On 21 September 2016 The Sydney Morning Herald reported:
Almost 95 per cent of households have completed a census form despite an embarrassing website outage on census night and lingering political controversy over the national headcount.
The Bureau of Statistics says it already has sufficient data for a "high quality" census, ahead of the deadline for forms on Friday.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) also tries to pretend that refusal to complete the census form is the only civil disobedience it has to contend with when collating household responses.
However a little survey which was included in one submission to the Senate Economics References Committee Inquiry into the 2016 Census indicates that the ABS may have other problems with reliability of the data it can subtract from some Census questions.
The possibility that false information has become a significant factor in Census data sets is buttressed by previous findings in the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) Community Attitudes to Privacy Survey Research Report 2013.
The possibility that false information has become a significant factor in Census data sets is buttressed by previous findings in the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) Community Attitudes to Privacy Survey Research Report 2013.
Responses of the 1,000 participants in the OAIC combination fixed line/mobile 'phone privacy survey resulted these percentages:
More concerned about providing
personal information electronically or online than were 5 years ago – 67%
Concerned about possibility of becoming victim of identity theft or
fraud in the next year – 69%
Provided false personal details when
completing online forms
– 31%
Provided false name when completing
online forms – 30%
Refused to deal with government
agency/public sector organisation due privacy concerns - 23%
At some time have refused to supply personal information – 90%.
Excerpt from that little submission to the current Senate inquiry:
Q4 If you did fill out the 2016 Census, did you include your real name and address?
A substantial majority (74%) of respondents either did not fill out the census form at all or responded in ways intended to frustrate efforts to share their information in ways that could identify them as individuals, match their census data to other data or track their census data from one census to the next. The commonly found terms below are not mutually exclusive of one another.
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