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Sun Statistics: Citizenship And Immigration

Visible Minorities Dept: In the documents, Statistics Canada says more than 700 different clients bought reports or data based on the 2006 census, including 297 government bodies from all levels, 232 businesses, 66 non-profit organizations, 54 health and social service agencies and 62 educational institutions, according to Vancouver Sun. "Statistics Canada is confident that the NHS will produce usable and useful data that will meet the needs of many users," the agency says in the documents. "It will not, however, provide a level of quality that would have been achieved through the mandatory longform census." More than 50 federal government agencies and departments rely on longform census data on ethnic origins, visible minorities, citizenship and immigration for planning and policies, according to a newly released internal report. In June, the government announced it was replacing the mandatory long-form census with a voluntary National Household Survey NHS . As reported in the news.
@t national household survey, federal government agencies