I mean 3 of the 5 the answers in that link say that a census will most likely be more accurate than a survey (except in very specific cirumstances). The top voted answer says "So apart from quite unusual circumstances I would say a census is going to be more accurate than a sample." The other two answers point to possible lack of care in some censuses due to the assumption that everyone is covered so no effort needs to be put in to engaging. But as I said, in this specific census we are talking about there are community engagement programmes to try to mitigate this.rutabowa This thread pretty much covers the same topic if you want to read up on it.
Why is it claimed that a sample is often more accurate than a census?
When learning the course of sampling, I meet the following two statements: 1) Sampling error leads to mostly variability, nonsampling errors lead to bias. 2) Because of nonsampling error, a sampl...stats.stackexchange.com
And NONE of the answers go so far as you have done and said "a statistical sample is always better than a census and should always replace them". they make points about efficiency, which of course I agree with and that is why the census only happen every 10 years and most ONS studies are done using sampling (which as i said they need the census data for to do accurately)