Returned your Census Forms Yet?

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spen666

Legendary Member
Just looked online, but I can't do it online as I do not have the unique number needed.

I need to order a new paper census form to get the unique number.

problem is from this weekend, I will likely be away from home for several weeks, so won't get form unless it comes by the w/end so can't fill the form in
 

mangaman

Guest
My sister wants to put 'English' as her older son's language, and add a footnote about how his nursery keyworker says he's got a very advanced vocabulary for his age.... (nearly 4)

Not done mine yet. I was under the impression that it was tomorrow... :blush:

I'll do it now, online I think.



Too late Arch.

I foresee a hefty fine - perhaps a prison sentence.
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mangaman

Guest
You don't frighten me! It says on the form, if you are away on the 27th, you can do it when you get back.

<locks door, turns out lights>

Fair enough.

If you can prove you were away yesterday
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BTW a lot of people seem to be working as census collectors.

What are they (given you just have to pop it in the post or do it online.)

I suppose a few older and incapacitated people may not be able to get to the post-box or be on-line, but it seems an odd concept.

What do you do?

Maybe they have everyone's name who didn't fill it in yesterday (I'm looking at you Arch) and come round and "sort things out" - who knows?
 
I was a census collector in 1981 after my mother who did it in 1971 suggested it (I was out of work at the time). The most boring job I ever had. I had to go back every night for a week and half to get some of the forms back.

But, yes, we did ours online a couple of days after we got it. It took the GF's son nearly 2 weeks to fill his bit in :whistle: .


I am only on 15 hours per week for 4 weeks so not too long. It is local so I can do a few hours here and there.
No money so I am taking whatever I can get!

Last year I had a bit of work as a stock taker. Bip every bar code in a shop with a hand held gun. Start at 6 when the shop shuts and finish at 2am. Now THAT is boring!

I will try to do it on my bike so I get a very disjointed ride in. My area is fairly rural or suburbs with long drives so the bike may be the quickest way.
 

mangaman

Guest
I am only on 15 hours per week for 4 weeks so not too long. It is local so I can do a few hours here and there.
No money so I am taking whatever I can get!

Last year I had a bit of work as a stock taker. Bip every bar code in a shop with a hand held gun. Start at 6 when the shop shuts and finish at 2am. Now THAT is boring!

I will try to do it on my bike so I get a very disjointed ride in. My area is fairly rural or suburbs with long drives so the bike may be the quickest way.

OTH you're the perfect person to answer the question I just asked in my post above!
 
Fair enough.

If you can prove you were away yesterday
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BTW a lot of people seem to be working as census collectors.

What are they (given you just have to pop it in the post or do it online.)

I suppose a few older and incapacitated people may not be able to get to the post-box or be on-line, but it seems an odd concept.

What do you do?

Maybe they have everyone's name who didn't fill it in yesterday (I'm looking at you Arch) and come round and "sort things out" - who knows?


I had my training last week!

in 10 days time they produce a list of the houses who have not send a return back (post or on line) as all are checked in. I have to go to the houses who have not completed the form and remind them to fill it in, give them a new form if they have lost the old one, give them an alternative language form if needed or extra forms if needed.

Also there to register any refusals and to try to talk round any waverers.

If you refuse to complete the form i fill in a short version of the form noting the house type and guess the number of occupants.
 

Arch

Married to Night Train
Location
Salford, UK
Fair enough.

If you can prove you were away yesterday
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Hmmm, would a receipt from M and S, Manchester Piccadilly, do?

(actually it would be pointless, I was at Piccadilly to get the train home, and was tucked up in bed watching telly at home by 9pm...)

My Mum is away, as a matter of fact, at my sister's, so she'll have to go down on their form as a visitor, and fill her own form in when she gets back. Mum was telling me a story of a suffragette (1911, I guess?) who was visiting someone, but didn't want to reveal the fact, and as the census then was taken in person, she had to be hidden in a cupboard. Mum wondered if she's fit in any of my sister's cupboards....
 

Bayerd

Über Member
I went to the warehouse where the forms are being administered last week, 1500 people are working there. Apparently there's quite a few forms with 'baby' as a first language :biggrin:
 

mangaman

Guest
There you go!


As a last resort I can radio in a helcopter full of yank GIs to machine gun your house if you dont fill the form in.

(Oh was that bit secret?)

Thanks for the info OTH!

I filled mine in in plenty of time, don't worry.

I had visions of you turning up at Arch's house with an iron bar and some "heavies".

Out of interest- do you get many non-respondents? I found it incredibly benign and easy to fill in.

Do you get many people like "The Jogger" (apologies TJ if you've done it) who refuse on ideological grounds?
 

Arch

Married to Night Train
Location
Salford, UK
I had visions of you turning up at Arch's house with an iron bar and some "heavies".

Make it a chocolate bar and I'd let them in...

I bet one of my colleagues will be refusing. He wouldn't have his baby registered because he said it 'handed ownership to the state'. He'll have had to give in eventually, because he just took 2 months off work and wanted to go to Morrocco with the family, and the kid can't get a passport without being registered. So it'll have cost him a couple of hundred quid in a fine, if what I've read is right.

He also believes jet planes are spreading trails of sedating chemicals to keep the world population under control. Yeah, that's working then, isn't it?
 

deptfordmarmoset

Full time tea drinker
Location
Armonmy Way
I am only on 15 hours per week for 4 weeks so not too long. It is local so I can do a few hours here and there.
No money so I am taking whatever I can get!

Last year I had a bit of work as a stock taker. Bip every bar code in a shop with a hand held gun. Start at 6 when the shop shuts and finish at 2am. Now THAT is boring!

I will try to do it on my bike so I get a very disjointed ride in. My area is fairly rural or suburbs with long drives so the bike may be the quickest way.

Even in an urban area - I'm doing it in Greenwich, London - it's a lot quicker on a bike than on foot and there are no car parking problems. I'd imagine that it would be great to be biking it in a semi-rural area. But because it's very stop-start whilst riding (only 7 miles during 6 hours last Sunday) I've taken to leaving the computer at home - the average speed ends up taking a hit. Generally, whilst doing the early collecting (much of it involves households of more than six - continuation forms if they can't get online - and figuring out why questionnaires couldn't be delivered - usually because the council has never been too good at keeping accurate records) people seem to actually like the idea of the ''government'' turning up on their doorstep by bike.

Oh, if you do it on a bike, get clearance to use your own rucksack rather than the government issue rubbish - they're called ''dover bags'' and they're complete and utter tosh.
 

mangaman

Guest
Make it a chocolate bar and I'd let them in...

I bet one of my colleagues will be refusing. He wouldn't have his baby registered because he said it 'handed ownership to the state'. He'll have had to give in eventually, because he just took 2 months off work and wanted to go to Morrocco with the family, and the kid can't get a passport without being registered. So it'll have cost him a couple of hundred quid in a fine, if what I've read is right.

He also believes jet planes are spreading trails of sedating chemicals to keep the world population under control. Yeah, that's working then, isn't it?

Are you sure he's not one taking the "sedating chemicals" - I wonder why he's going to Morocco?
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The fine is £1000 if you really refuse to fill it in - although I don't think they chase most people that hard.

You'll probably just be fined a few hundred Arch, for lateness
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