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favorite pair of shoes comfort thats what counts and its yours in a pontiac a general motors vaiub national quinquennial census canada will lake its first na- ther living on a farm informs- j tural censuses for instance tional quinquennial census of tion on the other questions ask- 1 australia new zealand and tha population and agriculture in ed in 1951 has not the same dej united kingdom take one annu- 1956 this marks an important gree of urgency in fact some ally and the united states takes departure from the previous j of the characteristics of the one every five years this ser- practice of confining the quin- population such as religion or- ions gap in canadian statistical quennial census to the prairie igin education and citizenship iioiit 1 will be filled by the provinces where they have change only slowly and an enu- 1956 census been taken in manitoba since meration of them once in ten j i here wiiibe many additional 1886 and in saskatchewan and years is adequate j advantages the 1956 census alberta since 1906 the agriculture questionnaire will secure information by small in recent decades there have will have seventysix questions geographical areas which will been numerous requests to ex- as against approximately two be of great assistance to govcrn- tend this fiveyear census tq hundred in 1951 after consul- ments at all levels in the admin- other provinces the rapidity tation with federal and provin- istration of agricultural policy with which changes have boenlcial agriculturalists and inter- j information by small areas can- taking place jn canada in the cstcd organizations it was do- not be secured through sample surveys all businesses interested in the farm market will have an uptodate statistical picture of on powti nun tvi arrow l i frtit nginm flam the tcensnrnl 14 h p srtiwsii toll lief 221 kp strilo strtl vs fofltuc wh tfc pit m si coshioxtd rroxt suswnsiox wwotfijotro4dihs jnd cjj h ms mar t rii cqffiffl is omri ti rj em stve i ky j3 shjt fcj ftt cdstty postwar period and indeed cided that answers to these 76 since the 1951 census have re- questions would furnish essen- suited in more numerous and it ial benchmarks and other basic urgent requests materials appropriate for a it was not practicable to take quinquennia census of agricul- farm production to assist them a fiveyear census on a national lure it is intended to supple- many organizations besides scale in the past because of at mem this questionnaire some- governments are interested in least two formidable obstacles what later by a sample survey and working for the welfare of these were the length of time conducted by specially trained the farmer to appraise emerg- required to take a census and enumerators to secure informs- ent situations wisely they must the cost if it took from three tion on such items as farm ox- have a variety of the most accu- to five years to compile the re- penscs and income from nonirate statistics possible the suits of a census of all canada farm operations j quinquennial census of agricul- then the compiling of one would agriculture lure will lay the basis for im- overlap the preparation for thei agriculture i the most im proving many statistical series next and create serious organi- portant of canadas primary in- j j zational difficulties the 1951 dustrics farmers business census which introduced in i governments and all interested it is expected that the 1956 canada radical new procedures in the making of agricultural count of canadas population in census taking reduced the policy require a variety of sta- will be around 16 million an in- time tor completing a census to tistical data to assist them they i crease of approximately 2 mil- onehalf thus removing the dif- must know the current situa- lion over 1951 which is 11 ficulty of timing this of course j tion with regard to crops live in the fiveyear period if this also made possible considerable stock and other aspects of farm rate should be maintained until reductions in cost the 1951 ing activities it is of course 1961 it would be greater than census cost approximately s8- not practicable to lake a com he high rate of increase in the 000000 if it had been taken by pletc annual census of agricul- 1 191151 decade which excluding the former methods it would lure instead the bureau of sta- newfoundland was 186 have cost approximately two tistirs annually semis out mail with newfoundland it was 21- million dollars more i questionnaires to obtain infor- 75 a iht rate of increase in further reductions in the cost motion about acreages and num- a decade was exceeded only in of a national quinquennial cen sus could be made by i educing i a thick jiotoms main st w stouffville ont phone 372 bers of live stock etc approxi- the period 190111 when it was mately one fifth of the farmers 3417 however that was the the number of questions and by send in replies from this sam- 1 period when canada experien- confining it to population and pie percentage changes from ced its heavy flow of immigia- agriculture that is there would one year to the next arc calcu- tion due to the settlement of be no schedules for distribution lated and these percentages arc the prairies fisheries or housing this plan applied to the bae or bench- has been adopted for the 1956 mark figmes obtained in the accompanying this rapid in- census in spite of higher price last complete census to obtain crc hcrc hhvc b and wage and salary levels annual total figures for the var- movements of people be- since 1951 the 195g national ions crops live stock etc f j provinces quinquennia census has been it is found in practice that lere has been something in designed to cost not more than this method of obtaining an- the r cxodu s5000000 as compared with nual estimates is subject to cr outskirts of cities which has ss0o0000 in 1951 beiues the tor and that the errors are expanded greatly the metropol- simplification due to fewer cumulative so that the longer 1an j- movement has schedules and questions the the period between censuses the beyond the limits of cities timesaving procedures used in iarges the error in the tenyear rnd metropolitan areas and has the 195 census will be given a interval the error for some farm wider application for example products becomes serious this a marksense questionnaire will fart has created an urgent need be uscd in agriculture for the for a national agricultural ren- first time as it was for popuiasus mote frequently than once tion areihousing in 3951 in ten years to check on the ac- also changed the character of purely rural areas to a combi nation of rural and urban reduction in questions such movements as tlee create heavy demands on muni cipal and provincial govern- there will be five questions and is one of the principal rea- in the 1956 census of papula- sons for taking a national agn tion instead of the twentynine cultural census in j956 aked in 1953 these are ae cai ida i lagged behind e martial status relationship ve si co ntrlcs rerd to to head of household ad whejthe fcquercy of taking agncul- the annual estimates m ior m of serv icer roads schools water works fire protection etc provincial goernments have giver help to municipalities in continued on page 3j