Census Questions

Thanks Chestnut. Also, those of us who have done DNA Tests might have slightly different answers. My daughter did her Australian census a week ago and we did ours yesterday. It is due in a week or so. I put English and Scottish but I only know the large amount of Scottish via DNA because all the grandparents were actually born in England/ Wales.Come to that, Welsh wasn’t there, either.

Oopsadaisy1

If you are doing a Census return ( a bit late? ) they are only interested in your immediate ethnicity, not where your Grandparents came from. I think on my Passport mine says U.K. citizen, presumably taken from my Birth Certificate when I first applied many years ago.
Same as all census returns in the past really, except in the past they were only asked where they were born and where they lived at the time of the Census return.
Not sure why you think the Governments are interested in helping Genealogists of the future.

Your ethnicity has nothing to do with your citizenship. You may have been born in a country and be a citizen of that country, but your ethnic group could be anything. Most western countries now have a diverse population. So for your ethnic group it is actually relevant what your grandparents are, whether you are black, white, mixed race or whatever. There is no such thing as your 'immediate ethnicity'.
Where you were born does not show your ethnicity, and older census returns simply listed where you were born. So the OP is quite correct is questioning why there are only two options for ethnicity.

I presume you mean one of the opinion poll surveys. Although they sometimes do multiple choices as you mention it asks you to pick the one you feel most comfortable with. The purpose of it is to get people with different profiles taking part in the survey.

I'm in Sydney Nanna8 and haven't yet received any paperwork for the census. Nobody I know has either! Supposed to have it done by 10 August, and I plan to do it on line.

Sorry Nanna8

I think Nanna8 is in Oz (apologies if I am wrong) so their census is at a different time?

If you are doing a Census return ( a bit late? ) they are only interested in your immediate ethnicity, not where your Grandparents came from. I think on my Passport mine says U.K. citizen, presumably taken from my Birth Certificate when I first applied many years ago.
Same as all census returns in the past really, except in the past they were only asked where they were born and where they lived at the time of the Census return.
Not sure why you think the Governments are interested in helping Genealogists of the future.