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The Chief Statistician of Canada (French: Statisticien en chef du Canada) is the senior public servant responsible for Statistics Canada (StatCan), an agency of the Government of Canada. The office is equivalent to that of a deputy minister and as a member of the public service, the position is nonpartisan .
Ivan Peter Fellegi, OC ( Hungarian: Fellegi Péter Iván; born June 22, 1935) is a Hungarian - Canadian statistician and researcher who was the Chief Statistician of Canada from 1985 to 2008. Former President of the International Statistical Institute, Honorary Member of the Statistical Society of Canada and Honorary Fellow of the Royal ...
Anil Arora. Anil Arora is a Canadian former civil servant who served as the Chief Statistician of Canada from September 19, 2016 to March 31, 2024. He was the twelfth Chief Statistician since Statistics Canada was founded as the Dominion Bureau of Statistics in 1918. He first joined Statistics Canada in 1988 and has since overseen major ...
The head of Statistics Canada is the chief statistician of Canada. The heads of Statistics Canada and the previous organization, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, are: Robert H. Coats (1918–1942) Sedley A. Cudmore (1942–1945) Herbert Marshall (1945–1956) Walter E. Duffett (1957–1972) Sylvia Ostry (1972–1975) Peter G. Kirkham (1975 ...
Wayne Smith. Wayne R. Smith is a Canadian economist who served as the Chief Statistician of Canada from 2 September 2010 to 16 September 2016. He was appointed after his predecessor, Munir Sheikh, resigned in protest over the Federal Goverenment's decision to end the mandatory long-form census. [1] Smith also resigned in protest over concerns ...
Sheikh was appointed as the head of Statistics Canada by Prime Minister Stephen Harper. [3] He officially became the Chief Statistician of Canada on June 16, 2008, replacing Ivan Fellegi . On July 21, 2010, Sheikh resigned from that post, following a controversy resulting from the Conservative government's decision to no longer require ...
Martin Bradbury Wilk, OC (18 December 1922 – 19 February 2013) [1] [2] was 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.
From 1972 to 1975, Ostry was Chief Statistician of Canada at Statistics Canada. From 1975 to 1978, Ostry was Deputy Minister, Consumer and Corporate Affairs. From 1978 to 1979, she was Chairman, Economic Council of Canada.