CENSUS COMPILATION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 170, 20 June 1931, Page 10

CENSUS COMPILATION.

COUNT OF CANADIANS. A GREAT BATTERY OF QUESTIONS. OTTAWA, Canada.—With completion of the seventh decennial census of. Canada which commenced June 1 there was made available for the experts of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics a vast mass of material out of which they will evolve many interesting tables and computations during ensuing months. The census itself is expected to show a population of about 11,000,000 persons, but that is the simplest item in the entire procedure. information sought is more complete than ever before, and on the farm schedule alone, there were 254" questions. „ , , , Out of the answers collected by 15,000 enumerators there will be available, for instance, the extent of cooperative trading in the past year, the actual extent of unemployment and its cause and average deration as of June 1, the number of radio receivers in the Dominion and the number of farm houses with bath rooms and running water. Each adult was asked whether he or she was employed on the census date; if not, the length and cause of such unemployment. Statistics have been collected on a huge scale concerning hospitals, asylums reformatories and children’s homes, Intended to assist social welfare workers and i government agencies • in dealing with the problems of the ill and unfortunate. 'There is included also the first Dominion-wide gathering of data covering wholesale and retail business, this in response , to a general demand for a comprehensive picture of commodity distribution. Basic information taken by the census enumerators will be supplemented by special schedules which go into great detail.