Census returns in Australia (General)

by unknown, Monday, June 08, 2009, 03:14 (5721 days ago) @ pullin

Hi All,

The Australian Bureau Of Statistics web site at www.abs.gov.au may shed some light on this subject.

This is the Media Release of June 6 2006.

All we have to do is live long enough to make use of it.

Regards,
Graeme[Perth, W.A.]

2006 CENSUS TIME CAPSULE – MEDIA BACKGROUNDER
The Census Time Capsule is being conducted as part of the 2006 Census of Population and Housing. People can elect to have their personally-identified 2006 Census information kept on microfilm and securely held by the National Archives of Australia (NAA) for 99 years.

This information will not be made available to anyone until the year 2105. The first national Census was conducted in 1911. Until 2001, the practice in Australia had been to destroy all personally-identified information from a Census once the statistical processing had been completed and no personally-identified information exists from any Australian Census before 2001.

For the 2001 Census, everyone was given the opportunity to have their personally-identified information kept by National Archives of Australia. Census information from 2001, for those people who gave their consent, is now securely stored and awaiting release in 2100 when the time capsule is opened.

The Census Time Capsule is not a “capsule” as such, but secure storage areas within the NAA’s purpose built repositories where the films will be stored in archival quality containers. These special areas are accessible only to authorised NAA staff.