Geography 2011A/B Lecture 4: 4 Long Form Census Fact Sheet
20 Dec 2017
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Policy making suffering in canada without the long-form census. Excerpts from : paul jacobson -- the globe and mail -- wednesday, nov. 05 2014. Canadians have lost as a result of the government"s move four years ago to scrap the mandatory long-form census. The replacement of the census questionnaire by a voluntary national household survey, known as the nhs, has become a major concern for the more than 900 members of the canadian association of business economics. They predicted from the start that the demise of the mandatory long-form census would create serious problems. The result is that data are no longer available for a quarter of. The household survey and the long-form census are so different that we are no longer able to compare different periods in a statistically rigorous way.
