cannot be collected, statisticians collect data by developing specific experiment designs and …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 November 2024 English

disability fakers persistently occupy the centre of public policy discussions, even as official statistics suggest that relatively small amounts of money are lost to such schemes. In Fraudulent Lives Steven

datasets or reports from the Office for National Statistics, the British Social Attitudes Survey, the oecd


Fraser Institute · 13 November 2024 English

Since 2000, Quebec’s real per-capita GDP has grown at an annual average of 1.2 percent, while Ontario’s has grown at 0.7 percent—both below the Canadian average. Ontario and Quebec’s real …

trillion, and the Rest of Canada at $0.96 trillion (Statistics Canada, 2023a). With 39 percent of Canada’s and Quebec CMAs Sources: Statistics Canada, 2023b, 2023c. Sources: Statistics Canada, 2023b, 2023c. -15 Capital Formation to GDP (%), 2000 to 2022 Source: Statistics Canada, 2023a. 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Capital Formation Per Capita ($2017) Sources: Statistics Canada, 2023a, 2023d.A Tale of Two Provinces: Capital Formation to GDP (%), 2000 to 2022 Sources: Statistics Canada, 2023a, 2023d. Quebec Ontario Canada


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

The COVID-19 virus was responsible for the deaths of over thirty-five thousand Canadians in its first two years alone. Described as the biggest public health crisis of the century, it …

al. 2020; see also National Center for Health Statistics 2022; Government of Canada 2022i). The aged, among those who did not identify as a minority (Statistics Canada 2020j). Despite these differences, only net loss of about 2,300 businesses a month (Statistics Canada 2022a, 2022o). The unemployment rate Alzheimer’s, and sepsis (National Center for Health Statistics 2022). Periods of rapid increase in covid-19 recorded between March 2020 and 2 April 2022 (Statistics Canada 2022i). The virus continued to mutate;


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

Prisoners’ Bodies investigates the history of the Irish ordinary prisoners’ movement and how it was shaped by public discourse, highlighting the lived experiences of individual people in prison.

274 in 1969 to 782 in 1972.75 Indeed, Garda statistics show a widespread in- crease in recorded offences


Fraser Institute · 7 November 2024 English

Provincial and federal government debt has grown significantly in recent years. A growing body of literature links government debt to slower economic growth. We provide a three-phase analysis linking government …

well below Reinhart and Rogoff’s 90% threshold (Statistics Canada, 2024a, 2024c). Canadian federal government fraserinstitute.org the fourth quarter of 2023 (Statistics Canada, 2024a, 2024c). While true, this oft-cited ranged from 6.0% to −1.7% in the same provinces (Statistics Canada, 2024d). Provincial liabilities in proportion 1% in Alberta to a high of 77.1% in Quebec (Statistics Canada, 2024b). If we presume that the burden org 2. Data For consistency, data is drawn from Statistics Canada sources where possible. One significant


DDN: Dundurn Press · 5 November 2024 English

“A tender, beautifully written essay collection that is about so much more than parenting a child with a disability.” — Erin Pepler, author of Send Me Into The Woods AloneA …

I’d pictured facts, methods, neat graphs, and statistics. Medical information. I did come home with that


Consumers Council of Canada · 1 November 2024 English

lower towards historical norms, but prices are higher than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic. Statistics […]

than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic. Statistics […]


Fraser Institute · 29 October 2024 English

This essay examines the implications of decarbonizing Canada’s electricity grid by replacing existing fossil fuel-based generation with clean energy sources. In 2023, clean energy sources—including hydro, nuclear, and wind—produced 497.6 …

duction from biomass, have only been reported by Statistics Canada since January 2020. As depicted in figure combustible fuels Biomass Wind Solar Source: Statistics Canada, 2024. Megawatt-hoursImplications of 100.0 58.4 13.7 19.1 1.5 6.4 0.8 0.0 Source: Statistics Canada, 2024; calculations by authors.Implications American Scientist 72, 1 (January–February): 15–21. Statistics Canada (2024). Table 25-10-0015-01 Electric power


Fraser Institute · 22 October 2024 English

Several past analyses published by the Fraser Institute have shown that in recent years net job creation in the government sector has dramatically outstripped private-sector job creation. This publication updates …

in subsequent years, reaching 62.1% in 2023 (Statistics Canada, 2024b). However, recent research published unemployment rate climbed from 5.7% to 13.6% (Statistics Canada, 2024b).3 Recession and Recovery in Canada COVID By 2021, simple top-line labour-market statistics fre- quently repeated by media outlets and politicians to an analysis of annual rather than monthly statistics. This is due partly to the greater period of 490,000 (46.7%) are in the government sector (Statistics Canada, 2024a). Since the public sector represents


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 20 October 2024 English

Essential for understanding and mobilizing public health efforts.

Alberta’s first Public Health Act or its Vital Statistics Act, which were passed in 1907,47 or the signing activities, including clinic services, vital statistics, communi- cable disease control, public health from the perspective of historically available statistics, the health — or more accurately, the sickness Roberts has demonstrated that, according to the statistics provided by the Department of Immigration, depor-


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