[LINK] Australia's census to go online in 2016

[Tom Worthington]

On 09/08/15 13:51, David Boxall wrote:

> ... Wasn't that an option last time?

Yes, an "eCensus" option was available for the 2006 and 2011 Australian 
population census. I tried them out:

* 2006: http://www.tomw.net.au/technology/it/ecensus/
* 2011: http://blog.tomw.net.au/2011/08/australian-ecensus-2011.html

The topic was discussed on Link:

* 2006: http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2006-August/068116.html
* 2011: http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2011-August/094682.html

> What are the risks?

Apart from the obvious risk to personal privacy, the ABS could be seen 
as a simple form collector, when there is much more to running a census.

ps: I was the user database administrator for the population census, 
when I worked at ABS, but that was back when we had punch cards. ;-)


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