The tantalising idea of an annual census dataset

Penny - Population expert

Based in New Zealand, Penny primarily looks after our Kiwi clients but also lends her expertise to the Australian context. Penny has extensive experience as a Communication Manager in Local Government and has a degree in Business and Communications. She also brings a breadth of generalist management experience in fields as varied as research, civil defence, project and event management, marketing and training. Penny’s knowledge combined with the .id tools help clients work with their communities to empower grass roots decision-making, advocacy and grant applications, and focus on strengthening council-community relationships. Penny has a rural property and enjoys growing and eating food and wine, which she runs, walks, bikes or swims off, when she’s not in the art studio.

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1 Response

  1. Ian Bowie says:

    It’s interesting and encouraging and we do need current small area data, but I worry somewhat about the potential downsides of, for instance, a statistical agency being able to integrate personal data such as from tax files with data from other administrative records: yes, it is reported to be done by social media, credit rating agencies, police and security services but that serves to illustrate some of the dangers such as loss of privacy, potential legal action, misuse by government and other agencies. I worry also about the risks in trying to integrate data collected for somewhat different purposes and/or using different wording: for example on ethnicity, data on ‘identity’, ‘origins’, ‘descent’, ‘ancestry’, ‘race’ are not synonymous (in Australian censuses, numbers identifying as of indigenous ‘ancestry’ are much smaller than recorded as of indigenous ‘origins’; and census data on ‘origins’ cannot be compared strictly with identity as recorded in such records as hospital admissions)

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