Soldato
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Need more mental health help imo.
Census 2021
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Gender is optional as is religion.
In time it took to post eight times in this thread alone you could have filled it in.
Soldato
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I filled it in online only to have this huge great envelope land on my doormat the next day. Won't someone think of the planet!
I thought I'd lost the form but it turns out it was only the notification letter I'd lost.
I thought I'd lost the form but it turns out it was only the notification letter I'd lost.
Soldato
But why?
Why not?
Because the law says you have to and if you don't, they'll come knocking on your door to find out why. This is not speculation.
I rest my case.
Caporegime
Gona get mine done this week, gah 
Soldato
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That's been explained in this thread over and over, read the 16 pages you dingbat.
I was wondering why I hadn’t had anything yet after seeing this thread started a while back. Oh, only for England and Wales, Scotland has delayed the census until 2022 (this has probably been mentioned already but I haven’t read all 16 pages of this thread 
). When the time comes I’ll fill it in though, because anything that is on there I’m fine with the government knowing.
). When the time comes I’ll fill it in though, because anything that is on there I’m fine with the government knowing.
Soldato
I really am.
Everyone is on the internet.
Commissario
Because you'd end up with duplicated data, out dated data, and missing data.
The whole idea of a census is that it gives an accurate snapshot of the population at a specific time so you shouldn't be getting Mr Smith counted twice because two different systems have him down slightly differently, or you end up having to try and work out which data from which system is actually correct at the specific time which is a mammoth task.
Also a lot of the other systems have highly sensitive information on them, so you ideally never link them together more than you absolutely need to for data protection reasons...
To give an idea, my brother in law found he wasn't registered at his GP, apparently he'd not been for long enough they'd removed him, whilst there are accounts of people who've died still being on a GP's register years later because the GP hadn't been informed.
HRMC is usually working at least a month, sometimes up to a year out of date, the hospital records don't necessarily show where you are living at the moment or at all if you've not needed a hospital visit for a number of years so the hospital and your GP might have different records neither of which may be correct for where you actually are.
It's also worth remembering that many government systems don't ask where you are living, just where you can be contacted because people like students might be living at one end of the country but still going "home" to the parents over the holidays.
The Census gets all sorts of information together in a fairly cheap way, probably far cheaper than linking the other systems, let alone linking them securely and then working out what data is accurate when you've got conflicting information, and gets information you don't necessarily get on the other systems - I'm not sure which government system would actually know everyone's specific job, HMRC might know your income but that doesn't help with things like working out if certain jobs are increasing, decreasing, disappeared or are new (and if need be work out if support is needed to keep skills alive).
Soldato
Kept timing out for me...
Just another case of someone wanting all your information again
Just another case of someone wanting all your information again
Soldato
Out of interest, (and i'm sure it's been asked if i read back ), how come you're all doing it now when it says to do it on or shortly after the 21st?
), how come you're all doing it now when it says to do it on or shortly after the 21st?
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Out of interest, (and i'm sure it's been asked if i read back
What's it matter when you do it if the house holds don't change at all?
Yes, it's been asked and answeredOut of interest, (and i'm sure it's been asked if i read back
Generally, people know where they're going to be (this is especially appropriate at the moment) but it also says that you can do it now and then amend it later if there are any changes.