Ex-StatsCan chief calls for census 'rethink'
In an interview with the CBC's Evan Solomon, former Statistics Canada chief statistician Munir Sheikh calls for the Conservative government to have a "further rethink" of its decision to scrap the mandatory long-form census. » Watch the video |
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- StatsCan warned of poor census response rate
- Statistics Canada sounded alarm bells to the Conservative government that the response rate for a voluntary long-form census would be less than 50 per cent, according to documents obtained by CBC News.
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