The National Records of Scotland (www.nrscotland.gov.uk) has announced that 700,000 householders in Scotland have yet to complete the 2022 Scottish Census, with just a week to go for the offical deadline of May 1st.
The archive has also outlined the return rate for each local authority so far, with Aberdeenshire having the highest return rate at 82%, and with Glasgow at an astonishingly low 65.5%, less than two thirds. Here in North Ayrshore, the return rate is currently 72.4%. Failure to return the census could see a fine of £1000 imposed.
More importantly, in a century's time the descendants of those who have not bothered are going to be more than miffed - but I'm guessing (hoping, praying!) that readers of this blog get it, and have already done so!
For the full story, visit https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/news/2022/call-for-census-completion-as-local-response-rates-are-published.
To fill in the census visit www.census.gov.scot.
Chris
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