Statistics Canada Improves Planners' Access to Data
New partnership initiative makes demographic data available to planners at considerably lower cost.
A new initiative between Statistics Canada and the Canadian Council on Social Development will make neighbourhood-level statistical data easily and affordably available to both municipal planning departments and various community-based groups.
" 'Fundamental changes are happening, and to look at program demands, we need better information,' said Doug Norris, Statistics Canada's director general of census and demography statistics, at the launch of the community social data strategy and urban poverty project".
Thanks to Geoffrey Singer
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Published on Saturday, May 29, 2004 in
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