Statistics Canada
Canada's national statistical agency.
Statistics Canada is Canada's national statistical agency, responsible for the Labour Force Survey that underpins the country's official employment data.
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How did Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey feed the AI hiring-gap finding?
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Provided Labour Force Survey microdata used in the study
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Canada finds the hiring door narrowingBackground
Statistics Canada is the Government of Canada's national statistical agency. It produces the country's official economic, social and labour-market data, including the Labour Force Survey, the primary source for measuring employment and job-finding rates.
Canadian institutions researching AI's effect on hiring, including the Bank of Canada, draw on that survey infrastructure for their underlying data, even where Statistics Canada is not named directly as a co-author of a given study.
As a statistical agency rather than a policy body, Statistics Canada does not itself take positions on AI's labour-market effects; its role is to supply the data others use to reach one.
What does Statistics Canada do?
What is the Labour Force Survey and how was it used in the AI hiring-gap study?
When was Statistics Canada founded?
Who is the Chief Statistician of Canada?
