Data Diviners Urge Aussies to Keep Faith in Census and Ignore Digital Crusades The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has issued a timely reminder that the census is not a platform for social media crusades or digital posturing.
The agency's plea to Australians to ignore online battles over how to answer this month's question on religion comes as no surprise, given the increasingly complex landscape of faith and non faith in modern Australia.
Since 1911, the number of people professing a faith has been steadily declining.