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Abstract:
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For the 2011 Census, Statistics Canada will be implementing a number of refinements and further changes, building on the major updating of methodology undertaken in 2006. This paper will discuss major drivers, strategic issues and planned changes. Foremost is cost reduction and reduced reliance on a large staff for field operations while maintaining data quality. Significant changes planned for updating of the address register, data collection (e.g., targeting an Internet take-up rate of 40% as well as an extension of mail-out), non-response follow-up and follow-up for edit failures will be reviewed. Plans for a variety of other changes (e.g., use of paradata in non-response adjustment, larger blocks of questions in imputation, Ridge-type regression for weighting, improved variance estimator) will also be presented.
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