I'm currently enjoying the Australian "winter" as I travel around the region talking to SAS customers for the SAS Insight Series. It just so happens that I was in Perth, Western Australia for Australia's Census Night. Because I was in the country on this special day, I was compelled to complete a census form. I found my form in my hotel room in Perth (perhaps left there personally by the Australian Statistician), and I was expected to turn it back to hotel reception, completed.
I was happy to complete the form and thus become a statistic in Australia's permanent census records. In addition to being sort of a geeky story to share at home, it gave me something to talk about when I met with the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Like most of the national stats organizations, the ABS is a big SAS shop. They are also a large beneficiary of the census process, which happens once every 5 years here in Australia.
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You're in Australia & I'm on the Turtle Mountain reservation. If it was winter here I'd hate you but it's actually very beautiful in the summer. Australia still sounds cool.
North Dakota sounds like a fine place to spend the US summer weeks. When my trip is over, I might need to calculate just what I missed in terms of "degree days".
Just think - on the off chance your great-great-great ancestors decide to lodge a freedom of information request to find out who you were, they'll be able to get all your responses verbatim! Assuming you ticked that box at the end, that is ...
I did tick the box, so my descendants and the public at-large will have free and unfettered access to my data in 99 years. I expect they will analyze it using SAS Version 43.5, via SAS Enterprise Guide version 28.2. Probably using PROC MAGICANSWER.