‘There is no playbook in dealing with the pandemic’: how StatsCan has mobilized around urgent COVID-19 data collection

Senior management within Statistics Canada took 'calculated risks and made some tough choices' to adapt the agency’s response to urgent data needs, according to Tina Chui, acting director of diversity and social statistics at the agency.

Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Navdeep Bains at a press conference in West Block on Nov. 17, 2020. Minister Bains has been tasked with preparing for the long-form census in 2021, including the collection and analysis of disaggregated data, according to his mandate letter from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY Mike Lapointe

December 5, 2020

With the majority of people at Statistics Canada still working from home amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the agency has been working to become more agile in its collection of disaggregated data and the disproportionate effects of the crisis on vulnerable communities, according to Tina Chui, acting direc...

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