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Statistics Canada survey over the phone.... I just got a call from someone from statistics canada about some stress level survey or something like that. They started off asking a whole bunch of questions like names of the people in the household, ages, etc. Is this survey mandatory? Do I have to answer them? Sounds irrelevant to the survey and don't really feel comfortable doing this over the phone... |
No. Just hang up. What are they going to do call the cops? |
seriously man, you need to ask? just hang up |
Be careful releasing any info, including names of people in your household without first verifying it is in fact really Stats Can, a lot of scammers call with this as one of the first steps in ID theft Quote:
Only certain type of surveys are mandatory, from the Stats Can website: Quote:
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Statistics companies should NEVER ask for the names of people in the household except for a contact person for supervisor verification at the end of a survey. Anyone who asks you for the names of household members or any identifying data (birthdays, SIN numbers, card numbers) is scamming you and should be reported to the police. |
Hmmm so I should just ignore this? I told them I wasn't comfortable with giving out this information, and they gave me a phone number to call back with a reference number. Said if I don't call back they'll call me back tomorrow. Found on the statscan website that it's the phone number for their National Population Health Survey (NPHS), so I guess it's legit. Still, I don't want to be giving out that kind of information (they're not asking for personal information like SIN or financials, but just things like age, names of ppl in household, and # of people in household). Have they called anyone here? Normally I would just hang up but this is a government organization, so not sure if things like that are mandatory or not. |
you can always change up the names, +/- 2-3 years for birth dates, etc.. one disadvantage about a survey is ppl lie :) ... and they account for it by going "accurate 19/20" ... |
just hang up. Don't worry, our government isn't going to put you in jail just cause you hanged up on them. Just be polite and tell them that you don't want to do this survey. |
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