OPINION: It's time to get over the long form census
Martin Cooke explains why academics should stop crying about the long form census: we have better ways of gathering the data and it's time to move on.
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Academics have decried the loss of the long form census since it happened five years ago, but Martin Cooke says it's time to stop. The Co-Director of the University of Waterloo Survey Research Centre tells Jim Brown there are better ways to collect data.