The 2016 census revealed that Indigenous children still make up about half of children in Canada’s foster care system.
The best advertisement for the long-form version may have been its demise. Cue an early stampede of responses.
Bringing back the long-form census was the easy part. If this government is serious about data, there is a lot more it should do.
The long-form census isn’t coming back, but the short-form census might be more useful
Ted Hsu: ‘The fight over this bill is a fight over the soul of this country’
The National Household Survey is panned again
‘Should the federal government face the same courts for killing the long-form census?’
More questions about data reliability
Note: You can still go to jail for not filling out the census
A new release from the National Household Survey
What was lost and what was spent
Stephen Harper hails the National Household Survey