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The 17th Decennial Census of Population and Housing was held in Great Britain on 25 April 1971. It was the largest census exercise ever attempted in Britain. A wide range of questions was asked, covering housing and household facilities, employment, education, birthplace and nationality, and several other topics, as well as more conventional questions on age, sex and marital status. Some of the questions asked were the same as those which have been asked for 100 years or more. Others covered topics which have become the focus of national or local government planning activities, such as educational achievement and journey to work. Some others, in particular a question on parental birthplace, were designed to provide information on issues of contemporary political concern.
Original material 1979 David R. Cope.
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This term is used in the sense described in W. Solesbury, ‘The Environmental Agenda’, Public Administration, 54, Winter 1976, p. 379.
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Cf., for example, the discussion in Chapter 4 of J. Busfield and M. Paddon, Thinking about Children, Cambridge University Press, 1977.
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See C. Bell and H. Newby, Community Studies, London, Allen and Unwin, 1971, especially chapter 2.
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A. F. Westin, op. cit., p. 25. See also the discussion in E. Shils, ‘Privacy: Its Constitution and Vicissitudes’, Law and Contemporary Problems, 31, 1966, pp. 281–306.
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Most of the studies on the topic were carried out during the Second World War, such as G. W. Allport and L. Postman, The Psychology of Rumour, Henry Holt, 1948.
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Cope, D.R. (1979). Census-taking and the Debate on Privacy: a Sociological View. In: Bulmer, M. (eds) Censuses, Surveys and Privacy. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16184-3_14
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