# Australia Census 2021 G'Doper check-in

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 9, 2021, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-census-2021-gdoper-check-in/948282 "2021-08-09T10:34:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2021, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-census-2021-gdoper-check-in/948282/1 "2021-08-09T10:34:56Z")

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G’day to all the locked down Aussies out there. 🙃

Strung high from the Olympic exhilarations (like them bread and circuses to pass the hours) it’s Census 2021 night tomorrow. It’s all on-line and you can lodge early. As I did.

There was some system problems last time. Experienced none of that.  
Quick. Painless. Flawless.

How’d you go?

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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2021, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-census-2021-gdoper-check-in/948282/2 "2021-08-09T15:29:49Z")

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Did mine a few days ago. I actually received a paper leaflet with return envelope that I could have used. It seems that only some areas did. I wonder how they decided that.

Since I work for a government revenue department I always struggle with, " What are the _main_ goods produced or _main_ services provided by the employer’s business?" I think in reality, since we make nothing and just take money from people and businesses, the answer is _none_.

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**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-census-2021-gdoper-check-in/948282/3 "2021-08-10T01:00:06Z")

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I wonder how many people simply don’t have internet these days? Seems likely to be disproportionately older people.

> [@don\_t\_ask](#):
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> Did mine a few days ago. I actually received a paper leaflet with return envelope that I could have used. It seems that only some areas did. I wonder how they decided that.

My suspicion is that they would do this to a representative sampling so they can compare and see if doing it by paper vs online shows any notable biases.

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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-census-2021-gdoper-check-in/948282/4 "2021-08-10T05:38:06Z")

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That makes sense. And they wouldn’t really have to send out that many paper leaflets to get a statistically significant sample.

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**Author:** ![Cugel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cugel/32/1199_2.png) [@Cugel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cugel)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-census-2021-gdoper-check-in/948282/5 "2021-08-11T08:55:40Z")

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Mine went something like  
Q: What is your job? A: Dog walker  
Q: What do you do A: Walk dogs  
Q:Some other question requiring the same answer: Q:Walking of the dogs, I do it.