The Missing

---

Women in the pensions and Office-Acton compilation of information from the census in 1931, which was later destroyed

next year, the UK census is The Last , which could take place.

The UK's national statistician that the 2021 The Number of staff could be the UK be The Last , with future population counts carried out in other cheaper - and easier - ways.

But what we have learned over The Last 200 years?

1. Search for soldiers

The First British census took place in 1801, But there are different views on why it happened.

Some reports suggest, it was carried out, to learn, how many work-ready men were wars in the country were able to fight in the Napoleonic.

But others say it was just to gather the population of England, Scotland and Wales - which has been found, a nine-million - in part, so that the government could ensure there was enough to eat.

It is now to give all of the 10 years, a snapshot of life in the UK.

- The First that has been able to be completed online - the population in the UK, 63. 2 million.

It also had the Kingdom, an increase of nearly three million since 2001, so about one in Eight - 13% - of residents were born outside of the United Kingdom.

2. The lack of census 1931 census compiled before all of The Records were in a fire

The 2011 census have been digitally archived and stored in a safe place, But in The Past , to hold the census was at times patchy. lost

results of the early censuses have been lost in books, some of which were, in the course of time. The was lost during the 1841 results of Wrexham - up to a later plot turn in a book.

And filling out records for his parishioners, a butcher, "cut throat of pigs", and the mothers of illegitimate children as "whore and man trap".

3. The suffragettes who were killed was in a closet Emily Davison when she stepped onto The Racetrack at the Epsom Derby in 1913.

was the time of the 1911 census and the suffragettes campaign at the peak, But the women had not yet won The Right to choose.

women's rights organized activists, a planned boycott of the census, although most of the English people complete in.

the suffragettes But , night-fighter on the census, and had recorded their address as The House of Commons.

Others have also avoided part. In 1841, the artist JMW Turner, rowed a boat into the Thames, so he could not be seen, that to any property.

What is the UK census is and how it works?

The census is a count of all people and households in the UK, which takes place every 10 years.

It is the only exercise, which is a detailed snapshot of the entire population and is unique because everyone in the country answers to the same questions on the same day.

people are asked who was in your home overnight, as well as information on jobs, education and ethnic origin.

The results of mean, Central and local government can use resources efficiently for things such as housing, education, health and transport.

you can also learn things about much smaller areas than any household survey.

So, for example, we know that Redcar & Cleveland and allerdale borough Council were The Local authorities with the highest proportion of white British in the country to 97. 6% in the year 2011.

It would be robust enough, the numbers will go down to The Local authorities, without the census.

people can submit their replies to a questionnaire received in the mail or online.

Filling out the forms is mandatory, and repeated failure to complete it could fine up to £1,000.

Source :

4. Housewives and outside loos

1841 census was The First to record the names of persons, in addition to your age, gender, occupation, and place of birth.

Thirty years later, an additional column in the census are asked whether someone is blind, deaf and dumb, imbecile or idiot, or a madman.

references the "house woman" in the 1971 and 1981 census, with the gender-neutral option "in search of home or family".

asked were From 1951 to 1991, the households, whether you are an outdoor toilet had.

The 2011 census also saw a 6% increase in those who rent from a private landlord or letting Agency

For the First Time in 2011, there were questions about civil partnerships, second homes and recent migration.

a new question on military veterans for the next year of the census, in addition to the voluntary questions on sexual orientation and gender identity for those who, at the age of 16 and older.

5. We have always been animal lovers

the UK has always been known as a nation of animal lovers and The Proof exists in the 1911 census.

A Family from Dulwich in London, listed to your budget Roger watchdog, whose occupation was listed as a search of The House .

More family, of Birkenhead, included Eight -year-old Tom Cat , the among their number, who was a mouse-catcher.

6. If a religion is not a religion? Sir Alec Guinness played the Jedi knight Obi-Wan Kenobi in The Star -Wars-films

Well,

the Religious belief in the 2001 census for the First Time since 1851.

in the run-up to an E-Mail campaign, attempt to try to move people to later take their religion as Jedi, and

Ten Years , The Number of Jedi believers who had fallen somehow - But 176,632, the United Kingdom was the seventh most popular "religion".

The two censuses have shown a decline of Christianity in the UK. In 2001, 72% of people described, which had as a Christian, But a decade later, that dropped to 59%.

The percentage of those who say they have no religion rose from 15% to 25%.

7. Eye-makers - and a bee dealer

The census shows have changed, how people's occupations over The Years , if the 1841 census is anything to go by.

Some of the occupations with the lowest count that year included bee, merchant (- man), peg-maker (19 males And One female) and the artificial eye-maker (Eight men And One woman).

This year, there were only 734 female Midwives - whereas the census of 2011 has recorded a total of 30,925 female Midwives and 330, which were men, a total of 31,255.

8. You can read your ancestors handwriting Of 1841 in Buckingham Palace census shows Queen Victoria and Prince Albert (above left)

Jessamy Carlson from The National Archives that will be able to see most recent census records are released after 100 years, you get an insight into their relatives life.

"the survivors of The census forms for England and Wales in 1911, written by The Head of the household," She Said . "It is very exciting to see a form filled in by your ancestors, But by the collection.

"Often the form is filled by The Head of the household, But I've seen forms of children written, where their parents are sufficiently literate to, the forms in Themselves . "

As well as your ancestors, find out what celebrities of the time did, The Night of the census.

"We can see that Harry Houdini was visiting at a friend's house The Night of the 1911 census and his profession as a mysterious arch. Famous residences such as Buckingham Palace or 10 Downing Street lists all of the employees working there in The Night next to the entries for the Royal Family or the Prime Minister . "

office for national statistics, uk national archives

Source of news: bbc.com