The next national census takes place on 27 March 2011. In 2001 there was a 94% return of census forms in Cornwall. According to information provided by the 2011 Census area manager for Cornwall each additional person included in the 2011 Census will be worth of the order of £330 each year to Cornwall in terms of Government grants.
Considerable efforts will be made to encourage a 100% Census return for Cornwall; anything anyone can do to encourage the achievement of the higest possible return of Census forms will have direct impact on the monies available to spent on local services for the ten years until the 2021 Census.
£330 per year equates to £3,300 over 10 years.
It is disappointing that the 2011 Census will not have a 'tick box' for Cornish origin. There will be a box in which 'Cornish' can be written . However a protest vote by anyone deciding not to complete the Census form, due to the absence of a Cornish 'tick box', might succeed in registering a protest but at the above cost to funding for local services.
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