The #2026Census has begun! Look for your census letter in the mail. Census data paint a portrait of Canadians and their stories – from small communities to entire provinces and territories. Complete your census today at census.gc.ca.
There’s still time! May 12th is Census day, but you can complete your questionnaire into July.
Did you get the short or long form?
Short I assume, but I wouldn’t even qualify it as a short, to me the info it asked for was the pure basics any survey would ask me before asking me real questions.
yea, that’s the basic short form census, same i got.
I used to be a census take for the government in my teens, and helped people do the long form. The questions you are asking for are all there, while the short form is much more of a basic population count.
I wish we were given the choice on which one to do. Considering it’s mandatory to do the census it would show the government how much of the population actually gives a fuck
Unfortunately that would also skew the results quite a bit. We’d end up only having actual data on the types of people who volunteer for the long form.
I say this as someone who would gladly do the long form every time (only gotten that lucky once so far but it was a lovely experience).
Came here to say the same as Charles, would love to self select for a long form… which means that people like you and I would be over-represented!
Quite a pickle.
No cause it would not be a true representation of the population.