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by minitoar 2077 days ago
It seems obvious to me the census is intended to count everyone living there, legally or otherwise. So tourists wouldn’t count.
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It’s not so clear. Tourists are free people, and it might make sense to count them if we are trying to allocate resources to serve all free people (which tourists are).

If you don’t count tourists, why would you count migrants who are supposedly going back to their home country? Maybe tourists who are here for 6 months would be analogous.

Who said we should count migrants that are supposedly going back to their country?
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