Posted AT 3:00 AM EST on 09/01/09
Extremely influential, notoriously unreliable
OTTAWA — Every month, a crew of 1,500 Statistics Canada interviewers calls 53,000 carefully culled households across Canada to quiz residents about the deepest details of their working lives.Interviewers select households to match the country's demographic profile, placing extra calls to Prince Edward Island, sparsely populated areas and places with high off-reserve aboriginal populations to gather a more accurate regional picture.
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