Getting to Know Your Market and Industry - Free Business Seminar

This one hour and a half with Q&A session will provide an overview on the wide range of data products Statistics Canada offers to business entrepreneurs. Learn how to conduct basic market and industry research on Statistics Canada’s website, specifically:

• Demographic and socio-economic characteristics of local population

• Household spending patterns

• Size and sales of an industry

• Number of businesses with an industry

• Trends of selected industries

Speaker: Stewart Deyell, Consulting Analyst, Statistics Canada

Stewart Deyell is a consulting analyst with Statistics Canada. He provides individuals and organizations advice and information about the agency’s vast data holdings and works with them to find data solutions in line with their budget and timeline. He graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Masters in Sociology, where his focus was on quantitative and qualitative research methodology.