Using crowdsourcing at Statistics Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic
30 March 2021 @ 8h00 - 17h00
The COVID-19 pandemic created an urgent need for data on this subject.
Statistics Canada used, among other methods, crowdsourcing to gather information from the Canadian population on the impact of COVID-19 on various aspects of daily life.
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