News tagged: Statistics

The new version of the guide is a comprehensive inventory that links to sources of historical statistics.

Data from Overdrive, the leading digital reading platform for libraries worldwide, highlight the continued growth of digital loans in Canadian libraries.

This portal brings together data on the arts, culture, heritage and sports sectors and presents the information in a single interactive website.

Buyers who visited the library 10-14 times in the previous month purchased an average of 6.1 books in a given month.

Over 180,000 artists in Canada: more than auto workers or utilities workers

When it comes to basic data about its own citizens – from divorce rates to driving patterns to labour trends – Canada simply doesn’t have the answers.

Wayne Smith, Chief Statistician of Canada and the deputy head of Statistics Canada, announced his resignation today, citing concerns over the independence of the agency with the transfer of its information technology infrastructure to Shared Services Canada.

The Chief Information Officer Branch at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat recently published two infographics about the Information Management (IM) and Library Science (LS) communities in the federal public service.

Statistics Canada released data on the book publishing industry in Canada for 2014.

This article examines the literacy and numeracy skills of off reserve First Nations and Métis adults aged 25 to 65, focusing on the factors and labour market outcomes associated with higher skill levels.