Writing
Everything I have written, in one place: government reports, data journalism, academic papers and blog posts. Press and radio coverage of this work is on the Media page.
Government reports
Government reports I worked on as part of the team at the Office of Statistics and Information, Alberta Treasury Board and Finance, most in its Economic Statistics Insights series, and a sector profile from my time at Natural Resources Canada.
Labour Force Survey: Methodology and Comparability
Office of Statistics and Information, Government of Alberta. How the LFS is built, what it covers and how revisions affect comparisons over time.
Resource guide: Understanding low income statistics from Statistics Canada
Office of Statistics and Information, Government of Alberta. A comparison of the methods behind Statistics Canada’s four low income lines.
Gender wage gaps among economic immigrants in Alberta, 2019 to 2023
Office of Statistics and Information, Government of Alberta. Wage gaps for the 2018 cohort of economic immigrant principal applicants.
Market Basket Measure for Alberta, 2024
Office of Statistics and Information, Government of Alberta.
Market Basket Measure for Alberta, 2020-2023
Office of Statistics and Information, Government of Alberta.
A profile of inter-jurisdictional employees (IJEs) in Alberta, 2022 update
Office of Statistics and Information, Government of Alberta.
Canadian Survey on Interprovincial Trade: Alberta, 2023
Office of Statistics and Information, Government of Alberta.
British Columbia Clean Technology Companies Profile
Natural Resources Canada, Clean Technology Economic Analysis Unit, with Trade & Invest British Columbia (2023).
El Quantificador (in Spanish)
Articles for El Quantificador, the data journalism outlet of LIDE. ISSN 2953-6456.
Apagón estadístico: ¿qué está pasando en el INEC en 2026?
October 2026. Why Ecuador went months without official employment and poverty figures. Data and code
EcuDataMCP: un solo acceso para conectar todos los datos de Ecuador
September 2026. Launch post for EcuDataMCP, an MCP server for Ecuador’s public data.
¿Qué quieren los empleadores ecuatorianos cuando buscan perfiles de datos?
August 2026. What 523 data-job postings ask for. Code
Ingresos y gastos de los ecuatorianos, doce años después
June 2026. Household income and spending from the 2024-2025 ENIGHUR, the first such survey in over a decade.
Homosexualidad: ¿qué piensan los ecuatorianos?
July 2023, with Alonso Quijano Ruiz. Ecuadorian attitudes toward homosexuality and LGBTQ+ rights. Code
Tres problemas para el análisis cuantitativo de los femicidios en Ecuador
March 2023, with Alejandra Marchán. Three obstacles in the official data on gender violence. Code
Una perspectiva cuantitativa sobre las protestas en Ecuador
July 2022. Public opinion around the 2022 protests, from AmericasBarometer data. Code
El Quantificador charts (in Spanish)
Short data visualizations for El Quantificador, 23 so far in 2026. A few of them:
- Ecuador consume el 70% de su suministro eléctrico y registra pérdidas del 18% (October 2026)
- La gasolina es fundamentalmente un gasto de hogares ricos (July 2026)
- Solo el 14% de los hogares gana $1.500 o más; el 60% gana $760 o menos (May 2026)
- Because they’re nice? Los profesionales en Estrategia y Gestión de Proyectos tienen el mejor inglés del Ecuador (March 2026)
- ¿Los ecuatorianos más altos ganan más? (February 2026, with Leonel Borja Plaza)
Journal articles
Demographic shifts and aging in the middle of the world: health challenges and policy opportunities in Ecuador
Faytong-Haro, M., Quijano-Ruiz, A., Sánchez-Pazmiño, D. H., Salazar-Nicholls, S., Gómez Ayora, A. X., Tipán Jiménez, D., Galarraga, O., & Santos-Lozada, A. R. (2025). The Gerontologist, 65(9), gnaf176.
Honesty by Convenience: Corruption Tolerance in Ecuador
Sánchez Pazmiño, D. (2023). The Philosophy, Politics and Economics Review, Vol. 2. Based on my USFQ undergraduate capstone, awarded best capstone of the Fall 2021 semester by the USFQ School of Economics. Working paper · Code
Immunizing the Economy: A Causality Discussion on Vaccines and Economic Recovery
Sánchez Pazmiño, D. H. (2022). X-Pedientes Económicos, 6(14), 65-82.
Capstone and course papers
Do investment tax credits foster innovation? The Alberta Investor Tax Credit and patent applications
Sánchez Pazmiño, D. H. (2024). MA Economics Capstone Paper, Simon Fraser University. Code
Retrospectively sweaty? The effects of temperature changes on presidential approval
Sánchez Pazmiño, D. H. (2024). POL837 Issues in Comparative Politics Research Paper, Simon Fraser University. Code
The influence of entry regulation on formal employment
Sánchez Pazmiño, D. H. (2023). ECON807 Macroeconomic Theory & Policy Project, Simon Fraser University. Code
On this blog
MapleStats: One MCP to rule all Canadian Data
November 2026.
EcuDataMCP and the Sismicidad Ecuador dashboard
September 2026. En español
The throne in Ponceano: Football statistics using R
April 2024. En español
Twenty years of Epica: The Empi(R)ics
September 2023.
A quantitative perspective of the protests on Ecuador
January 2023. English translation of the El Quantificador article above. En español
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