Drive to sign up 70,000 helpers as census looms

Equipped with large yellow bags bearing the census logo "Count me in", their task will be to hand deliver the bar coded forms and make follow up calls to households that have not returned them after census day, April 29. In England and Wales the ethnic group categories used 10 years ago ha...

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Published inThe Guardian (London)
Main Author Gibbs, Geoffrey
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London (UK) Guardian News & Media Limited 08.01.2001
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Census of Population
Government employees
UK
United Kingdom
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Summary:Equipped with large yellow bags bearing the census logo "Count me in", their task will be to hand deliver the bar coded forms and make follow up calls to households that have not returned them after census day, April 29. In England and Wales the ethnic group categories used 10 years ago have been extended to include Irish, mixed ethnic group, black British and Asian British - a development that has caused anger in parts of Wales, where there have been protests at the absence of a separate Welsh tick box on the census form. The director of census, Graham Jones, was in Cardiff yesterday to hammer home the message that Wales will lose out economically if the census figures are wrong.
ISSN:0261-3077