Canadian Social Trends: A New Statistics Canada Social Statistics Publication

by D. Craig McKie, Ph.D.' Chief, Social Reporting & Editor, Canadian Social Trends Housing, Family and Social Statistics Division Statistics Canada In the last ten years at Statistics Canada, the governmental collector and keeper of the nation's storehouse of numerical information about itself, momentous changes have occurred in the ways data are collected, processed, analyzed and published. It is not recogniiably the same organization I first joined in 1977. Since that time, the widespread importation of new methods and new technology have in ttim been refiecled in organizational changes. Accompanying these changes have been pressures to reduce costs and overall staff levels and to recover a larger part of the costs of operadon from clients.