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Scrapping mandatory census ‘mindless,’ government warned
Saturday, August 28th, 2010
August 26, 2010
Canada will pay a huge price for the Harper government’s “short-sighted” decision to scrap the mandatory census, say leading U.S. statisticians. “This decision will lower the quality and raise the cost of information on nearly every issue before Canada’s government,” Stephen Fienberg at Carnegie Mellon University and Kenneth Prewitt at Columbia University say today in the journal Nature.
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