Sylvie Michaud

Sylvie Michaud is Director General, Education, Labour and Income Statistics Branch at Statistics Canada. She has a bachelor degree in Mathematics specialized in Statistics from Laval University, and a second degree diploma in Public Administration from l’École Nationale d’Administration Publique (ENAP). She joined Statistics Canada in 1983 as a statistician in the field of business surveys. She later worked as a senior statistician in the area of social surveys. She has participated in a number of international initiatives on the development of standards from the household (micro) perspective, including the Canberra group (2001), the current Conference of European Statisticians (CES) task force on income measurement, and the Rio Group on best practices on poverty measurement. She chaired the ILO meeting on the development of standards on income and expenditure measurement (2003). She has been involved with the Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS). She headed a collaborative project between Statistics Canada and the National Bureau of Statistics of China on the redesign of their urban/rural surveys for the measurement of income and expenditures. She participated in the last two IARIW conferences.