Friends and Colleagues, you may or may not have been aware of the recent changes that have been proposed for the Canadian Census. For the upcoming 2011 Census, the federal government has instructed Statistics Canada to eliminate the compulsory long-form questionnaire sent to one in five Canadian households. Statistics
Canada
, has, in turn, proposed to replace the compulsory long-form with a voluntary National Household Survey (NHS) questionnaire that would be sent to one in three households.
This change has raised significant concerns on the part of both researchers and the larger community of businesses, organizations and social groups who rely on Census data as a part of their planning and policy-making processes. In addition to potentially changing who the Census data represents, moving from a mandatory to a voluntary survey will limit the ability to consider new Census tabulations against almost 140 years of historical Census data.
As these changes will impact how you go about using any Census data, we have pulled together some information about the proposed changes and why we should be concerned about them, followed by some potential alternatives to what is currently being proposed.
Visit our website for information on the proposed changes to the 2011 Census: Click Here.
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