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ChiefTea t1_iy99jzu wrote

Do we know how Canada is conducting this Census? Is it individual surveys? Church membership numbers (how would they pull these)?

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strawberries6 t1_iy9ubxf wrote

Every household gets the basic Census, and 1 in 5 households gets the long-form Census (which asks many additional questions, including about religion).

Religious affiliation is simply answered by the respondents - we self-identify which religion we believe in or indicate if we have no religion.

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ChiefTea t1_iya7zfg wrote

Got it, thanks! Curious to know if the sampled data can be biased. Would religious people be more likely to fill out the census? Questions like that

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