Fwd: [spno-data] FYI - Economists unite. You have nothing to lose but data (Armine Yalnizyan in the Globe and Mail)

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

The politics and economics of changes to the census and the census of economics.

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Subject: [spno-data] FYI - Economists unite. You have nothing to lose but data (Armine Yalnizyan in the Globe and Mail)
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Economists unite. You have nothing to lose but data

ARMINE YALNIZYAN
Armine Yalnizyan is a senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Back in September, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney noted that the Harper government’s decision to scrap the mandatory census long-form questionnaire would impact the Bank’s ability to assess how the economy is faring. He left unspoken how that might affect monetary policy.

Alice Nakamura – past president of the Canadian Economics Association and professor of economics in the department of finance and statistical analysis at University of Alberta’s School of Business – recently raised another alarm: Mr. Harper’s census decision affects how the CPI (Consumer Price Index) is measured. She spelled out how that might affect fiscal policy, and more.

 

Read the full article at http://bit.ly/dIBHaE

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