Voluntary census already damaging reliability of statistics, harm is ‘cumulative’

There’s less reliable information for small towns, rural Canada.

 Playing politics with Canada’s census data by eliminating the mandatory long-form survey has already done “irreparable harm,” says Carleton University economics professor Frances Woolley, noting that the country’s small and rural communities are being the most impac...

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