by Gary Menger | Apr 27, 2023 | Demographics, Menger's Musings
One of the great economists of the last century, John Kenneth Galbraith, once quipped that “the only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.” The same can be said for pretty much anything that we foolishly insist on forecasting –...
by Gary Menger | Apr 13, 2023 | Census, Menger's Musings
Prior to the 2020 census, there was considerable debate about the politicization of the census through the proposed question on immigration status. The ultimate decision by the Supreme Court to disallow the question was largely because of the concern that the accuracy...
by Elyse Menger | Jan 19, 2023 | Menger's Musings
Over the years, our data library has grown from a few hundred demographic variables to well over forty thousand elements that now covers both the United States and Canada. While we are admittedly data geeks, guilty of building data just for the fun of it, many of our...
by Gary Menger | Dec 1, 2022 | Menger's Musings
This week, I read with considerable sadness of the passing of an old friend and mentor, Tony Lea. As many will know, Tony was an integral part of the success of Environics Analytics in Toronto over the past two decades. I first met Tony some forty years ago when I...
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 Gary Menger | Jul 28, 2022 | Menger's Musings
To be a data person is to be a tragic and lonely creature riding the roller coaster that comes along with trying to answer a question with error laden data that doesn’t measure what you think it does. So, we came up with a play list that mirrors your typical day (and...
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