måndag 12 november 2018

The promise and problems of including 'big data' in official government statistics

Official statistics help to shape a population’s 
sense of itself. Izumo Taisha/FlickrCC BY-SA
Qvintensen Webb
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will soon announce the kinds of information it will collect in the next national census in 2021. If international trends are a guide, “big data” will comprise a growing part of ABS data collection and analysis.