Census 2021

[xenon]

What if you had to pay to post. Would I have posted this.

 

[Pickman's model]

What if you had to pay to post. Would I have posted this.

Post from work and you're in effect being paid to post

 

[savoloysam]

Have to admit I've always managed to avoid filling these in, does that make me wrongun (I know I already I am)

Only one time did I get a knock on the door for it and I just told him I submitted it really late because I had been away. I hadn't.

Also who's doing all the data handling for the government? Because if it's Capita they can fuck right off.

 

[moochedit]

Also who's doing all the data handling for the government? Because if it's Capita they can fuck right off.

I can set your mind at rest. The census data handling contract has been given to Facebook so you have nothing to fear!

 

[kenny g]

I generally just start muttering about the weather in a belligerent manner on the rare occasion anyone unwanted knocks on our door. Has done the trick to date.

 

[weltweit]

My son already did it he says.

My letter says do it on the 21st or as soon as possible after.

I wonder if the website will stay up ..

 

[Duncan2]

Not up to speed with this thread so this has probably been covered already but I don't see how the octogenarians and nonagenarians are supposed to comply with their legal obligation to respond to the census when very large numbers of them will not have computers or any ability to take themselves off to the centres where assistance is being made available?Isn't it likely that the 2021 census will record a whopping no-show from this segment of the population?Agreed its not technically difficult but it does seem to assume everyone has a smartphone or computer?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

but it does seem to assume everyone has a smartphone or computer?

you can ring up and request a paper form, according to the bumf i got sent

 

[Duncan2]

Thanks Puddy Tat I must have missed that paragraph in the bumf we were sent.

 

[ska invita]

Thanks Puddy Tat I must have missed that paragraph in the bumf we were sent.

as will many octogenarians and nonagenarians

 

[Spanner]

Could you explain exactly my "business model" is please, Mr Expert, and perhaps give some insights into the kind of lolly I'm presumably rolling in every week. Where do you think the money is coming from?
Not angry, just a bit baffled why you think you're qualified to rock up here and spout total bollocks from a position of supreme ignorance.

Allow me to throw some light into the dark chasms of stupidity in your mind: this site runs on a shoestring. The server costs are just met every month by the kind donations of its users, and the admin/tech stuff is taken care of by unpaid volunteers who generously help out. Whenever there's not enough money in the kitty to cover costs, I ask here and people are usually very quick to respond.

Despite the years and years I've put into running this site - and turning down many lucrative offers in the past - I make absolutely nothing from it and never will. That's why you'll ever see advertising here.

I'm proud and humbled to have helped create such a community though and I'm grateful to the wonderful people who contribute to it. That said, I am getting a bit fed up with you disrupting a thread about the Census, so I suggest you read the rules of the site very carefully before continuing.

Thanks for taking the time to explain.

I apologise for my preconceptions of you, and any negative remarks I made about your motivation.

I was out of order.

 

[WouldBe]

you can ring up and request a paper form, according to the bumf i got sent

I didn't ask for a paper copy they just sent one.

 

[ChrisD]

Not up to speed with this thread so this has probably been covered already but I don't see how the octogenarians and nonagenarians are supposed to comply with their legal obligation to respond to the census when very large numbers of them will not have computers or any ability to take themselves off to the centres where assistance is being made available?Isn't it likely that the 2021 census will record a whopping no-show from this segment of the population?Agreed its not technically difficult but it does seem to assume everyone has a smartphone or computer?

My wife sorted the return for her mum last week. She had to remember the last paid job she did including who she worked for and nature of the job. She used to work for a coal merchant but stopped working 66 years ago ! There was no section to indicate the historic nature of this job or what she'd been doing for the last 65 years !

 

[brogdale]

I didn't ask for a paper copy they just sent one.

The ONS said they'd do this in a small number of areas where they suspected there'd be a lower take-up of the online default. I suppose they're thinking of areas with higher than usual older folk or lower than average access to internet?

 

[not a trot]

My wife sorted the return for her mum last week. She had to remember the last paid job she did including who she worked for and nature of the job. She used to work for a coal merchant but stopped working 66 years ago ! There was no section to indicate the historic nature of this job or what she'd been doing for the last 65 years !

Had the same problem filling in the online forms for my elderly neighbour. She worked in the local greengrocers back in the 70s. All sorted and done our own as well.

 

[moochedit]

I didn't ask for a paper copy they just sent one.

Same here. Apparently they do that in areas they expect few people to do it online. (Someone said that earlier in the thread). I did mine online anyway.

 

[Riklet]

Done ours online.

Didnt answer any of the optional questions. Didnt like the one about where you lived a year ago... maybe this is pandemic related tho?

 

[Boudicca]

Help.

As someone who has used census data many times in the past, I am very happy to fill in the questionnaire.

However I have lodgers, some of the information is quite personal and I'm not comfortable collecting it from them. Also one of them is a full on conspiraloon and will probably refuse to give her details. I'm not sure whether to just say I live on my own or to land her in it.

Ideally I'd like to fill in my details and get links sent to the others for them to fill in their section. Does anyone know if this is possible?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Ideally I'd like to fill in my details and get links sent to the others for them to fill in their section. Does anyone know if this is possible?

Yes, someone in the thread earlier asked the question from the viewpoint of being a house-sharer. They should contact the census people and ask for a personal access code. Not sure if you are supposed to record their presence in a way that says they will answer the detail for themselves

 

[Boudicca]

Yes, someone in the thread earlier asked the question from the viewpoint of being a house-sharer. They should contact the census people and ask for a personal access code. Not sure if you are supposed to record their presence in a way that says they will answer the detail for themselves

Thank you. The thread is 38 pages long and descended into bickering quite early on so I couldn't face reading it all.

 

[Tankus]

Nothing arrived in the post ,so , just went online, got my code , then done and complete in 5 min.

easily accessible form to fill , I thought

 

[Puddy_Tat]

mum-tat did do hers a week or so back (although wondering how she would report a change of circumstances if she dropped dead before today)

i suppose i ought to do something about mine - still trying to deal with the question of visibility / concern about it being used against me if the government gets any more far-right

 

[moochedit]

Nothing arrived in the post ,so , just went online, got my code , then done and complete in 5 min.

easily accessible form to fill , I thought

My mum said she did that and then her letter arrived an hour later. How do you prove you live at the address without the access code letter? Can you fill in for any address?

 

[Tankus]

get the access code online

You can request a new access code to start a new census if you have lost or not received an access code. This can be sent to you by text or post.

had it by txt straight away

 

[quiet guy]

Think you'd get found out if you tried filling one in for BoJo at 10 Downing Street.

How many children - don't know
Profession - Complete arse

 

[seeformiles]

“You fill up my Census....”

 

[brogdale]

Any objectors been knocked up by the 'goons' yet?

 

[belboid]

Any objectors been knocked up by the 'goons' yet?

I thought you said only those who are empowered to take statements are ‘goons’, now you’re back to insulting thousands of poorly paid workers.

 

[brogdale]

I thought you said only those who are empowered to take statements are ‘goons’, now you’re back to insulting thousands of poorly paid workers.

** waves **

 

[belboid]

** waves **

Which is it? Come on, it’s a simple question, much simpler even than the ones on the form.