This is a curious battle. Filling in the long form census is hardly a great hardship and the intrusion on privacy -- which is real -- is well justified. How much political mileage can be gotten by trading off accurate intelligence for libertarian privacy concerns?
Don't mess with census, statisticians tell Tories
Stephen Thorne
Ottawa — The Canadian Press
The group representing Canada's statisticians is calling on the Conservative government to reverse its decision to replace the mandatory long census with a voluntary survey.
The Statistical Society of Canada wrote to Industry Minister Tony Clement on Friday "in the interests of maintaining the high quality of information" for which Statistics Canada is famous.
"We view it as surprising that decisions are made limiting the ability of experts at Statistics Canada to carry out a mandate for the benefit of Canadian policy makers, educators, small business and science without consulting these same experts," the letter says.
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Sorting out all the data is what many statiticians do. Of course they support keeping the long form.
What I have read so far is that the long form is very important to leftists who want detailed info on race, sexuality, income and so on in order to conjure up more social programming and more divisive culture wars. The other argument is that someone might want to site a restaurant in an area appropriate for their ethnic cuisine. Maybe they could do their own freakin' research?
Look, Stats Canada is wonderful, I'm sure, but they don't need to know my sexual preference, my income (ask Canada Revenue - Oh, that's right, CRA says that IS private!), or a whole lot of other things that are mine to know.
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