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Thread #33020   Message #446335
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
21-Apr-01 - 08:25 PM
Thread Name: BS: UK Census - sensless questions.
Subject: RE: BS: UK Census - sensless questions.
We posted the bloody thing off yesterday

Oh dear, oh dear... You're for it now. Census day isn't until 29th April.

So question 9 asks whether I speak Welsh or not - I can't see why that shouldn't apply to people in England just as much as Wales.

Logically they'd have broadened it out to ask a question about languages in general, because there are a hell of a lot of household where English isn't the first language. That would have made a lot more sense than questions about "what is your ethnic group?" (I suppose if you were a "Morris dancer" you could put that down there - it'd be perfectly legal I believe, since it would be true, even if it wasn't what they were actually after.)