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212 Women in statistics in CanadaAlison Gibbs of the University of Toronto led the takeover of responsibilityby the SSC of the highly successful educational program, Census at SchoolCanada. Shirley Mills of Carleton University is the first woman to lead theday-to-day operations of the SSC as Executive Director.Few of us in the earlier cohorts have followed a career path in the privatesector. A notable exception is Janet E.A. McDougall, PStat, the founder andPresident of McDougall Scientific, a leading Clinical Research Organizationwhich has been in operation since 1984.19.6 Statistical practiceStatistics is a profession as well as an academic subject. Some of the beststatisticians I know spend much of their time in statistical practice, and researchthat arises from practical problems.To name just two — Dr. Jeanette O’Hara Hines was Director of the StatisticalConsulting Service (and teacher of consulting) at the University of Waterloofor many years, and specialized in working with faculty in the Departmentof Biology on a very diverse set of problems; Hélène Crépeau, Nancy Reid’sfirst Master’s student, who has been working at the Service de consultationstatistique de l’Université Laval since 1985, has been involved in biometricsresearch and studies of the quantification of wildlife populations.As in 1963, many women statisticians work in government agencies. Inearlier days at Statistics Canada, Estelle Bee Dagum developed the X–11–ARIMA method, variants of which are used for seasonal adjustment of timesseries around the world. Survey statistician Georgia Roberts of StatisticsCanada is an expert on methodology and the analytical uses of complex surveydata, and has led the Data Analysis Resource Centre for several years. In thesame area of data analysis is Pat Newcombe-Welch, Statistics Canada analystat the Southwestern Ontario Research Data Centre, who is on the front linesof assisting researchers of many disciplines in the access to Statistics Canadadata. Susana Rubin-Bleuer, Ioana Schiopu-Kratina and Lenka Mach of StatisticsCanada have published research papers in advanced theoretical topics inthe analysis of complex survey data and in sample coordination.Women statisticians have also achieved leadership roles in statistical agencies.To name just a few: Louise Bourque was Directrice de la méthodologiefor several years at the BSQ/ISQ; Nanjamma Chinnappa served as Director ofthe Business Survey Methods Division at Statistics Canada; Marie Brodeur isDirector General of the Industry Statistics Branch of Statistics Canada; andRosemary Bender is Assistant Chief Statistician of Analytical Studies andMethodology.