Status of Women committee  We tend to use plain language at Statistics Canada. We do an awful lot of qualitative testing before we conduct our surveys. Quite often we notice that there are differences in language use across the country. What we try to do is come up with a language that is the type of lang

Status of Women committee  I'll start, and then my colleague can jump in. We do collect information from the territories. We collect it separately from the provinces for various reasons. There are different methodologies. When we produce the information, we don't pull it together because it's not comparab

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the opportunity to present to the committee on the issue of violence against women in Canada. In this presentation we use two complementary sources of national data on victimization. The first is administrative data that are collected from police services across th