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OTTAWA ? Despite months of controversy and fierce debate over whether Canada?s now-voluntary long-form census would produce reliable information, Statistics Canada says it?s pretty happy with the result for 2011.
?At the national, provincial level, all of this information is pretty solid. It?s high quality,? said census manager Marc Hamel.
The Conservative government made the extensive, long-form 2011 census voluntary ? marking the first time Canadians didn?t face potential fines or jail time for not providing personal information to the national number-crunchers.
Critics worried that without mandatory participation, the data wouldn?t be reliable.
Hamel said data in the 2011 national household survey is less reliable only at ?lower levels of geography? for cities, towns and villages.
He said there are about 1,100 centres ranging in population from 40 to 10,000 where the response rate was so low, Statistics Canada couldn?t put out reliable information. That?s up from about 200 centres in 2006.
?There?s always been communities for which the response levels were not good enough,? said Hamel. ?What we?re seeing in the national household survey is we have more communities for which we?re not able to produce the information.?
The response rate among Canadians asked to fill out the long-form census was about 68%.
Statistics Canada increased the number of surveys sent out to make up the difference from previous surveys that used a smaller sample, but had a response rate higher than 90%.
Do you think the voluntary long-form census produced reliable information?
Source: http://www.torontosun.com/2013/05/08/statistics-canada-voluntary-census-data-ok
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