Intrusive census should only be a head count

THE census has become nothing other than a highly invasive and unwarranted probe into people’s lives with a high nuisance factor.

The original idea of a census in Roman times was a basic head count and nothing else, and not what we see today which is an Orwellian type data collecting exercise on the personal affairs of each person in a household.

The census form is nothing other than a CV, which has been increasing dramatically in size over time.