Census

Last night was census night. An super fun happy hour of working out what your address is, where you used to live last year and five years ago, how to describe your occupation and feel bad that you haven't done any voluntary work worth speaking of. I think they could have made it easier by putting a check box for generic/average/bloke on the first page. The questions, whilst important in an infrastructure, economic index, population counting sort of way, don't seem to get to the core of, well, anything. So I think it's time we as Aussies had some input in the question writing department.

The top ten questions I would like to see in the census are,

1. Are you a dog or cat person?
2. Scruncher or folder?
3. Is your job in any way related to your childhood dreams?
4. Are you an Alien?
5. Or a pirate?
6. Should magazines that live off Paris Hilton's life escapades be banned from being printed?
7. How would you like to put reality TV personalities to death?
8. Can you actually afford petrol any more?
9. Do these jeans make my bum look fat?
10. Why do people list their religion as Jedi?

Any more suggestions?

Comments

[nailpolishblues]

I would have liked the religion question to be a two parter.
a) Do you believe in god?
b) If yes, what is person's religion?

That would solve the problem, to a certain extent, of being forced to label atheism or agnosticism as religions. No, I don't think the 'no religion' box actually covers it.
Yes, I took that a bit seriously.

Otherwise, it's gotta be the cat/dog one - we need to know this. NEED!

[johnno]

11. How many drinks do you have to have before you get up and dance?

12. Are you polite to people handing ou how to vote cards?

13. Have you done any work around the house this week and had to call a tradesman to fix it properly?