The census is the only way that we can understand the socioeconomic circumstances of our lives in the cities, in the regions, all the way down to our suburbs."From late July, households across the country will have received instructions in the mail on how to complete the Census.Provided they know where they will be on Census night, they can complete the form right away.For people staying in hotels, bed and breakfasts or motels, paper Census forms can be collected from accommodation staff and those in short-term rentals like Airbnb can complete the form online if they have internet access.Dr Allen says while it may seem like people are being excluded, it's important to collect the data on a single evening."That anchor point gives us a scope of who to include and who not to include in that moment And in a couple of projects that we've done with the ABS, it's been primarily to make the census more accessible, both from a linguistic perspective and also in a culturally appropriate way so that people understand that they're not giving away private information in a way that's going to be used against them