Thread: Census time again

I wonder how many think it's too much an invasion of their privacy and fill out false info on income and stuff like that.?

To answer the originally posted question, I have now visited hundreds of residences and not one person has raised this as an issue. It is more a question for shock Jocks , big headed politicians and the dreaded civil libertarians who seem to love to help criminals evade the law.

Just like Luke Grant yesterday banging on about the system failure. Get over it and move on.

There will soon be 38,000 people going around to every house that hasn't responded on line with paper forms that also have an on line reference number. Come to think of it , that is probably why the employment figures look good this month.LOL.
Regards Philip A

Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

Those who bothered to record anything on the night might have some chance of filling in the form correctly, but in the absence of a form they wouldn't have known exactly what to record. There would also be a proportion of respondents who didn't record anything.
ABS have no way of knowing who did and who didn't so they have to assume that information given is from recall.
Lawyers often argue that recall is unreliable. I don't know what Scientists think, but I guess that it would be something similar.
I know that it's nit picking but how rough a rough idea do the ABS want?

As Tombie said, you'd need to be half dead not to be able to answer the questions, even months later. The hardest part if you left it too long and travelled to work by different means would be remembering if you drove to work or caught the bus...

Everything else is who, where you work, what your income is, etc, etc. not rocket science.

Originally Posted by Homestar

As Tombie said, you'd need to be half dead not to be able to answer the questions, even months later. The hardest part if you left it too long and travelled to work by different means would be remembering if you drove to work or caught the bus...

Everything else is who, where you work, what your income is, etc, etc. not rocket science.

As I said, it's nit picking but when the policies come to light based on the 2016 Census, the nit pickers will be out in force.

Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

As I said, it's nit picking but when the policies come to light based on the 2016 Census, the nit pickers will be out in force.

They always are... If it wasn't this, it would be something else.

'There's no pleasing some people...'
'That's just what Jesus said sir!'

And when the results of this census are known it will warm the hearts of those who will have plenty of time for some serious meditation on the Monash Fwy, the Ring road, the West Gate, etc tomorrow morning, tomorrow afternoon, this week, next week, next year and the next.

The census's (censii?) from the 70's and 80, even the 90's, would surely have shown what infrastructure might have been needed but it just turns out now to be crisis maintenance and very costly at that.

A waste of $340 M this time unless the results are taken a bit more seriously now.

DL

Just sent mine in online. Couldn't be easier.

I reckon the questions aren't detailed enough. And if they made it anonymous and asked more detailed questions they'd get a much more useful result.

What they'd do with the result is another matter... There's precious little focus on the disadvantaged these days. All the questions were tailored to the well healed. Nothing about part time work, unemployment, under employment, poor living conditions, health, etc.

Originally Posted by MrLandy

.................. All the questions were tailored to the well healed. Nothing about part time work, unemployment, under employment, poor living conditions, health, etc.

What do you expect...... the public service ( and/or hired consultants) wrote it.

DL

Originally Posted by Homestar

They always are... If it wasn't this, it would be something else.

'There's no pleasing some people...'
'That's just what Jesus said sir!'

True.