Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Auteur: David Albert Worton, Institute of Public Administration of Canada
Nombre de pages: 409 pages
ISBN: 0773516603, 9780773516601
Edition: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Date de publication: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Description: The Bureau, precursor to Statistics Canada, was founded in 1918 as a centralized national agency to replace piecemeal arrangements which had developed over time and no longer satisfied statistical needs. The author (who is a retired assistant chief statistician of Canada) traces its evolution and looks at the individuals who influenced it. He discusses how Canada's statistical system has coped with the country's evolution from a staple economy to a mature industrial power; the changing nature of the technology for gathering, compiling, analyzing, and disseminating information; and some notable Canadian contributions to the science and production of statistics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR