2016 Census Data on Education

By Alex Usher. Now, census data isn’t usually something that drives big headlines. You usually have plenty of notice about things like “people getting more educated than they used to”, so the census isn’t a big source of surprises unless something really bad happens in data processing.  For instance, there’s that famous story (possibly apocryphal, I’m not vouching for its veracity) about how a coding error in the 1971 census led Statscan to report the existence of over 1,000 Yiddish-speaking Inuit in Canada. More...