Forms should be completed as soon as possible, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said, as the deadline passed on Sunday. Electronic tracking systems are being used to monitor who has filled in the forms, with collectors knocking on doors from 6th April where households have not returned the questionnaires. The census director said:
"Completing the census form promptly and sending it back to us means no one will have to knock on your door to remind you. Census statistics enable the authorities to plan properly for the future for school places, housing, roads, emergency services and a host of other local services."
Questions cover areas such as national identity, ethnicity, education, jobs, travel-to-work method and state of health, and for the first time, the census also includes questions on civil partnerships, second homes and migration. There are no questions on income, sexual orientation or disability.
Critics have attacked the £482 million exercise, the biggest in its more than 210-year history, as outdated, unnecessary and an invasion of privacy.
Exactly.
"Completing the census form promptly and sending it back to us means no one will have to knock on your door to remind you. Census statistics enable the authorities to plan properly for the future for school places, housing, roads, emergency services and a host of other local services."
Questions cover areas such as national identity, ethnicity, education, jobs, travel-to-work method and state of health, and for the first time, the census also includes questions on civil partnerships, second homes and migration. There are no questions on income, sexual orientation or disability.
Critics have attacked the £482 million exercise, the biggest in its more than 210-year history, as outdated, unnecessary and an invasion of privacy.
Exactly.
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