Census-takers to soon start follow-ups with Canadian households
OTTAWA, ON – If you didn’t complete your 2021 Census yet, you might get a knock on your door.
Statistics Canada enumerators will start follow-ups with dwellings from which completed questionnaires have not yet been received later this month. Before census-takers arrive at your doorstep, though, they will first try to reach households by phone as to avoid in-person contact when possible.
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Those who will visit residences across the country will adhere to a strict no-contact protocol. Under the protocol, no interviews will be conducted inside the respondent’s home and no census employee from Statistics Canada is permitted to visit or enter institutional collective dwellings, especially the dwellings housing residents who most vulnerable to COVID-19, like seniors’ homes.
