Selected analysis

Where a line may cross a border

A series here is one source, one measure, one breakdown. It can carry a line across provinces only when every jurisdiction publishing it shares one comparability class. Of 492,399 series on the public surface, 408 can.

The national line rests on one table

119 series span all thirteen provinces and territories. Every one of them comes from a single source, statcan:11100135, carrying 4,595 observations. A national common line is therefore a fact about one publisher's product rather than about this warehouse, and saying otherwise would be a boast rather than a finding.

Where a line would lie

3 series are published by several jurisdictions that do not share a comparability class. Drawing one line through them would state something no publisher said.

Unknown is not the same as comparable

26,550 series, holding 1,019,405 observations, carry no comparability class on at least one cell. Their comparability is unknown, which is not a weaker form of comparable. A group where every cell records no class has one distinct value, and one distinct value is exactly what agreement looks like to any check that only counts how many classes it can see. That mistake would publish the least trustworthy series in the warehouse as its most trustworthy.

The widest lines that can be drawn