EU/Eurostat/UN/UK
Census Relationship

A lot of information relating to the inter-relationship between the UK Census and the EU and the UN can be discovered by going into the search engine www.google.com and then clicking on “Advanced Search” and then entering the words “census eurostat” in the box entitled “Find Messages with all of the words” and then clicking on “Google Search”. 
Some of the internet addresses below are addresses of .pdf files which must be read by means of Adobe.Acrobat 4.0 Reader. This is free software from Adobe and if you do not have it on your computer or if you have an earlier version such as 3.0 then you can get the latest version by going into www.adobe.co.uk then scroll down and click on the box “Get Acrobat Reader” at the bottom right and follow the instructions. If you get problems phone Adobe Technical Support on 0131-451-6888. It will take 30-40 minutes to download. 
There follows what has been discovered to date (16/04/2001) but anyone with sufficient time and energy could possibly discover even more perturbing facts!   
EU Defines many of questions to be asked in UK Census 
Eurostat is the Statistical Office of the European Community (EC).
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Issue no 13 of “Diffusion” published by the UK Office of National Statistics (see 
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/nsbase/census2001/Diffusion13.asp  ) has a lot of information about the Census. Click on the green “HERE” at the bottom of the summary page and you will get a full copy of the report. Then click on “News from Eurostat” in the left hand column and the resulting report explains that in 1973 an EU Directive dictated to the UK what information the EU would require from the UK 1981 Census, and consequently what questions would need to be in that Census. Similarly a 1987 EU Directive dictated the questions the EU required to be in the UK 1991 Census and the EU was hoping to finalise by the end of 1996 what questions would need to be in the UK 2001 Census.
 
Whilst the UK is at liberty to add questions of its own to the Census, it is clearly being ordered around by the EU as to a large portion of the contents of its own national Census.
 
The requirement of the EU that the UK hold a census between 1’st April and 31’st May 2001 is reiterated in paragraph 9 of the Government White Paper on the Census which can be seen at http://www.nicensus2001.gov.uk/consultation/pdf/Census%20White%20Paper.pdf 
And paragraph 156 of this White Paper states that the results of the Census must be supplied to the European Union by the Director of the UK Office of National Statistics, who must supply these results to the EU in the form of a set of pre-specified statistical tables by the end of the year 2003 (see paragraph 160). 
Indeed it is possible that there is even a move towards an Integrated European Database of Census Data, and this is certainly what Pieter Everaerd is suggesting in his paper presented to the Siena Group Meeting in May 2000 section 6 – see http://www.istat.it/Primpag/sienapdf/ses3_netherlands.PDF and the Northern Ireland Statistical and Research Agency, as well as telling us on  http://www.nisra.gov.uk/census that the Census is a legal requirement of the EU, goes on to suggest the format of such an integrated European Database in their document at http://www.nisra.gov.uk/census/2001/pdf/suppb.pdf 
Confidentiality Issues
 
By clicking on the “Confidentiality” section of the report in Issue no 13 of “Diffusion” published by the UK Office of National Statistics (see 
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/nsbase/census2001/Diffusion13.asp  ) you will see that Australia and New Zealand have raised issues regarding confidentiality when Census Data is supplied to other interested parties. 

Further, a search in www.google.com on the words “census confidentiality breached” came up with the following :-

1.	A report submitted by the U.S Bureau of Census to a Statistical Commission and Economic Commission for Europe joint ECE/Eurostat work session. The report dated 8-10 March 1999 deals with the confidentiality of  census data and states in paragraph 3 that there are no absolute guarantees that census data released to the public is disclosure-proof. The report can be seen on http://www.unece.org/stats/documents/1999/03/confidentiality/6.e.pdf

2.	In 1996 The Centre for Census and Survey Research at Manchester University published a very interesting paper on methods being used to attack the confidentiality of Census Extract computer files. This can be seen on http://www.cbs.nl/sdc/attack.pdf
 
The details you give on the Census Form will be made available to various departments of a foreign power, namely the European Union, in particular their Statistics Office, EUROSTAT.  The EU will be given ward-by-ward, postcode-by-postcode information from the census to help with their plans to break up England into nine 'Regions'.  This information will be given to them free of charge (British subjects will have to pay for any Census information!).  It is claimed by ONS  that these details will be passed to the E.U. anonymously, but each census form is uniquely bar-coded and therefore data-bases will be essential for cross-checking and the avoidance of duplication and recording errors.  So anonymity cannot be offered, let alone guaranteed. Also there is every possibility that at some future date your personal details could be seen by E.U. officials.  The UK government has given no guarantee to the contrary, and the "supremacy" of EU law claimed in the metric martyr case now suggests it cannot give such a guarantee. Furthermore, the EU is known to be liasing with several other countries, including Rumania, Bulgaria, Latvia and Israel, and with the UN, with a view to sharing statistical data across the world.

Census Cooperation Beyond Bounds of EU
 
A disturbing feature that can be learnt from the Internet is the way in which the EU is liasing with other non-EU countries with a view to sharing statistical data on a harmonised basis. This can be seen by a visit to http://www.cbs.gov.il/mifkad/welcome.htm where we read that the EU had a joint conference with the Israeli Government with a view to sharing the experience of the Israelis in their 1995 Census. This resulted from the previous formation of an organisation called MEDSTAT whose function is defined in this report as :-
 “On November 28th, 1995, the European Union and the Mediterranean countries adopted a Declaration (the so-called Barcelona Declaration) which established a comprehensive partnership among the participants through strengthened political dialogue on a regular basis, the development of economic and financial cooperation and greater emphasis on the social, cultural and human dimension.
In order to foster the dialogue and exchanges among the European Union and its Mediterranean partners, it was deemed necessary to promote cooperation among statistics organizations with a view to providing reliable data on a harmonized basis.
The European Commission has therefore set up a regional programme of statistical cooperation with Mediterranean countries (called MEDSTAT) which aims at consolidating the statistical information systems of the countries of the Southern and Eastern rim of the Mediterranean, so as to provide relevant, reliable and timely data.”
Further the Romanian website http://dsbb.imf.org/gddsweb/country/rom/roms1.htm shows that the EU is telling Romania what to do about having a Census in 2002, even though Romania is not yet a member of the EU :-
“Coordinate decennial census with EUROSTAT requirements: The next census will be held in 2002, beginning on the 18th of March in order to comply with EUROSTAT requirements that say censuses should be held between March 1st and May 31st. Further, foreigners classified as temporary residents will be registered, for the first time, at the next Census”
And the same applies to Bulgaria as we can see from Website http://212.39.69.3/english_archive/03/01.htm where we read that :-
“The national census of the population, the residential fund and the agricultural farms started today.
The census in Bulgaria is made along with the other European countries for the first time. According to requirements of the European statistic bureau Eurostat from January 1 to May 31, 2001 all EU countries should take the census of their population. By virtue of the law the census is obligatory. Only three issues make exceptions - ethnical belonging, mother tongue and religion. The census results are expected to give information about the demographic process in Bulgaria, the emigrants and the immigrants, the number, the structure and the kind of households, the main social-economical characteristics of the nation. The first census data is expected in May 2001 and the final - at the end of the year.”
Even Lithuania for some strange reason is cooperating in the design of its Census with both the EU and the UN, as can be seen from Website  http://www.std.lt/naujienos/leid0101/leid010117_1e.htm   where we read :-
“The forthcoming Population Census is the second census in the independent Lithuania. It has been prepared on the basis of national needs as well as on the UN and Eurostat recommendations”
Indeed the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe together with the Statistical Office of the European Communities has jointly prepared some “RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE 2000 CENSUSES OF POPULATION AND HOUSING IN THE ECE REGION”. This can be seen at website http://www.unece.org/stats/documents/census/2000/49.e.html and one has to ask why the UN is involved in this? Could there possibly be an ulterior plan for World Government making use of a common form of Census throughout the whole world?  If so that would explain the apparent need to harmonise the format of different National Censuses.
Indeed, Latvia itself has already complied last year with the wishes of this United Nations Economic Commission for Europe as can be seen from Website http://www.csb.lv/Pres/census1.htm where we read that :-
“In Latvia, the regular population census keeps approaching that, corresponding to what the Government has said, will start on 31 March 2000. The resolution accepted by the Government to conduct the Population census in 2000 corresponds to UNO Recommendations that the population census in all countries has to be conducted in years when the last number of the year is zero or a year being close to that.
In the Population census programme, which was examined and accepted at the Government Committee meeting, all basic questions envisaged by the UNO Europe Economic Commission (EEC) and co-ordinated with the Eurostat statistical departments of Europe Union have been included” 
Conclusion re EU/Eurostat/UN/UK Census Relationship
1.      Despite any assurances given by the Office pof National Statistics (ONS) that only summarised census data will be supplied to the EU, there is nevertheless always a potential danger that more explicit data containing name and address could be supplied at some time in the future 
3.	The way in which the UN and Eurostat are trying to harmonise the format of Census Data in many different countries of the world leads one to ask whether this is part of a long-term plan for World Government 

The above report was written by Mr Ian Dallison on behalf of SANITY
and released for publication on the Internet on 16/04/2001.

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