The Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Subtitle: A History of Canada's Central Statistical Office and Its Antecedents, 1841-1972 (Canadian Public Administration Series)
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: May 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9780773516601
Subjects: Political Science; Public Administration; Census And General Statistics; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; Public Affairs & Administration; Canada - General; History & Theory - General; American history; Canada
Description: "The Dominion Bureau of Statistics has charted Canada's progress from a country dependent on a staple economy to a mature industrial power poised at the brink of the information era. During this time the need for information has grown in both quantity and complexity while the technology for gathering, compiling, analysing, and disseminating information has been revolutionized. David A.

Worton looks at how Canada's statistical system has coped with these tremendous changes and outlines some notable Canadian contributions to the science and production of statistics."--BOOK JACKET.