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Re: Census 2021
« Reply #72 on: Thursday 18 March 21 15:43 GMT (UK) »
Completed my bit of the census.  Slightly baffled as to why they want details of my employment when
I haven't worked for over 30 years.  What value could that possibly have for them?
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England: Devon, London, New Zealand
Holdway: Wiltshire
Hooper: Bristol, Somerset
Knowling: Devon, London
Southcott: Devon, China
Strong: Wiltshire
Watson: Cambridgeshire
White: Bristol
Windo - Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire

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« Reply #73 on: Friday 19 March 21 17:44 GMT (UK) »
Girl Guide reply 71, a person's previous employment may influence their health and life expectancy.
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« Reply #74 on: Friday 19 March 21 18:00 GMT (UK) »
Possibly but I don't really think that my job as a clerk/typist would have any enormous impact on my health.

As I said in my earlier reply, I haven't been employed for over 30 years.   If anything was going to have an impact on my health, it was more likely through being a carer for my husband for 11 years before he died last year.  Being a carer isn't a paid job.

Question 24 related to caring but that's only if it is current, not in the past.
Ashford: Somerset, London
England: Devon, London, New Zealand
Holdway: Wiltshire
Hooper: Bristol, Somerset
Knowling: Devon, London
Southcott: Devon, China
Strong: Wiltshire
Watson: Cambridgeshire
White: Bristol
Windo - Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire

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Re: Census 2021
« Reply #75 on: Saturday 20 March 21 07:37 GMT (UK) »
Good morning,

But if they don't bother then they risk prosecution. It is a legal requirement that every household has to complete it by one f those methods.

Jon915

I just heard on BBC Breakfast programme that less than 200 were prosecuted for non completion in 2011.
But how do people who are currently out of the country manage? I know someone who is stuck in Australia and has been for several months.
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott


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Re: Census 2021
« Reply #76 on: Saturday 20 March 21 08:17 GMT (UK) »
I used to do electoral registration canvas and the local authority found it too time consuming to take people to court for non return of forms so only did it in extreme cases.

Possibly but I don't really think that my job as a clerk/typist would have any enormous impact on my health.

It could have left you with repetitive strain injury  :-\
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« Reply #77 on: Saturday 20 March 21 08:25 GMT (UK) »
Yes it could have Rosie but it didn't.  Maybe I didn't do enough typing to get that condition.  All in the past now anyway.  :)
Ashford: Somerset, London
England: Devon, London, New Zealand
Holdway: Wiltshire
Hooper: Bristol, Somerset
Knowling: Devon, London
Southcott: Devon, China
Strong: Wiltshire
Watson: Cambridgeshire
White: Bristol
Windo - Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire

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« Reply #78 on: Saturday 20 March 21 10:28 GMT (UK) »
I did ours for my husband and I as I'm better at reading questions online than he is. He's older than me and has been retired for many years. I knew the last job he did, but when it came to his job title I asked him what his last one was. He couldn't actually remember, so we made a best guess from our collective memories. We too were both surprised that they wanted to know about his last job from so long ago.
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« Reply #79 on: Saturday 20 March 21 10:48 GMT (UK) »
If you are out of the Country and cannot return for Census Day, get on to LiveChat and explain.  They will send you a census code by SMS, and you can complete the Census online.
NEILSON - Erskine/Bishopton, Renfrewshire and Glasgow
BROWN - Hamilton, Lanarkshire
CAIRNS - Hamilton, Lanarkshire
FINDLAY - Kirriemuir area, Forfarshire/Angus
PORTER - Tobermore, Derry, Ireland

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« Reply #80 on: Saturday 20 March 21 11:57 GMT (UK) »
There are a few sailors in my line and my OH's line.   The were only entered on any census when they were either at home on leave, or on ship in a UK port   

When answering the question of what work did you used to do; I wrote "general dogsbody".   
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie:  Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke