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[-] Someone@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Right, but I guess my point is how would statscan know if a house has 1, 2, 3, or 4 units if they all share the same official address? Tax data? Driver's licence/service cards? And as for the census, how is it accurate if only one of the households in a multi unit house gets one?

Either way it's irrelevant to this discussion, because the article you linked didn't use statscan data:

Most data was curated from a select number of sources: Japan Statistical Yearbook, European Housing 2002, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canadian Home Builders Association, Infometrics, US Census.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

As you said it doesn't really matter. Number of rooms isn't a census question. Neither is the population.

Census households generally report accurately because the data isn't reported to anyone else so there's no downside to being truthful. It's also correlated with other data to double check the validity.

The discussion is are there enough rooms for everyone? The answer is overwhelmingly yes. Our distribution is just absolutely fucked up.

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