Okay. I think I can do it.
I was struck in the census data by how much work some senior women were doing, such as almost full-time, or more, child care. I really wanted to know what these grandmothers were doing. Knowing what I know about family structure and differences across immigrant and visible minority communities, I really wanted to dig into this to find out what was going on. The only way I could do that or see whether there were different geographic patterns—whether immigrant neighbourhoods in Toronto were different from other places—was through the census, and that's the work that I couldn't afford to get done.