Sentences with phrase «of census forms»

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.

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

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.

«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.

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.

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To be sure, the count data and basic demographic data would be of obvious relevance (even if it might be 7 years out of date), but since that information is also contained in the still mandatory short - form census, that really isn't at issue here.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

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...

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.

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.

Third, the Liberals have proposed major changes to how Parliament would function, including resumption of door - to - door mail delivery, restoration of the long - form census, increased access to all government data, among others.

It's now possible for academic economists to uncover a news story - like Stephen Gordon did with the cancellation of the long - form census.

Munir Sheikh reviews the demise of the long - form census, his resignation and the ramifications for Statistics Canada.

Dr. Martens in Winnipeg wants to see the return of the mandatory long - form census.

Mind you, whatever her complaint with Lockheed Martin, Ms. Tobias also seems kind of upset that the Harper government cancelled the long - form census.

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.

There seems to be little to gain by speculating what Joseph thought about why he had to travel to Bethlehem for the census or if the Magi picked up their gifts in the market on the way over to the stable, in comparison to the great mystery of the Creator of the cosmos taking on human form in order to save us from the fires of Hell and restore us to how we were created to be, let alone «considering afresh the Holy Incarnation».

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.

In addition to finalizing the size of the legislature, lawmakers also approved a resolution calling for the creation of an Independent Redistricting Commission to help draw the boundaries for the new 19 legislative districts — based on population numbers form the 2010 census.

The fundraising letter comes in the form of a «survey,» a frequently used device for partisan fundraising, but this one has a twist: Calling itself the «Congressional District Census,» the letter comes in an envelope starkly printed with the words, «DO NOT DESTROY OFFICIAL DOCUMENT» and describes itself, on the outside of the envelope, as a «census document.»

Democracy with census was the most common form of democracy in history.

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.

Last fall, the agency had proposed removing the questions in a bid to streamline the 72 - question survey, begun in 2005 as a replacement for the so - called long form of the decennial census.

But starting in 1950, those questions were moved to the long form of the census.

In science news around the world, NASA scientists spot evidence for ice volcanoes on the surface of Pluto, transmission of the Ebola virus comes to an end in Sierra Leone, Canada's new minister of innovation, science, and economic development reinstates the country's long - form census and announces that government scientists are free again to speak to the media, the United Kingdom's House of Commons Science and Technology Committee calls for a strategy to increase government research funding, and more.

«Spitzer allowed us to see really faint objects so that we could do a census of all the star - forming regions out to 3,000 light - years.

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.

«The idea of filling out forms and knocking on doors needs to be set aside,» says Arnold Jackson, who heads the 2010 census that will be carried out next spring.

«The Liberals have promised to reinstate the position of chief scientific officer, restore the mandatory long - form census, lift the «muzzle» on government researchers, and invest more in basic research.

That's according to a new analysis — part of the biggest census of star - forming regions to date — that focused on stars eight times the mass of our sun or larger (the size that eventually explode as supernovae) at a very early stage in their lifetime, when they'd still be inside the clouds of gas and dust where they formed.

The goal is to send fewer workers out into the field to track down those who haven't completed their forms, the biggest single cost of any census.

The new Canadian government seems poised to fulfill a wish of social scientists by bringing back the country's mandatory long - form census.

«Our plan for open and fair government starts today with restoring the long - form census,» said Navdeep Bains, minister of innovation, science and economic development, speaking in Ottawa alongside Jean - Yves Duclos, minister of families, children, and social development.

The ATLASGAL data were also used to create a complete census of cold and massive clouds where new generations of stars are forming.

With the reference cell census data in hand, the research team is excited to conduct additional studies, including ones involving models or human patients with gastrointestinal conditions — Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, gastrointestinal cancers, forms of food allergy, etc. — aimed at identifying changes in gene expression and epithelial structure and function that could reveal new insights and opportunities for therapeutic development.

In this first paper we try to build the most complete and unbiased spectroscopically confirmed census of the population of Collinder 69, the central cluster of the Lambda Orionis star forming region, a... ▽ More Whilst there is a generally accepted evolutionary scheme for the formation of low - mass stars, the analogous processes when moving down in mass to the brown dwarfs regime are not yet well understood.

Examples of science projects enabled by the data in the High - Latitude Survey include: mapping the formation of cosmic structure in the first billion years after the Big Bang via the detection and characterization of over 10,000 galaxies at z > 8; finding over 2,000 QSOs at z > 7; quantifying the distribution of dark matter on intermediate and large scales through lensing in clusters and in the field; identifying the most extreme star - forming galaxies and shock - dominated systems at 1 < z < 2; carrying out a complete census of star - forming galaxies and the faint end of the QSO luminosity function at z ~ 2, including their contribution to the ionizing radiation; and determining the kinematics of stellar streams in the Local Group through proper motions.

It asks many of the same questions as the census long - form surveys from 1970 to 2000, including the citizenship question.

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.

Schools are required to record information such as exemptions to the GCSE English and maths rule as part of the school census data collection, but Paul Hanks, a sixth - form funding expert who runs consultancy Pro16 Plus, claimed many were failing to do so despite correct training in place.

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.

But while Masters structured his free - form narratives like epitaphs, Nelson brings her village to vivid life, using residents» actual names gleaned from census records, while passionately imagining the modest pride and struggles of their daily lives.

Indeed, recent census data shows that Canadians are embracing our various retirement savings accounts with nearly two - thirds of Canada's 14 million households making some form of retirement contribution in 2015.

Made of colored cotton or camelid fibers, quipus (or «talking knots») played a crucial role in ancient Andean South American cultures as record - keeping or data - collecting devices to gather census figures, monitor tax obligations and trade payments, and mark agricultural changes in seasons; thus, they stand as a form of writing before these regions and cultures were subsumed by Spanish colonial occupation and European systems of time and representation.

... declare that decisions of the Governor in Council and the Minister of Industry regarding the 2011 Census and National Household Survey are unconstitutional, to enjoin the Government of Canada from administering the 2011 Census and National Household Survey in the format proposed, and to direct the Government of Canada to administer the mandatory long - form census as it did in 2006.