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The Lighter Side / Re: 2011 census form peek
« on: Monday 14 March 11 13:49 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Sloe Gin on Monday 14 March 11 13:22 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Gillg on Sunday 13 March 11 17:26 GMT (UK)
"First Name" - that's annoying for me, as I have two forenames and am always called by my second one.  The first one is a closely guarded secret, except for official documents. 

As it's supposed to be confidential, and only used for gathering statistics, is there any need for them to ask for names at all  ::)

In your place, Gillg, I would just put the name I am known by.

Gillg - isn't the census an official document then? I am known as Katie but it says Kathryn on my birth certificate - so Kathryn is what goes down on the census. I know how hard it was trying to find my OH's grandmother's birth registrations as they were all known by their middle names on the census.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Jedi's and Witches on the 2011 Census are Ok
« on: Wednesday 09 March 11 12:37 GMT (UK)  »
I was never christened.
I attended a Church in Wales Voluntary Aided primary school for three years as that was the only school in the town I was living at the time.
Live with my partner of two years and consider children (although we are not in a position to have them at the moment) a bigger commitment than a piece of paper - if I wanted my partner's surname I would change it by deed poll.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Jedi's and Witches on the 2011 Census are Ok
« on: Wednesday 09 March 11 12:14 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: CGR1970 on Tuesday 08 March 11 11:13 GMT (UK)
The subject of religion is a matter of opinion and belief. It has as much relevance to describe your condition as your choice of football team, favourite Pop Group or TV programme.[...]

That may be - or indeed not be - so, but it (in my humble opinion) adds to building up a picture of how my ancestors lived. To me, the question of religion (although I am not in any way religious myself) is as important as what jobs my ancestors did.

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The Lighter Side / Re: 2011 census form peek
« on: Tuesday 08 March 11 16:36 GMT (UK)  »
As I mentioned earlier in this thread...

Quote from: netgrrl79 on Thursday 03 March 11 16:45 GMT (UK)
[...]it was mentioned that one of the London boroughs had a very low return rate for the 2001 census, and it is now considered one of the most underprivileged and under-funded areas in the country.

Coincidence  ???

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The Lighter Side / Re: 2011 census form peek
« on: Tuesday 08 March 11 16:16 GMT (UK)  »
No problem, get one of them to fill in the Household questionnaire and the other an Individual one.

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The Lighter Side / Re: 2011 census form peek
« on: Tuesday 08 March 11 16:10 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: treddz on Tuesday 08 March 11 16:03 GMT (UK)
How many rain forest's were cut down for the paper for this?

That was partly the point I was attempting to make above - surely it would have been more ecologically viable to print a set of questionnaires with both Welsh and English (or Scots Gaelic and English, or Irish Gaelic and English) than to do separate ones.

Of course there is always the option to fill out the form online and recycle the paper version... I just wish I had access to some of the info for which the census is asking me about my ancestors.

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The Lighter Side / Re: 2011 census form peek
« on: Tuesday 08 March 11 14:59 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: ScouseBoy on Tuesday 08 March 11 12:48 GMT (UK)
Quote from: netgrrl79 on Tuesday 08 March 11 12:40 GMT (UK)
Yes, that is correct procedure as per the collector training I have received... I can only assume the creators of the forms felt that Welsh nationalists would object to having to have English on 'their' form.

You misunderstand the "Welsh"  question.      History plays a part in the use of the Welsh language.

For many people in Wales Welsh is their first language.

I'm not disputing that... I was raised in Wales and have lived here for most of my life - my point was that I would have thought it was cheaper for the ONS to produce one form with both Welsh and English on it.

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The Lighter Side / Re: 2011 census form peek
« on: Tuesday 08 March 11 12:40 GMT (UK)  »
Yes, that is correct procedure as per the collector training I have received... I can only assume the creators of the forms felt that Welsh nationalists would object to having to have English on 'their' form.

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The Lighter Side / Re: 2011 census form peek
« on: Monday 07 March 11 16:03 GMT (UK)  »
Knowing what a palaver I'm having just to try to find all my elderly maternal grandmother's siblings in the birth indexes (her maiden name was Thomas, her mother's maiden name was Jones and her parents didn't marry until 1912) - heaven help anyone researching her sister's descendants (she married a Williams, and one of her daughters married an Owen)!

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