# Count us in

_Campaign · Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council · https://iranians.global/civic/campaigns/count-us-in/_

Help people understand how censuses and surveys ask about birthplace, ancestry and language, so they can answer as they choose.

## Record

- **State**: proposed
- **Decision**: D10
- **Why**: Policy follows numbers. Where statistics cannot see a community, its schools, services and needs go unseen too.
- **Evidence**: [UN DESA counts people born in Iran who live abroad. It cannot count their children and grandchildren.](https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/content/international-migrant-stock) · source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024 · _verified_
- **Ask**: Read the observatory note for your country.
- **Ask**: When a census or survey asks about ancestry or language, answer as you choose. We never tell anyone what to answer.
- **Ask**: Tell us how your country's statistics ask, so the note stays accurate.
- **Milestone**: Observatory note for every country programme · in-progress
- **Milestone**: Plain-language guide to each census that asks about ancestry or language · planned
- **Milestone**: Guides translated into the community's languages · planned
- **Countries**: GBR, CAN, AUS, NZL, USA

## Provenance

Records updated 2026-11-11. Every value keeps its measure, year, source and label (verified, secondary, to verify); unknown is shown as unknown. Verify, add a source or report this record on its page.

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## See also

- [Civic](https://iranians.global/civic/)