binary_star Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Actually, I could have planed to have moved to Wales and learnt Welsh in those two weeks but historians will never know because that question was left blank on my form. Xenophobes! *goes supernova* Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/16300-census-forms/page/2/#findComment-420133 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCSB79 Posted March 16, 2011 Author Share Posted March 16, 2011 Jah Lush Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> I will not be filling out my census form this> time... which is illegal. I can only hope that> millions of other will not want to give their data> to a US arms company, and will object to the ?150> million contract being given to them, when public> sector jobs are being lost!> > > I'm not signing mine and here's why.Please sign> the petitionCan I point you in this direction kind sir?http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?27,635771,636325#msg-636325 Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/16300-census-forms/page/2/#findComment-420176 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Got mine ages ago, did it online (had no trouble ianr) but was a bit bemused because the census is supposed to be for a particular (much later) day, but it took all the details OK including who was staying at my house that day!I'm very cynical about the census, I've worked on it twice as an enumerator, the first time was OK, but the last time there were so many cock-ups I just can't believe the results can be accurate. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/16300-census-forms/page/2/#findComment-420187 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCSB79 Posted March 16, 2011 Author Share Posted March 16, 2011 Sue Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Got mine ages ago, did it online (had no trouble> ianr) but was a bit bemused because the census is> supposed to be for a particular (much later) day,> but it took all the details OK including who was> staying at my house that day!> Its all supposed to be for the 27th, none of it should be relevant to the day you filled it in??Shouldn't it? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/16300-census-forms/page/2/#findComment-420196 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asset Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Got ours today. Have to say I was totally oblivious to the fact there was going to be one! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/16300-census-forms/page/2/#findComment-420202 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 SCSB79 Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Its all supposed to be for the 27th, none of it> should be relevant to the day you filled it in??> > Shouldn't it?xxxxxxxExactly. So why don't they block the online site from taking details till 27th? It's just a joke. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/16300-census-forms/page/2/#findComment-420226 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Palaeologus Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 david_carnell Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> > Well that could have completely @#$%& things up.> You weren't meant to fill it in until March 27th.Spoken like a loyal Civil Servant. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/16300-census-forms/page/2/#findComment-420227 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 :)) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/16300-census-forms/page/2/#findComment-420230 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassius Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 I doubt I am going to change my date or place of birth, my ethnicity or my lack of religious persuasion between now and next Sunday. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/16300-census-forms/page/2/#findComment-420513 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 You might change your plans regarding people staying at your house on that night, however, which is one of the questions :) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/16300-census-forms/page/2/#findComment-420521 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianr Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Sue, I think on 27 March you're going to have to recreate the exact circumstances as at the time you submitted the form. The alternatives – prison, a local collapse of space-time, decreased funding for the ED Home for Wayward Hamsters, whatever – don't really bear thinking about. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/16300-census-forms/page/2/#findComment-420529 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aspidistra Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Sue Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> You might change your plans regarding people> staying at your house on that night, however,> which is one of the questions :)As Harold Wilson almost said, a week is a long time in domestic inter-personal relations. B) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/16300-census-forms/page/2/#findComment-420537 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 ianr Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Sue, I think on 27 March you're going to have to> recreate the exact circumstances as at the time> you submitted the form. The alternatives –> prison, a local collapse of space-time, decreased> funding for the ED Home for Wayward Hamsters,> whatever – don't really bear thinking about.xxxxxxxxx:)) :)-DBit of a joke though, isn't it, what's the point in having a census supposedly taken on a certain day and then clearly opening the door to all sorts of inaccuracies. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/16300-census-forms/page/2/#findComment-420546 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narnia Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Having heard the man in charge of organising the Indian census I must say I like their approach. There is an island off the mainland where the natives are less than friendly. In fact it's been made a no-fly zone due to the spear throwing the planes started. Come census time the officials approach the island but not too closely. They throw from their boat into the sea coconuts and others items of interest to the locals.Once the tide brings the items in, the natives come out of hiding to collect everything. When this happens the officials are ready with their camera's and click away. This is how the islands inhabitants are counted. Great. Not sure how they decide what religion they are though. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/16300-census-forms/page/2/#findComment-420556 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianr Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 I would have thought they could do better in helping folk avoid that error.I'm also suspecting that a moderate percentage of people will include as visitors those who've been staying overnight 26-27th, rather than on the Sunday night 27-28th. The only explicit confirmation I found on the website is in the glossary, which I only discovered indirectly: "Census night is the night of Sunday 27 March going into the morning of Monday 28 March." Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/16300-census-forms/page/2/#findComment-420564 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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