Census Papers

[Lou Barron]

Just the other day i was doing some house cleaning when the door bell rang opening the door there stood a nice young lady and said i have some papers for you to fill in and i said what are they for then she showed me the bag she was carrying she ask me if i was the man of the house so i said yes waving my feather duster around so she gave me another paper saying i had to fill this also the questions they ask it is unbelievable .

[stewart morrison]

Just the other day i was doing some house cleaning when the door bell rang opening the door there stood a nice young lady and said i have some papers for you to fill in and i said what are they for then she showed me the bag she was carrying she ask me if i was the man of the house so i said yes waving my feather duster around so she gave me another paper saying i had to fill this also the questions they ask it is unbelievable .

What were the questions or am I missing the point or just being thick?

[j.sabourn]

Most forms one used to fill in started with name and sex. I suppose there are now various legal answers to the sex question. Could be male, female, Bisexual, Dont know, refuse to answer, depends what I feel like on the day, I refuse to answer on the grounds it might incriminate me, and all this before you get into the other questions. Cheers John Sabourn.

[Lou Barron]

Stewart have you every read our Census papers ifyou readv them youwould see some of the questions are irrelevant ,to me they are very private and i will not answer them

[robpage]

You could always do the awkward thing Charles , like Sex -, only with young Census Takers , Race , -1500 Metres Religion Catholic Protestant ******

[Colin Pook]

oh, come on Charles, don,t keep us in suspenders, what did she want to know, or was it not suitable material for this site haha
Colin

[Louis the Amigo]

Hi Shipmates, "The Census" are very important to the Government and big business without that information how would they know , How many jeddi knights live with you? and How many bathrooms you have? and a very good one where do you come from? How come some get lucky, and have free sex for filling in forms? it allways cost me a drink, and a bag of chips

[happy daze john in oz]

I worked as a census collector on three of them. Some of the answers were beyond a joke, some just hillarious but we had to take the papers as they were and not comment. As we collected we had to just check all the relevant bits were completed, I am amazed at how much strawberry jam gets on to them and hwo mnay are partialy eaten by the dog.

[Les Woodard]

Last one we had in NSW could be done on the computer. I like reading the questions and interpretating them how I want them to read just like politicians do when asked a question. As a point the answer starts with? So what you are really asking is?

[Tony Wilding]

have never filled one in, but the last Census was not long befor i came here, i threw it in the bin, then a woman came a few weeks later and asked where it was, said i binned it, gave me another one and said 2000 pound fine if i did not fill it in, so i told her i had no intention of filling the form, never heard any more, its an invasion of privacy, the results are eventually used against you. gives more power to big brother.