Sentences with phrase «census form»

And she opposed the cross-border outsourcing of census form processing.

David Eaves wrote a strong piece on this subject that appeared in the Globe & Mail last week: «Why you should care about the sudden demise of the mandatory long census form ``.

The Sri Lankan boat people just want to live in a country where the serious issues of the day relate to questions on a census form, the shenanigans of Bill Vander Zalm and the HST, and back - to - school shopping.

It's difficult to classify people who purchase Range Rovers, other than the ability to check the «I make a ton of money» box on the census form.

The 1950 census form asked where respondents were born and whether they were naturalized.

How much effort would you put into answering the questions on a 4 hour census form?

The 1950 census form asked where respondents were born and whether they were naturalized.

But if the 2020 census form does ultimately ask about citizenship status, it will be the first time the question will be asked of all U.S. households since 1950.

The decennial census form asked just 10 questions.

To describe your religion in 17 characters or less on the UK census form is a challenge (Letters, 23 April,...

The questions in GAP's census form, downloadable from its Web site, go even further than those of this year's human census in the United States, covering not only plumbing, crowding, and sanitation, but also diet, habits, privacy, and well - being.

Darwin was so concerned about inbreeding that he lobbied unsuccessfully in 1870 for questions about first - cousin marriages to be added to the following year's national census form.

Will there be a «Mind your own fricking business» checkbox on the census form?

... but yes, much to laugh about: i lived in Morocco for two years, Egypt for one, in Palestine for 6 months, and can tell you that they and other Arabs would never check the «white» box on a census form.

Last I checked on my census form there was no box to check for «olive skinned».

Seventeen states, the District of Columbia and six cities sued the U.S. government Tuesday, saying the addition of a citizenship question to the census form is unconstitutional.

In any event, the point isn't whether the requirement to complete the long - form census form violates the charter, I don't think it does because it's probably either a violation «in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice» (under section 7) or a violation which is «reasonable and demonstrably justifiable in a free and democratic society» (the test under section 1), but that it does nevertheless violate the right to privacy which is one of our fundamental rights.

Broward County's rate of census forms returned, including our hard - to - count populations, was higher than the national average resulting in an increased flow of federal funds.

As noted, gay marriage will not change that inasmuch as the new census forms will reflect that.

Check the census forms from other decades to see exactly how they have changed over the years.

So dumb: the wording on the census forms as a reason to deny marriage to gays and lesbians.

The women will have to go through 37,579 family census forms in the next 24 hours, according to officials, using hand calculators to tally the total numbers because they have no access to computers.

YANGON (Reuters)- A group of women dressed in green sarong - like longyis and simple white blouses stand around a table piled with census forms entering neat notations on spread sheets by hand.

And yet we are not accounted for in census forms and there is still a stigma attached to our relationship choice.

I don't think that prisoners are filling out census forms or having a personal visitation by a census taker.

Upper East Regional Minister Rockson Bukari said the last time a census of agriculture conducted in Ghana was in 1985, adding that, government's quest for another census formed part of Akufo Addo's vision of making Agric the backbone of economic growth in the country.

Return your census forms!!

And to think, you right wingers could have depressed the hiring numbers even more if you just filled out those damn census forms.

MIDTOWN WEST — Thursday was Census Day in the United States, so Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer took to the streets to encourage people to mail in their 2010 census forms if they haven't already done so.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) The U.S. Census Bureau answers questions such as «Why should people fill out their census forms?»

to the city's census forms.

Canada's Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart had argued for strong consent provisions after the furore about releasing 90 year old census forms.

Not exact matches

Canadians nerded out en masse this week with the return of the mandatory long - form census.

Every household received the compulsory short - form, eight question census, and one third of those houses received the National Household Survey, a voluntary questionnaire that replaced the mandatory long - form census.

Census Plus was possible largely because EA had 2006 long - form census data to compare with the 2011 National Household Survey and mandatory short - form census data.

«As we speak,» he says, «eight out of 10 journalists in the nation's capital are chasing a story about the long - form census, and, according to a poll I read this morning, 50 % of Canadians don't care about it.»

Industry Minister Tony Clement has set off a firestorm of controversy with the government's decision to ax the mandatory long - form census from Statistics Canada, which caused the head of the national polling agency to resign in protest.

And he was the Conservative's point man for making the long - form census no longer mandatory, a decision so contentious it drew condemnation from the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.

1) The existing long - form census is so incredibly intrusive there is an incentive for respondents to not fill it out accurately or completely.

... And in the previous blog on the same subject we read Alice Woolley proclaiming that «I would note, as a hard core geek, I rather enjoy filling in the long form census, and am a bit disappointed if I only get the short form.

Notwithstanding the clear statistical rationale for making completion of the long - form census mandatory, I'm not entirely unsympathetic to those who say «I shouldn't have to give the government detailed information about my life».

But the effect of the long - form census is to do precisely that.

Finally, on the planning point, even accepting that census data may be important for planning purposes, query to what extent the data contained in the long - form census is helpful in that regard.

StatsCan should make lie detector tests mandatory as part of a return to a long - form census, to ensure the accuracy and completeness of all responses.

To be sure, the count data and basic demographic data would be of obvious relevance (even if it might be 7 years out of date), but since that information is also contained in the still mandatory short - form census, that really isn't at issue here.

As already noted, in many places across Canada — usually in precisely those disadvantaged places that the partisans of a mandatory long - form census cite as justifying such detailed data collection — local temporary StatsCan contract employees have direct access to their neighbours» responses as a normal and routine part of data collection.

I don't understand how your premise that the long - form census mis - samples the poor and less - educated leads to the conclusion that it should be abolished.

After all, we need the best possible data to develop policy, and without lie detectors the long - form census would provide us with data that are at best badly flawed, and are likely to be completely useless.

In some parts of Canada, such as Aboriginal communities (but not only), StatsCan representatives, including locally recruited temporary workers, usually fill out the long - form census for the respondents (by interviewing them and filling in the responses) precisely in order to ensure accuracy and completeness... which brings us to the second issue...

The information sought in the long form census is, of course, far more intrusive and goes far more deeply into the core of the information that a right to privacy is intended to protect, so the justification would have to be greater.