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Finance committee —of which homeowners' replacement cost makes up 5.6% of the weight, if you like, of that.
January 17th, 2022Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Finance committee You're seeing home ownership change year over year by 13.5%. The homeowners' replacement cost would be a subcomponent of the housing cost—
January 17th, 2022Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Finance committee Our methodology's been around for a few decades now. We take a set of types of dwellings—single, multi, etc.—in the various geographies in the country, and then we measure that over time. That's how we get at the new house pricing index. Again, as I mentioned, in the CPI, we con
January 17th, 2022Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Finance committee Thank you very much, and it's a pleasure to see you again virtually. First of all, there's no question that, in a number of our indicators, we're seeing the new housing price index showing us almost a 12% year-over-year gain. You're starting to [Technical difficulty—Editor] also
January 17th, 2022Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Finance committee Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and members of the finance committee. I'm pleased to be here with Mr. Peterson and Ms. Ertl today. Canada and the world are continuing to respond to the COVID‑19 pandemic, and the role of Statistics Canada and evidence-based information is more importan
January 17th, 2022Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Official Languages committee As I've explained before, if you put it on the short form, you are subjecting—notwithstanding the point that was made earlier about the reduction of burden—a response from a number of those, obviously, who are pertinent to that.... On the long form, it's the same thing. Now, ther
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Official Languages committee They know exactly what we were testing, the different versions of the questionnaire. They know that we've tested it in different ways—
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Official Languages committee One, that's not their mandate.
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Official Languages committee The answer is no.
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Official Languages committee It's not possible. Through the statistical sampling, the way it works, what we do.... I'll just explain it. We take the list of addresses in a geography, there's a random-number start, and every fourth household after that—
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Official Languages committee In over 50 years of sampling, we have never—
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Official Languages committee I've explained.
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Official Languages committee It is not a category we added, but one of the examples of the response sometimes given. The question simply asks people for their ethnic origin, and some people answered “Canadian”. In addition, we did a study on the whole issue of ethnicity. We will share the report and the re
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Official Languages committee That's not what I said. The results will be made public after the cabinet makes its decision. These issues are addressed in the recommendations.
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Official Languages committee If you go to 3.7 million households in Canada and ask them that question, and you have the statistical rigour and the expertise to be able to weight that up to a population and to benchmark it to the fact that we've asked that question for the last so many censuses, yes, you will
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Anil Arora