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Labour Market Analysis NOC4311

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Goal:

Build a model that forecasts the number of future police officers needed in Ontario (next 25 years)

Quantify:

How many police officers are needed for a growing population How many minority officers needed to make the police force more equitable How many women officers needed to make the police force more equitable

Method:

Regression (Supervised learning)

Approach:

Predict the Authorized police officer strength per 100,000 individuals and multiply that by future population forecasts provided by the Ministry of Finance

Data Used:

Police officers by rank and gender, Canada, provinces and territories - CANSIM 35-10-0078-01 Population estimates on July 1st, by age and sex - CANSIM 17-10-0005-01 Forecasted Population for Ontario – Ministry of Finance Population Forecasts