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Saving our census and preserving our history
This report remains the property of the Commonwealth of Australia
1998.
ISBN 0 644 52577 0.
The report of the inquiry into the treatment of name-identified census
forms was tabled in the House of Representatives on 25 May 1998. The Government
response to this report was tabled on 6 April 2000.
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Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
The reference
Inquiry process
Background to the inquiry
Scope of the inquiry
Outline of the report
Options examined
Chapter 2 A history of the
current practice
Definition of 'name-identified census forms'
Current Australian practice
The history of form destruction
Disposal authorities
Some international comparisons
Chapter 3 Effects on data
quality of retaining census forms
Introduction
Data quality and how it is assessed
Adverse effects on data quality of the census
Adverse effect on the data quality of other ABS collections
No adverse effect on, or some improvement in, data quality
Verifying concerns that data quality will reduce
Chapter 4 Privacy concerns
Introduction
Existing concerns about privacy and the census
Privacy issues if census forms are retained
Chapter 5 Research value of
name-identified census records
Introduction
The content of the census
Medical research
Social research
Issues associated with the census and large scale research
Genealogical research
Chapter 6 Costs of retaining
census records
Chapter 7 Conclusions and
recommendations
Appendices
Appendix A List of Submissions
Appendix B List of Exhibits
Appendix C List of Witnesses
Appendix D Sample form from the 1996 Census
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