Census 2021

[brogdale]

My brother had his DNA done, and aside from the 60-odd per cent Irish, the rest was a hodge-podge of English, Scottish, Scandinavian, Spanish, Central and Eastern European. So, I'm wondering if he'll now put the full breakdown on the form? I think he should

I gather that DNA testing for ancestry is becoming a more common thing; that might well make a few folk think carefully about that question, I suppose?

 

[Serge Forward]

I reckon he needs to put every single miniscule percentage decimal point in there

 

[brogdale]

I reckon he needs to put every single miniscule percentage decimal point in there

"...best describes..."

So, yeah!

 

[kabbes]

no they wouldnt. Most people will simply tick the very first box (again). Cos most people aren't trying to be smart arses. But if that is your belief, go for it.

Which brings us back to the fact that the question is conceptually a garbled mess requiring an subjective assessment of a subjective criteria, meaning that any statistics derived from it will be flawed, by which I mean systematically biased. The moment the answers you get depend on what you put as your first box, you have a problem.

 

[belboid]

Pettifogging. It isn't perfect, but it is simple, straight forward and vastly better than existing alternatives. What is in the first box is what is the likeliest answer based upon previous censuses and existing knowledge, any other option would be notably more confusing.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Just completed it, less than 10 minutes. Wasn’t that hard, reckon I got a decent score.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

would i get prosecuted if i put 'mixed, black and white cat' in the write in box?

 

[moochedit]

Just completed it, less than 10 minutes. Wasn’t that hard, reckon I got a decent score.

Thought we had to do it march 21st or something like that? Not had the letter yet.

 

[moochedit]

would i get prosecuted if i put 'mixed, black and white cat' in the write in box?

Try it! Let us know how you get on

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Thought we had to do it march 21st or something like that? Not had the letter yet.

You can do it in advance if you know who will be in your house on 21st March, this year more than any we can be pretty sure on that one.

 

[kabbes]

would i get prosecuted if i put 'mixed, black and white cat' in the write in box?

One of the censuses from 100ish years ago includes somebody listing their cat with occupation as “mouser”

 

[danny la rouge]

You can do it in advance if you know who will be in your house on 21st March, this year more than any we can be pretty sure on that one.

There’s a stable owner in Bethlehem who’d recommend caution.

 

[belboid]

would i get prosecuted if i put 'mixed, black and white cat' in the write in box?

If said cats name was on the deeds, tenancy or paid any of the bills it would be required I think.

 

[kenny g]

Straight into the bin shall it go. Total bullshit.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

There’s a stable owner in Bethlehem who’d recommend caution.

You can go back in and change it if you need to, would imagine they had Brenda in mind when they sorted that out.

 

[planetgeli]

Straight into the bin shall it go. Total bullshit.

I grew up in what was called an 'expanded town' in the 60s and 70s. Overspill London, solving their housing crisis by exporting their population. I had but a minimal grasp on this when I was a teenager, but I remember it did affect how the people I lived with thought.

Nearly 50 years on this grabbed my attention again a few weeks ago. Thanks to the internet (ain't it great sometimes?) I was able to google a load of interesting stuff about this. One bit of that interesting stuff was being able to find the answer in 2 seconds as to just how much my town expanded rapidly compared to decades of almost non-growth before. From this I was able to gain a better grasp of the realities people in that town faced, a better understanding of why people's attitudes were the way they were when I was a teenager.

I couldn't have done that without the census.

So no. Not total bullshit. At all.

 

[brogdale]

Straight into the bin shall it go. Total bullshit.

They've said that they'll only be delivering paper forms in a limited number of areas and most of us will just get a letter with the access codes on it.

I'm wondering how that might affect rates of return; with the delivery of a substantial form to fill in it was, I think, perhaps harder to ignore/put to the back go the mind. But a letter with codes?

Hmmm I suppose time will tell.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

So you can actually put your national identity as: none?

 

[A380]

Ethnicity- Sand Person.

 

[Orang Utan]

So you can actually put your national identity as: none?

You can put anything - the ‘other’ field is blank

 

[brogdale]

So you can actually put your national identity as: none?

Yep, if that's how you would describe it, under "Other, write in":

 

[AmateurAgitator]

Yep, if that's how you would describe it, under "Other, write in":

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That's good

 

[rutabowa]

Did you know that whilst in 2001 350,000 people put "jedi" as religion, by 2011 this figure had halved? Changing demographics.

 

[Orang Utan]

Did you know that whilst in 2001 350,000 people put "jedi" as religion, by 2011 this figure had halved? Changing demographics.

The joke wore off

 

[rutabowa]

I could not comment on that interpretation

 

[kabbes]

Did you know that whilst in 2001 350,000 people put "jedi" as religion, by 2011 this figure had halved? Changing demographics.

Attack of the Clones (2002) and The Clone Wars (2004) converted people to the dark side.

 

[moochedit]

Attack of the Clones (2002) and The Clone Wars (2004) converted people to the dark side.

Yeah bet the recent Disney films lost a few members as well!

Wonder if The Mandalorian has caused any converts from "Jedi" to "Mandalorian" this time?

 

[moochedit]

Did you know that whilst in 2001 350,000 people put "jedi" as religion, by 2011 this figure had halved? Changing demographics.

Their lack of faith is disturbing!

 

[brogdale]

Full list of 'other' religions recorded by the ONS in 2011:



Take yer pick!

 

[brogdale]

I could not comment on that interpretation

But the ONS are very clear about the limitations of their question methodology wrt to religion:



It's only about self-described 'connection' or 'affiliation', not about actual practice, observance or belief, so folk saying they feel connected with Jediism seems reasonable enough.