With the amount of sub-letting & the way properties are split, it would
probably never be accurate. Besides which, people get born or die at a
rate that makes for nonsense of any census returns.
Pam
Christine Catton wrote:
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> I have long had issue with the census - the last time round it was
> impossible for me to submit my form. There was no return envelope and
> nobody called to collect it. It was tounch and go whether I even got a
> form to fill in as there was some mad insistence that a form could not
> be left at the property until the responsible person had submitted to
> basic how to fill in forms instruction [because I would be unlikely to
> understand the form or be able to fill it in?] as I was never in when
> the people employed to teach me basic form-filling came round all I
> got was notes asking me to make an appointment with one of them (at
> times when I would never be home). Eventually at the eleventh hour a
> form was put through the door.
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> It was a system designed to fail from the outset because it didn't
> take account of the way people live. If the census is to take place
> and work next time round a new way of collecting the information will
> surely be required.
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