Thread: Census time again

I don't.
ATO has that info, at at the very least, a good idea of what it might be

As I write this I'm watching a delusional, useless public servant trying to give the impression that all is good.

He's just said that over 100,000 have already completed it online.

HTF does that work? It isn't August the 9th yet.

I resent the 'legal' demand for my name. A bloke called around last weekend from the ABS and bailed me up.

I just said give me the paper form, he asked all sorts of questions while pressing buttons on his phone with every answer from me.

Last census time I saw the bloke pull up and put the form in my letterbox and that is where it stayed while the snails crawled all over it until it miraculously disappeared some weeks later.

Yes Mario in the past I've had a 'person' living in my old house, spoke Labradorian and worked for board and lodging as a 'guard'. Her name was Phyllis and she lived to the ripe old age of 17.

I have truckloads of experience assisting a certain state public sector getting info from a commercial fishing sector, with that sector's full knowledge and advice and all I can say is that, by comparison, the latest effort by the ABS is so laughably pathetic that it is failing its charter.

The worst (and most unnecessary) thing to do is alienate the group you are trying to get info from. Top marks to the ABS for 'achieving' that.

cheers, DL

I mostly fill it out correctly but always like to slip a small piece of nonsense in somewhere unimportant to give the future Family Tree researchers a giggle or two.
cheers,
D

I just said give me the paper form, he asked all sorts of questions while pressing buttons on his phone with every answer from me.

All he was doing was recording that you were home and going to be home on 9th and he scanned the number of the form.

The iphones etc are to stop double handling ie filling out a form then having to input it when the Census person got home.

Its all innocuous stuff.

Regards Philip A

Originally Posted by Toxic_Avenger

I don't.
ATO has that info, at at the very least, a good idea of what it might be

My beef with what the census has become has nothing to do with the ATO, who I am quite happy to have all my info.

My concern is a bit broader........... based on the fact that Australia's productivity in the private sector is increasing in line with OECD average.

The productivity in the public sector is declining at such a rate that it drags the whole nation into the negative. The latest 'effort' by the ABS is guaranteed to achieve the least reliable data, at the greatest cost, with the greatest loss of goodwill from the public and it won't be forgotten in a hurry.

Who is paying for this miracle? Who has to spend an inordinate amount of time, at their own expense, complying with stuff that no one with any real experience dreamt up?

DL

Originally Posted by PhilipA

All he was doing was recording that you were home and going to be home on 9th and he scanned the number of the form.

The iphones etc are to stop double handling ie filling out a form then having to input it when the Census person got home.

Its all innocuous stuff.

Regards Philip A

Thanks Philip.

I told him I might still be at Winter Wombat on the 9th, but he couldn't get his head around that.

cheers, DL

Last census there were some 60,000 people who put down "Jedi" as their religion.

Maybe we should all list "Land Rover" in this one!

So, what if you're not home on Tuesday?