‘Inclusive’ census to update questions on gender identity, ethnicity, StatsCan says

Despite COVID-19 shifting its approach to data collection, the agency hopes to meet—or beat—2016’s 98.4 per cent response rate.

Statistics Canada will begin sending out the questionnaires on May 3 to Canadian households for both the 2021 long- and short-form mandatory census. Unsplash photograph by Timon Studler

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

April 7, 2021

Canada's national statistics agency hasn’t added COVID-related questions to the 2021 census, but says the vital information collected from this “key” year will nevertheless inform the country’s understanding of the pandemic’s and provide disaggregated data to help recovery, especially for ...

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