Posted by alexandra_k on August 23, 2018, at 19:10:47
In reply to Re: Feeling harrassed, posted by alexandra_k on August 23, 2018, at 19:04:23
But an interesting thing is that surveys like that provide the government and outside agencies such as the UN and the WHO with information about people in the country.
In this case, information about a random sampling of peoples income and how they spend it.
It has often been noted that we don't have good information about the income of the highest earners. We don't have information about where / how they get their money, or how they spend it.
I guess they don't fill out the survey forms. If they are wealthy, they could simply decide to pay the $600 fine for not completing the survey.
But will it even get to that point? Who decides which people will actually be prosecuted / fined for not filling out their surveys?
Are they really going to pursue this with me, in court, for example, since doing so would likely result in the judiciary curbing the power of Stats NZ by saying that while people are legally required to complete surveys they are most certainly NOT required to let stats nz surveyers into their home or personally tell a stats nz surveyer all their answers to survey questions.
I mean... Do you really see doctors, lawyers, engineers, politians, and chief executives all making a cup of tea to have a yak to their stats nz surveyer?
Even less the gangsters, and so on. I mean c'mon. ffs.
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