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They just wanted to know what language I speak at home…
Same for us. I set aside time to do it yesterday and a few questions around that were all they asked!
That's the short form. Remember the census is primarily a population count, they don't need to ask everyone a bunch of questions to understand broad population trends.
Pretty excited, I got the long form
I got the short one. Would have liked the long form though. I love doing that kind of thing.
I think I did as well
Lucky.
That was a rather wasted census. Language and gender identity are important but so is understanding how we get around or how public services in general are utilized, shit it didn't have a race or cultural identity question.
And Canadians were about to vote in a party that was running on trans genocide a year ago. Why tf would any queer people be honest with the state?
Did you get the short or long form?
Short I assume, but I wouldn't even qualify it as a short, to me the info it asked for was the pure basics any survey would ask me before asking me real questions.
How many times did it ask the same question. What a waste. I guess they really really wanted to know what languages you spoke.
yea, that's the basic short form census, same i got.
I used to be a census take for the government in my teens, and helped people do the long form. The questions you are asking for are all there, while the short form is much more of a basic population count.
I wish we were given the choice on which one to do. Considering it's mandatory to do the census it would show the government how much of the population actually gives a fuck
Unfortunately that would also skew the results quite a bit. We'd end up only having actual data on the types of people who volunteer for the long form.
I say this as someone who would gladly do the long form every time (only gotten that lucky once so far but it was a lovely experience).
Could still require some people to do long form and for the rest make which version optional.
No cause it would not be a true representation of the population.
Came here to say the same as Charles, would love to self select for a long form... which means that people like you and I would be over-represented!
Quite a pickle.
Yeah you hit the problem on the head. Giving people the choice would break the survey methodology and invalidate the results. Random selection is the only way to ensure that respondents provide representative answers for the population.
It's your civic duty!
Got the short one, but was hoping for the long one. It took me like 5 minutes to complete.
I'm also sad about getting the short one. But at least we can have a laugh about it.
thebeaverton.com/2026/05/local-nerd-disappointed-he-didnt-get-the-long-form-census
I think they run that story every census. Except that time they took the long form away.
I feel seen! Thanks for the link.
I was also sad that it was so short.
But... but my Rust! D:
Did mine this weekend.
I mean what's your choice? I mean you can go live in the Bush somewhere and die in a cave of an infection I guess. Not participate in society at all.