General Chat

Grannyfranny, they do say that the form can be sent in early, listing those you expect to be in that abode on Sunday, stating that you can let them know if there is any change. It may be to avoid the system crashing if everyone decided to send them on the day - which many will do, rather than complete it during the following working days.

Ah, I take it all back then. I'll take pot luck with ours after Sunday, maybe it'll be quiet late evenings.

Florence, ours is next year.

I was an enumerator on the 2001 census, and my area was much reduced on the first day when I discovered that only a small part of a new estate had actually been built!!

I also think I remember that only the first page (with personal details) was compulsory. All the rest was optional. When the forms came back, in sackloads!! all we had to check was whether the first bit was completed, which made the job much quicker. I enjoyed it though.

Just goes to show that David Cameron had no idea of forward planning!

I haven't looked at the census form yet, so there may be a logical answer to this, but I thought I heard a discussion about there being a question about military service.

The discussion was regarding the ability to highlight where people were and whether they might need future input from welfare services etc.

How does that work, if the census pages are not linked to an address?

Likely to use postcodes for future planning of hospitals, care, schools and such like - rather than full addresses. Gwyn.

Edit: also residential zones, light and heavy industrial zones, shopping - a whole range of things.

They're also hoping the homeless will be able to fill in forms this year.
However, as the Government's estimate of 4,266 rough sleepers in England has been proven woefully wrong - the pandemic, and the 'Everyone In' scheme to house rough sleepers during the first lockdown, exposed the real number as 37,000, one wonders whether there are enough facilities for them all to fill in the form. :-(

I get the planning, JoyLouise, it was the not knowing where ex-military people were that I didn't get.

Service Pensions would already link them to an address? so I didn't understand how an 'anonymous' census would identify their needs.

Maybe I should read the forms, then all will become clear ;-)

How will they reach the homeless?

I suppose some of them may have fancy phones and access to the internet. At the moment they can't even go into the libraries to warm up.

Rollo yes I do know that. it was just a thought.

Homeless shelters, nameslessone, and those day /night shelters - you know, the ones where many have been closed :-|

I was thinking about those actually living on the streets not those that have accessed shelters.

:

This is what they hope will happen:

Engagement with people who are homeless

In the build up to Census 2021, our census engagement managers will be getting in touch with shelters, hostels and day/night centres to organise times for our census officers to visit to provide paper questionnaires and guidance on filling them out. They will also be raising awareness of the census and encouraging participation.

Nearer the time, census officers will hand-deliver a manager questionnaire, which contains a unique access code for online completion, and should be filled out by the centre or shelter manager on census day – 21 March 2021 – as well as individual forms to be completed by those staying at the accommodation. The forms will contain an access code that will enable people to complete online if they prefer.

Working closely with local authorities and grassroots organisations we will be encouraging homeless people to attend homeless accommodations, hostels and day/night shelters in order to complete their census form.

Field officers have a 3-day window (20-22nd March) to complete the count for the homeless community and will make individual arrangements with each centre/shelter

I wonder if there will be many people recorded twice, this year in England, next year in Scotland.?

If there are, at least there will be an indication of when they moved.

I have been in UK for each of the census since I was born.
This rather hides the fact that I spent quite a bit of time in between, living in Cyprus ( 2 separate occasions) and in Germany.

I've just realised, my parents and brothers came to the UK from Malta in March 1951.
I wonder if they actually filled in a form?

Gwyn, there will be just as many on no census at all! Living in Scotland now and moving to England before our census next year.

Andysmum

......and those people are bound to be the ones whose descendants go searching for them :-0

Did our census online this afternoon. Nice and simple questions apart from the "GCE" thingy, had to think about that for few seconds. I did the first part of the census and my own data and "Er Indoors" did her data - no probs. I'm 80 and "Er Indoors well over 70. Someone mentioned uncertain or summat re National Service. The National Servicemen did same job as regulars, quite often died alongside regulars all for a pittance. Had I been a NSM my answer to the military question would have been exactly the same as I put having served as a Regular.. Military charities treat NSM exactly the same as regulars and rightly so

Last time we had a census here in Canada, there was a long and a short version.

Lucky pick as to which one you got in the mail.

The long version wanted much more in depth detail about you and your family's lives.

As I said earlier, we have not anything bout this year's, which was due to be given in May. So just waiting to find out if we have a similar 2 formats.

Well it's been submitted to the best of our ability.

Presumably the code links to old electoral lists or past census because when I started filling in the form, my late husband's name appeared. :-S