Fear of Intrusion
Could Weaken Census 
BY RICHARD FORD, HOME CORRESPONDENT 
MONDAY APRIL 16 2001 

CENSUS officials fear that many people will refuse to fill in their forms because they object to Whitehall's "Big Brother" attitude. They also suspect that young people, particularly men, distrust officialdom and cannot see the relevance of the questions concerning their future.  In 1981 there was an under- count of 500,000 people; by the 1991 census, the figure had risen to 1 million. One census official said: "There is some nervousness about whether that figure will rise again this time. People are much more suspicious of government and what it will do with the information. 

"The perception of a 'Big Brother' Government may also be an influencing factor, particularly among younger people who have moved away from home and now have a much less deferential and respectful view of officialdom." 

A substantial undercount would result in local authorities, particularly in inner-cities, losing out on government funding based on the census. 

One council in northwest London, Brent, has estimated that the undercount at the last census resulted in it losing £200 million over ten years. Comparing the 1991 census population figure of 245,000 with its own records it found an undercount of 20,000. 

Kevin Ambrose, census manager for the area, said: "Brent knew from its own records of council housing, people receiving services and the electoral register that there was a population of 265,000." 

Figures from the 1991 census show the scale of the under-count problem facing officials. In Great Britain there was an undercount of just over 2.2 per cent, and in Inner London one of 7.7 per cent. In an attempt to prevent undercounting, census officials are trying to encourage co-operation from particular groups, including single young men and the elderly. 

Len Cook, Registrar General of England and Wales, emphasised the importance to everyone of the information gathered in the census. "The information is essential to the planning activity of a whole range of private and public sector bodies," he said. "It will help to determine resource allocation decisions on billions of pounds of public expenditure." 

Seventy thousand people are delivering forms to the 24 million households in the United Kingdom in readiness for Census Day on April 29. People in care homes, prisons, and those usually resident in the household but away, will be included. 

For the first time, households will be expected to return completed forms by post rather than have them collected. However, officials expect that only 70 per cent will post their forms and that enumerators will have to visit the rest to try to collect them. 

Failure to complete and return a form can be punished by a fine of up to £1,000. Despite the 1 million undercount in 1991, only 342 people were prosecuted. 

The £255 million census is designed to provide an accurate count of the population, numbers of particular types of dwellings and the ages of the people living in them. Such details will allow Whitehall to plan for future housing needs and to care for the elderly. The census will also provide an up-to-date population figure for the country's ethnic minorities. 

A series of questions about employment will provide information about the size of the service economy and manufacturing industry and the numbers of full-time and part-time workers. Information about transport will help local councils and Whitehall to draw up plans for roads and railways. 

The form has a section on accommodation including questions on central heating and for the first time the lowest level of accommodation. This has been included to provide a measure of potentially unsuitable housing. A second section has questions about members of the household and their relationship to each other. 

This is followed by questions about each individual in the household. It includes personal details, country of birth, ethnicity, educational qualifications, employment and travel to and from work. For the first ime the personal section includes a voluntary question on religion under which people tick whether they have no religion or are Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh or "other faith". 

Two other new questions ask whether a person's health in the previous 12 months has been good, fairly good or not good, and whether a person acts as a carer to someone suffering from ill-health or old age. Both of these questions are designed to provide information about future healthcare needs, particularly with an ageing population. 

No white English or Welsh people are to be recognised by the census as they are a nuisance in the scheme of the new world order and politically correct fascists running the United Kingdom which, Mr. Blair hopes, will no longer exist at the time of the next census. 

If you believe all the other lies this government has constantly fed to the people of the United Kingdom, you might just possibly believe that no personal information enabling people to be identified can be disclosed for 100 years and the records are used only to produce information about the population in general. The results on population are expected to be published in 2002, followed in 2003 by figures for ethnic minorities. 

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