Canada exports whisky-worth $100,000,000 a year to 100 different countries . . . Canadians spend an annual half-billion dollars in restaurants, nearly as much in drug stores . . . there are 115 daily newspapers in Canada . . . a third of the population is under 15 years of age. This sample of facts from the government's figure factory -- the Dominion Bureau of Statistics -- is part of the flood of statistical information appearing under the familiar signature of DBS Ottawa which today is vital to the nation as never before. In business, industry, marketing, welfare, communications, population trends-in all facets of Canadian daily life -- the up-to-date numerical reports flowing from the electronic computers of the DBS act as both the fuel and lubricating oil without which the vast machinery of society would soon seize up in confusion. Importing-exporting, births and deaths, buying-selling, sex and age, hospital cases, law offenders, tourist travelling, pigs for market -- all these and a variety of other subjects are studied and reported. From nearly 2,000,000 individual reports a year repeated in newspapers, company reports, campaign sheets, television-radio programs and by word-of-mouth, Canadians can see themselves as a society, business can plan ahead, governments chart their courses. To compile this mass of information the Dominion . Bureau of Statistics employs 2,500 people including economic and social experts of a calibre which also makes the figure factory an intellectual centre. To ensure the public gets its information speedily the bureau's computer centre operates seven days a week, 24 hours a day, condensing information received from field men, regional offices and correspondents across Canada.