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Government of Canada fiscal numbers since Confederation
Viewing current budget plans in a long-term context
Jan 12
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The importance of seasonality in Canada's consumer price index
It matters more than you might think
Dec 22, 2025
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Measuring aggregate government productivity
A near impossible task because while we know what government output costs, we do not know what it is worth
Nov 24, 2025
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The possibilities and limitations of national accounting
Musings from a former practitioner
Jul 24, 2025
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Producing linked quarterly real GDP-by-industry statistics from 1946 to date
Success, but with important caveats
Jul 13, 2025
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Comparing Canada's two employment surveys
Introduction
May 17, 2025
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Measuring improvements in Canadian standards of living
How much has the standard of living of Canadians improved over the last half century or so?
May 6, 2025
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Defining and measuring Canada's population
Statistics Canada estimates the size of Canada’s population as 41,465,298 on October 1, 2024.
Dec 31, 2024
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The use of multiplicative decompositions in economic analysis
Multiplicative decompositions are often used in economics, although they may not always be thought of as such.
Nov 7, 2024
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Real GDP per capita vs real HDI per capita since 2019
Why have they evolved so differently? What are the implications?
Sep 10, 2024
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An interesting and not widely understood aspect of the Labour Force Survey
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Jul 5, 2024
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Accounting for the decline of Canada's real GDP per capita since mid 2022
This paper offers an explanation as to why Canada’s real GDP per capita has been declining since mid 2022.
Jun 6, 2024
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