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Friday, January 26, 1973

The Bill, however, enables the Governor-in-Council to specify

a census period because the data to be sought in the Industrial Production

Census will relate to a period of one year rather than a specific date.

The Bill also removes a provision in the Principal Ordinance

which prevents the Commissioner from taking a census in such a way that

any member of the public incurs expense as a result.

Frovisions are also made to make it easier for questionnaire

forms to be completed and collected, as well as extending the powers

of census officers to visit premises to complete questionnaire forms.

Mr. Topley explained that the Industrial Production Census would

be carried out by a small number of trained full-time census supervisors.

"They will visit most of the 10,000-odd establishments to be

enumerated and discuss the questionnaire forms with the management,"

he said.

He added that there would be a specific period within which

the forms must be completed and returned, but supervisors from the

department would assist managements in filling in the forms whenever

necessary.

The managements would have an option either to return the

completed forms to the Census and Statistics Department or to have

them collected by census supervisors, said Mr. Topley.

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