2021 Census

[LagneyandCasey]

How may times have you been included in a census and is yours very different from 2011?

This will be my 6th! I'm nowhere near 60 though. I just squeezed onto the 1971 census.

Ours will be very different this time. A different address with two less of us living here.

1991 - me and my parents at home
2001 - same as above
2011 - same as above
2021- me, my husband and daughter living in our mortgaged home

1971 - was a baby ( born 1970) in a council
House
1981 - with Mum Dad and two younger siblings in house owned on mortgage
1991 - with ex boyfriend in flat we owned together
2001 - with DH in the second house we had owned since getting married
2011 - with DH , 5 year old DS and 2 year old DD in our current home
2021 - with DH , 15 year old DS and 12 year old DD

This will be the first home I've stayed in long enough to complete two.

Born May 1970
71 - age 10 months, 2 parents and me
81 - age 10, same house, 2 parents and my brother
91 - age 20,different house, 2 parents and my brother
01 - age 30, different house, DH, DS
11 - age 40, same house, DH, DS, DD
21 - age 50, same house, DH, DD (DS away at Uni)

Should we get a letter about it? We haven't had anything yet. If we don't can we fill it in anyway?

Yes, it arrives with the specific code for 'the household'.
Trouble being, it looks like the letters you get from charities, so would have been very easy to divert straight to the recycling box.

When you log on, you put the code in and then can fill it in.

I have no idea what the system is, but can't help feeling there HAS to be a system for people who don't get a code, or lose it / put it in the recycling without realising what it is. There are bound to be loads of people in the same boat.

Oooh I like this game!

1981: aged 5. Lived with both parents and both siblings.
1991: aged 15. Same house, lived with both parents, both siblings had moved out.
2001: aged 25. Same house - I had moved out and moved back in. DF had died in 1996, now lived with DM and 1yo DD.
2011: aged 35. Same house. DM had died in 2009 so me and 11yo DD.
2021: aged 45. Same house! Me and 21yo DD. Same job as in 2001 too, I've actually worked there since 2000.

@Raahh

I was born at the end of 71, so 81- My mum had a job working for the census, and went around the local estate helping people fill their's in. I remember going with her to drop off the forms.

81- me, sister, mum and dad
91- uni hall of residence
2001- living in own house on my own
2011- different rented house, married with 3 children.
2021- same as above.(plus dog)

I also do not remember filling in the 2011 one!

My mum did that in 81 too

@tinseloatcake

Should we get a letter about it? We haven't had anything yet. If we don't can we fill it in anyway?

If you're in Scotland ours has been delayed until next year. I was wondering why I hadn't heard anything when friends in England were talking about theirs.

I remember the 2011 one, it was my first one I did myself as I was still living with my parents in 2001. I remember filling it in and my ex wanting to put Jedi down as his religion as it was going around online that it would make it officially recognised if enough people did it (which of course wasn't true.) He didn't want to fill it in at all but I'm sure it was compulsory then too. I might be mistaken but I think it was a paper form only then still.

I don't think we have had a letter yet. If I click don't have a code will that issue another one? Our post is taking a while so it may not arrive on time.
Should I click don't have a code ASAP? Or see if it turns up early next week?

@Elleherd

Anyone know what someone who lives at more than one address should do? IE rents room for work and lives there a lot but also has dwelling elsewhere.

It is where you are on the 21st that you go by.

Im in my 70s so this will be my 7th census that I have filled in a form. Also worked on the census several times:-

1961 – just moved into my first flat

1971 – worked as a census enumerator – living in a different flat

1981 – worked as a census enumerator – living in a different home

1991 – worked as a census enumerator – moved from the city I was born in so living in different home

2001 – living in current home

2011 – living in current home

2012 – living in current home

My seventh!

1961 - with mum, dad and brother
1971 - teenager with mum and brother
1981 - my own house bought with boyfriend
1991 - different house with same partner (now husband)
2001 - same house, just me
2011 - same house, just me
2021 - different house, just me

It’s fine to fill it in beforehand, I haven’t had any overnight visitors in four years so I doubt I’ll be having any on 21st!

I did expect there to be more questions, and wonder if anyone knows why out of all the questions they could have asked, why they want to know what sort of heating you have?

4th for me
91 - baby
01 - at hone with parents
11 - still at home with parents
21 - 2nd house with partner & kids

This is my first one since DD was born. I'm no longer with her dad and the 21st is his weekend with her so does he have to add her to his? I'm actually feeling quite sad if this it to be the case!

@YouReallyAre I think iirc that there is a section to declare people who are normally part of the household but are away that night. I think students who are away at university get counted like that.

@KihoBebiluPute that's great, thank you

Born 84:

1991 At home, 2 parents, 1 sibling.

2001 At home, 1 parent, 1 dead parent (1994), 1 step dad, 1 sibling, 1 half-sibling.

2011 Own home, Dh, 1 dog, 1 child.

2021 Different own home in different UK country, same DH, no dog 😢 (died 2020), 2 dc.

It’s amazing how much can change in just 10yrs!

@happymummy12345

I don't think we have had a letter yet. If I click don't have a code will that issue another one? Our post is taking a while so it may not arrive on time. Should I click don't have a code ASAP? Or see if it turns up early next week?

If you click don’t have a code they text or email you one I think

@YouReallyAre

This is my first one since DD was born. I'm no longer with her dad and the 21st is his weekend with her so does he have to add her to his? I'm actually feeling quite sad if this it to be the case!

If she is usually resident at your address then you do include her but there is a bit asking if they regularly reside elsewhere. Her Dad should include her as a visitor on his.

@LadyDanburysCane thank you. I'll have a look to double check we haven't got the letter first, then if not I'll do that tomorrow.

'81 - Childhood home, just me and my parents. No siblings.
'91 - As above
'01 - DH and I first home, we now have 2 children
'11 - Same first home, children at home still.
'21 -A new home for DH and I! One child now lives several hundred miles away for work and the other still lives in our old home, which he purchased from DH and I.

@LadyDanburysCane that's great, thank you. I'll casually try and drop that into can conversation!