10 years of this shit

Introducing CanViz, my little side project over the break to make StatCan tables more accessible.

CanViz - Canadian Data Visualization Tool

Interactive data visualization tool for exploring and analyzing Statistics Canada data tables. Browse thousands of Canadian statistics, create custom plots, and download data in multiple formats.

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Updated Urban Greenness data out from StatCan is out today, quantifying the "average greenness" on a 250m grid. Data is annual and goes back to 2000 and allows for some comparison (although some caution is advised).

The Jobs Report, brought to you by DoorDash.

Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · last yr.

At some point embarrassment MUST come

With the release of the 2022 supply and use tables and revisions, here's what the updated GDP per capita looks like. We'll have to wait later this month for 2025 updates. I just did a crude upward lift here since we only got annual up to 2024.

The media elites don't want you to know that immigrants out earn Canadians by a substantial margin, including the 2021 cohort

I just had to say something on this report by TD. Their argument for why unemployment would be higher in counterfactual world with higher population growth is drawing a straight line. Like my god, bank economists truly are topic economic minds.

Workday morning rush hour for comparison. More bus lines, and more service. (Still missing buses not sending realtime data, as well as sea bus and skytrain which don't show up in the realtime data feed.)

Jens von Bergmann@jensvb.bsky.social · last yr.

Finally got around to playing with TransLink realtime GTFS data. Kind of fun. Transit in Vancouver is looking pretty good, especially considering this is an hour midday on a holiday weekend, with some lines not running (hello 44) and not all buses reporting real-time information.

I find it funny that the anti-immigration people like to cite Denmark as their success story when their youth unemployment is higher than Canada's

With the adoption of the 2025 SNA coming around in 2029-2030, here's the impact on nominal GDP from the inclusion of data as recommended by it. We see a slight shift upward (average of 2.2%) over 2000-2019 with it's impact growing over time. If the trend holds 2024 will be ≈2.6% high

A significant study released by Statistics Canada this morning casts new and surprising light on real per capita regional income disparities in Canada. After PPP adjustment, Ontario and BC ranked lower in 2021 while the poorer regions correspondingly higher. www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...

Lol we got an "urban studies" guy saying that immigrants are stealing jobs because the average labour force participation rate is falling. In addition he cites Borjas as his proof that immigrants suppress wages LOL nationalpost.com/opinion/joel...

Joel Kotkin: The West's immigration reckoning is here

Soaring immigration has coincided with steadily dropping labour market participation

nationalpost.com

An update to my TFP calculation. Made a coding error with the pre-2006 LFS data so it strongly overstated labour composition growth.

Ok there's the final product for quartrely total factor productivity! Happy with this for now.

Really rough first pass at calculating TFP for Canada. A lot of stuff I'm really not happy about here that I'll be revisiting. I will also be extending this further back in time as well.

In the process of replicating and extending Diewert and Yu (2012) where they calculate Total Factor Productivity but I will be doing it on a quarterly basis and extending it to the Present. Multiplying labour quality by hours worked gives us our "labour services" input. Details below 1/n

Long-term interest rate yields on US Treasury securities have trended up since Trump's 'Liberation Day'. The risk of default has never been higher as the fiscal deficit explodes and uncertainty stalls private decision-making under a President who made a career out of welshing on his personal debt.

Twitter is completely FUCKED right now. Unusable 🤧 What will I do for entertainment now???

An update on permits issued for study, temporary foreign worker program, and international mobility program. Reminder that this includes renewals and new permits! Looks like study permit issuances is going up again after falling, but exercise caution with this series!

As the US drives its international indebtedness ever higher, Canada's net asset position keeps expending. Our financial picture is much better balanced. The Trump budget plan for this year will drive US indebtedness even further down, necessitating more borrowing and further weakening the US$.

A US deficit of $2.3 trillion is about 7.5% of expected US GDP in 2026. Canada is in the range of 2% defict/GDP. Their 10 year bond is about 4.5%; ours is about 3.5%.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · last yr.

Pretty concerned about ye olde budget deficit situation with inflation still a bit above target and interest rates rising

Today's inflation data: avg prices rose 1.7% in April vs last year. Absent carbon taxes, inflation would have been 2.3% in April (see: www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/...). This 0.6% effect validates research (incl. by myself and @dr_jen_winter) on the effect of CTaxes. #cdnecon #cdnpoli

If you are interested in Canadian employment statistics, I have a new piece on Substack (free) comparing LFS and SEPH here: philip635.substack.com/p/comparing-...

Comparing Canada's two employment surveys

Introduction

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The big problem with most of the financialization and commodification of housing arguments is the lack of foundation in data and real world processes. It’s 90% ideology and 10% cherry-picked examples.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · last yr.

This discussion between Sam Seder and Ezra Klein is a succinct distillation of the intra-left conversation about housing affordability.

I had never noticed and now this is all I can think about.

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · 2y ago

periodic reminder that this White House has never put out any analysis of their trade policy. Literally not even a single chart. They barely understand what they’re destroying.

Canada, unlike the US surprisingly, has been experiencing a RELATIVE decline of the manufacturing sector for decades now. Interesting to see that the decline in non-durable manufacturing has been essentially a straight line down, while durable is more volatile.

Annoying how many broken series there are for Canada. Like expenditure based GDP is all the way back to 1961 but for production based GDP the chain is broken. Just an example to indicate the problem.

To give you an idea of the impact of treating data as a produced asset, GDP in 2019 would be about 2.5% higher with it's inclusion. bsky.app/profile/prio...

Canadian Aqua@priorconfirmed.bsky.social · 2y ago

The update to the 2008 SNA is now here, 2025 SNA! Data will FINALLY be considered a produced asset and so will now show up in GDP! Unfortunately, it'll take awhile for countries statistical agencies to adopt it's recommendation though.

The update to the 2008 SNA is now here, 2025 SNA! Data will FINALLY be considered a produced asset and so will now show up in GDP! Unfortunately, it'll take awhile for countries statistical agencies to adopt it's recommendation though.