2 APRIL 1921, Page 25

The Registrar-General has issued an interesting pamphlet on The Coming

Census (Stationery Office, 6d. net) which house- holders would do well to read before Census Day, April 24th. The Census paper, a copy of which is given in the pamphlet, contains more questions than before and will need to be filled up with care. It may indeed be doubted whether the questions are not unduly minute, although any intelligent adult who can write should be able to answer them. The questions are explained, special regard being paid to the meaning of " occupa- tion " in its innumerable subdivisions. At the end of the pamphlet is a short account of the process of distributing and collecting the schedules, and of the ingenious new mechanical methods of compiling the results.