2914.0.55.002 - 2006 Census of Population and Housing: Media Releases and Fact Sheets, 2006

ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 27/06/2007 First Issue

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10.15% of all occupied private dwellings (771,130) submitted their information via eCensus.
Between 6.00 pm and midnight Census night, 313,756 forms were submitted, or just over 40% of the total number of eforms submitted.
Women aged 30–34 were the group with the highest rate of use of the eCensus (99,354 women or 13.76% of females in that category).
2,152,834 people (or 10.73% of the population) had their information included in the eCensus.
Family households (11.64%) were more likely to be included in the eCensus than group households (9.61%) or lone-person households (8.07%).
Families with children (12.30%) were more likely to participate in the eCensus than families without children (10.60%).
The Australian Capital Territory had the highest take-up rate of all the states and territories, with 17.15% of occupied private dwellings, which equates to 17.32% of the population of the ACT. This was followed by Western Australia with 11.09% of occupied private dwellings submitting eCensus returns. This equates to 11.79% of the population of WA.

Source: ABS 2006 Census.

Table 1. 2006 Census: eCensus take up rate for occupied private dwellings by state/territory

	eForm
State	%

NSW	10.23
Vic.	10.03
Qld	10.32
SA	8.13
WA	11.09
Tas.	8.06
NT	7.77
ACT	17.15
OT(a)	1.51
Aust.	10.15

(a) Other Territory