2011 census form peek

[Sloe Gin]

Wouldn't it be a lark if everyone went and stayed in somebody else's house overnight, just to be contrary ...... 

[millymcb]

or went on a house crawl...visiting lots of different houses all through the night


Milly

[Nick29]

So really this census wont be a snap shot of where everyone was on the night of the 27th March, but will record where you were when you decide to complete it, which could be 3 weeks before census night. I can still see some people being recorded two or three times at different places - great fun for genealogists in a hundred years time.  

Yes.   Students could be counted twice.  Once at home by their parents, and again by the University hall  or their student shared house.

... so the government can keep a track on their TV licences 

[Nick29]

So really this census wont be a snap shot of where everyone was on the night of the 27th March, but will record where you were when you decide to complete it, which could be 3 weeks before census night. I can still see some people being recorded two or three times at different places - great fun for genealogists in a hundred years time.  

I think the art of genealogy will be either dead, or only in the hands of experts in a hundred years time.   Too many people not bothering to get married, or divorcing several times and having lots of children with different partners.  Lots of children names after pop stars and football players.  Too difficult for your average amateur genealogist 

[coombs]

As said I might doss in an old war bunker to avoid the census. I will feel like my ancestor who seemed to dodge the 1881 census yet was in the village in 1871 and in 1885.

[nigelp]

How about spending census night in a traffic jam on the M25?    How should that be enumerated? 

Nigel

[jane l]

we won't be home but away in Wotton-Under-Edge- so will be a visitor  that will confuse both them +  us
Jane

[carol8353]

How about spending census night in a traffic jam on the M25?    How should that be enumerated? 

Nigel

Well lets hope it doesn't snow on 27th March like it did just before Xmas.
There may be people all over the floor at Heathrow airport and in traffic jams all round the country...........now wouldn't that be fun?

 

Carol

[Springbok]

Having let OH fill in (in pencil) his bit (and then corrected his errors!!) , I was able to really look at the requirements.

.After entering that I had been educated, obtaining  School Cert.(Don't ask!!) Then I almost had no life!!after that(Just a bit about my job) 

Whist it is obviously geared to the Governments future planning ( I've filled in three NZ Census which were on the same lines)
 It is disappointing for genealogists with regards to any answers which we would like to leave our descendants.Certainly some of the earlier census have been more informative than this will be.

Spring