Who’s been sleeping in my bed?
Stop bellyaching about the census, Sir Michael Scholar has told Nick Hurd MP, who had complained, inter alia, that it was a licence to snoop into people’s private lives.
Not at all, insists the Chair of the UK Statistics Authority in a letter to Mr Hurd. The question about the number of bedrooms is to help local government decide whether accommodation in their areas is overcrowded. The question about overnight visitors is needed to count the whole population which is, after all, the whole point of a census.
The questions have not been chosen by Government ministers. So if you happen to have three bears staying on Census night in 2011, please list them all. Meanwhile, find something more sensible to complain about. (I paraphrase.)
Micheel Abends (not verified) wrote,
Sat, 13/02/2010 - 20:53
I thought I saw the best of what internet media can offer when I read about the "one red paperclip" project, that kid who after successive trades managed to trade a paperclip for a house. And what if the census reveals a serious overcrowd problem, are the officials gonna come up with a Mobile homes solutions, or will they just publish the statistics?
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