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Census draft

I started this blog post shortly after writing Let’s scrap the long-form census!, but have only recently finished it.  No, this is not about “drafting” or conscripting people to fill out long-form versions of the census.  It’s about the draft form of a census; that is, how a long-form census is born and its future …

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Let's scrap the long-form census!

The status quo for Canadian censuses is that one-fifth of households complete the “long form” of the census in its entirety and the remainder are given a much-abbreviated version of it.  The completion of the long-form census, until now, has been mandatory for those to whom it has been delivered under threat of fine and …

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