Census 2006 , 23rd April

Bond-007 wrote:

Thus avoid having to answer it.

i got that, but why? it's 1 form... are you that lazy you wont fill out a simple form that could help your community some day?

Slow coach wrote:

What about a question asking if one's fluent in English? If only people who spoke and wrote perfect English counted what would the population of our great little state be?

seeing as the census questions are in english its kinda a moot point



Might want to hold off on the slagging:

slow coach wrote:

Irish Speakers in State

2002: 1,570,894

haaa haa haa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, and how many of these are pets? lot of miner birds can "speak" irish:D

slow coach wrote:

Should that be My two, or mine too?

oh im undone, how ever shall i recover :rolleyes:

slow coach wrote:

:rolleyes: Try reading the form. If you're not in the house, you don't get counted in that house.

which considering they dont cover work places proves my point, if your a shift worker theres a good chance they wont get you

Deleted User wrote:

Everyone put down "Boardsism" for the religion. If you can convince 10,000 people to do it, it will become a new religion as far as I know.

That or Jedi. Jedi's cool.

But some of the questions on that thing are really personal.. going into detail about marital status.. and the ethnic background:

White:
Irish
Irish Traveller.

Or something along those lines. i didn't know there was a difference really ..

thats to do with diseases. if your irish you have a higher susceptability of cystic fibrosis thanks to the proliferation of the gene that causes it in irish people (cause of the famine, the gene that causes CF helps prevent against typhus and diptheria which were rampant during that period. the advantage it gave them allowed them to survive but left us with a rate approximatily 50 times higher than the rest of europe:( )

if your just plain white then you dont have that gene on the same level of native irish and theres no need for medical facilities in your area for it. im not sure what the story is on irish traveller but i do no your average traveler's life expectancy is around 50 so theres probably something up there too.

it actually extends to other races. africans for instance suffer from sickle cell anemia (same story as us only their gene protects against maleria) so while this may sound like a racist question its actually one of the best examples as to how the census could work I.E if youve got 100 thousand africans living in an area it might be a good idea to have a clinic that can deal with sickle cell anemia ,just using the words "foreign national" wouldnt cover this

Celticfire wrote:

Have you got your forms yet? Still no forms for my household.

No, I still haven't got the forms for my household. I'm astounded!! It is an offence not to fill the form in and it is only a week until census day.

There was a woman delivering leaflets about the census the other day - that is a complete waste of tax payers money - couldn't they have delivered the form at the same time??

Aziraphale wrote:

I feel stupid. No-one told me there was a census on April the 23rd. Now you can call me stupid too.

If "The census is an account of everybody in the country on Census Night" (cso.ie), where do visitors get forms from, and what's their incentive to fill them in?

Why does Ireland hold a census on England's patron saint's day, anyway?

It's just a date TBH. There is a special form apparently for visitors, so if you are visiting or have visitors they are included in your household for that night.