Tag: poly-and-the-census
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Hey ONS: This Is Not A Mistake
Last census, Dan and his family had to fill the paper version to work-around monogamy-centric validations on the digital versions. The Office of National Statistics have had 10 years to fix the bug... do you reckon they've managed?
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Poly and the Census - Success! (almost)
After much to-ing and fro-ing, the Freedom of Information Act request that a fellow blogger made to the Office of National Statistics, on the subject of households with individuals in non-monogamous relationships or with non-binary genders, has begun to yield results. Dan comments on the findings.
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Poly and the Census – Part Four
More fun and games in Zoe's quest to get meaningful information out of the Office of National Statistics, about how census data reflects non-monogamous and non-heteronormative relationships.
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Poly and the Census - Part Three
Dan hears back - albeit only via somebody else's Freedom of Information Act request - to his concerns about the possible treatment of polyamorous households by the Office of National Statistics during this year's census. And he's not happy.
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Poly and the Census - Part Two
Still no reply from the Office of National Statistics... but somebody's put in a Freedom of Information request now asking a very similar question.
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Poly and the Census
Dan engages in a little polyamory activism, writing to the Office of National Statistics to ask for their assurances that the data submitted on the census he shares with the other Earthlings will be correctly recorded and that the fact that his partner has ticked both the "partner" and "husband or wife" boxes (for different people) will not be treated as a mistake. I wonder what they'll have to say about that...