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Speaker 1: Gone.

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Speaker 2: The days of the five year census yesterday it was

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Speaker 2: scrapped by the government and instead agencies will use data

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Speaker 2: they already collect, like ird numbers that will be provided

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Speaker 2: by smaller scale surveys. Rema vy THEA. Nathan is the

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Speaker 2: director of the Center for Social Data Analytics at Analytics

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Speaker 2: at aut And that's with me this morning. Remember, good morning,

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Speaker 2: good morning man. Did we need the census?

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Speaker 1: Well, not at that price, my goodness, only twenty five

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Speaker 1: million dollars to do a census of two million households.

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Speaker 1: My eyes were watering when I saw the number. So

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Speaker 1: that is incredibly expensive and I think that that needs

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Speaker 1: to be looked at, frankly. But yeah, given the price,

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Speaker 1: given its every five years, and you know, we can

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Speaker 1: use that beIN data now to do an annual census,

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Speaker 1: and that's much more useful than waiting, you know, for

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Speaker 1: five years to find out what's happening. So I think

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Speaker 1: this is a really good move.

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Speaker 2: Lots of other countries have already done this, haven't they.

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Speaker 2: They're using administrative data, and lots of other countries would

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Speaker 2: only do it every ten years anyway.

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Speaker 1: Not five exactly. And you know, it's it's kind of

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Speaker 1: really people think, oh, the census is accurate. Well, it's

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Speaker 1: accurate for you know, the twenty fifth of March twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three, and then you know what, people left the country,

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Speaker 1: other people were born, you know, people moved house, and

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Speaker 1: it's not accurate anymore. So you know, the degree of

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Speaker 1: accuracy is how close to in time you are to

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Speaker 1: the snapshot of your population. So I think that moving

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Speaker 1: to admin data that can give us real time information.

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Speaker 1: You know, I sort of call the census as if

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Speaker 1: my bank gives me annual bank balances for me to

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Speaker 1: decide on what I'm going to buy, and I'm going

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Speaker 1: to you know what I earn. It's I think it's

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Speaker 1: time has come.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate your input this morning. That's remor viy thea Nathan

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