Please join us for a Canadian Evaluation Society networking evening!

Date: Tuesday 6 June 20177
Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Where: Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre – Artists’ Room,  1171 Front Street, Whitehorse, Yukon
Registration: FREE registration. All welcome.
Refreshments: Snacks provided!

The Canadian Evaluation Society is hosting a networking evening and short presentation by Paul Kishchuk of Vector Research on Tuesday 6 June 2017.

Paul will be reprising his presentation made at the May 2017 CES National Conference held in Vancouver, B.C.:

What to do When N < n: Evaluation with Tiny Data

In both demographic and economic terms, Yukon is tiny. Less than one half of 1% describes both Yukon’s share of Canada’s population (0.10%) and it’s contribution to national Gross Domestic Product (0.13%) in 2015. The scope of programs delivered by the federal and territorial governments in the Yukon, however, reflects the fact that Yukon’s total land mass approximates that of Spain. So, while the scope of programs delivered in Yukon is broad, many programs are very small in scale. The mismatch between scope and scale often gives rise to a circumstance of N < n, where the total participant population is less than a valid population sample. Drawing on his evaluation experiences in Yukon, Paul will describe two techniques, one quantitative and one qualitative, used to conduct rigorous evaluations in an N < n context.

Paul Kishchuk, MA is a public finance economist with 25 years of applied research experience. He founded Vector Research, an independent economic research consultancy, in Whitehorse, Yukon in 1999. Routinely constrained by sparse and absent data over the course of completing more than 200 northern research assignments, Paul has come to describe himself as a ‘qualitative economist’. He has completed evaluations for several Yukon clients in the fields of justice, education and health. Paul is the Yukon rep for CES’s BC and Yukon Chapter.