The historic national census is set to be abolished and replaced by information on everybody in the country gathered from banks, stores and estate agents.
The census – first carried out more than 200 years ago amid fears that the number of people in the country was multiplying too fast – has become expensive, inaccurate and slow, the Office for National Statistics admitted. Read more>>
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