Statistics Canada has admitted that “there may be an overestimation” in the number of same-sex ‘married’ couples from the 2011 census, after the government agency mistakenly counted some same gender roommates as gay couples.
Stats Canada warned that the census data should be “used with caution.”
While same-sex couples — both ‘married’ and common law — accounted for merely 0.8% of all couples in 2011, the numbers showed same-sex ‘married’ couples nearly tripled: that is, until analyzers realized that many of the “couples” polled may have been migrant workers who were splitting rent with other migrant workers of the same gender and who both happened to be married, but not to each other.
Statistics Canada noted today that it may have overestimated the number of same-sex ‘married’ couples by 4,500.
“We observed that there was a possible over estimation of same-sex families,” said census manager Marc Hamel to The Globe and Mail. “The counts for some smaller communities seemed too high.”
Hamel noted that the number of ‘married’ same-sex couples seemed especially high in places like Alberta and Saskatchewan where rent sharers who left a wife back home could have been counted as a couple.
“We seem to observe that [trend] in more transient communities where we have a lot of temporary workers coming in. So it could be people living together, for example, and reporting each other as married, but not necessarily to each other.”
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Social sciences trying their hand at practical work again. They really should go back to abstract painting and authoring novels; and leave the work of reality to the natural sciences. But then who would pay for their university professors salaries? And how would one pay off the collage, car and home loans? Its all a must for the economy – so go do another survey, or redefine for us what a marriage is, or what a man or a woman is. And we'll call you “scientist”, good for a salary increase and a little ego boost, your doing something concrete now. As light as air, and impossible to grasp. But world changing...
@Good News: This census was done by a government agency, not by university social scientists for research purposes. Bona fide social science research would not have been so sloppy. I don't work in academia, so don't assume I have an ax to grind or a salary to protect. Maybe you do.
“there may be an overestimation”
“We observed that there was a possible over estimation of same-sex families,”
In other words, they made up the numbers to make the imposition of fake marriage appear necessary rather than political.
In reality the over-estimation is not that important.
What is important is that the Canadian government
has been duped into believing same-sex marriage is a civil right. The mimicry of a traditional celebration does nothing for society, not even for gays themselves. If gays must celebrate their relationship, they can come up with a "new word
or phrase" that is unique to them.... and that can
represent their unique relationship. They've taken
the words "gay" and "rainbow'......they could take "happy arco iris", for example.
You are right Peter Godfried, if they are really proud of their being gay and celebrate it they should invent a new word for "marriage". In my comments on face book I always stressed the point why people call it a or address it as "marriage."
For this reason I never write "same-sex-marriage", I call it "same sex (whatever it is), because It is just impossible to call it a marriage, not in English and not in any other language of the world.
I think they do it for the sake of equality.
Excuse me but the Canadian government does not discriminate and attempts to reflect the will of the people. In Canada, we respect each other and try not to hold onto re-translated ancient gibberish as gospel.
Ed, nice respect there. I see how it works. You respect those who agree with you, and the rest you belittle.
The reported error: 9000 individuals (4500 SSM'd twosomes).
That is a guesstimate. It is not an official number, yet.
It represents about 21% of the original overestimated number of SSM'd twosomes. A very big error for an official census. But the error is probably bigger in actuality. The number of SSM'd twosomes is probablly smaller.
Census estimate of SSM'd persons: 42,030 (21,015 SSM'd twosomes) minus 9,000 (4500 SSM overestimated) = 33,030.
Estimate of adult population in Canada: 7,992,975 (5% of 26,647,495 adults).
Percentage of the adult homosexual population that SSM'd: 4%.
That would mean about 96% of the adult homosexual population is NOT SSM'd in Canada.
That is twelve times smaller than the married share of the rest of the adult homosexual population.
The actual demand for SSM amongst the adult homosexual population was and is very low as these participation rates indicate. But is that story reported? Nope, but the contrary is portrayed and so the corruptive influence of the SSM continues in Canada.
(Note that actual counts of SSM licences in Canada are heavily padded by foreigners as there is no residency requirement.)
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typo correction:
"That is twelve times smaller than the married share of the rest of the adult population (ie the nonhomosexual population)."