Have you completed your Census 2021 form?

Not yet
Tempting fate .....

cornishpatsy How on earth during a pandemic can you be sure nothing will change ?

Haven’t had one as yet. Not sure how folk know they are going to be alive on the 21st especially in a pandemic. It is another 3wks away so anything could happen in that time.

Grandma70s just checked the form. I got it totally wrong. I'm glad I read your post. Goodness, what a lot of questions!

As long as you keep your ID code, I expect you can go back and change answers Grandma70s
I filled mine in as soon as I got it, in case, with high volume of traffic, the system crashes on 21st!

Chance would be a fine thing, haven't received it yet

Census form should be filled in on the actual day. Circumstances may change. The last one I filled in as I was the only one at home, DH working away.

We haven’t heard anything yet but it’s not til later in the month.

Not heard anything yet - so - just gone on line to ask for a new ACCESS CODE. Received it as a text straightaway.

census.gov.uk/

lemsip

I states;
Please fill in the form on Sunday 21 March 2021, or as soon as you can afterwards. This is so we can count the whole population on the same day.
Those are the rules,

In that case, the online form should have been set up to only go live on the 21st March - maybe a slip up!

I’ve not received any post about the census yet, nor has my mum ( will go to an empty house or be redirected to my house) but I’ll end up filling them both in I expect

Just thinking ahead, I guess my mum will be registered by her care home so her form which presumably will go to her house, will need returning as no one living there?

I haven't received it yet. Are we meant to do it on a particular set date?

henetha

I haven't received it yet. Are we meant to do it on a particular set date?

Yes on the 21st

Thank you Lucca

I don't understand why people are completing them before the due date.

I thought it had to be done on the evening of 21st March?

I thought we all had to fill it in on the 21st March or as soon as possible afterwards!! I wouldn’t tempt fate by filling it in ahead of time. I can imagine future generations tracing their family trees will find all sorts of misinformation otherwise.

Nope!
Will fill it in on Sunday 21st March, or as soon as poss after this date.
What’s the rush?

It's meant to be a snapshot in time so the details for 21st March are what is required. In most cases they will be the same as when the form is received but you never know, we might have been knocked sideways by a meteorite by then! As an avid family historian familiar with censuses from 1841 onwards, I feel it's really important that the specified completion date is complied with.
After having said all that, I haven't received my form yet!?...

have not received mine yet but will complete on the day its supposed to be filled in

I've done mine - put my nationality as White European

I've done ours. There's just the two of us living here, so it's unlikely to change before the 21st, especially as we're shielding. As others have mentioned, if things do change, it can be reported. No probs.

Completed mine online. I object (and told them so in the feedback) to having had to put my marital status as divorced. I consider myself single but according to their definition, this applies only to those who’ve never married.

No census received in sunny Essex

Excuse my ignorance but the letter says and I quote
( ALL HOUSEHOLDS SHOULD COMPLETE THE CENSUS ON SUNDAY 21 MARCH OR AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AFTER )