With the announcement on the first attempt to provide an online service for the Australian population on the Australian Bureau of Statistics(ABS), doing the important survey came the crash of the network on on the 9th August 2016.So thousands on thousands of people could not complete it online and are waiting their turn in doing so or even waiting for a paper document to be sent to them (rather than fill it online).
Here is a note from the ABS website on what has happened:
2016 Census 9 August online form outage update On 9 August, the ABS was subjected to an attempt to frustrate its collection of Census data. Census security was not compromised and no data was lost. The events varied in nature and severity, and led the ABS to adopt a very cautious approach in relation to the 2016 Census online form.
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So, I have a pretty much a very simple solution, for the next online ABS survey and that is instead of making a majority of our population, should be provide different days to upload and complete their survey. For example we have a population of over 24,000,000 - divide that over 10 days, so that there is minimum 2,500,000 entries of traffic on the website, which eases the flow of traffic to the ABS website.
When issuing 16 digit numbers being sent to households, allocate numbers starting with 0 to commence on the first day, numbers starting with 1 on the second day and so on. It is just a way to alleviate the trafficking of survey being completing on one major day.
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