Yippee!! My Census Form Is Here.

Just got the census form .

Unfortunately there are not many questions that I can misunderstand .

Although is says that it should be completed on or after the 27th I have already done so as I don't think my circumstances will change. I will still have the same name, will have been born on the same date, still retired, still have done the same job etc. I'll send it off on the 27th. :thumb:

It took me all of 12 minutes to complete and I economised on the use of ink by keeping my lettering to approx 2mm - the same as their printing.

As they didn't say that I had to leave a gap between words I was also able to save energy

My job title was 'Big Boss' and the job I did was 'Everything'. Unfortunately they didn't ask what my staff did so I couldn't put 'Not a lot'.

Everything that I put on the form was correct to the best of my ability.

Enjoy your form filling :D

 

Good evening Shiney yes completed mine as well,I sent mine off as soon as I had filled it in,They sent it to me before the 27th so they can have it back before the 27th

 

Good evening woo,

Well done. They'll probably have one of their census assistants bring it back to you on, or after, the 27th.

 

Hi Shiney That,s OK then as long as they let me know if its A.M or P.M Perhaps I should have filled it in on line,then they would have received it even earlier.

 

One year I had the census assistant come back three times. She asked me whether I was having trouble understanding the form and my answer was "No, but you get paid every time you turn up so I thought I would help you earn more money."

 

I haven't stated what my other responses to the census are

I don't have much faith in the efficacy of the census. The information they are asking for is available from many different sources and they would not have to pay out the many millions that this is costing.

Some of it seems irrelevant and I think that a lot of it will not give them useable information because of the large number of people that will not fill in the forms correctly - either intentionally or unwittingly.

I fail to see the relevance of what exams I passed (assuming I can remember back that far) or what my job was when I was working. I'm not working now, have no intention of working in the future, I'm not sure of my ethnicity ( mother came to this country in 1913, father's family came in the 17th C) and, at times, I'm not sure who I am!
If I'm out of the country for more than 30 days I don't think it is any business of the government where I am for that period. I go, I come back. I don't think I want to tell them that I spent a month on Sirius.

 

Mine hasn't arrived yet either. My sister rang me today saying she'd filled her's out, but was worried that she couldn't answer one question which asked if she'd worked during a certain period. When I asked her if she had she told me she'd worked for 2 weeks for some firm but couldn't remember exactly when. I told her not to bother as it wasn't worth the effort needed to find out but she was bothered that if she didn't answer exactly there'd be a knock on the door and she'd be carted off to jail - my sister's like that!!
I tried to tell her the government wouldn't fall over if she disregarded the two weeks work and ticked the No box, but I've a sneaking feeling when I put the phone that she'd would be looking desperately into her boxes of records from way back when!!

 

I shall write "Yes please"

That's true shiney, all us 'normal' people are already on all sorts of databases, they know more about us than we do ourselves. According to some reports there might be up to 1/2 million people that won't fill the census form in because they want to remain under the radar.

It is fascinating looking back on old censuses to see where great-great-grandad lived and what he did. So I'll fill mine in as best I can just for posterity.

 

That's why I fill in loads of censuses and surveys - I receive a plethora of retail censuses and quite a number of others.

If you read them alongside each other then I am about 100 different people. . It depends on what the weather is like and what mood I'm in. I'm also a non-smoking smoker, sometimes male and sometimes female, a one legged, blind extremely vertically challenged genius from the planet Zog and a vegan buddhist.