Coming to my census

[c9]

The long form* of the 2006 Canadian Census features this question:

43. In this work, what were Cameron MacLeod's main activities?

Please give details. For example:
• prepared legal documents
• installed residential plumbing
• guided fishing parties
• made wood furniture products
• taught mathematics

I can't think of a response that doesn't depress me.

* 80% of Canadians get the short form, with eight questions. 20% of Canadians get the long form, with 52 questions. I was so excited to see the long form in the envelope. Wooo!

Update: Apparently StatsCan doesn't quite have their shit together on the internet thing. My census died on the LAST QUESTION, then when I got back in nothing was saved. I tried again and it died on question 35 or so. I'm just doing it on paper, with a strong note in the comments section about wanting to complete it electronically.

Comments

[sarah-sosiak.livejournal.com]

StatsCan doen't have their shit together on the ex-pat thing either. I got no form, and the 1-877 "contact us" number on their web site blocks calls from the US.

[c9.livejournal.com]

Do they survey expats? Maybe it's explicitly a survey of people on Canadian soil, which is how the wording seems to be setup?

[sarah-sosiak.livejournal.com]

Looking at the site again I'm feeling that they don't. I'm feeling marginalized.

[c9.livejournal.com]

As emailed, Canadians living outside Canada can contact their embassy and/or consulate: http://www22.statcan.ca/ccr07/ccr07_004_e.htm

[thespos]

How frequent is your census?

[c9.livejournal.com]

Every five years. Unless you mean the cat census, in which case: daily.

[senhor.livejournal.com]

We got the shaft short form. No invasive questions here.

[nihilicious.livejournal.com]

I went to a guided fishing party once. Wild times

[momma2jbsm.livejournal.com]

Thank the lord we got the short one. I did it electronically yesterday afternoon. :o)

[primary-suspect.livejournal.com]

Looks like we got the short one as well, although there are actually 8 questions not 6.

[c9.livejournal.com]

Yes, you're right. I did read six somewhere, but I'll fix that.

we received

[benjidacruick.livejournal.com]

the short one in the mail. I put Ashif as my sister. lol

ok - maybe not.. but it'd be funny if I did!