census mandatory in Canada

[Karl Dubost]

I often hear, read that the Canada census is mandatory
but never seen an actual law about that
and never seen what would be the penalties if you do not fill it

Someone knows?

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Karl Dubost
Montréal, QC, Canada
http://www.la-grange.net/karl/

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

Statistics Act of Canada - http://www.statcan.gc.ca/about-apercu/act-loi-eng.htm
Loi sur la statistiques - http://www.statcan.gc.ca/about-apercu/act-loi-fra.htm

There has never been a jail sentence and few if any have been fined.
The objective of these penalties in the olden days (mid 19th century)
was people refusing to answer the enumerator's questions and often
greeting census officials at the door with shotguns.  People were
afraid that the census was tied to taxation, so ...

The penalties are there to ensure a complete count and to instill a
kind of civicness in the collective act of census taking.  Note that
the agriculture census remains mandatory in al its hundreds of
questions, as does the labour force survey.  Bref, now, with this
cancellation of the long form census, we will be more knowledgeable
about manure and animals than we will be of the population and its
characteristics .

If you look through this presentation, you will find some original
text going back to early 19th century
(http://traceyplauriault.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/census-2011-who-are-we-the-canadian-census-used-to-tell-us/).

Cheers
t

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Karl Dubost <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> I often hear, read that the Canada census is mandatory
> but never seen an actual law about that
> and never seen what would be the penalties if you do not fill it
>
> Someone knows?
>
> --
> Karl Dubost
> Montréal, QC, Canada
> http://www.la-grange.net/karl/
>
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