[Closed] The National Census.

its an intelligence test, can the person read will they right gibberish in the box.

Nice earner if you get a job with them 😉 ! (except for the abuse from those who take exception to completing it! 😯 )

its an intelligence test, can the person read will they right gibberish in the box.

Lockheed martin are runing it and there doubts that all the information given may be exported to america for their use, also any comapny will be able to look at the information held.

more information on www.rt.com

Lots of people are going to put Jedi for religion as well.

I was going to put Singletrack.

So its law, so what happens if you are out the country working during the time its all going on ?

I was going to put Steve Jobs 😉

I've got a question 17 on mine, but it says not to tell you about it.

Oops.

Who is actually delivering them, lets hope its not the company previously known as Royal Mail, or they want arrive, unless you live in a skip , or behind a hedge.

I'm all for the Jedi thing. In 100 years time researchers will have an extremely accurate record of the number of idiots in the country.

So its law, so what happens if you are out the country working during the time its all going on ?

I bet they've never though of that.

The Census employ people temporarily to carry out the work, as I say its a nice little earner . I did it twice and it paid for the family summer holidays!

Lockheed martin are runing it and there doubts that all the information given may be exported to america for their use, also any comapny will be able to look at the information held

Jedi or No Religion- both seem valid given the question, but what do you put for Nationality if you dont feel British. What do you put for Ethnicity if you dont feel its right to make such distinctiions ?

[i]In 100 years time researchers will have an extremely accurate record of the number of idiots in the country. [/i]

Aah, are they going to capture TV viewing figures for 'take me out' and that Noel edmonds program?

I don't think there's a tick box for "intentionally awkward pedant" so maybe what you need there is "other"...

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there doubts that all the information given may be exported to america for their use

Well I'm glad to hear that. Although I wasn't aware that the government was claiming all the information given would be exported to America for their use 😕

Of course it would be rather worrying if the information was passed on to the Americans. Because as everyone knows, the 2010 census in the Untied states was designed as a means to prepare everyone for possible processing into the FEMA concentration camps, which are up and ready, in preparation for the New World Order.

By the way don't lick the envelope after placing the completed census form into it......it's designed to give the government a sample of your DNA.

but what do you put for Nationality if you dont feel British.

I'm might be wrong but I'm sure Nationality isn't to do with how you feel.

but what do you put for Nationality if you dont feel British.

I'm might be wrong but I'm sure Nationality isn't to do with how you feel.

My census form lets me put English or British rather than just British, about time really as I'm sick of forms that have options for the other home nations, but only British if your English 🙁

I'm sure Nationality isn't to do with how you feel

Sure it is.

I might put Japanese.

I feel grumpy - what Nationality is that ?

You think you're turning Japanese?

I'm sick of forms that have options for the other home nations, but only British if your English

If you're a UK national then your nationality is British. You have British citizenship, not English / Welsh / Scottish.

If it asks for your country of birth / origin, that's a different question.

I feel grumpy - what Nationality is that ?

I think that makes you Snow White.

I think that makes you Snow White.

/applause

Haven't received one so I guess I am a non-entity ... 😯

Question 17 is a question about speaking/reading Welsh on the Welsh version.

Snow White, damit, I need to change my sex on the form now.

Question 17 is a question about speaking/reading Welsh on the Welsh version.

So why did they leave it out of the English version then, how odd.

I think I'm going for "Irish Traveller"

Jedi or No Religion- both seem valid given the question, but what do you put for Nationality if you dont feel British. What do you put for Ethnicity if you dont feel its right to make such distinctiions ?

trimix, you naughty agitator, you!

Q17 - Only for the Welsh!

http://2011.census.gov.uk/en/index.php?content_id=1605

I'm might be wrong but I'm sure Nationality isn't to do with how you feel.

For nationality, il put "singletracker",

country or countries where you feel you belong

what a truly horrid, insidious turn of phrase. so if i feel i belong in the UK, it means i feel the UK owns me? 😕

i put jedi on both mine and the wives religion questions, Don't care if that classes me as an idiot just got to have a laugh and a little poke for such an sh1te question,

been waiting 10yrs to right that again, i put jedi last time too, not really a star wars fan either but i do believe there is more chance of me getting powers of the force than god actually existing,

oh dear if lockheed really get this info then one day some bible bashing redneck will probably nail me to a burning cross for writing that 😯

Question 17 is a question about speaking/reading Welsh on the Welsh version.

that should freak them out

been waiting 10yrs to right that again

It's never too late to wait for a hysterical punchline.

Roll on 2021

Drac - Moderator
So why did they leave it out of the English version then, how odd.

Because it would mess up the spreadsheets if they had different Q17s.

i put jedi on both mine and the wives religion questions

How many have you got? - One is enough for me

so they're not interested in welsh speakers living outside wales?

so they're not interested in welsh speakers living outside wales?

Speaking welsh outside Wales doesn't make any sense......why would anyone do it ?

because they are Patagonian?
very useful when hawkers are trying to sell you stuff abroad as well
i used to say I am a pint of Bitter and your mother is a mule. If pushed I asked themn their views on footie and terry wogan. No one ever challenged me or had a chat

They probably want to know what proportion of the population of Wales speak/read/write Welsh.

Asking it just on surveys sent to homes in Wales limits the impact of people saying yes when they only speak Klingon.

What's the Jedi thing all about?

Depends on who you ask:

a) having a bit of fun
b) a political protest
c) being a sheep

10 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_census_phenomenon

In England and Wales 390,127 people (almost 0.8%) stated their religion as Jedi on their 2001 Census forms, surpassing Sikhism, Judaism, and Buddhism, and making it the fourth largest reported religion in the countries.[10] In the 2001 Census 2.6% of the population of Brighton claimed to be Jedi. The percentages of religious affiliations were:

😀

Bus W**kers 🙄

Bike Skills Jedi?

What's the punishment for not completing this profiling in our democratic country?

20 years in the gulags.

Although your reward if you don't complete the census, is a deep sense of rebellion against a repressive and totalitarian state apparatus.

Good luck with your choice.

Ernie, I can never tell when your taking the Pee. Are you a communist or something?

To be totally honest, I can't tell myself sometimes.

[url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7231186.stm ]From 2008[/url] looks like it's Labour's fault...

Cool, sometimes you sound like my dad. I imagine his voice when I'm reading your posts (sorry if you're only young, LOL)

The american thing is a conspiracy theory and nowt more, the government doesnt have to give over the data just because it was read by a Lockeed Martin scanner, any more than singletrack would because their servers run on intel processors!

So, for religion I can put Jedi, for nationality I can put Space Traveller for that is a way I would describe it* - I don't feel like an Irish Traveller and for job I can put Jedi (I worked on Star Wars Episode 1 so it's not completely unrelated).
I might even invite a Jedi to visit for the night. If he doesn't show up after I've gone to all the trouble of filling in the form, is that my fault?

* I don't travel through anything else, except water I suppose when swimming

Because it would mess up the spreadsheets if they had different Q17s.

I didn't ask why not a different one.

is there a box for Nationality: NORTHERN

project - Member

Who is actually delivering them, lets hope its not the company previously known as Royal Mail, or they want arrive, unless you live in a skip , or behind a hedge.

You have proof I presume that this is what happens?

I've never jerked/thrown away/scammed any mail in the 14 years I've worked as a postie . Narrow minded views like this really P me off , it's like the red sock brigade suggesting all MTB riders are hooligans who damage footpaths without a care.

Okay so I bit.

I'm sick of forms that have options for the other home nations, but only British if your English

have you seen the form before laying into it?

there are options for english/welsh/scots etc as well as british. just for you!

Poly's answer on the question on Nationality :

legally you are absolutely correct - but the question (Q15) is actually about national identity and asks "For example this could be about the country or countries where you feel you belong, or think of as home." and specifically states it need not be the same as your legal nationality or citizenship.

I belong on my bike riding sweet singletrack, therefore my Nationality will be "singletracks of the planet Earth", on the basis that its where I feel I belong. Thanks for helping me with that.

I liked answering the religion and language questions for my 16 month old.

Back to the Nationality question, can I just point out that those of who are British are British [i]subjects[/i] [u]not[/u] citizens, this is a monarchy. (No doubt some will grumble about that, but given the choice of the Queen or President Mandleson...)

I am not a citizen of anywhere.

That hasn't been correct since at least 1983. Most British nationals are British citizens.

If you're a UK national then your nationality is British. You have British citizenship, not English / Welsh / Scottish.

You're right in a sense. British English (I believe for political reasons...) treats nationality as synonymous with citizenship but that's not really accurate. Nationality is supposed to be about what nation you're part of. There are three and a half (at least) nations in the UK.

I am not a citizen of anywhere.

yes you are

On 1 January 1983, upon the coming into force of the British Nationality Act 1981, every Citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies became either a British Citizen, British Dependent Territories Citizen or British Overseas Citizen.

No, I'm a British Subject.
Monarchies have subjects, republics have citizens.

sockpuppet - Member

have you seen the form before laying into it?

there are options for english/welsh/scots etc as well as british. just for you!

You read the rest of my post right?

I have nothing what's so ever against being 'British', to be honest I would rather the UK was one, & then at least we would have a chance in some international sporting events & maybe even at being a true world power. But forget that, what really gets me is that the Welsh can be Welsh, the Scottish-Scottish & the Irish-Irish, but the English can only be British or we are branded racist! Why?

Im a citizen of the global village

[i]You think you're turning Japanese? [/i]
You think you're turning Japanese?

You really think so?

samuri,

I really think so 😉

Someone had to do it...

billysugger - Member
What's the punishment for not completing this profiling in our democratic country?

Please don't put Jedi unless you actually are religious. The census is used to decide spending priorities. if you say you have a religion when you don't(even if it is a made up one like Jedi or pastaferian) then more public money will be spent on religious ends than is really warranted.

Put Atheist or no religion if that is what you really are.

Crankboy, while you are right, unfortunalty that wont grab the headlines in this age of spin. There is more likely to be a story on Jedi being the 4th largest religion in the UK than any statistic on how many Athiests there are.

Jedi headlines will make people talk and think, and that is perhaps a positive outcome.

We all remember Jedi from the last census, no one remembers the number of non religious people.

Its just a thought, Im still undecided as to the best way to answer that questions.

This may be the last time its done, so get involved!

The main bit of fail I see is that they want you to complete it in paper or online on or as near to the 27th of March as possible.

I have every confidence in their website being available from the 25th to the 30th.

crankboy+1

[url= http://census-campaign.org.uk/ ]http://census-campaign.org.uk/[/url]

Fairly sound reasoning on why you shouldn't put 'Jedi' down. For example.. the number of religious people (including Jedi) in the last census was used as justification for increased funding and delegation of responsibilities to faith schools.

No religion for me!

Dave

[i]Hur hur look at me I'm so funny and witty and clever I'm going to put down 'Jedi' for Religion on the National Census form cos I'm just crazy and zany and mad and that![/i]

No, you're a knob.

so that is another saying Jedi then elfin 😉

No; it's just a waste of resources to put down bogus and misleading information. Costs the whole country, and serves no-one. Just so some knobs can think themselves clever for 'getting one over the system'. Grow up.

I think everyone who puts down 'Jedi' should get a thousand pound fine. That would raise a few quid.