Chief Statistician of Canada
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The Chief Statistician of Canada is a deputy
of the Minister responsible for Statistics Canada
- the Minister of Industry
.
The Chief Statistician advises on matters pertaining to statistical programs of the department and agencies of the Government of Canada
. The Chief Statistician supervises the administration of the Statistics Act
and controls the operation and staff of Statistics Canada
. The Chief Statistician must also report yearly on the activities of Statistics Canada
to the responsible minister, the Minister of Industry
.
The current Chief Statistician of Canada is Wayne Smith
. He replaced Munir Sheikh
who resigned on July 21, 2010.
Deputy Minister (Canada)
In Canada, a deputy minister is the senior civil servant in a government department. He or she takes political direction from an elected minister. Responsibility for the department's day-to-day operations, budget and program development lie with the deputy minister...
of the Minister responsible for Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada is the Canadian federal government agency commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture. Its headquarters is in Ottawa....
- the Minister of Industry
Minister of Industry (Canada)
The Minister of Industry is the Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for overseeing the federal government's economic development and corporate affairs department, Industry Canada. The Minister of Industry is also the minister responsible for Statistics Canada...
.
The Chief Statistician advises on matters pertaining to statistical programs of the department and agencies of the Government of Canada
Government of Canada
The Government of Canada, formally Her Majesty's Government, is the system whereby the federation of Canada is administered by a common authority; in Canadian English, the term can mean either the collective set of institutions or specifically the Queen-in-Council...
. The Chief Statistician supervises the administration of the Statistics Act
Statistics Act
The Statistics Act was an Act by the Canadian government in 1918 which created the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, now called Statistics Canada since 1971...
and controls the operation and staff of Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada is the Canadian federal government agency commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture. Its headquarters is in Ottawa....
. The Chief Statistician must also report yearly on the activities of Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada is the Canadian federal government agency commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture. Its headquarters is in Ottawa....
to the responsible minister, the Minister of Industry
Minister of Industry (Canada)
The Minister of Industry is the Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for overseeing the federal government's economic development and corporate affairs department, Industry Canada. The Minister of Industry is also the minister responsible for Statistics Canada...
.
The current Chief Statistician of Canada is Wayne Smith
Wayne Smith (Chief Statistician of Canada)
Wayne R. Smith is the current Chief Statistician of Canada. He was appointed interim Chief Statistician in 2010, after the controversial resignation of Munir Sheikh, and appointed Chief Statistician on January 19, 2011. Smith graduated with honours in Bachelor of Arts and a Master's degree in...
. He replaced Munir Sheikh
Munir Sheikh
Munir A. Sheikh, Ph.D., is a Canadian public servant, economist, academic and the former Chief Statistician of Canada. He is currently a Distinguished Fellow and Adjunct Professor at Queen's University.-Early career:...
who resigned on July 21, 2010.
Dominion and Chief Statisticians of Canada (1918 to present)
| Name | Period | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Robert H. Coats Robert H. Coats Robert Hamilton Coats was Canada's first Dominion Statistician.He was born in Clinton, Huron County, Ontario in 1874, the son of Charles Coats, who came to Canada from Scotland. In 1896, Coats received a B.A. from the University College in Toronto... |
1918 - 1942 | Dominion Statistician |
| Sedley A. Cudmore Sedley Cudmore Sedley Anthony Cudmore, B.A., M.A. , was a Canadian economist, academic, civil servant and Canada's second Dominion Statistician.-Early years:Cudmore was born in County Cork, Ireland... |
1942 - 1945 | Dominion Statistician |
| Herbert Marshall Herbert Marshall (Dominion Statistician) Herbert Marshall O.B.E , was a Canadian academic, statistician, and third Dominion Statistician from 1945 until his retirement in 1956.-Early years:... |
1945 - 1956 | Dominion Statistician |
| Walter E. Duffett | 1957 - 1972 | Dominion Statistician/Chief Statistician |
| Sylvia Ostry Sylvia Ostry Sylvia Ostry, is a Canadian economist and public servant.Born Sylvia Knelman in Winnipeg, Manitoba on June 3, 1927, she received a Bachelor of Arts in economics from McGill University in 1948, a Master of Arts from McGill in 1950, and a Ph.D... |
1972 - 1975 | Chief Statistician |
| Peter G. Kirkham | 1975 - 1980 | Chief Statistician |
| James L. Fry | 1980 | Interim Chief Statistician |
| Martin B. Wilk Martin Wilk Martin Bradbury Wilk, is a Canadian statistician, academic, and the former Chief Statistician of Canada. In 1965, together with Samuel Shapiro, he developed the Shapiro-Wilk test which can indicate whether a sample of numbers would be unusual if it came from a Gaussian distribution.Born in... |
1980 - 1985 | Chief Statistician |
| Ivan P. Fellegi Ivan Fellegi Ivan Peter Fellegi, OC is a Hungarian-Canadian statistician and was the Chief Statistician of Canada from 1985 to 2008.Born in Szeged, Hungary, Ivan Fellegi was in his third year of studying mathematics at the Eötvös Loránd University, when the Hungarian uprising was crushed in 1956... |
1985 - 2008 | Chief Statistician |
| Munir Sheikh Munir Sheikh Munir A. Sheikh, Ph.D., is a Canadian public servant, economist, academic and the former Chief Statistician of Canada. He is currently a Distinguished Fellow and Adjunct Professor at Queen's University.-Early career:... |
2008 - 2010 | Chief Statistician |
| Wayne Smith Wayne Smith (Chief Statistician of Canada) Wayne R. Smith is the current Chief Statistician of Canada. He was appointed interim Chief Statistician in 2010, after the controversial resignation of Munir Sheikh, and appointed Chief Statistician on January 19, 2011. Smith graduated with honours in Bachelor of Arts and a Master's degree in... |
2010 | Interim Chief Statistician |
| Wayne Smith Wayne Smith (Chief Statistician of Canada) Wayne R. Smith is the current Chief Statistician of Canada. He was appointed interim Chief Statistician in 2010, after the controversial resignation of Munir Sheikh, and appointed Chief Statistician on January 19, 2011. Smith graduated with honours in Bachelor of Arts and a Master's degree in... |
2011 - present | Chief Statistician |