What column(s) would you have on the census in your dreams?

[Flattybasher9]

The names of their great, great grandchildren. 

Regards

Malky

[LizzieL]

"Previous address if not at present address for more than 10 years" - quite common on a multitude of forms nowadays but its usually limited to 3 - 5 years.
Making it 10 years, would make it so much easier to track people with common names through each census.

[Rishile]

'Maiden Name' would be useful.

Or even 'names of parents'.

Rishile

[Knight-Sunderland]

Quite simply, "Exact Date of Birth". This for me would resolve a lot of conflicting records and would make it 100x easier to find the right person.

[Finley 1]

Yes photographs - maiden names- and names of infants who died.. that would be great

xin

[tjugg]

I'd settle for neat writing and everything spelt correctly.

[GrahamSimons]

...an assurance that they were telling the truth?

[suey]

I'd settle for neat writing and everything spelt correctly.

Wouldn't that be nice

[suey]

  hello,      what i would have in the 1911 census,because of the space and its one family.
                 
                the names and dates of children who had died.  why? i think the child who has
                died between the 10 years should be remembered. it only in 1911 that you
                find they had more children.  afew times i found there was two john's in the
                family.

                if it was easy, would we be doing this ?

                    billy.
               
               

That's assuming that the parent has actually owned up to the correct number of children born.  I have a family who conveniently forgot that a baby had died, why?   I can only assume it was because the baby was born out of wedlock and the number of years married would not have tallied.