BS: UK Census

Subject: RE: BS: UK Census
From: Van
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 03:29 PM

Other than to annoy people what purpose does it serve. Next one will be taken from all the info Big Brother already holds which must be against the Data Protection Act. Always put in a few wrong answers just to sod up the statistics.

Subject: RE: BS: UK Census
From: GUEST,999
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 03:17 PM

They can be here in Canada. Non compliance can result in jail time. Or that`s what they say, anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: UK Census
From: Smedley
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 03:10 PM

There will be an option to complete it online (the first time this has been on offer).

It is, I believe, illegal not to complete it, though the penalties for not doing so are unlikely to be 'extreme'!

Subject: RE: BS: UK Census
From: GUEST,999
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 02:35 PM

Does your census offer extreme punishments if you refuse to answer a question (qm).

Subject: RE: BS: UK Census
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 02:07 PM

I've had a look at the questions and some of them are a bit hard to answer, eg 'How is your health? good, quite good, fair, poor etc. How do you reply to that? Realative to what exactly? And 'How well do you speak English?' It depends on your standard of 'good'. These are impossible to answer objectively. They seem very concerned about employment, whether people have been actively seeking work, when they last worked etc. Also ethnicity. I'm English and also British. I'm half Irish and half Scots by parentage. And I'm white but why is that important? I agree that we could well have done without this stuff during a time of grave economic debt. Don't 'They' just love statistics and forms? Meanwhile, public libraries are under threat of closure! Enjoy your Chardonnay, Arthur itis, it'll be tapwater before long!

Subject: BS: UK Census
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 01:48 PM

I have just been reading this article on the internet concerning the UK census http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/230632/The-census-is-just-a-licence-to-snoop-on-British-people

Now I am not concerned politically or which newspaper is reporting whatever. However, when I see the cost of 485 million pounds, I am astounded.

We are bankrupt and we are going to spend that much on what can be considered an intrusion on our privacy, which goes beyond what I consider normal for a census. Looking at some of the answers from last census and the number of people who didn't fill their forms in, it rather makes a mockery of things.

32 pages of intrusive questions.

Couldn't it have been put back for 5 years?

Also considering how many households are on the internet, wouldn't it have been less costly to have done an online form. People who couldn't use the internet could have been made to go to the library or a place nominated to allow the form to be filled in.

Now I have got that off my chest, I will drink a nice glass of Chardonnay or two and cobblers to it all.