- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
Link: https://survey.fedecan.ca//s/cmjcnqzgd0002th01dh6naqm6
The census will close on January 15th, 2026.
A lot has changed since our last census in 2023! We would like to take another opportunity to learn about our growing community.
Everyone is welcome to fill out this survey. You do not need to be located in Canada, and you do not need to have an account on one of our platforms. If you do have an account on lemmy.ca, sh.itjust.works, piefed.ca, and/or pixelfed.ca, you can indicate that on the census in order to be included in those separate graphs/visualizations.
No question is mandatory. You may skip any question by either selecting “no answer (skip this question)”, or by leaving the question blank. Some questions will be hidden depending on your selections. For example, the Pixelfed specific questions will be hidden if you don’t select that as one of the platforms you use.
Sections:
- Section 1: Location
- Section 2: Demographics
- Section 3a: Instance Usage (Forum/Threadiverse)
- Section 3b: Instance Usage (Pixelfed)
- Section 4: Feedback / Closing questions
When results are ready, we will share them on our website and with posts on:
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- A pinned post on pixelfed.ca
The questions were created with help from @Dave@lemmy.nz, based on the questions from their census this year :)
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Done
As an immigrant to Canada, I wasn’t sure how to answer the “where are you from?” question. I consider myself Canadian but when someone asks where I’m from I assume they’ve picked up on my accent and are asking where my accent is from. So I answered as though I had been asked IRL. I hope that doesn’t skew the results.
In Toronto, the question “Where are you from?” typically means what’s your country of origin. If you respond with “Canada” cause you’ve lived here for a long time, it’s often followed up with “Oh yes, but where are you really from?” In vaccuum that all sounds a bit problematic but in TO more than half of the population is foreign-born so it’s an acceptable request for multicultural exchange. 😅
Not an immigrant. Born Canadian with a Scottish last name. I have no Scottish culture in my life, just Canadian culture. Where I’m from: Canada. What is my ethnicity: Scottish. I think.
So this was actually intentional, and @[email protected] and I discussed how we could word it in order to let people pick the option that made the most sense to them.
I think a lot of people are in a similar situation as you, and would be making a similar choice
Would it be okay to share this on [email protected]? I know everyone is welcome, but this isn’t “the threadiverse census” so I’m wondering if sharing it there would dilute the scope too much.
Definitely! I meant to cross post it and didn’t get around to it
I’ll share it on [email protected] and maybe [email protected] in a moment, feel free to share it wherever you want to :)
Nice, thank you.
FYI you can enter negative family members
Ah
We will do some data cleaning afterwards
ukg breaks
Done 👍
Just so you know, when you click the speed test link, it opens it in the same page as the survey and you lose your progress on the survey.
Good to know, we just added some warnings about it. We’re trying out FormBricks for the first time with this survey, and this is one of the issues we’ll need to look into
edit: We’ve made the links unclickable in the meantime. The census is long, so I didn’t want people to lose their progress near the end. The links are here:
In this context, I always open links in a new tab because it’s quite a common issue with survey software.
The site seems broken for me, clicking next after the first question does nothing.
Do you have any privacy settings / extensions that might be causing it? I’m seeing results come in from other people
Just the defaults, same thing happens in firefox and chrome, though all three are webkit based.
