Census

[solarman216]

Well thanks guys, you have confirmed what I thought, you are mostly anti this kind of crap, so I will not be filling mine in, it will go where all junk mail goes, into the burnable pile, Rick

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

Extreme like the americas back, like it, there is a very good sketch, tongue in cheek
along lines well you've proven cant look after yourselves so taking you back in hand.

irish on census, hmm tricky, are the NI folks irish, which sounds like as per republic
or british, or english, isnt that when GB becomes UK when NI is included.

Til recently the US owned rail freight operator was English Welsh Scottish, better not
say is now owned by DB Schenker yep the germans

[TONUP]

Originally Posted by PLANK

i was Chinese at the dentist this week

What time was your appointment... 2:30... get it? get it?

Never mind I apologise!!

Alan

[lacroupade]

Tonup - go and stand in the corner!

I'm 56 and I've done one census in all those years.

I believe the number of uncompleted forms ran into the millions last time

Oh and this apparently....

You can be fined for refusing to answer any census question EXCEPT those related to religion.

QUOTE:
Penalties
(1) If any person—
(a) refuses or neglects to comply with or acts in contravention of any of the provisions of this Act or any Order in Council or regulations made under this Act; or
(b) being a person required under this Act to make a statutory declaration with respect to the performance of his duties, makes a false declaration; or
(c) being a person required by an Order in Council or regulations made under this Act to make, sign, or deliver any document, makes, signs, or delivers, or causes to be made, signed, or delivered a false document; or
(d) being a person required in pursuance of any such Order in Council or regulations to answer any question, refuses to answer or gives a false answer to that question; he shall for each offence be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding [level 3 on the standard scale].
[(1A) But no person shall be liable to a penalty under subsection (1) for refusing or neglecting to state any particulars in respect of religion.]
[(2) If the Registrar-General for England and Wales or the Registrar-General for Scotland (“the Registrars”) or any person who is—
(a) under the control of either of the Registrars; or
(b) a supplier of any services to either of them, discloses any personal census information to another person, without lawful authority, he shall be guilty of an offence.
(3) If any person discloses to another person any personal census information which he knows has been disclosed in contravention of this Act, he shall be guilty of an offence.
(4) It shall be a defence for a person charged with an offence under subsection (2) or (3) to prove—
(a) that at the time of the alleged offence he believed—
(i) that he was acting with lawful authority; or
(ii) that the information in question was not personal census information; and
(b) that he had no reasonable cause to believe otherwise.
(5) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (2) or (3) shall be liable—
(a) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to both;
(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine or to both.
(6) For the purposes of this section—
(a) references to a Registrar include, where he is also the holder of a designated office, references to him in his capacity as the holder of that office;
(b) a person is to be treated as under the control of one of the Registrars if he is, or has been—
(i) employed by that Registrar (whether or not on a full-time basis); or
(ii) otherwise employed, or acting, (whether or not on a full-time basis) as part of that Registrar’s staff for purposes of this Act;
(c) a person is to be treated as a supplier of services to a Registrar if he—.
(i) supplies, or has supplied, any services to that Registrar in connection with the discharge by that Registrar of any of his functions; or
(ii) is, or has been, employed by such a supplier.
(7) In this section— “census information” means any information which is—
(i) acquired by any person mentioned in subsection (2) above in the course of any work done by him in connection with the discharge of functions under section 2 or 4 of this Act;
(ii) acquired by any such person in the course of working, for purposes of section 5 of this Act, with any information acquired as mentioned in subparagraph (i) above; or
(iii) derived from any information so acquired; “designated office”, in relation to a Registrar, means any office for the time being designated by him in writing for the purposes of this section; and “personal census information” means any census information which relates to an identifiable person or household.]

[lacroupade]

Oh and this is a laugh........and this, although old, tells us that its dear old Capita, private sector leeching sub-contractor darling of the public sector running the census. If you've ever had a problem with your council tax you'll know what an utter shower of sh1t they are

[Liam]

So I suppose if I get the Census Enumerator's job,I'll fall out with a lot of the people on here On the other hand,I'll have a few quid coming in for 8 weeks which will be nice.

Why should they have an option to put Irish as nationality on an UK census form or a work related form?

Anyway,I'll fill it in, Tesco and other supermarket chains know when and what type of bog roll you buy so no big deal if the Government know what I like to have a little sexual fun with. It's much easier to refuse to fill in a form than march to the House of Commons to protest, sadly not filling in the form is nowhere near as effective as people power, but if it makes you feel powerful for a few minutes, what the heck,enjoy your mini revolution.

dont capita do congestion charge aswell! big brother is watching.

[briggie]

i suppose this information will become available to marketing companies for a price obviously like the community register

[lacroupade]

Originally Posted by jace

dont capita do congestion charge aswell! big brother is watching.

Certainly do. They make millions out of local and central government.

i wonder how many ex ministers are on board or listed as "consultants" lol.

[lacroupade]

Originally Posted by jace

i wonder how many ex ministers are on board or listed as "consultants" lol.

more then you can ever imagine mate - jobs for the boys and all that.

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

so have we got a date for the census then. think previously was early spring
once clocks go forward, april/may maybe avoids major holidays.

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

http://2011.census.gov.uk/

27th March 2011

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

can do it online, with unique identifier from paper form when it arrives

[lacroupade]

Originally Posted by Thomas-the-Terrano2

http://2011.census.gov.uk/

27th March 2011

Shame, I'm camping on that day

...and before Plank grasps the opportunity, yes, its probably 'within tent' to avoid the census