by Gary Menger | Aug 4, 2022 | Canada Data, Menger's Musings
For many years our users have been regularly hounding me for data for Canada. After all, it seemed a natural extension of our geographic coverage to head back to the land of my birth. We avoided it for the longest time because we didn’t have the bandwidth but more...
by Elyse Menger | Apr 21, 2022 | Canada Data
Over the years, we have become accustomed to seeing signs indicating that a city is twinned with a list of cities around the globe. The above signs are in San Francisco, pointing to the cities around the world which are “twinned”. None are in Canada. Since these are...
by Elyse Menger | Dec 2, 2021 | Canada Data, Census, Menger's Musings
The recent publication of the redistricting release of the 2020 census has resulted in some discussion about some of its more surprising results. The white population declined from 223.5 to 204.7 million between 2010 and 2020, by all accounts an unprecedented change....
by Gary Menger | Aug 26, 2021 | Canada Data, Menger's Musings
In the world of demographics, seemingly small differences in national statistics can have dramatic effects, especially when those differences have different spatial expressions. The average age of the population in the United States is about 38.5 years old. In Canada,...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 15, 2021 | Canada Data
Fun fact — Windsor, Ontario, just across the river from Detroit, is at the same latitude as Sacramento, California. The vast majority of the Canadian population lives within a couple of hundred miles of the American border. At first glance, this seems like a...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 15, 2021 | Canada Data
The Canadian census has for some decades used a random rounding technique to minimize privacy concerns on its data. Essentially, the method works by rounding each number to the nearest five using a probability table. A value of 1 would have an 80% probability of being...
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