{ 2008 04 29 }

Saskatchewan Gets A New City

In Saskatchewan, a city is essentially a town with more than 5000 people. Well Census Canada gave us a new one out of thin air, because they forgot to include an estimate adjustment previously. How could they forget, seriously?

Anyway, I propose calling the new fictional city:
Saskboyville
population: 5903

An adjustment in the Statistics Canada census count suggests there are 5,903 more people in Saskatchewan than initially thought, meaning the province’s population as of Jan. 1 was 1,012,547.

The overnight .59-per-cent increase is a result of a correction in the 2006 census “undercoverage adjustment”, according to information provided to the government from Statistics Canada.

The initial May, 13, 2006, census count in Saskatchewan totaled 968,157. However, the federal bureau readily acknowledges that people get missed in the census and it adjusts then re-adjusts its estimate of the number of people thought to have been missed. The latest “undercoverage adjustment” number for this province has been revised to 24,710 — 5,903 more. That means the actual population of the province on Census Day nearly two years ago should have been 992,867.

Posted by Saskboy on Tuesday, April 29th, 2008, at 6:22 am, and filed under Saskatchewan, humour, news.

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