Talk:Statistics Canada
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"Statistics Canada is thought to be the most unbiased government resource in the world."
This one jumped out at me. According to whom, exactly?
- I took it out. It's kind of a bold claim to make, and needs some citation before being put back in. --Xanzzibar 08:51, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
StatCan or Statscan?
I use Statistics Canada data a lot in my field, and I know it by Statscan for short, not StatCan. --Spmarshall42 00:49, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
- Given that their site is StatCan.ca, and a Google search turns up over a million results for StatCan and all of 92,000 for StatsCan, I think we should probably be using StatCan. --Xanzzibar 10:06, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
I'm an StatsCan/StatCan employee and honestly - it's two sides of the same coin. Everyone around here switched between the two without thinking. Xanzzibar's point about the website is well taken though, but that's got more to do with domain-squatting than anything (as I understand it). --AlexAnglin 21 July 2005
I changed it back to StatCan again. Again, the Google benchmark heavily favors StatCan StatCan (3.2 million) over StatsCan (208k), and the website itself is statcan.ca (statscan.ca redirects to statcan.ca). I did leave the note in the first paragraph about both uses, though. It seems the preferred term to me, even if both are perfectly acceptable. --Xanzzibar 18:37, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
Agency, not Bureau - I updated this to reflect the more current term in use by the Federal government for those Federal entities that are not departments. Zeetherapist 01:15, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
