Community Supporter Toolkit—Encourage census completion
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Encourage census completion
Planning services for your community requires an accurate count of all its members as well as a sociodemographic picture of the community. The benefits to your community increase with every completed questionnaire.
Encourage members of your community to complete their questionnaire.
Toolkit
What do I do?
Select a product from the toolkit to view and download it.
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Activities
Articles
- 3 practical ways to use census data in your community
- 3 things to look for when starting your own business
- 3 ways census data help immigrant communities
- 3 ways census data help students
- 3 ways the census helps your community
- 3 ways to use census data to decide on your career path
- 4 simple ways to become involved in your community
- 4 things to look for when choosing a new neighbourhood
- 5 online services to save time
- 5 ways to make a difference in your community
- Answering your top five questions about the census
- How boomers are reinventing retirement living options
- How to get a snapshot of your neighbourhood
- How to raise kids on a budget
- How your community benefits from the census
- Top homework tips for kids of all ages
- Unexpected ways you can help the environment
Bookmarks
- Bookmark on benefits (PDF, 273 KB)
Description - Bookmark on benefits
Census information is vital to your community for planning schools, daycare, housing, hospitals, emergency services, roads, public transportation and employment skills training. The benefits to your community increase with every completed questionnaire.
Complete your census today! — www.census.gc.ca
Your census, your community, your future.
- Bookmark on accessibility (PDF, 140 KB)
Description - Bookmark on accessibility
The census is for everyone. The census questions are available in both official languages (English and French), 13 Indigenous languages, 12 immigrant languages, and in large print, braille and audio formats.
Complete your census today! — www.census.gc.ca
2021 Census
- Bookmark on diversity (PDF, 992 KB)
Description - Bookmark on diversity
In 2016, over 250 ethnic origins or ancestries were reported by the Canadian population. About 41.1% of people reported more than one origin, and 6.2% reported North American Indigenous origins.
Complete your census today! — www.census.gc.ca
Ethnic origins of Canadians in private households, 20161
- North American Indigenous2: 6.2%
- Other North American: 33.7%
- Caribbean: 2.2%
- Latin, Central and South American: 2.0%
- African: 3.1%
- European: 57.1%
- Asian: 17.7%
- Oceania: 0.2%
1 The sum percentage points exceeds 100 because a person may report more than one ethnic origin in the census.
2 The associated area includes all census divisions where at least 66.7% of the population reported an Indigenous identity.
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