Prince George, B.C. – Today is the day you are supposed to fill out your census form, and Mayor of Prince George, Lyn Hall, says it is important you do so. “The census does more than just tellus how many people live in Prince George” says Mayor Hall, ” It is a key piece of information the Province and Federal Government look to when it comes to cost sharing opportunities, when it comes to payments to the various cities across the country because it’s population based.
He called on all residents to pass that message along to friends and family in the City to ensure the most accurate population numbers can be recorded.
Filling out a census form is mandatory.
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Fill out the census, it is the law.
Those people who refuse to fill out the census, by choice. Should loose their welfare checks, Old age pension, health benefits.
They will be entitiled to CPP and EI, because they have paid into it.
Not ALL paid into CPP.. There is a majority drawing from that fund for disability
OAP is paid from our Tax Money and is a Entitlement to all over 65, the Law says so. Do the Census on Line ,takes 5 Minutes !
Seems to me that a lot of the info on the short survey could have been obtained from our income tax forms.
The short survey seemed to focus more on language(s) spoken rather then anything else. And what was with that “do these people agree to release this information 92 years” question? My 6 year old can’t legally agree to that and I shouldn’t have the right to agree on his behalf.
Maybe you should not have that right but you do since he is still a child. You also have many more rights dealing with his upbringing that are likely much more important than having info available to researchers when he might reach the age of 98+, if he should live that long.
BTW, if you feel strongly about that, I just noticed that the 92 year question has a yes or no option for each individual identified on the survey.
So what is your problem? Ask you child. If he says no, then simply tick the no box. No need to make an issue out of it.
statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2016/ref/questionnaires/questions-eng.cfm
Holy crap! I’ve been gussed three times on my little comment. :)
I hardly made it an issue, I just thought is was a strange question.
Regarding obtaining info from income tax form. This is what it states right at the top of the census form:
“To reduce the burden on Canadians and to improve the quality of the data, Statistics Canada will not ask questions on income but rather use information already available from the Canada Revenue Agency.”
Since they know what is and what is not available from CRA, and they need to ask some cross referencing questions since the census document does not have your SIN, they have limited the questions to the few which allow such cross referencing with a high degree of certainty. Since people move, addresses, for instance, would not provide great certainty. Neither would names.
Didn’t receive a census, so just called them, and got a message that said “because of the high volume of calls, we can’t respond, so try again later.”
Methinks they might have had a few problems. It’s odd, because I’ve lived at the same address for 10 years, it’s the one on the voters list, my tax return. You think they could’ve found me.
Well, you all bear witness, I tried, so hopefully I’ll avoid jail time when they catch up to me.
Mr Hall, are you going downtown to make sure all those there with no computer get counted or are you just shooting off your mouth?
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Hoping I didn’t mess up by completing my Census questionnaire last week. Got it done as soon as I received it.
I wondered as I filled out the census what use could be made from me answering a few random questions. They sure went to a lot of expense to get a little data.
metalman.
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