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Calculating Gini Coefficients From Binned Income Data

I am currently working on a research project on role that voters’ subjective sense of social class plays in political behaviour. This question was last visited in Canadian…

Ontario University Entrance Grades, 2005 and 2022

There is some discussion today of grade inflation in the province of Ontario (link). It seems like it’s a real thing to me but I have always wanted to poke around a bit to…

Public Spending Priorities in the 2018 and 2022 Ontario Elections

LISPOP commissioned a survey of voters during the 2022 election and we’ll be disseminating findings from it over the next few weeks. But as an opening, I wanted to take a…

Academic Hiring in Ontario

Alex Usher has a series of recent blog posts here, here, here and here looking at academic versus non-academic expendituers and hiring in Canadian universities.