from the 1980s to the 2000s A Summary of Changes and a Statistical Assessment

• Main Authors: Magali Barbieri, Nadine Ouellette
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Canada; Northwest Territories; Nunavut
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.396.9970; http://www.ined.fr/fichier/t_telechargement/62173/telechargement_fichier_en_economic_situation_canada_usa.pdf

Most of the data used in this chronicle were provided by national statistical offices. Both in Canada and the United States, territorial administrations (at the level of the provinces and territories in Canada, and the states in the United States) are responsible for collecting vital statistics data. These administrations exist for each of the 10 provinces and 3 territories (1) which make up the 6 regions of Canada and for all 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia, which form the 9 regions of the United States (Figure 1 and Table 1). The corresponding data, however, are centralized, published, and analysed at national level by Statistics Canada (in Canada) and the National Center for Health Statistics (in the United States). Statistics Canada is also responsible for organizing the census. This role is played by the Census Bureau in the United States. Our knowledge of demographic developments in Canada and their components before the mid- nineteenth century is highly fragmentary, and is based on relatively local historical studies (such as those focusing on Quebec, which are the most numerous). (2) The first modern census covering the entire national territory took place in 1851, after a series of local enumerations, the first of which, covering only the population of New France, took place in 1666. The census was then held every ten years until five-year intervals were instituted (1) The territory of Nunavut has only existed since 1999. Previously it was included in the Northwest Territories for statistical purposes. (2) Research on Quebec’s demographic history owes much to the family reconstitution programme implemented by researchers at the Université de Montréal. Data and results from this work are available