Vaccination rates, worker deaths and other things the U.S. does better than Canada, datawise.
Team Saskatchewan skip Kirk Muyres calls a shot during the 13th draw against team wild-card at the Brier curling tournament in Brandon, Manitoba, on March 6. By Andrew Van Dam Andrew Van Dam Reporter focusing on economic data Email Bio Follow March 7 at 8:20 AM Spooked by a Globe and Mail series exposing holes in government statistics, Canadians are grappling with the realization that, in several domains, the U.S. government publishes better numbers than their own.
Canadian government statistics are some of the best in the world, but oversights, quirks of history and sweeping 2012 government budget cuts have left some major gaps. These gaps in measurement can lead to gaps in research and policy, potentially allowing dangerous trends to continue unaddressed. In an analysis published this year in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Carpenter and University of Georgia economist Emily Lawler analyzed what happened when states required incoming middle-school students to get a booster shot for tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis .
Statistics Canada reports nationwide immunization rates. Communications chief Peter Frayne said the agency is working to expand its province-and-territory coverage with data that has been checked against immunization records. The data would be similar to the U.S. survey used by Lawler and Carpenter. The U.S. system was once similarly balkanized, AFL-CIO’s safety and health director, Peg Seminario, said, but in the early 1990s the Labor Department, states and other agencies banded together to create the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, which seeks to count every workplace fatality in the country.
In 2001, Hispanic workers were injured at almost about 1.4 times the national rate. By 2017, that figure had fallen to just 1.06 times the national rate.
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