Statistics Canada has been tone-deaf in its push for the financial data of Canadians from banks, but that data is essential to forming good public policy.
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Digital technologies put an abundance of data at our fingertips, but we must ensure questions of what should, and should not, be measured are answered before we use them in official statistics.
Over the past 20 years, the number of American households that have grandparents, their kids and their grandkids living under the same roof has nearly doubled.
Senator Pauline Hanson raised concerns about immigration and social cohesion, saying ‘more than a million people’ in Australia ‘cannot speak English well or at all’. Let’s look at the numbers.
More than two dozen states and cities are suing over a controversial new citizenship question.
Increasing usage of big data by statistical agencies and other organisations may reduce the ability of populations to have a say in how they are governed.
Official reports state that just 64 people died in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. The latest estimates put the real number at 4,645. How did the count go so wrong?
Middle-class houses in the US have grown ever larger. The average single-family home is almost twice the size of a home in the 1960s. It’s time to consider the downsides of sizing up.
Is asking people about race or sexuality a prerequisite for social justice – or a tool of discrimination?
What may appear to be slow progress or steady outcomes for the whole Indigenous population may be masking worsening results.
A focus on collaboration among African universities and research institutions is crucial in developing national policies that meet the principles of open data while keeping it safe from exploitation.
New census data sheds light on the country’s Indigenous population. In Eastern Canada, the rise in people claiming to be “Métis” is a controversial case of “settler self-indigenization.”
New census data provides a chance to understand why immigrants earn lower wages than Canadians who have been here for many generations. Whether immigrants speak English at home may be a clue.
Do Muslim couples in Australia have ‘on average 4.5 children’ while other couples have ‘1.5 children’? Could Australia have a ‘Muslim majority’ in ‘a couple’ of generations? Let’s check the evidence.
The census mostly delivered a good news story on Indigenous Australian outcomes, but it is unclear to what extent this correlates to improved lives for Indigenous families.
There has been a decrease in the proportion of Australians who are married, and an increase in co-habitation of both heterosexual and same-sex relationships.
The changing pattern of the diversity of religious identities is one indicator of a society’s degree of multicultural composition. On this measure, Australia is among the most diverse.
The 2016 Census reveals that Australia is becoming much more diverse – in terms of language, country of birth, Indigenous status, and religion.
John Thompson was more than just another Washington bean counter. His resignation may affect which party controls Congress after 2020.
Today’s release of data from the 2016 Census allows us to identify some of Australians’ more common characteristics, how they vary across states and territories, and how they are changing over time.
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Demographer, POLIS Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Professor of Demography and Social Statistics., Obafemi Awolowo University
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Director of Carolina Demography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Assistant Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies, Arizona State University
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Research Fellow, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
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Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
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Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Professor Emeritus of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Roy C. Buck Professor of Sociology and Demography, Penn State
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Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, Prince George's Community College
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Associate Dean (Research Training), College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, UNSW Sydney
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MPhil, Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science
