Census Forms

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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*

[SCSB79]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> 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 petition

Can I point you in this direction kind sir?

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?27,635771,636325#msg-636325

[Sue]

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.

[SCSB79]

Sue Wrote:

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> 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?

[Asset]

Got ours today. Have to say I was totally oblivious to the fact there was going to be one!

[Sue]

SCSB79 Wrote:

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> Its all supposed to be for the 27th, none of it

> should be relevant to the day you filled it in??

>

> Shouldn't it?

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Exactly. So why don't they block the online site from taking details till 27th? It's just a joke.

[Michael Palaeologus]

david_carnell Wrote:

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> Well that could have completely @#$%& things up.

> You weren't meant to fill it in until March 27th.

Spoken like a loyal Civil Servant.

[Sue]

:))

[Cassius]

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.

[Sue]

You might change your plans regarding people staying at your house on that night, however, which is one of the questions :)

[ianr]

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.

[aspidistra]

Sue Wrote:

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> 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)

[Sue]

ianr Wrote:

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> 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.

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:)) :)-D

Bit 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.

[Narnia]

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.

[ianr]

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."