Not commenting on the Census
This year’s census already been the subject of some news reports, some of which have quoted me. I’ve now been appointed to an external data quality panel advising StatsNZ, and I will be much more limited in what I can say in the future here or to journalists. That’s partly just ordinary confidentiality to make the panel discussions work effectively, and partly because we’ll be seeing unreleased data whose disclosure is prohibited by the Statistics Act.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »