Canada Census Faces Blog Attack
I just phoned Statscan to ask why we are mailing/keying in the census "on or before May 16". I asked, "What happens to all the people who are born or who die between now and then? People who exist won't be counted and people who don't exist will be counted."
"We'll be a little off", they said. Yeah, an 80 year old dying and a newborn are "a little off"? In previous census years you were supposed to mail in on a specific date and not before - in this case it would be May 16.
I just phoned Statscan to ask why we are mailing/keying in the census "on or before May 16". I asked, "What happens to all the people who are born or who die between now and then? People who exist won't be counted and people who don't exist will be counted."
"We'll be a little off", they said. Yeah, an 80 year old dying and a newborn are "a little off"? In previous census years you were supposed to mail in on a specific date and not before - in this case it would be May 16.
