The Daily Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Press Releases
August 26, 2015
Study: Prevalence of obesity among children and adolescents in the United States and Canada, 1976 to 2013
In the late 1970s, the prevalence of childhood obesity in Canada and the United States was the same at about 5%. However, the most recent statistics indicate that, overall, obesity among children and adolescents aged 3 to 19 was significantly lower in Canada (13.0%) than in the United States (17.5%).
Railway carloadings, June 2015
The volume of rail freight carried in Canada totalled 29.8 million tonnes in June, down 2.4% from the same month a year earlier.
Machinery and Equipment Price Index, second quarter 2015
The Machinery and Equipment Price Index (MEPI) decreased 0.9% in the second quarter compared with the previous quarter. This was the first quarterly decline since the second quarter of 2014. The import component was down 1.1% in the second quarter, while the domestic component fell 0.1%.
Dairy statistics, June 2015
Consumers purchased 231 567 kilolitres of milk and cream in June, down 3.0% from June 2014.
Real-time CANSIM tables,
Statistics Canada is launching a new series of data tables—the real-time CANSIM tables—for 20 economic and social data time series to add more depth and context to some of its key datasets.
Study: Which human capital characteristics best predict the earnings of economic immigrants?, 1997 to 1999 and 2002 to 2004
This study examines which human capital characteristics, measured at the time of the immigrant’s admission to Canada as a permanent resident, best predict immigrant earnings.
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