Quoting from PS News Edition Number 516. Updated Tuesday 09 August, 2016. http://www.psnews.com.au/aps/516/news/archives-makes-call-for-census-tick?utm_source=aps516&utm_medium=email&utm_content=news1&utm_campaign=newsletter_aps
Archives makes call for Census tick
The National Archives of Australia (NAA) has called on Australians completing this week's census to tick 'yes' to Question 60 to ensure their information is preserved as part of the nation’s history.
Director-General of the NAA, David Fricker said answering 'yes' to Question 60 would allow the Archive to preserve the information in a census ‘time capsule’ for 99 years and make it available to family historians and researchers in the 22nd century.
Mr Fricker said that since 2001, Australians had been given the option to have their information saved for future generations in the census time capsule.
Citizens urged to allow data retention
In 2011, he said, 60.6 per cent of respondents elected to have their information archived for the future, an increase on the 56.1 per cent in 2006 and 52.7 per cent in 2001.
Mr Fricker said Australians could rest assured their information would be kept safe, with census responses held in high-security locations.
“The information would not be accessed by any other Government Agency until the 99-year closed period expired and the data becomes public,” Mr Fricker said.
“This will be the first time the National Archives receives a fully digital transfer of census information, part of the transition to managing Australian Government information digitally, an approach guided by the National Archives’ Digital Continuity 2020 policy,” he said.
He reminded Australians that census night was this Tuesday, 9 August.
More information about the census is available on the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ website: www.census.abs.gov.au
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