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TERRACE - With this spring’s census comes local job opportunities and the return of the long form census. In Terrace alone 14 enumerators will be hired plus three crew leaders and three crew assistants, said StatsCan’s director of western region and northern territories Lorne Anderson. There is also going to be a small remote census office on Lazelle Ave. where the workers can get more materials if needed but they will primarily work out of their homes, he added. The number of enumera-
tors and crew needed is based on population and geography because population alone isn’t enough, said Anderson. For example, on population alone, the Northwest Territories and its 80,000 people would be estimated to need three crew leaders but that wouldn’t work because of the massive geography that has to be covered. “For your area, there’s some challenges with people living in more remote areas and how to get there,” said Anderson. Enumerators are paid $16 per hour plus expenses for mileage and crew leaders $19.91 an hour. As for the long form census, which has had its fair share of
negative comments as it’s mandatory, the fact is that only some people will have to do it. It’s mandatory for everyone to complete the short form census and one in four households will be chosen to take the long census, which is also mandatory. The last census in 2011 was similar except that the long form census was renamed the National Household Survey and it was voluntary so people could decline to do it and just do the mandatory short form census instead. “It’s not onerous. I’ve done it in the past,” said Anderson about the long form census. The short form is about nine
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questions and the long form is 49 questions, he added. Everyone doesn’t have to do the long form because it would take a long time to tabulate results and valuable data can be gathered with only a sample of households, said Anderson of expectations. A date for the census has been set out but Anderson advises everyone to do the census when they get their notification in the mail. The date of May 10 has been set as a marker: someone who dies on May 9 shouldn’t be counted on the census or a baby born on May 11 shouldn’t be counted, he said.