The [e]Census for all

My dear fiends at the ABS were put to the test last night with the inaugural electronic Census.

Call me cynical but I was just waiting for eCensus to fall over in a pathetic heap. But I must give credit where credit is due. My eCensus experience went something like this:

– Ajax-style featues
– Error checking
– Speed was good on a 1.5Mbps ADSL link
– Address fields aware of previous entries
– The questions were aware of previous answers – i.e. “based on your response to question, you are not required to answer this”

So everything worked well (I hope) even with Firefox on Linux. If only the ATO would learn from the ABS’ information architecture prowess.

Then again, even the best of us have bad days…

To protect the privacy of your Census information, the Australian Bureau of Statistics strongly recommends that you close the browser window after you have exited the eCensus.

Rodney

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