The 17,012,560 only equated to £72 million if everyone of the downloads was at a paid rate of £4.25 each !!!!!!!!!!
So on that basis and the unreliability of the extrapolations the £40 million is widely optimistic
David I agree those figures do seem high but they are worked out from the official figures and seem to be the most accurate currently available.
If you have any more accurate figures I would be extremely interested in seeing them.
The figure of £40 million was not a extrapolated figure as I mentioned in the earlier postings, but a figure independently suggested by a group of MPs for the 1911 census not historic figures for the 1901 census.
There does however seem to be an interest from MPs and the more people who write to MPs and Cabinet Ministers about allowing the release of the census the more likely it is there will be a successful outcome.
As mentioned before the 100 year rule was not brought in until 1966, 45 years after the 1921 census.
The 1841 and 1851 census were released in 1912 only 9 years before the 1921 census.
People if they thought about the census release would assume it would be released after about 60 or 70 years.
I.E. Within their lifetime.
Cheers
Guy
