(Disponible en français : Emploi précaire au Canada : un survol de la situation) What is precarious employment? Simply put, precarious employment is a “bad job”. However, problems arise when we try to define and measure more precisely the characteristics that constitute a “bad job”. According to the International Labour Organization, precarious employment refers to…
(Disponible en français : Le point sur la cartographie du Recensement de la population : Qui, quoi, où?) About the Census of Population As a requirement of the Statistics Act, Statistics Canada conducts a census of population and agriculture every five years in the years that end in ‘1’ and ‘6’. Data are collected using both short…
Lyne Casavant Legal and Social Affairs Division For many years, statistics provided by police were considered the most reliable way to measure crime rates, because they were generally believed to accurately reflect all crime. However, in the 1960s and 1970s, research showed that a large portion of crime – crime that went unreported – escaped the attention of the…