census issues

Hot off the press the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released some of the figures from the 2011 census. Link to the stats is below. http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2011/quickstat/0?opendocument&navpos=220 Highlights Population now 21,507,717. In 2006 =...

When asked "What is your religion?"... 19% said "Spiritual but no religion" and 31% said "None". :thumbsup: Here's the survey summary from the survey creators (you must pay for the full survey results)...

Tony Clement (lmhr) has decided to cut the long-form census questionnaire in Canada. For those of you who don't know, the Canadian census has/had two components, the 'short form' and the 'long form'. Everyone gets the short form, and filling it out is compulsory. Around 25% of households...

http://www.gazette.com/articles/census_39696___article.html/office_bureau.html My first reaction to this was "Oh no, hell no, you don't!" I'm not even sure why I react that way, really. A bunch of nebulous stuff about intrusion, privacy, government strong-arming the populace.... I'm fairly...

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/23/census.error.ap/index.html The # of people who don't have health insurance was overestimated by 2 million.