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Well the debate continues in the nation’s Capital. We’re getting the first peak at the next year census. The national’s Duncan Mccue has a copy. Duncan.


Peter, some of those long form census questions may seems odd, perhaps intrusive. But turns out they do serve a purpose for municipal powerty, schools even health clinics. Here’s surprising medical news, scraping the long form censuses maybe has this to your health. That’s according to Vancouver’s chief medical officer.

“Because we use the data that collected with the census form to help plus plan programe to improve the health of the population.”

Health researchers take statistics about income, education and employment to built what they called adeprovation index. That allows them to target neighborhood, particularly low income one with proper health programmer. In Vancouver long form census data was resulted in school fitness classes or community gardens. Specially in poor neighborhoods where volunteer survey are less likely to be filled out.

“This question is about need many repairs, some people find that to be intrusive perhaps.”

“They may not realize housing is an important determine to health of the population and the individual of the population.”

“This will be a downloading of the cost to the city.”

City of Vancouver is also asking Ottawa to restate the long form census.”

“In favor of the motion and opposed that carries anomalously.”

The worry form city hall, Ottawa’s downloading cost to municipal tax payers for what the direct of city planning see as a critical information.

“Just about the everything reduced. Starts with census date, starts with good information and then we use that to make policy or good specific decision.”

Without it, municipality may have to pay for surveys to decide where to built community centers or ice rings or plan location for bike lanes and route for public transportation.

“Question 48, what time does this person usually leave home to go to work.”

“Oh, great example, because by knowing when people leave to go to work. We can plan our transportation system around, off peak trips.”

The Vancouver board of trade is also opposing Ottawa’s move to cut the long form. It says small business will surfer such as restaurants or plumbing stores, if they have to pay for information what now collected in the census.