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So if I was 16 and livubg at home my parent filling in the form has the right to questuon me about my sexuality?
MO | 28.09.19 - 7:16 a.m. | #
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Most of the questions you might have about the 2021 census are answered in the 34 page House of Commons briefing paper
(or via the link to Guidance for questions on sex, gender identity and sexual orientation for the 2019 Census Rehearsal for the 2021 Census).
diamond geezer | Homepage | 28.09.19 - 7:32 a.m. | #
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God, I hate the Census: 1) a reminder of how quickly a decade has passed and 2) always some nosy question. I recall years back many moons ago being asked for my occupation so I put down 'Bank clerk', the follow up was 'what work do you do?'. Answer 'clerical work in a bank'. DG, thanks for the reminder I'll book a holiday now. Or perhaps not, who will be the next Thomas Cook?
Very much Anon | 28.09.19 - 8:21 a.m. | #
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As a keen genealogist, the Victorian censuses have been a godsend.
I view them in the same way as people view planting trees. We do it, not for ourselves, but so those to come may reap the benefits. They may be an intrusion every 10 years, but in another 100 years time they will provide a valuable record of life in the 2020s, just as we today look back on footage of WW1.
Cornish Cockney | 28.09.19 - 8:44 a.m. | #
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The census has been vital for planning future transport investment through the where do you work and how do you travel to work questions.
Flare | 28.09.19 - 8:59 a.m. | #
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If someone would prefer to keep answers private from other people in their household, they can ask for a personal form/individual questionnaire.
It doesn’t matter if they are already included on the household form. They can still submit a personal form and the census people take care of the rest.
Scoobery Poujft | 28.09.19 - 9:09 a.m. | #
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Good luck with being a guinea pig, DG. Back in the eighties (I think) Haringey was one of the test areas for the ethnicity question which was fun. I understood at the time we were one of the most ethnically diverse areas so they could get a broad range of respondents. So does this mean Hackney is one of the most gender diverse areas?
Caroline Greenwell | 28.09.19 - 9:29 a.m. | #
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I'm hoping to become bionic by the time of the census of 2041 and when that little box flags up: "I am not a robot" I'll demand a change, as once my enhancements/modifications are more than 50% of my body I'll self-define as robotic more than human.
UltraMan | 28.09.19 - 9:34 a.m. | #
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I enjoy filling in forms. I would happily complete a census form every week, so long as I was sure that no-one would profit from my data, nor send me spam.
Malcolm | 28.09.19 - 9:39 a.m. | #
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A very good history of the census, including reasons why it was first set up and how it has changed over the years:
[Guardian book review]
jack hopkins | 28.09.19 - 9:47 a.m. | #
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We don't have censuses in Norway any more. The last one was in 2011. Advances in information technology has made them redundant. When we move we send a change of address notification to the National Population Registry.
Dubidubno | 28.09.19 - 1:01 p.m. | #
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One thing that leapt out at me, at least from the introductory leaflet* was the lack of any offer of versions in other languages, which one had come to expect from official documents, at least here in Tower Hamlets.
*(I'm going to wait to fill in the actual form - you never know, I might suddenly acquire a family or a harem)
Autolycus | Homepage | 28.09.19 - 1:31 p.m. | #
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I completed mine yesterday (living in Ceredigion), however haven’t submitted it yet because I’m waiting for the others to add their replies.
We are a bunch of unrelated people living in a house share which creates an awkward situation because everyone can log in with the code and spy on others’ personal information. Nobody seems to mind though.
Cy | 28.09.19 - 2:33 p.m. | #
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Cy - I guess it's no different from the big paper form where you could leaf through the other pages to see what others had written.
martin | 28.09.19 - 6:06 p.m. | #
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I certainly welcome the census going online. For at least two censuses in the last century, I never submitted my form, because you had to give it personally to a census-collector (or whatever they were called) and I was never in when they came round. At least this way people can fill it in and submit it without extra faff, assuming they’re online.
Baldassaro | 29.09.19 - 10:40 a.m. | #
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enumerator (/ɪˈnjuːməreɪtə/): noun a person employed in taking a census of the population.
I wonder if they had to take down their own details, and put "census enumerator" as their occupation.
Andrew | 29.09.19 - 10:47 a.m. | #
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Andrew - from memory, it depended whether being an enumerator was their only job. If they had a full-time job, it was that occupation that was recorded.
In 2011, I had just retired and was a Census Officer (managing a team of enumerators), so that was my occupation at that time.
John Simmons | 29.09.19 - 9:30 p.m. | #
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In my day it was sex now it's gender, so it goes. On the census it's both!?
colin | 03.10.19 - 2:05 p.m. | #
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