{"id":106,"date":"2006-08-09T20:39:41","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T10:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=106"},"modified":"2006-08-09T20:39:41","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T10:39:41","slug":"the-ecensus-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"The [e]Census for all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com.au\/index.php?id=21287571\">dear<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com.au\/index.php?id=1096843337\">fiends<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abs.gov.au\">ABS<\/a> were put to the test last night with the inaugural electronic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecensus.abs.gov.au\">Census<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ajax-style featues<br \/>\n&#8211; Error checking<br \/>\n&#8211; Speed was good on a 1.5Mbps ADSL link<br \/>\n&#8211; Address fields aware of previous entries<br \/>\n&#8211; The questions were aware of previous answers &#8211; i.e. &#8220;based on your response to question, you are not required to answer this&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So everything worked well (I hope) even with Firefox on Linux. If only the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ato.gov.au\">ATO<\/a> would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ato.gov.au\/etax\">learn<\/a> from the ABS&#8217; information architecture prowess.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, even the best of us have bad days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i>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.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Rodney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dear fiends at the ABS were put to the test last night with the inaugural electronic Census. Call me cynical but I was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daytoday","category-it-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}