Statistics Canada is working on plans to deliver a 'contactless census' next May if COVID-19 remains a threat.
In a technical briefing given on condition they not be named, the officials said in 2016, almost 90 per cent of Canadians responded to the census without an in-person contact, including online or by mail.
Statistics Canada Friday published the full questionnaires that will be used for the census, including for the first time questions to count transgender Canadians, veterans and active military personnel and members of Metis groups. The questions now ask a respondent's sex at birth and current gender, which the questionnaire notes may be different from what is on current legal documents.
The census will also ask about all the ways people commute to work, rather than just the most common way, as the agency tries to suss out how many people ever use forms of active or public transportation versus private vehicles.
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