On 13/08/2016 3:50 PM, David Lochrin wrote: > I wonder whether the whole census concept should be re-architected? > > Much of the information could be supplied from existing government databases > without going near the public Internet (ATO, Immigration, Health, state > databases such as births, deaths, and marriages, etc.). Some of it, such as > personal income, would probably be more reliable.
You mean like they do in Belgium? <quote> 2. A new name, a new way of working The approach to the 2011 Census will be completely different from the previous traditional censuses, which consisted of exhaustive surveys each time. In the past we could only obtain considerable parts of the necessary data by asking the person in question. Now a vast amount of information can be recovered from administrative databases. It is therefore more suitable to use these administrative data than to burden the citizens with a survey. </quote> http://statbel.fgov.be/en/statistics/surveys-methodology/census/Census2011/ -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Sydney Australia email: [email protected] web: www.drbrd.com web: www.problemsfirst.com Blog: www.problemsfirst.com/blog _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
