It’s that time again folks. In true spirit of people who long for law, order and good government we crashed the serversCBC link. Go Canada! Show Harper that we LIKE having information collected that is used for various planning events.
So I was going to fill it out this morning, the website seemed to be working, but I need a few details from folks that I can’t confirm until this evening. I still have 7 days to do it. Does anyone know how my roommate/friend has to answer re: gender. She was assigned male at birth. But she hasn’t had her gender marker changed yet. Any legal type Canadians want to give me the 411 on this?
When I posted this 5 years ago, I was living in Ontario. Now I am in BC. My address is more complicated this year, but not as complicated as** Muffin’s** was in 2011.
The StatsCan guide to filling out the census states, immediately before the gender question:
That would suggest anyone who’s legally changed their gender would put their new one, but otherwise their birth gender. However, it turns out someone in a similar situation had the same question: CBC article about a transgender person who objected to the binary question in the first place, and StatsCan responded by suggesting simply not answering the gender question and explaining in the optional comment section.
Can you get someone to check your mail and send you the 16 digit secure access code? But actually, the answer is NO one lived at that house on May 10th. There is probably a census form for where you are actually living, and I believe you should be reflected on that form. For details www.census.gc.ca
Government Of Canada Census Information phone #1-855-700-2016.
I was hoping to get the long-form census. If enough of us get together, we could skew the statistics so that the average Canadian appears to have 3.2 legs and own a llama.
You fill out my census like a night in the forest,
like the mountains in springtime, like a walk in the rain,
like a storm in the desert, like a sleepy blue ocean.
You fill out my census, come fill me again.
The census is always fun. My wife and I got counted in USA, Chile and Bolivia in one decade, so when you see the population of the world, subtract four from the number, to be perfectly accurate. Two teenage girls enumerated us in a hotel in Bolivia, they thought it was a great lark. Yes, it was legitimate,we had no fixed address anywhere else.
Heh. One of the few negatives I see to having gone back from the lines of the self-employed to those of the third-party employed is that I won’t get to fill INE’s yearly PYMEs polls (their poll for small companies). I liked seeing what questions they’d come up with this time, thinking of ways they could be used, and having that large “comments” section where I could berate the designer for using something which didn’t really match the Spanish legal framework (some of the polls seemed to be almost a direct translation of something created for the US). Apparently they liked my feedback, as they kept asking for more.
This thread reminded me to send them the form where I stop being self-employed. Awwww…
For some reason, I found myself feeling the same way. In the past I couldn’t have been less interested in the census. Maybe it’s a political reaction to the Harper years.
CBC link. Go Canada! Show Harper that we LIKE having information collected that is used for various planning events.
