676,000 Canadian census forms unfilled countrywide
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Monday, July 31, 2006
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Currently there are 676,000 Canada 2006 Census forms unfilled countrywide following the May 16 census, a large number for Alberta and British Columbia. Canada operates a mandatory census, requiring all citizens to participate or face court action, a $500 CAD fine and/or three months imprisonment.
Census workers are coming to citizens' houses and asking them to fill them out. “We’ll keep following up until we get them; it’s just costing taxpayers lots and lots of money for us to keep doing it,” said Lisa Gibbons from Statistics Canada.
"The census provides a snapshot of the country as a whole and of individual provinces, and each community and how it compares with where it was five years ago," said Gibbons.
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Sources
- Nicole Fitch "3,000 local census forms missing". Fort McMurray Today, July 31, 2006
- "Tardy Albertans not filling out census forms". CBC, July 31, 2006
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