Statistics Canada / Statistique Canada

Automation of components of Electronic Questionnaire testing.

Leveraging AI tools for research and development (innovation) purposes, in the StatCan protected-B certified AI Exploratory Platform, and the SSC Scientific Experimentation Platform for testing models using unclassifi...

Technical Documentation Exploration with LLM-based modelling to expedite targeted information gathering activities to support statistical analysis and processing.

Processing of "big data" (e.g.

Analyse news articles to identify and extract information related on major capital investment projects.

Citizen-facing applications: augmented discoverability of StatCan data in LLMs through vectorization and experimentaiton with MCP technology.

Using Azure AI Document Intelligence service to augment OCR capabilities for capture of paper questionnaires for Census.

Classify Census respondents' comments into subject matter area or general census themes using natural language processing and deep learning.

A comment classification tool that efficiently extracts more value from respondent comments by triaging comments into groups that are actionable by analysts.The goals were to speed up manual review and actioning of co...

While completing the SHS diary, respondents can choose to submit their paper shopping receipts instead of writing down all the daily expenses they've made.

LLM-based tool to systematically and automatically check documents for compliance with StatCan standards and flag issues needing human intervension.

Implement a generative AI chatbot to answer questions, keep respondents engaged with instant answers, improve data quality with clear guidance and explanations and reduce burden on data collection clerks, infostats.

Make Census data more accessible by simplifying reference materials.

Corporate services and operations: developing workflow automation through the use of low-code, no-code common desktop tools.

Citizen-facing applications: public-facing and internal-facing chatbots to improve discoverability of information and user guidance within websites.

Citizen-facing communications products: AI-augmented dissemination/communication products.

AI-Assisted code translation for small code scripts, metadata and supporting documentation.

The tool reccomends product codes for given written product descriptions.

The tool reccomends asset codes for given written asset descritoins.

The census employs specific bilingual terminology and vocabulary, which generic machine translators often fail to translate appropriately.

A bilingual, generalized tool that auto-generates alt-text drafts for various images, video captures, charts and maps published by census.

A customized StatCan machine translator that produces initial translation drafts for language experts and quality check officers to use for their translation requests.

Text to classification LLM coder: exploring horizontal scaling.