The Census

[TheOstrich]

Just as a postscript, 2 telephone calls to their Helpline yielded no joy, so I went on their Webchat this morning. They admitted there's been a glitch in their system over email confirmations, now rectified, and also confirmed our form had been filed. I've printed out a screen grab of the conversation for posterity, and I'll happily now leave it at that.

[meriad]

I received a little card thing in the post a few weeks back telling me to look out for a letter asking me to complete the census..... but nothing received as yet. Then I happened to hear on the radio today that you don't have to wait for the letter but you can simply go online?

Who got a letter and who simply went online?

[TheOstrich]

I don't think you'll be able to complete the census online unless you've received a letter to your house giving you a 16 character access code, Meriad, or you've requested one.
Anyway, the census website is here:
https://census.gov.uk/

Interestingly, one of my old work colleagues tells me that he actually received a hard-copy census form and a reply envelope along with his access code letter, without him requesting the former. We don't know why this happened, it's certainly not the norm .....

[JoM]

We had the card Ria and the letter came perhaps five days later.

I’ve not done ours yet, I’m putting it off. I hate filling things out like this and having read Ossie’s post I had a realisation that my parents won’t be able to complete it online so I’ve just requested a paper one for them, otherwise I’d just be handed the code and asked “I don’t know what we’re going to do with this....”.

[Kaz]

I did D's for her yesterday Jo, we had a bit of a giggle when it asked for her sexual orientation I did tell her that was an optional question.......