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² We genuinely appreciate the co-operation of the Liberal convention delegates for taking time to answer our questionnaire. They shall, of course, remain anonymous in order to preserve the confidentiality which we promised to them.

³ Although some authors apply the term “variables” to quantitative data only and the term “attributes” to qualitative data, we are using the two terms synonymously, inasmuch as qualitative data may be categorized and the categories counted as if they were quantitative data.

⁴ Dominion Bureau of Statistics (dbs), 1966 Census of Canada, Sex Ratio, Population, Catalogue no. 92–609, vol. I (1–9), Dec. 1967, Introduction.

⁵ Ibid.

⁶ Department of National Revenue, Taxation Statistics, particularly Table 33 entitled “Tax-payers and Federal Tax Payable by Income Class, Taxation Year, 1966,” reproduced in The National Finances, 1968–9, Toronto, 47.

⁷ Ibid.

⁸ dbs, 1961 Census of Canada, Ethnic Groups, Population, Catalogue no. 92–545, vol. I, part 2, Bulletin 1.2–5, Introduction.

⁹ dbs, 1966 Census of Canada, Rural and Urban Distribution, Population, Catalogue no. 92–608, vol. I (1–8), March 1968, Introduction.