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A-GIC: Methodology for an Independent Australian Census Layer
Why Australia needs an independent civic-data layer beside the ABS — and how A-GIC is built.
Official statistics are essential and slow. Both things are true. A-GIC is designed as an always-on civic-data layer that captures public sentiment and lived conditions between official releases. This brief sets out the methodology so others can scrutinise it before the first published wave.
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