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Census

Answer

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated March 2010:"As the Director General for the Office for National Statistics (ONS) I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking what the schedule is for printing 2011 Census forms; and how many census forms are expected to be printed in each month from March 2010 to the date of the census. (323448)""Initial printing of the questionnaires is running from March 2010 to July 2010 and once this is complete a second process of overprinting will begin, during which the barcodes, unique identifiers and internet access codes will be printed onto each questionnaire.""Current expectations are that for the initial printing stage the numbers of questionnaires printed each month will be approximately:"

	Million
March 2010	8
April 2010	9
May 2010	9
June 2010	10
July 2010	3

"During August 2010 ONS will be undertaking testing processes and undertaking further quality assurance of the processing procedures.""Once the initial printing process is complete a second process of overprinting will begin, during which the barcodes, unique identifiers and internet access codes will be printed onto each questionnaire. This process will run from July 2010 until March 2011."

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

508 c507W; 323448

Session

2009-10

Subjects

Census

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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