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It comes around once every ten years, and last week I had received a leaflet in my letterbox about this year's (or indeed this decade's) census will be happening on Sunday 21st March 2021. I am certain however that I did hear that due to COVID that the Census might have been postponed until next year or something, but it's nice that it's going ahead. There was talk a few years ago about scrapping the census but it was just talk.
On a tangent from the 50 Years of Decimalisation thread, the 1971 Census PIFs were on the old Charley Live video next to the decimalisation one, and it does paint a picture to future generations as to what life was like in the past. Certainly, coronavirus would make an impact this time around as to how things are measured now. The fact that the census information will be under lock and key for 100 years almost gives relief to us all - I believe that the 1921 census will be open to us not too long into the future? - it is a bit like unearthing a time capsule in many ways. I used old Census records on the Find My Past website for my research into family history, going back to 1841, as well as the pre-Second World War one from 1939 - I mentioned the relevant thread.
I am looking forward to the A4 envelope arriving in the post, filling the form in and posting it back - this will be my third census that I have overseen personally after participating in the 2001 and 2011 ones - my parents did the 1991 census and before that. I didn't get anyone from the government come after me, so I must have filled in both forms correctly, thank goodness. I know that people think that it is a nuisance filling the form in and even a breach of privacy (or GDPR these days), but at the end of the day, we all have to do it, and we should have nothing to be worried or scared by doing so, and it's only once every ten years. I believe that we have more to be worried or being scared about by not cooperating filling it in.
I think that it is a good thing because we need to plan for the future - how people's habits change, where we need to build more schools and housing, especially in the current climate. As we know, looking at 1971, 1981, and 1991, things had changed culturally in Britain in which we have discussed on this forum so many times, and that is what makes it fascinating.
Have you received the census forum in the past, yet? It shouldn't be long now...
On a tangent from the 50 Years of Decimalisation thread, the 1971 Census PIFs were on the old Charley Live video next to the decimalisation one, and it does paint a picture to future generations as to what life was like in the past. Certainly, coronavirus would make an impact this time around as to how things are measured now. The fact that the census information will be under lock and key for 100 years almost gives relief to us all - I believe that the 1921 census will be open to us not too long into the future? - it is a bit like unearthing a time capsule in many ways. I used old Census records on the Find My Past website for my research into family history, going back to 1841, as well as the pre-Second World War one from 1939 - I mentioned the relevant thread.
I am looking forward to the A4 envelope arriving in the post, filling the form in and posting it back - this will be my third census that I have overseen personally after participating in the 2001 and 2011 ones - my parents did the 1991 census and before that. I didn't get anyone from the government come after me, so I must have filled in both forms correctly, thank goodness. I know that people think that it is a nuisance filling the form in and even a breach of privacy (or GDPR these days), but at the end of the day, we all have to do it, and we should have nothing to be worried or scared by doing so, and it's only once every ten years. I believe that we have more to be worried or being scared about by not cooperating filling it in.
I think that it is a good thing because we need to plan for the future - how people's habits change, where we need to build more schools and housing, especially in the current climate. As we know, looking at 1971, 1981, and 1991, things had changed culturally in Britain in which we have discussed on this forum so many times, and that is what makes it fascinating.
Have you received the census forum in the past, yet? It shouldn't be long now...
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