Friday, January 16, 2012

RE: Letter from CCSD to Statistics Canada concerning the 2016 Census Program

The Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD) would like to provide feedback that reflects the needs and interests of hundreds of members working in Canadian municipalities and community-based organisations as part of our Community Data Program (CDP).  This feedback comes in light of Statistics Canada's ongoing consultation process for the 2016 Census Program. 

Some municipalities have already started playing with last week's Census release on Language.  Check out these briefs from Peel and

We're getting the ball rolling on custom geographies for the 2012-2017 program cycle of the Community Data Program.  Census data for your custom geographies are included in the membership fee, so take advantage.  If you're not part of a consortium, this is a great reason to join, by the way.  It's not often that you get the opportunity to flip off a Census Tract's unyielding boundaries.  Here's your chance.

Last week Environics Institute President Michael Adams spoke at the Caledon Institute of Social Policy.  His speech, thoughtful, poignant, and at times witty, lamented the federal government's decision to scrap the mandatory long-form census.  By contrast, Adams applauded the "brave Canadian nerds" who have "championed good data".  Nerds like top brass at the Community Data Program: