The ABS just had to bin some statistics. Here’s what went wrong”

The data spent was never good. And especially when we need information to formulate good policies, housing is painful during the purchase of purchasability.

And especially considering that we have not made an update on this special statistics set due to interruptions during PANDEM since 2019, and that we cannot receive an update up to 2027, considering the delay in which the results are published.

So, what exactly went wrong?

First, it should be noted that the office (also known as ABS) is not alone in some obstacles it encounters. National statistical organizations around the world are increasingly difficult to collect information from household people.

The Statistical Agency of the UK – National Statistics Office (shortened to less or maybe more lucky ounce) – had to start Correcting some of “almost unusable” In addition to employment figures, some of the data on inflation and trade. Experts warned that these issues have abandoned the Bank of England’s Central Bank, the UK Bank “flying blind”.

The problem with employment data fell to the response rate, which often decreased to 17 percent at the lowest point. Jonathan Portes, an economist in King’s College London, More reluctant to respond to the surveys – A problem that worsened during my pande.

However, when compared with the private sector peers as possible factors in the falling quality of the data, it marked strict budgets and low wages for office statistics for years.

Independent economist Nicki Hutley said that the office, which received a government financing of about $ 417 million in 2023-24, was probably not sufficiently financed.

“It would be great if there was a properly welded office,” he says, “Some data sets, such as workforce figures, were recently withdrawn from smaller sample sizes, he says,“ It would be great if there was a properly welded office. ”

The Office spokesman said that the general intervention rate for income and housing survey was “acceptable, and that the mixture of answers did not represent the population.

There are a few reasons for this, at a time when people now prefer to interact with the online government, at a suitable time, it is particularly difficult to reach some people.

Sözcü increases the cost of the execution of these surveys because households become less usable and interact, he said.[This] Field negotiations may need to make more frequent contact attempts, including face -to -face visits to household people. “

While the office usually says that it takes excellent cooperation from households, it can legally guide people to provide information.

The spokesman said that in addition to being more annoying and overthrown at more doors, the office will facilitate the design of the surveys and ways to provide help and receive feedback and will facilitate the participation of households.

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In December last year, the government committed $ 98 million for four years to improve the way the Bureau to collect data and interact with the Australians, which developed a digital experience for important surveys.

However, the office also learned some lessons. For example, it will follow the response rates more closely and often, so that if the data does not look at scratching, it can intervene before, and therefore does not have to celebrate all findings.

In addition, it has set clearer targets to ensure that the results are better monitored.

Although the Bureau does not point to certain problems related to the design of the 2023-24 survey, the spokesman said that some question statements have been changed compared to previous years.

A data series that must be renewed every two years will be damaged badly due to a gap at least five years. [since the last release]. ‘

Professor of ENDW Housing Research Policy, Hal Pawson

In the case of changes in the income and housing survey of 2025-26, the office conducted the “extra user test ve and tested updates with the people of Australia more strongly before sending the survey extensively.

This test aimed to make sure that the office is compatible with what he wanted to measure, and to look at the public’s questions more carefully and to look at how they worked in survey forms to ensure that they were easy to use.

Hutley says that missing data are not disaster, it is quite painful.

“Many people may think that this is not important, because there are some temporary solutions for other indicators and some things that exist, but there are certain things you cannot do, and these data are used for a lot of research around things such as income inequality, which is a growing problem in Australia,” he says.

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“‘Well, we don’t trust the series’, it’s a little about.”

It is a problem because it is an ongoing measure that enables data, changes and conditions over time.

Hal Pawson, Professor of Housing Research Policy, said that the missing data that should be updated every two years were a “shocking shift” by the Bureau.

“This survey offers invaluable official data on wider issues, including inadequate use of rental, rentability and housing, as well as distribution of revenue and reserve, PA said Pawson. “A data series that must be renewed every two years will be damaged badly due to a gap at least five years. [since the last release]. “

Although this special surveillance is not the end of the world, it will be the results and the office will be aware of for a while.

The census, which is the biggest survey of all of them, enters the test phase before the five -year distribution in 2026, while betting will be even higher. This questionnaire is a survey that the office cannot afford to do wrong or gait.

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