Industry committee  I believe what they're telling the enumerator is that if you start backing off in the way you ask certain questions, that may set the tone for the rest of the interview; therefore, the mandatory aspect of it, or the momentum to complete the questionnaire, may be lost. That's what

Industry committee  I'm sorry, I do not have any information on that.

Industry committee  I think the word “hurt” is probably too strong. I think what we'd end up doing is we'd end up misallocating resources. The reason for asking a lot of the questions is because we have government programs and we have other important stakeholders in Canada who allocate resources bas

Industry committee  During my time at Statistics Canada, I was not involved in the data collection portion of the census. The census is a large project. I was involved more with the dissemination side of things and dealing with the many users across the country. I can't answer that specific question

Industry committee  We're talking about 21,000 out of a population of respondents of 12 million households, or three million households in the case of the long form. When you see responses like that, you can deal with them analytically and it does not destroy the credibility of Statistics Canada an

Industry committee  Thank you. I think my response would be the same. We need to remember that in Canada we use the census to adjust and to weight and to properly estimate using our voluntary surveys. No country in the world has been able to implement a voluntary census. They've all relied on some