SCHEDULE 1
(1) Prescribed persons | (2) Title of questionnaire |
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The householder or joint householders, or in the absence of any such person capable of making a return, any person authorised to act on the householder’s or joint householders’ behalf, of every household in England. Where article 5(11) of the Census Order applies, the person responsible under that article for making a return in England. | The questionnaire entitled “Household Questionnaire (online)” in Part 1 of Schedule 2. The questionnaire entitled “Household Questionnaire (paper)” in Part 4 of Schedule 2. The questionnaire entitled “Household Continuation Questionnaire (paper)” in Part 5 of Schedule 2. |
Every usual resident specified in column (2) in Group B to F in Schedule 1 to the Census Order or any person acting on behalf of that person, in England. Every person specified in column (2) of Group G in Schedule 1 to the Census Order or any person acting on their behalf, in England. Any elector in England making an individual return in accordance with the Census Order. | The questionnaire entitled “Individual Questionnaire (online)” in Part 2 of Schedule 2. The questionnaire entitled “Individual Questionnaire (paper)” in Part 6 of Schedule 2. |
The person for the time being in charge of any premises or vessel mentioned in Group B to F in Schedule 1 to the Census Order, in England. | The questionnaire entitled “Communal Establishment Questionnaire (online)” in Part 3 of Schedule 2. The questionnaire entitled “Communal Establishment Questionnaire (paper)” in Part 7 of Schedule 2. |
SCHEDULE 2
PART 1Household Questionnaire (online)
(1) Question | (2) Response Options |
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Information about the household | |
Do you usually live at (census address)? | Selecting one of the following:
If the response option “Yes, I usually live here” is selected, the questions below in column (1) marked (†) will not be asked. If the response option “No, I don’t usually live here” is selected, the questions before those marked (†) will not be asked. |
What is your name? | Entering response in the format:
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Do any of the following people also live at (census address) on Sunday 21 March 2021? | Selecting all that apply:
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Who else lives at (census address)? | Entering response in the format:
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Does anyone else live at (census address)? | Selecting one of the following:
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(†) Do any of the following people live at (census address) on Sunday 21 March 2021? | Selecting all that apply:
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(†) Who lives at (census address)? | Entering response in the format:
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(†) Does anyone else live at (census address)? | Selecting one of the following:
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Apart from everyone already included, who else is staying overnight on Sunday 21 March 2021 at (census address)? | Selecting all that apply:
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What is the name of the visitor (second visitor, third visitor, etc.) staying overnight on Sunday 21 March 2021 at (census address)? | Entering response in the format:
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Information about household relationships | |
Describing the relationship between the respondent and each other resident in the household: (That other resident’s name) is your (invitation to select one of the response options opposite, which is then displayed to complete this statement). | Selecting one of the following:
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Describing the relationship between each other resident in the household (where the respondent is a resident), or the relationship between the residents in the household (where the respondent is not a resident): Thinking about (resident-two’s name, etc.), (resident-three’s name, etc.) is their (invitation to select one of the response options opposite, which is then displayed to complete this statement). | Selecting one of the response options shown in relation to the question immediately above in column (1). |
Information about the household accommodation | |
What type of accommodation is (census address)? | Selecting one of the following:
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If response is “Whole house or bungalow” then: Which of the following is your house or bungalow? | Selecting one of the following:
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If response is “Flat, maisonette or apartment” then: Where is your flat, maisonette or apartment? | Selecting one of the following:
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Are all the rooms in this accommodation, including the kitchen, bathroom and toilet, behind a door that only this household can use? | Selecting one of the following:
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How many bedrooms are available for use only by this household? | Entering the number of bedrooms |
What type of central heating does (census address) have? | Selecting all that apply:
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If there are one or more usual residents at the census address, then: Does your household own or rent (census address)? | Selecting one of the following:
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If response is either “Part-owns and part-rents (shared ownership)”, or “Rents (with or without housing benefit)” or “Lives here rent-free” then: Who is your landlord? | Selecting one of the following:
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If there are one or more usual residents at the census address, then: In total, how many cars or vans are owned, or available for use, by members of this household? | Selecting one of the following:
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Information about individual residents | |
Are you (resident name)? | Selecting one of the following:
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What is your date of birth? | Entering response in the format: Day-Month-Year |
You are (age automatically calculated) years old (or ‘months old’ or ‘days old’ depending on age of resident). Is this correct? | Selecting one of the following:
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What is your sex? | Selecting one of the following:
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On 21 March 2021, what is your legal marital or registered civil partnership status? | Selecting one of the following:
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If response is “Married” or “Separated, but still legally married” then: Who is your legal marriage to? | Selecting one of the following:
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If response is “Divorced” or “Widowed” then: Who was your legal marriage to? | Selecting one of the following:
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If response is “In a registered civil partnership” or “Separated, but still legally in a civil partnership” then: Who is your registered civil partnership to? | Selecting one of the following:
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If response is “Formerly in a civil partnership which is now legally dissolved” or “Surviving partner from a registered civil partnership” then: Who was your registered civil partnership to? | Selecting one of the following:
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Do you stay at another address for more than 30 days a year? | Selecting one of the following:
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If response is “Yes, an address within the UK” or “Yes, an address outside the UK” then:
| Selecting all that apply:
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If aged 18 years or under:
| For either question, selecting one of the following:
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If response is “Yes” then: During term time, where do you usually live? | Selecting one of the following:
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If response is “Another address” (and if “No” was given in response to the earlier question: “Do you stay at another address for more than 30 days a year?”) then:
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What is your country of birth? | Selecting one of the following:
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If response is “Republic of Ireland” or “Elsewhere” then: When did you most recently arrive to live in the United Kingdom? | Entering response in the format: Month-Year |
If response is “March-2020” then: Did you arrive in the UK on or after 21 March 2020? | Selecting one of the following:
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If response is “Yes”, or if response to the earlier question is “April-2020” or any later date, rather than “March-2020”, then: Including the time already spent here, how long do you intend to stay in the United Kingdom? | Selecting one of the following:
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One year ago, what was your usual address? | Selecting one of the following:
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How would you describe your national identity? | Selecting all that apply:
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What is your ethnic group? | Selecting one of the following:
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If response is “White” then: Which one best describes your White ethnic group or background? | Selecting one of the following:
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If response is “Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups” then: Which one best describes your Mixed or Multiple ethnic group or background? | Selecting one of the following:
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If response is “Asian or Asian British” then: Which one best describes your Asian or Asian British ethnic group or background? | Selecting one of the following:
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If response is “Black, Black British, Caribbean or African” then: Which one best describes your Black, Black British, Caribbean or African ethnic group or background? | Selecting one of the following:
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If response is “Other ethnic group” then: Which one best describes your other ethnic group or background? | Selecting one of the following:
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What is your religion? This question is voluntary | Selecting one of the following:
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What is your main language? | Selecting one of the following:
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If response is “Other, including British Sign Language” then: How well can you speak English? | Selecting one of the following:
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What passports do you hold? | Selecting all that apply:
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How is your health in general? | Selecting one of the following:
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Do you have any physical or mental health conditions or illnesses lasting or expected to last 12 months or more? | Selecting one of the following:
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If response is “Yes” then: Do any of your conditions or illnesses reduce your ability to carry out day-to-day activities? | Selecting one of the following:
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Do you look after, or give any help or support to, anyone because they have long-term physical or mental health conditions or illnesses, or problems related to old age? | Selecting one of the following:
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All the questions below in column (1) are for respondents aged 16 years and over only, except the questions marked (‡) which, if relevant, may be asked of any respondent | |
Which of the following best describes your sexual orientation? This question is voluntary | Selecting one of the following:
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Is the gender you identify with the same as your sex registered at birth? This question is voluntary | Selecting one of the following:
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Information about qualifications | |
Have you completed an apprenticeship? | Selecting one of the following:
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Have you achieved a qualification at degree level or above? | Selecting one of the following:
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Have you achieved an NVQ or equivalent qualification? | Selecting all that apply:
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Have you achieved an AS, A level or equivalent qualification? | Selecting all that apply:
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Have you achieved a GCSE or equivalent qualification? | Selecting all that apply:
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If response is “No” or “None of these apply” to all the qualification questions above, then: Have you achieved any other qualifications? | Selecting all that apply:
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Information about past and present employment | |
Have you previously served in the UK Armed Forces? | Selecting all that apply:
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In the last seven days, were you doing any of the following? | Selecting all that apply:
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In your main job, what is your employment status? | Selecting one of the following:
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What is the name of the organisation or business you work for? | Selecting one of the following:
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What is your full job title? | Entering full job title |
Briefly describe what you do in your main job. | Entering job description |
What is the main activity of your organisation, business or freelance work? | Entering main activity |
Do you supervise or oversee the work of other employees on a day-to-day basis? | Selecting one of the following:
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In your main job, how many hours a week do you usually work? | Selecting one of the following:
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How do you usually travel to work? | Selecting one of the following:
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Where do you mainly work? | Selecting one of the following:
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If response is “At a workplace” or “Report to a depot” then: Do you mainly work in the UK? | Selecting one of the following:
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(⸸) Which of the following describes what you were doing in the last seven days? | Selecting all that apply:
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(⸸) In the last four weeks, were you actively looking for any kind of paid work? | Selecting one of the following:
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(⸸) If response is “Yes” then: Are you available to start work in the next two weeks? | Selecting one of the following:
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(⸸) If response is “No”, not actively looking for paid work, or “No”, not available to start work in the next two weeks, then: In the last seven days, were you waiting to start a job already accepted? | Selecting one of the following:
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(⸸) Have you ever done any paid work? | Selecting one of the following:
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(⸸) In your main job, what was your employment status? | Selecting one of the following:
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(⸸) What was the name of the organisation or business you worked for? | Selecting one of the following:
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(⸸) What was your full job title? | Entering job title |
(⸸) Briefly describe what you did in your main job. | Entering job description |
(⸸) What was the main activity of your organisation, business or freelance work? | Entering main activity |
(⸸) Did you supervise or oversee the work of other employees on a day-to-day basis? | Selecting one of the following:
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Information about visitors | |
(‡) What is (visitor name)’s date of birth? | Entering response in the format: Day-Month-Year |
(‡) What is (visitor name)’s sex? | Selecting one of the following:
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(‡) What is (visitor name)’s usual address? | Selecting one of the following:
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PART 2Individual Questionnaire (online)
(1) Question | (2) Response Options |
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What type of accommodation is (census address)? | Selecting one of the following:
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Are you answering these questions for yourself or for someone else? | Selecting one of the following:
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If response is “For myself” then: What is your name? | Entering response in the format:
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If response is “For someone else” then: What is their name? | Entering response in the format:
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(⁑) What is your position in this establishment? | Selecting one of the following:
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The subsequent questions in this questionnaire are identical to the questions in the Household Questionnaire (online) set out in the table in Part 1 of this Schedule, from and including the question “What is your date of birth?” up to but excluding the questions marked (‡). | The subsequent response options in this questionnaire are identical to the response options in the Household Questionnaire (online) set out in the table in Part 1 of this Schedule, from and including the response option to the question “What is your date of birth?” up to but excluding the response options to the questions marked (‡). The routing instruction following the second response option to the question “During term time, where do you usually live?”, and the routing instruction following the question “Is this address in the UK?” (both of which route respondents to the questions marked (‡)) in the table in Part 1 of this Schedule do not apply in this table. Instead, in each case, the routing instruction is: “If selected/After this question (as appropriate), no further questions are asked.” |
PART 3Communal Establishment Questionnaire (online)
(1) Question | (2) Response Options |
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What is the nature of this establishment? | Selecting one of the following:
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If response is “Medical or care” then: What type of medical or care establishment is (census address)? | Selecting one of the following:
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If response is “Education” then: What type of education establishment is (census address)? | Selecting one of the following:
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If response is “Detention” then: What type of detention establishment is (census address)? | Selecting one of the following:
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If response is “Travel or temporary accommodation” then: What type of travel or temporary accommodation establishment is (census address)? | Selecting one of the following:
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Who is responsible for the management of this establishment? | Selecting one of the following:
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Do any of the following currently live in this establishment? | Selecting all that apply:
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How many people are currently living in this establishment? | Selecting one of the following:
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Are any of the following visitors staying overnight in this establishment on 21 March 2021? | Selecting all that apply:
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How many visitors are staying overnight in this establishment on 21 March 2021? | Selecting one of the following:
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PART 4Household Questionnaire (paper)
PART 5Household Continuation Questionnaire (paper)
PART 6Individual Questionnaire (paper)
PART 7Communal Establishment Questionnaire (paper)
PART 8Functions and features of online questionnaires
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Online questionnaires and the Authority website hosting online questionnaires will contain information relating to the census and to the completion and submission of online questionnaires, including information about—
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starting an online questionnaire;
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the persons who must complete the census;
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members of the household answering the parts of a questionnaire relevant to them;
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when the census should be completed;
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how the Authority will use and protect information relating to a prescribed person;
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where and how help to complete an online questionnaire can be found;
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the mandatory nature of the census as a whole, but the voluntary nature of certain questions within the census.
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Online questionnaires and the Authority website hosting online questionnaires will contain functions and features to enable—
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a prescribed person to access the relevant online questionnaire by entering a unique access code online;
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a unique access code to link automatically to an address of a household or a communal establishment;
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the address of a prescribed person to be displayed automatically (where relevant) in different parts of an online questionnaire;
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where an online questionnaire is being completed by a person on behalf of another person in accordance with these Regulations, the automatic modification of any words, letters or punctuation necessary to ensure the grammatical sense of instructions or questions, including the automatic replacement of the words ‘you’ and ‘your’ in any question with the name of the person on whose behalf the online questionnaire is being completed;
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the use of responses regarding the relationship of one person to other persons in a household of five or more persons to infer the relationship of those other persons to each other, including for this purpose the function to ask the intermediate question “Are any of these people related to you?” or third-person variations of that question;
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the display of text containing instructions or information relating to the completion of specific questions, or generally to the completion of the online questionnaire;
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information to be displayed as to why a particular question is important;
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questions to be answered in different sequences;
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a range of pre-determined response options to be offered in relation to a question;
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typed responses to be assisted by predictive text (where appropriate);
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routing through the online questionnaire by the use of routing questions;
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indication to be given that a routing question has not been answered;
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the requirement that a routing question be answered before further questions may be answered;
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the prevention of mutually incompatible answers being selected in response to a question;
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the display of a prompt where appropriate to encourage the review of a response;
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the amendment of a response before submission;
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a partially completed online questionnaire to be saved and continued later.
SCHEDULE 3Content of statutory declaration
[I, A.B. etc.] being a person appointed for the purpose of taking the 2021 Census (“the census”), I will fully and honestly perform the duties assigned to me under the Census Act 1920 and the Census (England) Regulations 2020 (“census duties”).
I will carry out my census duties in conformity with the provisions of section 39 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Data Protection Act 2018 and all other relevant legal obligations. I understand that failure to comply with such obligations may result in a criminal conviction and a fine or imprisonment.
I will not, except in the performance of my census duties, disclose or make known, at any time, any matter which comes to my knowledge relating to any person, family or household.
I will use any access materials I am given, including any security pass, electronic media, personal identification material or passwords, only to perform my census duties. I will not lend, transfer or otherwise disclose such materials to any other person, unless specifically directed to do so by the Statistics Board.
I will report any concerns I have about the confidentiality of personal information in connection with my census duties, or with regard to any other matters relating to the census whether arising from my actions or those of others, directly to the Statistics Board.
SCHEDULE 4Form of undertaking
I, , being a person appointed for the purpose of taking the 2021 Census (“the census”), undertake that I will fully and honestly perform the duties assigned to me under the Census Act 1920 and the Census (England) Regulations 2020 (“census duties”).
I will carry out my census duties in conformity with the provisions of section 39 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Data Protection Act 2018 and all other relevant legal obligations. I understand that failure to comply with such obligations may result in a criminal conviction and a fine or imprisonment.
I will not, except in the performance of my census duties, disclose or make known, at any time, any matter which comes to my knowledge relating to any person, family or household.
I will use any access materials I am given, including any security pass, electronic media, personal identification material or passwords, only to perform my census duties. I will not lend, transfer or otherwise disclose such materials to any other person, unless specifically directed to do so by the Statistics Board.
I will report any concerns I have about the confidentiality of personal information in connection with my census duties, or with regard to any other matters relating to the census whether arising from my actions or those of others, directly to the Statistics Board.
Signed
Dated