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.

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[–] loonsun@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Did you get the short or long form?

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

How many times did it ask the same question. What a waste. I guess they really really wanted to know what languages you spoke.

[–] CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

No cause it would not be a true representation of the population.

[–] CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] loonsun@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah you hit the problem on the head. Giving people the choice would break the survey methodology and invalidate the results. Random selection is the only way to ensure that respondents provide representative answers for the population.

[–] charles@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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).

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 19 hours ago

Could still require some people to do long form and for the rest make which version optional.