Proposals to change the next UK Census
A formal proposal to change the traditional paper census form to an online version only has been put to Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office Minister, by the Office of National Statistics with a view to saving the government a large amount of money.
After almost 200 hundred years of using a paper format census, the new proposals are controversial but the argument is with the advances of new technology, there is a chance to save hundreds of millions of pounds by going down the online route.
Elderly people or those unable to use get access to the internet will be given special assistance but officials hope the plans will slash the potential cost of the next census in 2021.
What do you think, should the paper version be kept or is it best to move to an online only format?