But it won't go on line for a hundred years. Don't think there'll be too much fuss.

i get annoyed that there is no box for me to tick that covers the 'kinda white but not really due to being olive skinned and not quite Caucasian' box in the ethnicity sections..

 I usually tick prefer not to answer in those cases cos I can't see why anybody needs to know the ethinicity of the people filling in a form.. drives me mad..

oh and while I'm at it why is there a single option as well as a divorced option on forms. .I am both. .which one do I tick. .and why the feck shoudl I tick any of them anyway..

think i better close my puter for the night am on a ranty roll .. grumpy mode sends me off on one..

na night

Are you surprised Yogi? I mean you know what a backwater Scotland is!

Snap again!

The assumption is that 'single' generally means 'Never Married' while divorced means'was married,but am not now'
It's the same for a widowed person.

Oh this gets me mad, i will hold out as long as i can without filling it in, never got it yet!
i dont see the point of it, when "they" know enough about us already. Those that dont wish to be known, i.e. illegal immigrants, arent likely to be filling in the forms anyway!!
As for saying who is your home on such and such a date, oh pleasseee

I doubt 'illegal immigrants' will be getting a form in the first place!

Well exactly, thats my point. It says the Census is required to assess the level of needs, i.e schools, health service, but they know that already, as those who use the services have registered, thru birth cerificates, NI number etc , so whats the point of it ?

There's 6 of us in my house and my nephew is staying with us too. I'm a mixture of races/reigions and my kids are more of a mix than me. I hate the form already!

I was about to get all indignant and say that I would refuse to classify nationality if there wasn't an option to tick British, but I've checked my form, and there is a British option. 

Am I the only one who really doesn't have a problem with it? I can't see it does me any harm and i really don't get uppity in stating my age, religion etc.

i have really had so much pleasure researching my family background through the census records for that reason alone I'll gladly fill it in - (when it arrives).

Dont have a problem with completing the Census forms

I don't have a problem with the census either.

i THINK ALTHOUGH IT MAY (oops soory) not be of huge significance now - it will one day be a historical document. Rather like the Magna Carta ..............seriously - why do people have a problem with i?. It's apparently compulsory to fill in and return but ................if there are questions that offend you - don't answer it - I hardly think you'll be chased up and fined.

I may become a Jedi for the night.

It was being discussed on the "Wright stuff" over 3 million people refused to fill in the last one,they said 1,000 got fined.Though they did joke this govt will be hoping no one fills it in and fine us all for the dosh.

Snap trois!

There should just be a box stating "Are you a human being?"  just in case the cat gets the form.

What is the real purpose of the exercise, though? To pick up Ditty's points about how data is collated already, there is also the election roll, where they already collect data about who we are and who lives with us. God knows why they wanna know about visitors Seems pointless to me as the data will never ever be accurate.

A load of money being spent on a load of shit. Again.

I could see the point of it decades ago when everything was held on paper files etc.However with all of us now being on comps  data eg hospital, housing etc, I don't see the point of it now.Folk that want to stay "Hidden" will continue to do so.

Karma the electoral register is not compulsory,you need it tobe on to  vote,proof of address for credit etc.They use it for Jury duty too,that's why in Glasgow the same folk end up being called for jury service more than once.I've been called three times.So many Glasgow punters ain't on it!

I've never been called for Jury service and its the one thing I'd love to do, yet like you, I know people who have been called 2 or 3 times. Snot FAIR!

I've never had to serve on a jury..so far! First time for High court,my batch of 50 numbers were not needed,excused.Second time for Sheriff  court I wasn't well so got a doctors letter and was excused.Two years ago I was called again for the Sheriff court,I  attended for the week and was not called.We got messed about ..come back next moring etc..hang around, not needed as the lawyers dealt with various points of law or the accused changed pleas etc.However our batch of 50 were called into a court and 15 selected(not me).We all heard the horrible details of the charges.It was a child sex abuse case going back to the 80's.Later that case collapsed on a point of law.We were then told we may be called back the following week,however the head clerk of court decided we had been messed about enough and excused us.So five days of turning up and,hanging around for hours at times then getting sent home.

Tell em the dog chewed it up.

Bloody hell Did you get any kind of compensation for what was a total waste of time?

I was called twice when I lived in london. The first time (London Bridge) - i had three children under four and was excused. the second time (Old Baily) - they were a little older two were at school and one at home - I said I was prepared to do it but was excused again. I was a tad gutted TBH as i really wanted to do it. A few people I knew in the surrounding area were called and one of them was on the PC Blakelock/Winston Silcot trial. I live in hope that I#ll be called again - it's sometghing I'd really like to do.

Well you claim financial expenses,travel ,and you get forms to give to your employers as the court pays your wages.I  wasn't working two years ago,as I'm medically retired.But boredom compensation..no...

So it can be very mundane ,however I suppose if you get called to a case first time it could be interesting.Imagine being on the Jury for the Tommy Sheridan Case .That lasted three months..I think.
Long trials etc,I think the judge can excuse you from service again  for years

I remember the last time the Postman said to me "Oh Kathleen,nae luck it's jury service!" You have to sign to get the summons...

Oh my real name....ach! who cares. Well my user name is  not far removed

I haven't had mine yet.

Under religion, can you write 'nun'? 

I've not recieved mine yet either.I've never filled in one before,my late brother did the last one.

Think it's boxes you fill in....

But I'm a woman! 

The census will tell us if that's true...

oooooooh  I shall be ticking that one then.. cheers Growls

I don't have a problem with the census either.. tho I've not read it yet so don't know what they are asking this time so may find something to get up in arms about at a later date..

 

I have no trouble with the census per se....it will become a historical document like the others before it.
I do have a problem with questions other than the head count....How many bedrooms my house has e.g........As for religion, I always enter 'none' and my own little protest is to fill the darn thing in straightway and not wait until the 27th

This should help you with what to include as bedrooms

As there has been a census every ten years (apart from in 1941) since 1801, I can't see why I shouldnt fill mine in, especially as I am compiling my family tree and it is a wonderful resource for my research.
Due to the cost of doing the census, this is likely to be the last one so I want to do my bit for the genealogists of the future while I can.