Stats Canada bungles same-sex ‘marriage’ census numbers: includes roommates as gay couples
OTTAWA, Ontario, September 19, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – 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.”
The inflated Stats Canada numbers comes almost exactly a year after the U.S. Census Bureau announced that it too had inflated census figures for ‘married’ same-sex households by as much as 160%.
Officials said at that time that the discrepancy arose because of an “inconsistency in responses…that artificially inflated the number of same-sex couples.” In total, less than one percent of households in the USA were identified as same-sex, slightly lower than the 2000 census numbers.
Critics of the homosexual agenda have pointed out that homosexual activists depend on the stratagem of exaggerating numbers so as to win acceptance for their cause, since as little as 3.5% of the population identifies as gay, lesbian or bisexual, with few of those showing any interest in forming stable, monogamous gay “marriages.”
