CANADA’S CENSUS

Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1931, Page 9

CANADA’S CENSUS

9 ATTERY OF QUESTIONS. A GREAT COMPILATION. Wtih the completion of the seventh decenhial Census of Canada, 'which commenced on June 1, there was made available for the experts of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics a vast maps of material. out of which they v ill evolva 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 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 co-operative trading in the.past year, the actual extent of uiieinployrnent, and its cause add average duration, the number of radio receivers in'the Dominion, and the number of farm houses with bathrooms and running water. Each adult was asked whether ho 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, reformartories, and children's homes, intended to assist social welfare workers air! Government agencies in dealing with the problems of the ill and unfortunate. There is included also the first Dominion--1 wide gathering of data covering wholesale and retail business, this in response ;o a general demand for a comprehen<ivo. picture of commodity distribution, basic information taken by the Census •numerators will be supplemented by special schedules which go into great .letaii.