FUTURE CANADIAN POPULATION TRENDS
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Observations are made on the demographic trends that are indicated by a collection of projections for the Canadian population. The coverage of variables includes growth; population composition with respect to sex age mother tongue and schooling; provincial and rural-urban distribution; labor force size; labor force composition with respect to sex age and marital status; numbers of households and families; and housing. Rather than viewing the following figures as positive predictions of what will happen in the future of the Canadian population the reader should see them as a systematic speculation about future values for the variables to which the figures pertain. Canada will continue to participate in the worldwide phenomenon of growing urbanization. Labor force growth rates higher than those of the national population are projected to continue during the next 15 years. The Statistics Canada Series A and C projections do not envisage a major shift in the trend for Canadas age distribution between 1971-1991. The proportion of young children continues to be at a relatively low level compared with the 1950s and the growth rate of the older population has consistently exceeded that of the total population since 1961. Increases are envisaged at least until 1991 in the numbers of households and families.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".