Census 2021
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brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Again, I can't see what that's got to do with the religion question?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
god answering their prayers
I can't help you any further.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
That's OK.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
We were talking about the religion question; I think you're talking about bigger issues around the collation of demographic data.
I don't know what makes the neoliberal state confident that it can do without the census in its present form, but I'm kind of assuming there's a belief that they've got alternative means of estimating/modelling demographic trends using real-time, dynamic data sources rather than the decadal snapshot.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
That’s one fuck of a naive assumption.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
It was prefaced with "I don't know what makes the neoliberal state confident that it can do without the census in its present form,", so perhaps you know more?
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
and they said this National census in 2011 could be last of its kind in 2010
interesting 2003 article about the census The last census? - Prospect Magazine
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Yes, they’ve been trying to do away with it for years. Labour wanted to replace it with us cards and other far more intrusive methods of surveillance. Hardly something to support in any way shape or form.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i wasn't proposing or opposing but simply noting
Kevbad the Bad
Amiable Bowel Syndrome
Even the census is unreliable on religious data. I have it on good authority that physical presence ( no host-related puns intended) at religious services this past year has plummeted catastrophically. It's almost as if no-one has been going to church at all, except for vaccinations, of course.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
There is no census data on religious attendance over the last year.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Will you have the opportunity, in any professional capacity, to have any input into the state decision making about the future of the census in 2023?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
?? No. ‘Professional capacity?’ Is that the only relevant capacity?
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
OK, just thought from the way you posted that you were involved in the census.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
What? Miracles - by definition things that are supernatural - are a significant part of a number of religions.
(I'm probably going to regret getting sucked into this weird thread but it's the end of the work day)
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
That's fair enough.
As I said upthread, I too have used censal data professionally, and regret that the government's stupid decision to outsource to a vile US defence & spy corporation means that I feel unable to participate.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
That's not true.
I've tried to explore the relevance, construction and use of a number of individual questions that appear in the census.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
You've been there all the way...so you know.
ElizabethofYork
Old Crone
Perhaps we should all claim to be Hedonists. Then we might get lots of extra days off.
hash tag
Books, not bombs
That couldn't be good for the UK economy.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
It might be
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