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On Tuesday night, Australian citizen Kevin Yam will fill out the census for the first time. When he comes to the ancestry question, he plans to proudly write “Hongkonger” — a nod to the place he was born and lived for most of his life, before recent political turmoil forced him to leave. But “Hongkonger” will not register in the data-gathering exercise, because it is not an option in the census’s ancestry category, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The ABS uses the Australian Standard Classification of Cultural and Ethnic Groups (ASCCEG) to code ethnic groups. “Hong Kong…
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