William Warren Munroe received a Master of Arts degree majoring in Geography at Carleton University in Ottawa Canada in 2001, specializing in human settlement patterns, migration, statistics, and geographic information systems.
He also earned two Certifications of Qualification (Red Seals) having undertaken two apprenticeships: one for bricklaying (1982); and another for electrical work (1990).
He returned to university to pursue studies in Community and Regional Planning and Statistics after having served terms as a Co-Chair of the UBC Tenants Association and the Coordinator of the UBC Community Gardens. In the early 1990’s, as the UBC Tenants representative negotiating with UBC Board and Administrators, he successfully advocated the implimentation of a Public Participation Process between UBC and the surrounding communities to address planning issues. He also advocated bicycle routes in North Vancouver and was a founding member of the Canadian Community Garden Network.
At Carleton University, he was able to create a series of courses on Statistics and Population with several adjunct professors from Statistics Canada. His undergraduate thesis tracked the movement of ideas and his masters thesis examined migration by age, across density gradients (core/periphery), with an emphasis on migration of retirees and health aspects of quality of life. As a founding member of the Carleton University GIS Society, he initiated contracting of students services to the municipal, regional, and federal governments.
In January 2002, he was hired by the BC provincial government as the Population Analyst and provincial expert on migration. Later that first year with BC Stats, he reduced the error in the estimation model (GES) from over 6% to less than 2%.
He was asked to fix BC Stats' interprovincial migration model using monthly child tax benefit data, which had provided incorrect results for many years. After he rewrote the model, the results matched those from Statistics Canada exactly.
He also championed the use of relational databases and designed a data management system. He brought together a team of eight people to accomplish five staged development of the successful, new database management system, e-statsBC.
In 2004, the third stage was successfully completed under cost and with more ability than hoped. This stage allowed all of BC Stats public data to be made available via the internet, with table and chart output options.
Other activities include leading a Science Club at Qualicum Beach Elementary School (2007/2008), advocate of Qualicum Village Traffic Safety 2009/2010, member of the Qualicum Beach Museum Expansion Steering Committee 2009/2011, Elder College instructor and board member, 2010-2011, Public Consultation Advocacy Population Analyst, 2011, as well as being involved in negotiations with the Ministry of Labour and Citizens' Services and the BC Public Service Agency regarding the promotion of excellence in the work place, 2005/2012.
He is currently an independent consultant living in Qualicum Beach with his wife and two children.
Here you will find a description of: Population Geography and Demography; Population Geography's contribution to social sciences (including economics); and the Author.
He was a business owner with 12 employees in the early 1980’s doing residential construction and renovations. (For more info on work in residential construction see House Raising on Beach Road).
what have people been saying about Warren Munroe's Population Analysis?
While preparing for doctoral studies, I came across this reference which foreshadows my experience with those in BC Stats Population Section, Ministry of Labour and Citizens' Services.
what benefits have come from population analysis? Examples for British Columbia include publication of methods used by BC Stats to estimate population; consideration of fluctuating enrolment regarding school closures; and reconsideration of recommendation to close a high school.