It has been 10 years since a long-form census was taken; five years ago it was replaced by the National Household Survey. The headline on a previous version of this story said the census was ...

It's "no problem" to reintroduce the long form in time for the 2016 census, said Munir Sheikh, head of the agency from 2008 to 2010. The questions needn't change, he said – just the instructions ...

OTTAWA—Five things worth knowing about the tug of war over the mandatory long-form portion of Canada’s census, which was cancelled in 2010 by the Conservatives and reinstated Thursday by the ...

The last long-form census was done in 2006, 10 years ago. It was cancelled by the Conservative government and replaced with a voluntary questionnaire, the National Household Survey, in 2011.

OTTAWA -- Call it the start of the government's biggest big data push. Monday marks the start of mailings from Statistics Canada of census surveys, including the return of the mandatory, long-form ...

Author of the article: National Post Staff Published Jul 16, 2010 • Last updated 14 years ago • 1 minute read The long-form census is rife with intrusive questionsBy Niels Veldhuis and Charles ...

The Liberal government is reinstating the mandatory long-form census that was scrapped by the Conservatives in 2010. Ministers Navdeep Bains and Jean-Yves Duclos announced the plan on Parliament ...

Canada's official Census Day for 2016 is Tuesday, May 10. And after a brief, unnecessary and damaging interregnum, the mandatory census is back, in both long and short form.

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. Minister of Families, Children and Social Development Jean-Yves ...

Wilf Falk says Manitobans should be glad the long-form census is back, since it will be both cheaper and more useful than the 2011 voluntary National Household Survey that replaced it.

OTTAWA - Liberal MP Ted Hsu’s drive to resurrect the long-form census has come to an end. His private member’s bill to bring back the long-form census and bolster the independence of the chief ...