Status of Women committee  In our consultation materials, we did put forward certain issues that we had heard over the years. Consultation for the census and for our statistical program is an ongoing process. When we do our consultation reports, we highlight certain issues that have been mentioned over tim

Status of Women committee  The consultations that we conducted for the 2011 census were quite a broad and open process. We met with government officials at all levels of government, including federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal. We went across the country and met with an awful lot of local orga

Status of Women committee  In analyzing the data from the general social survey on unpaid work, the survey itself and the methodology do provide quite robust estimates on their own. We have, over time, done some analysis at a very high level between the results from the census and the results from the gene

Status of Women committee  I will answer your first question. We recognize the importance of unpaid work, for sure. What's more, we have carried out a fairly thorough consultation. The message that we were given was still pretty clear. First, we were told that the data and the subject were very important.

Status of Women committee  Reviewing the census content is always a fairly difficult task. Actually, we have very difficult choices to make. Whether it is this issue or any other, there are a large number of requests and many uses for the data, especially when…

Status of Women committee  As for unpaid work, the general social survey is still a very reliable source with chronological data that will allow us to keep up with the subject. As for all the other subjects that will now come from the national household survey, which we use a different methodology for beca

Status of Women committee  We are putting more procedures in place at a number of levels to properly control the consequences of an under-response from some groups. So far, we have high hopes that, for a number of uses, the data will be comparable and that we will still be able to conduct studies that will