Patricia Houle

Biography

Patricia Houle graduated from the University of Ottawa in 1995 with a Bachelor in History and Social Sciences. She joined Statistics Canada in October 1995 where she played several roles touching data collection, education, health and social surveys and spent several years in questionnaire design and qualitative research. She led the General Social Survey program redesign in 2010 and took over the management of the Time Use Survey in 2013. She participated in many international projects related to Time Use where she built her expertise and she is currently chairing the UNSD Expert Group on Innovative and Effective Ways to Collect Time-Use Statistics.