[DM] "The latest on Canada's changing census"

[rfmcdonald]

I've a post up reacting to an interview with the new head of Statistics Canada on the shift from the mandatory long-form census to a voluntary household survey model. While raising some interesting ideas about doing away with the traditional census, Smith--to me, at least--seems to be trying to say that, no, things won't certainly, inevitably go bad without saying that the odds are that data quality will drop off sharply.

Go, read.