Beaud, Jean-Pierre (Author)
Prévost, Jean-Guy (Author)
Scientia Canadensis: Journal of the History of Canadian Science, Technology, and Medicine
Volume: 30
Pages: 55--68
Edition Details: Part of special issue: Between Society and University: Humanities and Social Sciences in Canada
Language: French
Since 1800, Canadian statistics underwent important transformations. By appealing to the tryptch structures, and by focusing on the subnational, national or supranational dimensions, it is possible to distinguish four periods. From the beginning of the 19th century to 1840, the British colonies of North America have evolved in an environment that we may describe as "proto-statistical". There was no clearly designated statistical activity and thus nothing which we may consider as a statistical system. From 1840 to the immediate aftermath of WWI, the course of Canadian statistics was defined by a progressive but slow-paced emergence of a "national" as opposed to the supranational and local perspectives. This process combined at least three dimensions. There was, besides the topographical and political, a proerly statistical rationalization. From the 1920s, and even more so from 1945 till the 1980s, the devlopment of Canadian statistical system may be charactierzed as following two major trends. The first and most consistent one is consolidation at the national level. At the same time, local, regional and provincial perspecitives were also taken into account. During the most recent period - whose beginning we can roughly date from the 1980s - concerns related to statistical harmonization and coherence have partly moved from the national to the international (supranational) scale. With regard to the discourse held by statistical eliltes, one cannot but notice a significant shift. The statistical office is now generally presented as an agency that dispenses services, that offers products on a market where customers are sensitive to quality and prices. This analysis which is of an historicla and ideal-typical character, is organized around a large synthetic table.
...MoreArticle Gingras, Yves; Warren, Jean-Philippe (2007) Introduction. Scientia Canadensis: Journal of the History of Canadian Science, Technology, and Medicine (p. 1).
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