Chapter 2: Canada's Population in a Global Context

Monitoring of this is done through tax files

Provides a complete account of a country's population at a point in time

Popoulation estimate produced every 5 years and reconcile previous postcensal estimates with the latest census counts.

Change of residence, births, deaths, marriages, and divorces must be declared to the authorities.

_____ ______ organized the Canadian colony's 1st census in 1666.

National ____ ____ system collects, compiles, and processes statistical information on all vital events that take place in the population on a daily basis.

A ____ _____ is very costly and requires extensive preparation and planning

Series of population estimates, typically by age and sex, derived from the application of assumptions regarding change in the demographic components over the course of a defined time horizon.

Popoulation estimate produced by using data from the most recent census + estimated of the components of demographic change since that last census.

Obtain and preserve such documentary evidence as is necessary to protect the legal rights of the individual.

Most important data sources for demographic research

Means "to assess"

1st census was in /_ _____

Didn't account for all citizens

1st series of modern censuses taken at regular intervals were done in _______ in 1750

Canada's statistical bureau

Method of enumeration in which people are counted at their usual place of residence, not wherever they happen to be living at the time of the census

Method of enumeration in which people are counted as residents of the address where they happen to have stayed the night preceding the day of the census

Data are obtained from a representative sample of household from which it is then possible to derive the characteristics of the population

A voluntary survey that has a lower response rate

When a person is enumerated more than once

Surveys of the labor force are taken _____

Jean Talon's 1st census didn't include ______ inhabitants or members of the ______

In Canada, the census takes place every ____ years

Changes to the census questionnaire largely mirror _______ change in the population

Vital statistics were first compiled by _____

Live birth, death, fetal death, therapeutic abortion, marriage, divorce, legal separation, annulment, adoption

_______ countries have a lack of necessary infrastructure and lack of funds to support institutions,