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Jan 10, 2025 | 
link.springer.com | Statistics Canada
AbstractA growing body of literature uses country-level indicators to examine the impact of immigrants’ source-country conditions on the home and work lives of immigrants after arrival. One measure that has attracted increased attention is gender inequality in immigrants’ countries of origin.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
fruitandveggie.com | Statistics Canada
December 11, 2024 By Statistics Canada Canadian growers harvested a fourth consecutive record potato crop in 2024, as production rose 0.3 per cent year-over-year in 2024 to 127.0 million hundredweight, due to an increase in harvested area.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Nan Zhou |José Garrido |Statistics Canada |José Luis Vilar-Zanón
Insurance companies: Regulators require insurers to report a climate change materiality assessment using climate change scenarios (e.g., in Solvency II, for their own risk solvency assessment—ORSA), and a new requirement will be imposed in 2025 for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risk. Companies should measure climate change risk by an ACI, to provide a homogeneous assessment across lines of business, as is done for inflation with the consumer price index.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
newswire.ca | Statistics Canada
The 2024 Canadian Statistics Advisory Council Annual Report is Now Available, /CNW/ - The Canadian Statistics Advisory Council (CSAC) released its fifth annual report, Navigating Social and Technological Change in the National Statistical System today. As an independent body, CSAC provides advice to the Chief Statistician and the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry to maintain the overall quality of the national statistical system.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
newswire.ca | Statistics Canada
, /CNW/ - Today, the Canadian Statistics Advisory Council (CSAC) presented its fifth report (Canadian Statistics Advisory Council 2024 Annual Report - Navigating Social and Technological Change in the National Statistical System). The report offers insights and advice on the state of the country's statistical system to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry and the Acting Chief Statistician of Canada.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
academic.oup.com | Statistics Canada
Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer and the second leading cause of death from cancer in Canadian women.1 BC outcomes are driven by a complex interplay of biological factors which impact tumor aggressiveness, in combination with other considerations including access to screening and treatment, treatment adherence, socioeconomic status, and comorbidities.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
share.transistor.fm | Statistics Canada
October 3, 2024 by Statistics Canada Visit Website AI is here and it’s here to stay. Apps like ChatGPT are now allowing us to perform complex tasks with the click of a button. As we begin to use these new versions of AI, our jobs are destined to change. So, what will an average day of work look like a decade from now? Which jobs will AI impact the most? And is AI coming to replace our jobs altogether?
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
link.springer.com | Statistics Canada
AbstractThe aim of the study is to examine the role of unmet needs for workplace accommodations (WPA) in the labor force status of persons with disabilities (PWD) aged 25–64 years. The study used data from the 2017 Canadian Survey on Disability and multinomial logistic regressions to estimate the predicted probabilities of employment, unemployment, detachment from the labor force, and retirement.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
fruitandveggie.com | Statistics Canada
The farm-gate value of certified organic fruit and vegetable production fell 11.1 per cent to $174.3 million in 2023. Organic fruit production was down by one-third from 2022 mainly because of adverse weather conditions in key provinces, while organic vegetable production decreased 2.1 per cent. In 2023, the total cultivated area of certified organic fruit accounted for 9.9 per cent of the total fruit area (conventional and organic), down slightly from 10.2 per cent in 2022.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
glasscanadamag.com | Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada has released its building permits for June 2024. The total value of building permits in Canada fell 13.9 per cent to $9.9 billion in June, extending the decline observed in May. Decreases were reported in 11 of the 13 provinces and territories, with both residential and non-residential sectors experiencing reductions. On a constant dollar basis, the total value of building permits declined 14.3 per cent in June, following a 13.4 per cent decline in May.
