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Industry committee Look, the census is a self-enumerating vehicle. In many questions, there is a space where people can write in a response, because we can't think of every possibility that's out there. Yes, from time to time you will see that you do get that kind of thing. It's rare, very rare, bu
November 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Industry committee I'm not sure I understand the question. The Government of Canada has very clear rules on access to information and what can or cannot be redacted. For anything that is not made available, there should be a good rationale. Obviously my going-in position is that unless we're going
November 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Industry committee I'm not sure that the census is the best tool to meet this need.
November 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Industry committee We conducted a study a few years ago, the Internet Use Survey. If I'm not mistaken, 83% of the people had Internet access, and 97% of those people had high-speed Internet access. Yes, we have tools to measure the gaps. The numbers I referred to didn't include rural regions.
November 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Industry committee Yes, but we need to work with our colleagues from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, since that type of study is expensive. When we have needs that are a bit more specific, we need a fairly large sample size, which is costly. As I said earlier, we also need to
November 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Industry committee On the first one, I'll certainly get you the response rates on the short form and the long form, and the basis of that calculation—
November 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Industry committee The individual question is a subject of the next year, essentially, meaning by the end of 2017. As the releases come out, we'll get a better sense, because there is edit and imputation, and there is all sorts of work that needs to be done to actually arrive at some of those. That
November 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Industry committee First, thank you. It is an issue dear to me, and obviously it is an important issue for our country today. Many people suffer. We don't understand the characteristics of it, how to even measure or define it fully, or what the trends are. Anecdotally, I think we see that it's ha
November 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Industry committee I would have to get that for you.
November 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Industry committee I was actually a census manager back in 2006, when we contracted out the provision of hardware and software to the private sector in a very open, transparent competitive process, and I can assure you that the census was done by Statistics Canada employees and that nobody other th
November 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Industry committee The contracts were, first, divided into two phases, and in fact the first phase was a test phase. In the second phase, there was always the intent to exercise the kind of changes that we needed, for various reasons, and it was very clear in that phase that no contractor would ev
November 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Industry committee The data centres had to be in Canada, and they were owned, operated, and run by government employees. The data was never going to leave Canada, and it was never going to be at any other facility than Statistics Canada's facility, which is exactly what the original—
November 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Industry committee Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I want to thank the committee for inviting me to appear today. I appreciate this opportunity to provide some brief opening remarks. I am accompanied today by Andrée Desaulniers, a senior analyst at Statistics Canada. Ms. Desaulniers is here to hel
March 23rd, 2017Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Industry committee Statistics Canada has been one of the pre-eminent statistical agencies in the world. In fact, it is operated very much in line with the legislation. What has happened over time is that a number of organizations like the United Nations and the OECD have actually formalized a lot
March 23rd, 2017Committee meeting
Anil Arora
Industry committee First of all, Statistics Canada has always looked for advice on various matters from Canadians, eminent Canadians. In fact, we have 13 advisory committees in various subject-matter areas. We have seven federal-provincial committees, with representation from every province and ter
March 23rd, 2017Committee meeting
Anil Arora