Making a new census for future genealogists

[MrsLizzy]

Nothing wrong with Klingons that a little therapy wouldn't put right!

[tony h]

Fascinating Tony A census enumerator collecting Irish car registrations at a port He/she would be in some predicament if an Irishman was driving a car with either an English registration or a personalised plate. Would he/she have missed those Irish people in the count. I remember collecting car registrations as a kid but dropped that interest as they had very little collectors value

Chris

Yeah, I was fascinated by that, how do you tell if the driver is English or Irish apart from the bad driving and i've left that question open

Cheers
Tony

[Christopher]

Despite the fact that there is a Jewish Community in Ireland, in their wisdom, the Irish census people decided to exclude a box asking whether or not people were members of the Jewish faith because the number of members of that faith was so low. How will genealogists of the future assist Jews to trace their Irish ancestors at the beginning of the twentyfirst century   http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2006/04/15/story470060040.asp

Chris

[Gadget]

Hmmm, not to my knowledge! Maybe i was missed somehow or maybe i threw it away not realising what it was. In 2001 i moved houses and that was in the April so maybe the form had been sent back for the house i moved into and the other was never sent back as nobody lived there for ages!Oh well never mind, i will do it next time and make sure i am not down as a jedi or Klingon!
 

The 2001 had quite a high non-completion rate. Not as high as in 1991 when many 'de-numerated' because of the poll tax fiasco. The OPCS (as was then) had to 'size it up'. I did quite a lot of statistical analysis on it about poverty, etc. and it was even worse in the very deprived areas.
In 1971, husband and I invited the enumerator in and queried him for 1/2 about the census, just to see how well he had been briefed. In 1991, someone I knew was the enumerator for our area (not here). When he came to collect ours (already sealed 'cos we knew him!) he regaled me with how there were 3 women living at xxx, who had yyy children, etc., etc.
Now don't you be doing things like that Mrs AndyPandy 

Gadget

[Shaztoni]

I don't and I wouldn't, people keep asking me if I'm snooping into them, and I can honestly say I can't be bothered, all I want is the numbers so I never have to do this darn job again, all my hope and wishful thinking at the beginning is gone now 

Sharon

[Christopher]

Hiya Gadget,

I understood census information was private.
Census enumerators regaling people with information from other people's census forms should be reported

Chris

[Shaztoni]

That is right Chris, and that is what you should have done Gadget. If I tell anyone anything about the actually census information I can be fined 25,000. So I'm keeping my lips shut.

Sharon

[Christopher]

That is a steep fine Sharon. I looked in Google but could not find chapter and verse. Where should a person go if they wish to report an enumerator who discloses private and confidential facts about one's neighbours. Gadget, if the enumerator was telling you about other people then what on earth could other people have been hearing about some of the things that you entered on the census form about your household

Chris

[Shaztoni]

Over here you'd report it to the police as it is illegal, I'm sure it would be the same in England/Scotland/N Ireland/Wales.

Sharon