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  "id": "count-us-in",
  "title": "Count us in",
  "summary": "Help people understand how censuses and surveys ask about birthplace, ancestry and language, so they can answer as they choose.",
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   "research",
   "civic",
   "GBR",
   "CAN",
   "AUS",
   "NZL",
   "USA"
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    "v": "proposed"
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    "k": "Decision",
    "v": "D10"
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   {
    "k": "Why",
    "v": "Policy follows numbers. Where statistics cannot see a community, its schools, services and needs go unseen too."
   },
   {
    "k": "Evidence",
    "v": "UN DESA counts people born in Iran who live abroad. It cannot count their children and grandchildren.",
    "source": "UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024",
    "url": "https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/content/international-migrant-stock",
    "label": "verified"
   },
   {
    "k": "Ask",
    "v": "Read the observatory note for your country."
   },
   {
    "k": "Ask",
    "v": "When a census or survey asks about ancestry or language, answer as you choose. We never tell anyone what to answer."
   },
   {
    "k": "Ask",
    "v": "Tell us how your country's statistics ask, so the note stays accurate."
   },
   {
    "k": "Milestone",
    "v": "Observatory note for every country programme · in-progress"
   },
   {
    "k": "Milestone",
    "v": "Plain-language guide to each census that asks about ancestry or language · planned"
   },
   {
    "k": "Milestone",
    "v": "Guides translated into the community's languages · planned"
   },
   {
    "k": "Countries",
    "v": "GBR, CAN, AUS, NZL, USA"
   }
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    "u": "/civic/"
   }
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