Freedom of Information?!
So I had a bit of a 'heated' discussion with a friend of mine who works at the ABS recently. Now, I'm not one to get really passionate about anti-govt things, but the ABS touched a sore point when I was actually curious and decided to run some queries about demographics in Sydney.
Little did I know that all the effort I spent in filling out the CENSUS forms (it takes at least 40 minutes of my time every four years) is not accessible unless I contribute a small fee! To be fair, they do have the basic data available on their website - gender, age, employment status, industry, etc - but not ENOUGH information for what I was after.
So it made me think about other market research places that actually PAY their contributors as part of the exercise. So why is it that I don't get paid to provide my information AND I need to pay to access it? Does anyone else think this is highly unfair?
Little did I know that all the effort I spent in filling out the CENSUS forms (it takes at least 40 minutes of my time every four years) is not accessible unless I contribute a small fee! To be fair, they do have the basic data available on their website - gender, age, employment status, industry, etc - but not ENOUGH information for what I was after.
So it made me think about other market research places that actually PAY their contributors as part of the exercise. So why is it that I don't get paid to provide my information AND I need to pay to access it? Does anyone else think this is highly unfair?
posted by K @ 10:08 pm
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