All Canadian households have received or will soon receive a letter from Statistics Canada about the Census of Population, which is conducted every five years. This letter contains an access code to complete the online questionnaire. The census is easy to fill out, and your information will be kept confidential. When you complete the questionnaire, you are helping to continue a tradition that goes back 360 years.
Every person, young and old, must be counted. The completed questionnaires will provide valuable data that governments, businesses, associations and community organizations can use to make decisions at the local, regional and provincial level.
Census data are essential for planning services such as childcare and schools; family and senior services; housing and public transit; social, health care and employment assistance programs; police and fire protection services; as well as for developing natural disaster response plans.
The Institut de la statistique du Québec recognizes the value of this source of information and supports the promotion of the Census of Population. The data collected in the census are essential to providing public services that are tailored to the province’s realities.
For more information about the 2026 Census, visit census.gc.ca.
To learn more about the use of these data by the Institut de la statistique du Québec, visit our web page on the Census of Population.