Today a nice young girl dropped off the Census form for all of us to fill out on the 9th Aug, so I was just having a look through and thinking that I could probably fill some of the questions out now as it won't have any bearing on the night in question.

   Well shock and horror!

     Q:54 wants us to give the number of registered vehicles at your dwelling BUT exclude Motorbikes and motor scooters, WTF, why do we not get included on something as important as a census where we are part of the transport system?
  But wait it gets even better.

  Q:56 wants to know if your dwelling is a CARAVAN or a bloody HOUSEBOAT ?
    Talk about obscure questions, or did I miss something?

         Please enlighten me.





                                          Mmick

Its interesting that I skimmed through the form specifically looking to see if they asked about registered vehicles ... I found it and thought: Awesome!

Unfortunately I obviously didn't read it as you did Mick and didn't realise bikes were to be excluded. Makes you wonder doesn't it!

If I'm correct, we were included in the census reports some time back, then I think in the last two or three Census reports we have been excluded, we are not part of the transport planning system apparently.






                                   Mmick

Oh look!

               We can get a mention, here look at Q: 45, 'How did the person get to work on Tuesday 9th August 2011'

Tick the 9th box down and ride to work. 




                                Mmick

Quote from: monstermick58 on August 02, 2011, 07:40:01 PM


  Q:56 wants to know if your dwelling is a CARAVAN or a bloody HOUSEBOAT ?
   




                                          Mmick

Well.................fess up Mmmmmmmmmick........which one is it mate.........?      I gotta know now.......

Quote from: monstermick58 on August 03, 2011, 01:01:27 AM
Oh look!

               We can get a mention, here look at Q: 45, 'How did the person get to work on Tuesday 9th August 2011'

Tick the 9th box down and ride to work. 




                                Mmick

i think EVERYONE should tick this box!

i also think EVERYONE should answer the religion question, every kook, nutcase and muslim will be........

Quote from: loony888 on August 03, 2011, 03:22:50 AM

i also think EVERYONE should answer the religion question, every kook, nutcase and muslim will be........

You forgot Jedi 

Quote from: monstermick58 on August 03, 2011, 01:01:27 AM
Oh look!

               We can get a mention, here look at Q: 45, 'How did the person get to work on Tuesday 9th August 2011'

Tick the 9th box down and ride to work. 




                                Mmick

Make that ride MOTORBIKE to work!

DON'T FORGET FOLKS, Q:45 RIDE THAT BIKE TO WORK 
EVEN IF YOU DID'NT I'M MAKING MINE AS I DID
SHOUT OUT LOUD AND PROUD.






                                       Mmick

done!

Hmm that is a bit silly. I guess they can gets the stats through the various transport agencies but still...

Yep, duly scrawled in the appropriate section!! "2 bikes garaged at said address" along with question as to why bikes arnt included?!

That'll screw with their narrow, unimaginative pubic service mentalities!!?? Yaaaah suffer in yer jocks! 

Quoted:

How many bikes on Aussie roads?

A census conducted in January, 2011, reveals that there were nearly 680,000 motorcycles in Australia, with plenty of other interesting observations, too

Motorcycle registrations have shown the largest growth in the last five years out of all vehicles on Australian roads, according to a census conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on January 31, 2011.

According to the Motor Vehicle Census (MVS) data, 678,790 motorcycles were registered on that date, a 48.5 percent rise vis-à-vis the last MVS, held in 2006.

The only other vehicle category that comes close to that sort of increase is light rigid trucks (up 26.2 percent), which is ahead of light commercial vehicles (up 20.4), buses (up 17.2), non-freight carrying trucks (up 12.1), and passenger vehicles (up 11.9).

And some other MVS observations:

•Motorcycles accounted for 4.1 percent of all vehicles registered in Australia for the 2011 MVC, up from 3.2 in 2006;
•The average age of Australia’s motorcycles is nine years, with Northern Territory (6.9) and Tasmania (10.4) the bookends;
•The average number of road-going motorcycles per 1000 population in Australia is 30, with Western Australia the pacesetter on 43;
•Of the 678,790 motorcycles registered, 52,990 are fired by leaded fuel, 625,352 by unleaded, one by diesel, and 847 by LPG/dual fuel/other. There were two diesel bikes in the last census;
•Of the 678,790 motorcycles registered, 117,094 were manufactured before 1995, 90,320 between 1996-2000, 162,423 between 2001-2005, 26,605 between 2006-2010, 541 in 2011, and 5528 weren’t specified.

Read more-
http://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/ausstats/subscriber.nsf/0/30A884E9FE0822DACA2578DA0013F656/$File/93090_31%20jan%202011.pdf