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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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Key Question

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

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Background

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.

Common Questions

What does Statistics Canada do?

Statistics Canada is Canada's national statistical agency. It runs the Census of Population and Census of Agriculture every five years and operates hundreds of ongoing surveys covering the economy, population and society.Source: official

What is the Labour Force Survey and how was it used in the AI hiring-gap study?

The Labour Force Survey is Statistics Canada's monthly household survey of employment. The Bank of Canada used its occupation-level microdata to compare job-finding rates between fully AI-exposed and zero-exposure occupations from 2015 to 2025.Source: Bank of Canada

When was Statistics Canada founded?

Statistics Canada traces to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, established in 1918, and took its current name in 1971 under the Statistics Act.Source: official

Who is the Chief Statistician of Canada?

Andre Loranger holds the role of Chief Statistician of Canada, the senior official leading Statistics Canada, appointed permanently in December 2024.Source: official

Source Material

About Statistics Canada

How the World Sees Them

High Court of Justice of Madrid

La implantación de IA no constituye una quinta causa de despido

Singapore Ministry of Manpower

emerging weaknesses in parts of the labour market that warrant close monitoring

Challenger, Gray & Christmas

The reasons employers give have shifted from technology to the economy.

Office for Budget Responsibility

will continue to closely monitor the emerging evidence and how to reflect it in our forecasts for productivity and employment

Central Bank of Ireland

skills matter and we need to manage the challenge of likely bottlenecks and mismatches

Bank of Japan

if profits do not expand in line with such investment, adjustment pressure could arise, accompanied by, for example, changes in asset prices

Reserve Bank of Australia

a little stronger than anticipated in the August Statement, supported by rapid growth in data centre investment

Srini Pallia, Wipro

We see AI as a long-term growth driver that will expand the addressable market for technology and business transformation.

Accenture

has led and may continue to lead to reduced demand for our services

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